Hope everyone is enjoying the poll so far. Enjoying all the comments so keep them coming. Always interested in hearing anyones thoughts.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
never been really able to get into jazz at massey hall, prefer the Birdland '50 parker date, with Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Art Blakey. sound is not awesome, but listenable, and captures Parker playing some of the most amazing stuff of his career. navarro was just a week or so away from dying, but he's incredible too. something off about the performance/sound quality of massey hall that puts me off. some cool stuff, but more of an "event" than a great show?
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
the sgt peppers of jazz? ;)
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
tylerw OTM re: Massey Hall. Never heard of that Birdland date! Holy crap! Will check out, post-haste.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's less famous because it's not (to my knowledge) ever been a standalone (might only be 30 minutes of music or so). but it's on a bud powell set I have on proper, and on another parker live set called chasin' the bird. really incredible recording.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
It's been def overhyped as greatest jazz concert ever, based on the big names. Interesting bit on Wiki - "...owing to a boxing prize fight between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott taking place simultaneouly, the audience was so small that the Society was unable to pay the musicians' fees."
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
TIE149 Billy Cobham - Spectrum (1973 618 Points, 6 voteshttp://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/BC-Spec.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/5JmNk3ayVaujKO5hFvU5YA
149 Thelonious Monk - A Genius Of Modern Music (1947?) 618 points, 6 voteshttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vIdq12StL._SL500_AA300_.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/07kblmHGjZ8KmwogxMDd4q
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
the playing on Spectrum is amazing. One for the rock fans - it features Tommy Bolin on guitar.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Spectrum has some nice moments, but man I can't stand the hard rock guitar riffs on it.
― Tuomas, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
(x-post, hahaha!)
― Tuomas, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
^ posts completely in character hahaha
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
148 j.j. johnson - proof positive (1964) 619 Points, 7 voteshttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QJ5BWZ2RL._SL500_AA300_.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/7dTSo2PZoS6W7aKny9I1hW
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
excellent album this.
147 Miles Davis - Workin' (1959) 620 Points, 7 voteshttp://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/21/2183/21PCD00Z/posters/miles-davis-workin-with-the-miles-davis-quintet.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/1vktIbBz606HKcMr6Cs6jw
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote for that Monk album only because my own lists start at 1949. Before that, LPs didn't exist. Those Monk sides were issued as 78s, and first issued as a compilation on a 10" LP in 1951, and expanded from 8 to 12 songs on 12" in 1956. This poll doesn't include comps does it?
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
Workin is a must-hear even if you're not into 50s jazz so much - "trane's blues" is where the big guy comes into his own
― excuse me you're a helluva guy (m coleman), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
that prestige box of the miles quintet is essssssential. sort of interesting -- not really similar to a lot of the stuff that was happening at the same time? at least to my ears. more delicate and deliberate than the blue note/hard bop stuff.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
This monk comp got in because people pleaded that it should be and that it wasn't a greatest hits style comp etc.
And Workin' is indeed great.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
"alabama" just came up on the spotify playlist, which is always a "stop you in your tracks" kind of song.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol followed up by an ad for mastodon's new album. #awkwardspotifysegues
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
TIE145 Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1958) 621 Points, 5 voteshttp://jazzismylife.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/cover31.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/3C2hpKCQ1C8l8F5sLAQHXe
145 Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands (1980) 621 Points, 5 votes http://www.amiright.com/album-cover-themes/images/album-Herbie-Hancock-Mr-Hands.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/6RvJbmTWu2vW5XRubeZeTF
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
don't know that herbie album. Seems strangely high
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
me neither -- is it disco-y? y'know, i've never been able to get too into that jazz messengers/monk record. i should give it another try. doesn't seem as strong as both of the principals' records from around the same time.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
mr. hands isn't disco-y at all, not really like the headhunters heavy funk era either. kinda like herbie stepped back from what he'd been doing, incorporated some world music vibes. nice.
i feel the same way about the jazz messengers/monk. not an audiophile by any means but i never thought it sounded that great (performances aside)
― excuse me you're a helluva guy (m coleman), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that might be one of the problems, monk's piano sounding kinda harsh? i'll have to check out mr. hands.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
It's not that disco-y, except for "Just Around the Corner", which is an awesome piece of disco-funk-jazz. Most of it is actually pretty straightforward jazz, and it has Herbie at his most melodic, but his using a whole bunch of early-80s synths whose sound is of acquired taste. Personally, I love it! Also, it has one of the most wtf covers ever to grace an album by a mainstream recording artist.
― Tuomas, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
(xx-post)
― Tuomas, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
hee, yeah that cover is rad.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
144 Grant Green - Matador (1964) 624 Points, 6 voteshttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_elCAjJC38T0/RuF2iXZ9FbI/AAAAAAAAAsA/75Vrk_XmwC0/s400/12LPjap%252520142.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/5eubtUqOh4fqfaZXA8Ha4X
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Grant Green recorded so much high-quality music for Blue Note during the first half of the '60s that a number of excellent sessions went unissued at the time. Even so, it's still hard to figure out why 1964's Matador was only released in Japan in 1979, prior to its U.S. CD reissue in 1990 -- it's a classic and easily one of Green's finest albums. In contrast to the soul-jazz and jazz-funk for which Green is chiefly remembered, Matador is a cool-toned, straight-ahead modal workout that features some of Green's most advanced improvisation, even more so than his sessions with Larry Young. Part of the reason for that is that Green is really pushed by his stellar backing unit: pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Elvin Jones. Not only is Green leading a group that features one-half of the classic Coltrane Quartet, but he even takes on Coltrane's groundbreaking arrangement of "My Favorite Things" -- and more than holds his own over ten-plus minutes. In fact, every track on the album is around that length; there are extended explorations of two Green originals ("Green Jeans" and the title track) and Duke Pearson's Middle Eastern-tinged "Bedouin," plus the bonus cut "Wives and Lovers," a swinging Bacharach pop tune not on the Japanese issue. The group interplay is consistently strong, but really the spotlight falls chiefly on Green, whose crystal-clear articulation flourishes in this setting. And, for all of Matador's advanced musicality, it ends up being surprisingly accessible. This sound may not be Green's claim to fame, but Matador remains one of his greatest achievements.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
this one is great - m favorite things works surprisingly well with guitar. doesn't hurt to have coltrane's band behind him of course.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
Just dropping in to say that this has been an amazing list so far. Lots of stuff that I know and love, but just as much that I haven't really listened to much, so I'm extra psyched that it is all going into Spotify. Thanks all!!!
― Moodles, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah spotify is making this a pleasure.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
thirded -- am really enjoying knowing that it is all there on spotify for those times when i have time to go through it
― i drive a wood paneled station dragon (La Lechera), Monday, 29 August 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
143 Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me A Song of Songmy (1971) 625 Points, 6 voteshttp://ring.cdandlp.com/splash/photo_grande/114030344.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6BZmB3e4cPEBkCX7nTVMpP
Dunno this album, but it gets 2 stars on AMG
This is a strange LP. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and his quintet (which consisted of tenor-saxophonist Junior Cook, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Art Booth and drummer Louis Hayes) is joined by a chorus, a string orchestra, several reciters, an organist and a variety of processed sounds emanating from tapes. The thoughts expressed in the music (topical and anti-war messages) are quite sincere but the abstract sounds will only be enjoyed by a limited audience; jazz fans should look elsewhere.
I think,like MR. Hands, Tuomas nominated it.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
I remember tuomas playing a track from it in outloud and it was nice. That was the first I had heard of it, but it seems a few of you do. Will check it out later.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
142 Joe Henderson - In 'N Out (1964) 629 Points, 6 voteshttp://image.musicimport.biz/sdimages/disk17/658758.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/4KI0kC5rANmc5YeXyNshDr
This is a really good album.
wtf @ random hubbard album
thats gotta be from these dudes nominating harp jazz and sci fi record covers right
― D-40, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
it's not an ilm poll without huge albums being left out completely,finishing low,some bizarrely low and some weird inclusions, is it?
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
194 Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones (1962) 519 Points, 5 votes143 Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me A Song of Songmy (1971) 625 Points, 6 votes
you guys are nuts placing that over Hub-Tones!
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
141 Don Cherry - Brown Rice (1975) 633 Points, 6 voteshttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p-UiZMwvL._SL500_AA300_.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/6r01XL7XUvSTK4p6M7bmbC
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp because harp jazz is not Real Jazz, right? o_O
― The Not Liking Radiohead Awards (Turangalila), Monday, 29 August 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't nominate Songmy, but I voted for it. Probably not as "classic" as some other Hubbard albums, but it's unlike anything I've ever heard, and that counts for something. The intro alone is a brilliantly creepy piece of experimentalism, though I think we have to thank Ilhan Mimaroglu (the producer of the album) more than Hubbard for all the weirdness.
― Tuomas, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
140 Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods (1957) 635 points, 5 http://www.coversdaddy.com/frontcovers/charles-mingus-tijuana-moods-1957-music-front-cover-5716.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/4kaQvqgh3GVhDhV0OeNYIwvotes
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, August 29, 2011 1:58 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
and ready for freddie!!
― D-40, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Monday, August 29, 2011 1:54 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
more like its not ilm without extra credit given to albums that are 'weird' in genre polls
tijuana moods is pretty wild -- the spoken stuff gets out there. liner notes are hilarious too, in usual mingus style.
― tylerw, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
"ilm post-1945 jazz albums that do not feature anything weird poll"
― Spectrist, Monday, 29 August 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
not just genre polls...'o superman' winning 1981 poll
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 29 August 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link