50 Best Albums of All Time According to Rolling Stone's BRAND NEW, 100% Revamped Top 500

It's not the swingiest, sure, but it does swing in its own way. Then again, I probably have a peculiar understanding of swing.

No Ellington in the top 50 is the most headshake.gif part

Yeah, that's inexcusable.

All my favourite Ellington is pre-45, I think.

Most of mine is but Money Jungle and Far East Suite (which tbf were in the top 100) to name just 2 are after '45.

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A brimful of Ellington

Were live albums eligible?

Was there anything post-75? I think I find that most glaring for a fusion-heavy list.

I'd be up for a dedicated fusion poll.

Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band (or an equivalent collection) should definitely make any list of the best/most important popular music. Easily in the top ten for jazz.

James Blood Ulmer's Odyssey and John Zorn's The Big Gundown would definitely make my post-1975 list for jazz.

I love ‘40s Ellington — which is basically saying, I love music — but Far East Suite (1967), Latin American Suite (1968-70), New Orleans Suite (1971), and Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (1971) are among my favorite of his recordings, and (apart from Far East Suite) seem largely slept-on.

I think you're all upset Kind of of Blue didn't win. iirc brad didn't even vote nor did deej.

Tuomas was supposed to run a pre 1945 jazz tracks poll but it never happened. Maybe someone should start that poll?

I'm upset that Sgt Pepper didn't win.xp

Luckily I banned New Order from being nominated.

where did the Stooges records come in? what about sly stone? everybody must vote for the Ramones

It's not the swingiest, sure, but it does swing in its own way. Then again, I probably have a peculiar understanding of swing.

I mean, if I tell people at a jam I want to swing something, they're not going to take it as a cue to play in the style of Sextant or In a Silent Way. Doesn't take anything away from their being wonderful albums!

got New Orleans and Latin American Suite this year, what great records

New poll sees Kamasi Washington at #s 1 & 2

#3: The Comet Is Coming, #4-10: other Shabaka projects.

Oh, I get it. results arent manly enough

unlike these

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/10-albums-for-jazz-beginners/

https://www.manmadediy.com/best-jazz-albums-every-man-should-know

^wtf was my reaction to those sites coming up in best jazz albums google search

As someone who didn't vote in the jazz poll, yes, certain artists (Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman) are way over-represented in the results, others are way under-represented (Duke Ellington, Count Basie, but also Anthony Braxton), but it's hard to argue against any of the individual albums as albums. I mean it may not have my personal favorite Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, Grant Green, or Lee Morgan albums, but those guys are at least all on the list.

No need to re-poll as this would obvs win https://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Day-In-The-Life-Impressions-Of-Pepper/master/1536589

Whoa.

one of those manly jazz lists breaks it down like this

Best Jazz Albums: THE STANDARDS

These are the jazz records you simply cannot miss. These are the 2001: A Space Odysseys and Goodfellas and Ghostbusters. Start here and see what strikes your fancy.

Best Jazz Albums: NEXT STEPS

You've dabbled about now, you have a good sense of the groundwork, and you're ready for something a bit meatier.

Best Jazz Albums: DEEPER CUTS

Now that you've developed your taste, here are the good ol' deep cuts for those who are ready – plus some lesser known, but highly regarded, game-changing albums.

THE FAR OUT STUFF (MIXED GENRES AND GREAT HITS)

Kopi Luwak is to coffee, what these albums are to jazz.

BONUS: DINNER PARTY SOUNDTRACKS

Disclaimer: All of these are truly great albums and should be given a properly focused listen... that said, they'll be a perfect soundtrack for your next dinner party.

. I mean it may not have my personal favorite Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, Grant Green, or Lee Morgan albums, but those guys are at least all on the list.

4 of my faves. Which are your fave albums by them that are missing?

I (unironically) like that this is now a jazz thread btw.

the OG RS book had stacks of jazz in it

ffs here's another one

https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/jazz-albums-every-man-should-hear/

I mean I could see getting sick of the hype on Kamasi and Hutchings but goddamn if it's not inspiring to be at a rock club of young people dancing and having fun at a jazz show instead of dickheads my age arms crossed stroking their chins

Now that you've developed your taste

I wish I could develop my taste someday

Which are your fave albums by them that are missing?

For Blakey, Free For All or Moanin' or The Witch Doctor
For Mobley, the list is pretty good but No Room For Squares > Straight No Filter and I've always had an affection for A Caddy for Daddy, plus Peckin' Time with Lee Morgan rules
For Green, I would have included Nigeria and Oleo (or the compilation The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark, which combines them) and Talkin' About! with Larry Young and Elvin Jones
For Morgan, I'd have included Cornbread and The Procrastinator for sure.

Neanderthal, do u like Mastodon?

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Yes

Free For All is my fave Blakey. I love Moanin' too.
Actually I like all the albums you mention!
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i like Mastodon too

i have the complete quartets with sonny clark actually.

Mastodon with Sonny Clark sounds amazing

Hell yes.

ended up voting for London Calling, I don't think it is necessarily the best of these but it arrived at a crucial point in my life and there was something about the sound of it that thrilled me at the time and still thrills me. Out all of these it was the album that in retrospect I see had the most emotional impact on me.

I prefer the Suffocation with Charlie Parker sessions myself

I obsessed about The White Album as a kid, but my experience of it is more remote.

voted Ok Computer, was considering voting Wu-Tang. but OK Computer was a formative album for me and I was already hugely into Radiohead after The Bends, which I played the shit out of, and although this one was less immediate for me, became one of my favorites.

i haven't played it in a while but tonight will be that night.

all of these albums are great

Kid A closely behind, especially for the unhinged performance of "Idioteque" it inspired on SNL, after which my dad said "what the hell was that?"

could have also voted for Songs in the Key of Life, Blue, Horses, Remain In Light. haven’t had much experience with What’s Going On but will listen to it again

the three “big” songs on what’s going on are seriously as good as music gets afaic, but I too have never loved the album

i like to think of london calling and gaucho as the end of the '70s

where's Purling Hiss

Dunno if there’s other pieces like this, and checking the RS site would only waste valuable seconds, but here’s Butch Vig on his top pick:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/butch-vig-whos-next-500-greatest-albums-1067055/