Greatest, Essential & Best Jazz Albums |
| Greatest, Essential & Best Jazz Albums Posted: 13 Oct 2012 03:04 PM PDT  Every year I figure I'll finally get into Jazz, and every year it ends with an anticlimactic fizzle. This year however, was a success. Here are a few sites recommending albums and songs that I found helpful. First 3 are album recommendations then after that are song recommendations. If you follow the links to the song recommendations you can actually hear all 100 recommended songs from Jazz24. Plus I've put my album recommendations after the links. I suppose I'll update this page from time to time as I listen through more of the albums.Albums  Matador's 25 Essential Jazz AlbumsDaily Telegraph 100 Best Jazz Recordings Amazon's 100 Best Jazz Albums New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums Songs Jazz 24s 100 Quintessential Jazz Songs  Top 100 Radio Jazz Song Essentials Top 100 Radio Jazz Instrumental Essentials My Recommendations Kind of Blue - Miles Davis The first Jazz album I bought and instantly accessible. The atmosphere is fantastic, latenight chilled out jazz, and the lineup for this albums is unbeatable. Miles Davis on trumpet, Coltrane on Sax, Bill Evan on Piano. Duke Ellington Live at Newport Upbeat atmosphere that will make you grin. Ellington was playing Newport at a time when his career was beginning to flag. After the first song people began to get up and leave so he called for one of his old standards. When the solo began one of the ladies couldn't contain herself any longer and jumped up to dance, Ellington responded and just kept the solo going, for a long time. The crowd called for four encores. The Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett Contemplative atmosphere, Solo piano improvisations but melodic as opposed to a lot of the dissonant avant garde jazz. The first track is increidible. Someone has said that he set the piano on fire with his playing. There are some truly beautiful moments in that first track, and the speed with which he plays at times defies belief. Critics Recommendations (Chronological Album Timeline) A Love Supreme (1964) - John Coltrane Melded the hard bop sensibilities of his early career with the free jazz style he adopted later Takin' Off (1962) - Herbie Hancock The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) - Ornette Coleman Free Jazz Kind of Blue (1959) - Miles Davis Modal Jazz Moanin' (1958) - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958) - Bill Evans Blue Train (1957) - John Coltrane Ella & Louis (1956) - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Concert by the Sea (1955) Erroll Garner Bird & Diz (1950) - Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie Bebop (Thelonious Monk on Piano)  |
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