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

TIE
170  Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie (1957) 553 Points, 5 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DorlDAK3iLM/TWH50ZyvzfI/AAAAAAAAByM/TJHouj85SLo/s1600/count_basie-atomic_mr._basie_180_gr.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/03M3VID0s2wANlxJIJBWKb
  
170    Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven (1963) 553 Points,  5 votes   
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-svpWXLOSM4/SP9Cy-EtEzI/AAAAAAAABrs/8X6sfNB35Cg/s400/6g4cwhj.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5ufqOq0QvMNnlexELRazNO

xp I'll keep that in mind deej; Mingus is someone who I've wanted to get into for a very long time...

thats a sun ra comp -- i was talking about that vs lanquidity

mingus' ah um is actually a great album introduction to him, imo -- it is almost like ... each of his archetypal song types in one lp

169 Sun Ra - Atlantis (1967) 554 Points, 7 votes
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000014KI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Don't know that one

lmao this is getting ridiculous

the best jazz albums ever + sun ra's entire discography

it's a good 'un to be fair

168    Noah Howard - The Black Ark    558    6 votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vKVXbIp0-Z0/SdWQpaQ_8SI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/29ZKkgMG8oI/s320/black+ark.gif
http://open.spotify.com/album/21yTq5npCbZZVl9bTBWxpW

i get the feeling everyone has their own fave sun ra album and there's little consensus

this noah howard album is a great bit of free jazz btw

167    Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse (1970) 561 Points, 4 votes
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/283/0000028335_350.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/62r4UbMeVkISnWjWO0xprJ

fantastic live album that. Love Lee Morgan.

166    Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One  561 Points,  5 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4124KBRWV8L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Is that his album of Yes covers?

165   Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (1963) 563 Points  5 votes
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r9BHjNdFgbI/SZnvsO-CUoI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/v3bc6Lsq3vs/s400/49.+Kenny+Burrell+-+Midnight+Blue+(1963)b.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0hMuKAciHKinu4L3R4Ojjl

lovely album that. Glad it placed.

if there's anyone around i can do a few more tonight

if i could get to 160 tonight that leaves 40 for monday and 30 for the other days.

I think those tuning in on a monday at work will be happier with the smaller countdown as it will be by then?

midnight blue is so goooooood

164    Miles Davis - Walkin' (1954) 563 Points  6 votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2007/12/30/albumcoverMilesDavis-Walkin.jpg?1199005833
http://open.spotify.com/album/7nFwdPkEbfMUb1c5xuHGR6

glad this beat some sun ra, deej?

163  Grant Green - Solid (1964) 564 Points, 6 votes
http://www.zonadejazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ggs_fr.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0fsN0YALT8WGjJQALq73Ac

I love that cover

Spent some quality time this afternoon listening to Bailey, Green, Hutcherson, Art Ensemble, Dolphy, Montgomery and Roach. For a Sunday the mellower stuff from the first three worked especially nicely. Not quite in the mood for more Pharoah Sanders right now.

162    Andrew Hill - Judgment! (1964) 578 Points, 5 votes
http://53rdand3rd.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/judgment.jpg?w=497&h=497
http://open.spotify.com/album/1UTKa9k864z70CFgpoJy1f

the interplay between hill & hutcherson on judgement is amazing. plus: elvin jones = classic album

161    Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960)  580 Points,  6 votes
http://www.jazz.com/assets/2009/8/31/Eric_Dolphy--Out_There.jpg?1251754457
http://open.spotify.com/album/1RQIum14JDyvpYKD8dbKYJ

could someone repost the link to the results spotify playlist? pleeeeeaze?

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This is great. Sorry I didnt participate, I knew it was there, saw it for weeks/months, just couldn't get myself to actually do anything about it. Lush Life may have been my number 1. That Sarah Vaughan record is pure, my dad saw her as well, said it was the best voice he ever heard.

Recap -

250 Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross (1963) 359 4
249 Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up (1966) 364 3
248 gil evans - out of the cool (1960) 365 3
247 Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956) 367 3
246 Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots (1959) 369 4
245 Sun Ra - Strange Strings (1966) 373 4
243(tie)Sonny Sharrock - Guitar (1986) 376 2
243(tie)243 Milford Graves - Babi (1977) 376 2
242 Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks (1969) 377 3
240(tie)Peter Brötzmann - Nipples (1969) 377 4
240(tie)Elvin Jones - Dear John C. (1965) 377 4
239 Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata (1971) 380 2
238 Sun Ra - Other Planes of There (1966) 381 3
237 John Coltrane - Live at Birdland (1963) 384 4
236 Herbie Hancock - Thrust (1974) 386 3
235 Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement (1969) 387 3
234 Derek Bailey - Ballads (2002) 387 5
233 Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960) 394 4
232 Roland Kirk - Blacknuss 398 (1972) 4
231 Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia (1966) 402
230 Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent (1963) 412 4
229 Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco (1970) 413 3
228 Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet (1954) 415 4
227 Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet (19670 415 5
226 Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1954-56) 417 4
225 Grant Green - Street Of Dreams (1964) 422 4
224 Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960) 431 4
223 Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman (1969) 432 4
222 Eric Dolphy - Iron Man (1963) 436 4
221 Ornette Coleman - Ornette! (1961) 436 5
220 Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz (1959) 440 3
219 McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World (1973) 453 Points, 4 votes
218 Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen (1961) 457 (Points) 5 votes
217 Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970) 458 Points, 5 votes
216 Sun Ra - Lanquidity (1978) 460 Points, 3 votes
215 Albert Ayler - Love Cry (1967) 461 Points, 6 votes
214 Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970) 465 Points, 3 votes
213 Nina Simone - At Town Hall (1959) 470 Points, 4 votes
212 Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (1974) 473 Points, 6 Votes
211 Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - Topography of the Lungs (1970) 474 Points, 3 Votes
210 John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde (1960) 476 Points, 5 votes
209 Jimmy Smith - Root Down (1972) 477 Points, 4 votes
208 Albert Ayler - New grass (1969) 478 Points, 4 votes
207 Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam (1969) 478 Points, 5 Votes
206 Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane (1957) 479 Points, 3 votes
205 Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport (1957) 501 Points, 4 votes
204 Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye (1965) 501 Points, 6 votes
203 Alice Coltrane - Eternity (1976) 502 Points, 4 votes
202 Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (1962) 505 Points, 4 votes
201 Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (1990) 507 Points, 5 Votes

200 John Coltrane - Ballads (1962) 510 Points, 5 Votes
199 Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown") (1954) 512 Points,4 Votes
198 Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge (1974) 512 Points, 6 Votes
197 Jimmy Smith - The Sermon (1958) 513 points, 4 Votes
196 John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues (1962) 513 Points 5 votes
195 Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (1957) 515 Points, 5 votes
194 Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones (1962) 519 Points, 5 votes
193 Eddie Henderson - Sunburst (1975) 519 Points, 7 votes
192 Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie (1961) 521 Points, 4 Votes
191 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don (1962) 523 points, 5 votes
190 Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do (1964) 525 Points, 5 votes
TIE
188 John Coltrane - Traneing In (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
188 John Coltrane - Lush Life (1958) 526 Points, 4 votes
187 Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (1958) 528 points, 3 votes
186 Andrew Hill - Compulsion (1965) 529 Points, 6 votes
185 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia (1957) 530 Points, 5 votes
184 Archie Shepp - On This Night (1966) 530 Points, 6 votes
183 Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel (1967) 534 Points, 6 votes
TIE
181 Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (1972) 535 Points, 5 votes
181 Albert Ayler - Bells (1965) 535 Points, 5 votes
180 Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1962) 537 Points, 7 votes
179 Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine (1965) 539 Points, 5 votes
178 Wayne Shorter - Super Nova (1969) 540 Points, 5 votes
177 Tony Williams - Lifetime (1964) 542 Points, 7 votes
176 Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (1972) 545 Points, 6 votes
175 Curtis Fuller - the opener (1957) 548 Points, 4 votes, One #1 vote
174 Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (1958) 548 Points, 5 votes
173 Donald Byrd - places and spaces (1975) 550 Points, 5 votes
172 Charles Mingus - The Clown (1957) 550 Points, 7 votes
TIE
170 Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie (1957) 553 Points, 5 votes
170 Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven (1963) 553 Points, 5 votes
169 Sun Ra - Atlantis (1967) 554 Points, 7 votes
168 Noah Howard - The Black Ark 558 6 votes
167 Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse (1970) 561 Points, 4 votes
166 Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One 561 Points, 5 votes
165 Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (1963) 563 Points 5 votes
164 Miles Davis - Walkin' (1954) 563 Points 6 votes
163 Grant Green - Solid (1964) 564 Points, 6 votes
162 Andrew Hill - Judgment! (1964) 578 Points, 5 votes
161 Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960) 580 Points, 6 votes

deej did you ever see these posts? Nominations Thread for ILX POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL (nominations now closed)(includes Spotify playlist)

The list looks pretty nice so far, I voted for these:

233 Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960) 394 4
232 Roland Kirk - Blacknuss 398 (1972) 4
219 McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World (1973) 453 Points, 4 votes
217 Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun (1970) 458 Points, 5 votes
213 Nina Simone - At Town Hall (1959) 470 Points, 4 votes
203 Alice Coltrane - Eternity (1976) 502 Points, 4 votes
199 Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown") (1954) 512 Points,4 Votes
196 John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues (1962) 513 Points 5 votes
193 Eddie Henderson - Sunburst (1975) 519 Points, 7 votes
181 Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (1972) 535 Points, 5 votes
176 Archie Shepp - Attica Blues (1972) 545 Points, 6 votes
170 Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie (1957) 553 Points, 5 votes
166 Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One 561 Points, 5 votes
161 Eric Dolphy - Out There (1960) 580 Points, 6 votes

The Sarah Vaughan album was my #2, it's simply has incredible performances by everyone involved, particularly Vaughan herself, who does some wonderful scatting and other improvisation that doesn't sound like showing off (as scatting sometimes does to me), but feels integral to the song. The version of "Lullaby of Birdland" on this album is pretty much the definite version for me.

Glad to see Alice Coltrane's Eternity place, like Turangalila said, "Om Supreme" on it is an amazing tune, possibly the single best song she ever recorded. I wish she'd done more choral works like that. Other parts of Eternity are good too, especially the tune that (according to the liner notes) imitates the four gaits of a horse; despite the silly concept it has a killer organ groove! I was also suprised to see World Galaxy place so low, as many people (though not me) seem to think it's her best album... I guess it's partly because World Galaxy has never been reissued except in Japan? Though if it's now available in Spotify, that will at least make it easier for people to hear it.

It's also nice to Journey to One place: it's a beautiful, meditative album, despite (or because of) being much smoother than Pharoah Sanders's late 60s/early 70s work. If you've dismissed Pharoah because you think he's just an overblowing free jazz man, you should check that album out, it might change you opinion. There is some fusiony stuff on it, but parts of it are suprisingly traditional be/hard bop, and Pharoah proves he can excel in that style too.

160    Herbie Mann - Memphis underground  (1969) 586 Points, 5 votes
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41D-cpQmkJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0nAhB6PO2myKUZtkgSPDGB

Sonny Sharrock,Roy Ayers and Larry Coryell are on this brilliant album.

Tie
158    Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping  (1968) 592 Points, 6 votes
http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/d/a/daily_album/dorothy.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4STr3oNvdlt2S5LbQx4nG6

158    Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (1961) 592 Points, 6 votes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__EEazoSy5Go/TMel-yHvsRI/AAAAAAAAACw/v-6UA0O9Sbg/s1600/albumcoverYusefLateef-EasternSounds.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0963505kg714S5rqZwKZ9I

the interplay between hill & hutcherson on judgement is amazing. plus: elvin jones = classic album

― excuse me you're a helluva guy (m coleman), Sunday, August 28, 2011 10:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

OTM. I wish Elvin had been on more of Hill's records.

fantastic live album that. Love Lee Morgan.

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I wouldn't count myself a huge Morgan fan, but this record is a fucking monster. "Speedball" with DeJohnette is terrifying.

157 Miles Davis - Dark Magus (1974) 595 Points, 6 votes
http://blog-imgs-44.fc2.com/j/c/a/jcalife/2011070511215898a.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0oNoEAy0RMBOqwRYtkhKRb

dunno, aside from a few trax, i thought that doroth ashby record was a little disappointing. not sure what i was expecting. it's cool, but most of the records below it are better!

if she actually played harp with her afro, that would be something

but first she would have to grow an afro

I voted for the Ashby album, it has a nice groove. But yeah, it's arguably a bit out of place in this company.

Actually thought Dark Magus would place a little higher. Isn't the consensus that this is the best of his mid-70s live doubles?

156    Cannonball Adderley - Mercy Mercy Mercy! (1966) 597 Points, 4 votes   One #1
http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/160/160334_1_f.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6Utj0CAgAWsPLFCVfaqDnB

^^^such a sweet record, what a great band. the keyboards on this are all time.
re: dark magus -- i dig it, it might be the record you'd recommend to Can fans or something, but it feels a little monochromatic to me overall, just bludgeoning you over and over. agharta and pangaea really show off what that band was capable of -- it wasn't all pounding, relentless stuff.