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

5    Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) 3011 Points, 22 votes
http://img9.9sky.com/picture/cpfm/_V2/4/47987/47987_a.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2iPH3iUmpa9ufIpwY76keF

(That was in response to: everyone please quit the trolling and talk about the albums.)

okay that is too high

yeah clifford brown could still be alive today, which is nuts. he was apparently a clean living kind of guy. no idea what musical route he would've taken though.

Haha Rudipherous you're impossible today. But so am I.

Troll = official ILM cosmic jazz hat mascot

okay that is too high

― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, September 2, 2011 3:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm imo

sidebar: my uncle's father-in-law is a Stan Kenton devotee to this day, is super enthusiastic about jazz even in his 80s, still goes out to see live jazz regularly. is always like "oh this record is AWESOME here TAKE IT! i've listened to it 100 times, got it memorized, OH if you like that then you GOTTA hear THIS" *scurries away to go pluck out another gem. his knowledge stops at like 1958 but so cool to talk to him about the music he's passionate about

Shape of Jazz to Come (and most of the other Atlantic recordings) are among my all time favorites, so I'm ok with 5th place

No Julius Hemphill, no Gene Ammons, no Bill Dixon, no Tony Oxley, no Lennie Tristano :(

Pharoah Sanders on the other hand, as much as I love him, is probably too high on this list.

Hey, I'm still holding out for Dixon's Intents & Purposes placing in the top 4!

Dogon A.D. is definitely an oversight.

no Gene Ammons,

was wondering about this myself

this top 10 ordering is pretty bonkers imho

i voted for shape of jazz -- if i'm gona vote for one ornette, it's gonna be that one.

I'm more of a Coon Bid'ness guy, but any Hemphill would have been welcome.

i like gene ammons but sadly lots of things are gonna miss out in a poll. but maybe if some more of you guys complaining voted it would be different

(not having a go at anyone who didn't, you have your reasons)

maybe if you guys who voted listened to REAL JAZZ

winky face obv

can we post our ballots yet?

the jazz contingent on ilm is tiny. half of the jazz d-bags posters didn't vote/nominate so im amazed and well chuffed we got 39 voters (thanks to you all). But we got a great list of 250 awesome records and full results will be posted at the end so you can still check out some great albums that missed the top 250

~can u feel it~

i wonder what it would have taken for this to be a 'bad list'

hah, no william. Do you guys want a separate post yr ballots thread? if so i'll start one when it's time

deej do you think this is really a bad list??

no. the backpatting abt how good it was seemed a bit silly tho

well it has a 250 of great albums. That people will check out if they haven't already I'd consider that good.

4    Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch (1964) 3080 Points, 22 votes
http://alifewellwasted.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Eric_Dolphy-Out_To_Lunch-Frontal.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3PIVqZzL1PnrxFZDzuT1aX

Beautiful album.

Poll #4 = my #4

kind of prefer other dolphy albums to it, though. it's fab, but i reach for the five spot albums more.

Of all the places to complain about the obscurity impulses of ILX you're really going to take this thread up as your cause, deej? You're posting on a message board that was spawned from a Belle & Sebastian listserv.

I mean of all the polls ILX has done in the 8 years I've been lurking this is the first one where I was like "yeah, that's cool."

tylerw, totally. Vol I of Live at the Five Spot is :O

Love that Dolphy record so much. As much as I dig his other records, the closest thing I can think of that approaches it in terms of arrangements/compositional sensibility is Tony Williams' hella underrated Spring and Life Time.

3 Kenny G - Classics In The Key of Deej (1999) 33333333 Points, 333 votes, 303 #1's
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gs5wUdnaTAI/TcQG3i4WWCI/AAAAAAAAAh8/YQmyn47vUJI/s1600/Frontal.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1wLXshc2igqrn9dvE64Ko8

*tumbleweed*

3    John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959) 3134 Points, 23 votes TWO #1's
http://minoltamania.com/John%20Coltrane_Giant%20Steps.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7cZ6oBx0SEUPDAoxJtxNDh

nice

hope no-one is going to shout too high

well i wouldn't shout in the office w/all these people around, no

Good to see Tommy Flanagan make it

I wish Beyond the Bluebird had made it.

Well, if I'd voted -- and I wouldn't have, because I don't feel qualified -- 5, 4, and 3 would all have been on my ballot. I still think "Shape of Jazz" is extraordinary. Yeah, historical significance and all, but if you just gave it to me on a cassette marked "Awesome Music" I think it would still be pretty mind-blowing.

given all the complaining about ALS upthread that it got beat by Blue Train, Ascension, and Giant Steps - modal, free, and bebop beating the spiritual hats lol

tipsy otm

Blue Train, Ascension, and Giant Steps
goes to show that coltrane has a pretty deep catalog -- i didn't vote for any of these.

Want #2 on it's own or #2 & #1 together?

given all the complaining about ALS upthread that it got beat by Blue Train, Ascension, and Giant Steps - modal, free, and bebop beating the spiritual hats lol

― I can feel it in my spiritual hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, September 2, 2011 4:29 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

victory