JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)

it's a great record, I voted for it.

I find Bitches Brew pretty accessible (it was my way into electric Miles), but yeah I still find OTC not so easy-listening.

i've introduced quite a few people to miles through jack johnson. "rock" people that is...

Would probably rate a few of the others over it though.
xps

In A Silent Way is definitely the best intro to electric Miles for non-jazz types. Eno loves it!

It's a good one. I think Shepp is one of those musicians who made about 50 mediocre records and four or five brilliant ones, and this is definitely one of the brilliant ones. xp

what if youre into, like, the boredoms or can or faust or something? idk thats the context i see it in typically

yeah i suppose that makes sense.

29 Herbie Hancock - Crossings (1971) 1898 Points, 14 votes One #1
http://images.hhv.de/catalog/detail_big/00022/22927.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1uPpf0LfR227I6vruxYkxZ

i remember moving in reverse like -- i was into miles, and that miles album wasnt one i loved but got into that kind of kraut stuff in reverse (after seeing it compared to later miles) & finding it a bit 'simple' (lol jazzism) for me at the time ... like, i think i didnt get the appeal of the motorik style or w/e until later, i was used to the appeal of jazz soloists operating w/in the context of the groove rather than the groove existing for itself

dont know that herbie album at all either

http://image.lyricspond.com/image/h/artist-herbie-hancock/album-mwandishi-the-complete-warner-bros-recordings/cd-cover.jpg
re: herbie, this is very much worth your $10

doing weather report covers in jazz band initially scared me away from fusion ... i thought stuff like 'birdland' was sooo corny

which explains why i missed a lot of later herbie

yeah WTF with this Herbie record?!

little surprised to see it so high, but it is great. again, get that 2 CD warner recordings thing! it is the best.

It's the same group that did Sextant, right?

just odd that I know the albums before and after this one, but never came across it. cover is very odd, kinda ugly...?

yeah more or less same band as sextant.

mwandishi band is all time

yes
can i just
http://neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-enough-live-herbie-hancock.html

oh didnt realize this was that early. yah i like this era

This album does tend to get overlooked yet is very highly regarded, but most people (rock crits/record collectors) go for sextant but dont delve into anything else from this period. Apart from the obvious big album that i wont mention incase it does/doesn't make it.

gonna assume both headhunters and sextant will show up here

i probably voted for/own the entire top 30(or beyond) but i cba checking and instead i'll post the next one

one of my fave ever herbie anecdotes is from an old wire article on the mwandishi years where patrick gleeson was talking about trying to mix synths/keyboards into the band's sound for the first time and how he kept getting the mean mug from buster williams all night until someone finally took him aside and said "no one plays LOWER than buster in this band."

artwork looks like it should be on the side of sun ra's chevy van

28    Joe Henderson - Page One (1963) 1902 Points, 12 votes
http://jeffsplace.me/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Joe-Henderson-Page-One.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7mQGTuvmdp56DNz0AmMwWi

xp I remember that Wire article - bought Sextant off the back of that, iirc the 2nd jazz album I owned.

impressed how high that finished, henderson usually gets underrated!

page one must have been one of the first 60s blue notes i bought

page one was #7 in my ballot

not familiar with it, audio samples sound intriguing, so I ordered it for $3.

27 Miles Davis - On the Corner (1972) 1957 Points, 14 votes, One #1
http://revivalist.okayplayer.com/core/wp-content/uploads/Miles_Davis-On_The_Corner-Frontal.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4K7w2LiKZz0CyHXl6OtkOu

Indeed, I did vote Miles.

haha a helluva lot did

this might have been my #1, I can't remember

yes, it was

like OTC but glad it didn't place higher

it was

xps

never one of my favorite miles records

I actually assumed it would be in the top 10.

yah a lil surprised it wasnt higher

me too. but I did say that a lot of albums didn't place as high as i thought would, and some didn't at all. Yet others were astonishingly high.
welcome to an ilm poll!

im guessing headhunters didnt make :O

I thought about voting in this poll but I would of put all my points in Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy and voted for nothing else

I don't know if I would of been allowed to have only a single vote so I went away

I'd happily acknowledge that Miles made records as strong if not better than OTC but that's just the one that had the biggest impact on me and has the most sentimental value. I came across it at a time when my listening habits were really expanding and it intersected with a bunch of other things (McLaughlin copping the riff from Funkadelic's "Super Stupid" for ex). Most importantly, I've never grown tired of it.

xp

what can I say I just wanted it to place highly!

oddly, maybe having my one single vote in this poll would of made the results more diverse

this is a pretty diverse list and Sun Ra is already well represented tho