and w/ coltrane i always feel like i started w/ the s/t album and never really checked out much of his work prior to that (w/ his miles work an exception). i should give it a few more listens
― mark cl, Friday, 1 May 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Just realized - these are all on Atlantic or Columbia! Not one is actually a Landmark jazz recording.
― Full Metal Slanket (Oilyrags), Friday, 1 May 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 2 May 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
poor mingus
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 2 May 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
it's ok -- I think I like Mingus better overall than Miles, but I don't think Mingus has an album quite as perfect as Kind of Blue. Mingus, by definition, was a little all over the place.
― tylerw, Saturday, 2 May 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
but in terms of consensus mingus albums, that's got to be one of the most solid (along with what, mingus x 5, blues & roots, and black saint & the sinner lady?).
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Saturday, 2 May 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah Ah Um an amazing album, no doubt! That and Black Saint are probably the most fully-realized albums of his. Though, my favorite music of his is the live stuff with Eric Dolphy.
― tylerw, Saturday, 2 May 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah Um is definitely hurt for me by the fact that about 4/7 of the album was rerecorded later as Mingusx5 in superior versions. Overall Mingus is probably my favorite of this group, ironically enough.
Maybe the poll options should have been "Giants Steps" "So What" "Lonely Woman" and "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" though.
― Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Sunday, 3 May 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link