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.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:50 (five years ago)
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.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:01 (five years ago)
James Blood Ulmer's Odyssey and John Zorn's The Big Gundown would definitely make my post-1975 list for jazz.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:03 (five years ago)
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:32 (five years ago)
I think you're all upset Kind of of Blue didn't win. iirc brad didn't even vote nor did deej.
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:07 (five years ago)
Tuomas was supposed to run a pre 1945 jazz tracks poll but it never happened. Maybe someone should start that poll?
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:09 (five years ago)
I'm upset that Sgt Pepper didn't win.xp
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:09 (five years ago)
Luckily I banned New Order from being nominated.
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:14 (five years ago)
where did the Stooges records come in? what about sly stone? everybody must vote for the Ramones
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:18 (five years ago)
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!
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:36 (five years ago)
got New Orleans and Latin American Suite this year, what great records
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:39 (five years ago)
New poll sees Kamasi Washington at #s 1 & 2
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:41 (five years ago)
#3: The Comet Is Coming, #4-10: other Shabaka projects.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:43 (five years ago)
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
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:45 (five years ago)
^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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:46 (five years ago)
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
― rob, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:49 (five years ago)
Whoa.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:51 (five years ago)
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.
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:52 (five years ago)
. 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?
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:53 (five years ago)
I (unironically) like that this is now a jazz thread btw.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:54 (five years ago)
the OG RS book had stacks of jazz in it
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:58 (five years ago)
ffs here's another one
https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/jazz-albums-every-man-should-hear/
― Oor Neechy, Saturday, 26 September 2020 22:00 (five years ago)
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 September 2020 22:01 (five years ago)
Now that you've developed your tasteI wish I could develop my taste someday
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Saturday, 26 September 2020 22:02 (five years ago)
Which are your fave albums by them that are missing?
For Blakey, Free For All or Moanin' or The Witch DoctorFor 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 rulesFor 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 JonesFor Morgan, I'd have included Cornbread and The Procrastinator for sure.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 26 September 2020 23:30 (five years ago)
Neanderthal, do u like Mastodon?
― pomenitul, Saturday, September 26, 2020 11:57 AM bookmarkflaglink
Yes
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 September 2020 23:56 (five years ago)
Free For All is my fave Blakey. I love Moanin' too.Actually I like all the albums you mention!xp
i like Mastodon too
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:19 (five years ago)
i have the complete quartets with sonny clark actually.
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:20 (five years ago)
Mastodon with Sonny Clark sounds amazing
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:28 (five years ago)
Hell yes.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:29 (five years ago)
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.
― Dan S, Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:31 (five years ago)
I prefer the Suffocation with Charlie Parker sessions myself
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:31 (five years ago)
I obsessed about The White Album as a kid, but my experience of it is more remote.
― Dan S, Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:34 (five years ago)
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.
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:34 (five years ago)
all of these albums are great
― Dan S, Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:36 (five years ago)
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?"
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:37 (five years ago)
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
― Dan S, Sunday, 27 September 2020 00:49 (five years ago)
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
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 September 2020 20:27 (five years ago)
i like to think of london calling and gaucho as the end of the '70s
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 September 2020 21:38 (five years ago)
where's Purling Hiss
― alpine static, Monday, 28 September 2020 06:53 (five years ago)
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/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 September 2020 22:06 (five years ago)
I've heard 46 of these records, all of which have some songs I like except Tapestry. The only ones where I like all the tracks are Kid A and Blood on the Tracks, and I voted for the latter because I prefer the running order.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:13 (five years ago)
Honestly Kid A sounds as good if not better to me than it did 20 years ago.
https://thequietus.com/articles/28987-kid-a-radiohead-review-anniversary
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 15:32 (five years ago)
I feel like the “best album ever” has to feel groundbreaking and influential on both underground and mainstream levels and there are several albums in here that qualify but honestly for my age group I’d say Kid A is the one from this list. There were many underground acts doing what Radiohead was attempting to do with Kid A in the mid to late 90s but few had albums that felt this concise and had the level of goodwill and media attention that they had earned with OKC - which is also brilliant in its own way but I honestly think Kid A is the one that’s the bigger album
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 15:45 (five years ago)
Hate to do this but can't help it. Everyone's favorite movie critic weighs in: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-political-decoy/
From the album’s opening party vibe, Gaye offers a masterful blend of harmoniousness, the thing that the angry Left forbids. The album’s lack of harshness, its soft rhetoric and tenderly voiced petitions, do not match today’s tantrums — they contradict the violence and stubborn unwillingness to compromise or express empathy and compassion. What’s Going On is non-militant whereas the Black Lives Antifa movement has proven destructive. It is necessary to call out this BLA alliance in order to clarify the usurpation of black American social and spiritual aspiration by the plainly political, even satanic aims of social domination. This is key to understanding how Gaye’s entreaty opposes today’s inflammatory, anarchic rhetoric.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 15:48 (five years ago)
You probably should have refrained, tbh. Not everything needs to be platformed.
― I Hate the Aedes (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 16:00 (five years ago)
i'm sorry, is that person's last name white???? absolutely DISGUSTING, check your privilege.
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hi, yes. hello. this post is satirical. thx for reading, i love you.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 17:15 (five years ago)
keep Austin weird
― I Hate the Aedes (morrisp), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 17:18 (five years ago)
love you, mo.☮
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 17:24 (five years ago)