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

xp don't know Cornbread, will have to rectify that, as well as the unfamiliarity with the other hundred or so on the list, good heavens. Loving the results so far, once I'm out of the woods with work I can't wait to settle down with a solid ten-day playlist.

I'd be okay with Köln Concert not making my playlist btw. Can't say the same for poor Dexter Gordon tho.

I voted for an Art Tatum / Ben Webster LP but doubt it made it.

no modern jazz quartet
no milt jackson
no deodato
no george benson

Things I expect to see:

Ascension
Blue Train
A Love Supreme
My Favourite Things
Giant Steps
Mingus Ah Um
Black Saint & the Dinner Lady
Journey in Satchidananda
Out To Lunch
The Sidewinder
In A Silent Way
Bitches Brew
Kind Of Blue
Sextant
Headhunters
Karma
The Real McCoy
Brilliant Corners
Spiritual Unity
Unity
Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
Songs for Swingin' Lovers
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Moondog ftw btw, fuiud

Would be great to see some Nina Simone & Billie Holiday too, no idea if folks could agree on favourite albums though.

For any fans of cheapness out there who haven't heard Herbie Hancock's Crossings, I bought it yesterday for £1.69 from the Amazon MP3 store. Also got Pharoah Sanders' Black Unity album for £0.69.

― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Friday, 2 September 2011 00:57 (10 hours ago) Bookmark

ooooh, really? do you have to sign up or any of that gunk or can you just download and pay like you were ordering a cd?

Re: the discussion long ago about expectations of hearing Ornette the first time - I had this too to a certain extent but it works in steps, right? I mean they were the first *free* band but they were still used to working with each other and knowing what each other was doing within jazz conventions, right? It wouldn't be till later that dudes would just tear it up for the sake of it, whereas those Ornette records still have a sense of "hey he's ripping it, i best stand back" etc.

do you have to sign up or any of that gunk or can you just download and pay like you were ordering a cd?

No, you just go through the checkout in the normal way and then the file starts downloading. Think you might have to install the download program the first time round though, can't remember.

cheers! unity here i come!

Billy Hart is on that one? Just saw him last week at Birdland, he was great. Hannibal Marvin Peterson? Black Unity here I come, even without UK bargain prices.

25    Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures  (1966)  1983 Points 15 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hLY9DmXXlH4/S-tGlIroIjI/AAAAAAAAB1c/y5_C52qvCmA/s1600/7942.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2GQNkSoyBPwTkpuzn8niec

My first Cecil record. I'd duly absorbed Ayler and late-period Coltrane for a year prior to hearing this, but this confused the shit outta me. Once the confusion passed, I couldn't stop listening to it.

24    Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder (1963) 2096 Points, 16 votes
http://lh6.ggpht.com/-MhNrNL5MTkQ/TBboYO63VhI/AAAAAAAAbAc/qsuHrKavvKM/the%252520sidewinder.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1n1trPeeY9Q5H4eLbbHHRg

anybody here?

someone should do a jazz covers poll, divided up into spiritual hat and non-spiritual hat.

seandalai is doing a spiritual hat poll after this but he's worried over arguments over 'but that isn't a jazz hat' type comments

xp I was going to poll all the hat covers.

If we descend to the level of arguing whether a given headpiece is a hat or not then we all deserve to die.

it's ilx

deej to thread

Anyway thanks for this guys, an almost overwhelming number of new records to listen to, which I'm very excited about! Keep 'em coming...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RBFN7PJQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

^ my favourite jazz hat cover

ilm where posters would rather argue over spiritual hats than music

hats, bicycles and jazz FTW

more a cap than a hat imo

23    Jackie McLean - Destination Out (1963) 2118 Points, 14 votes
http://i7.tinypic.com/6g8vwww.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6V91XmWywH57srvy7oRYNO

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PbIEwrCxL._SS135_SL160_.jpg
(Bill Dixon's November, 1981)
As he once said, "You've got to know how to wear a hat."

crap
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-150-2573410-1291138198.jpeg

Destination Out!

OUT! DESTINATION...

huh haven't heard that cecil taylor or that jackie mclean. i hereby resign my post as a jazz d-bag.

22    Miles Davis - Round About Midnight (1956) 2165 Points, 15 votes
http://www.silvertentacle.com/images/MILES%20DAVIS%20ROUND%20ABOUT%20MIDNIGHT.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4VUawqEDCHHfrUe77ScQ2K

I'd say either Unit Structures or Conquistador! is the place to start for small-group Cecil. xp

Destination Out is great. McLean, Hutcherson, and Moncur collaborated on a few records around this time, maybe most notably Moncur's two GREAT records "Evolution" and "Some Other Stuff." If I'd gotten my act together to vote for this, both of those would have made my top 20 easy (Some Other Stuff probably top ten).

I saw the reunited band in Grant Park in Chicago in the 90s. Everyone was great, except Moncur. Nevertheless a great event.

cool, yeah moncur's records are ones i've been meaning to get to.

It will blow your mind!

The Moncur Mosaic Select set is probably the way to go: has Evolution, Some Other Stuff, and the McLean records he's on.

aren't all the mosaic boxes long OOP?

Nope, some of them are just "Running Low."

the "select" boxes are usually more available, i think. this one is on amazon, anyway. but i think i could get all the albums it covers for cheaper separately. anyway, listening to Destination Out right now -- sounding awesome.

21    Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (1957) 2220 Points, 15  votes
http://www.terra-san.com/ccmail/jazz/Jazz%2020/TheloniousMonk.BrilliantCorners.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5V9uC1fklKKnY2ufNfFvR9

hmm I don't know Unit Structures. what's it like? fantastic cover!

i know the mosaic boxes I'd like are long OOP

maybe a little bit challopsy, but i've never gotten too into brilliant corners, something about it seems like a bit of a chore, it's missing the humor/playfulness of my favorite monk recordings? I don't know, maybe it'll click at some point.

hmm I don't know Unit Structures. what's it like? fantastic cover!

It's like this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_woT6Mgp64c

havent heard the mclean, think hes pretty awesome tho generally, impressed this did so well!

that miles record is so so good -- the opening of coltrane's solo on the title track is burned into my brain

(dooo doot doo doot doot doot dooooo...doo doooooo)

yeah, that "round midnight" is pretty much top 10 all time jazz.