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In Reply to: RE: a jazz survey of what gets played most at home - 'kind of blue' or 'love supreme' ? (no text) posted by Hi-Fi Nut on October 26, 2011 at 17:45:52
Doesn't mean these are the "best", but these are the recordings I play most frequently:
Coltrane's Giant Steps
Mal Waldron's The Seagulls of Kristiansund
The Sound of Jazz (The one done several days before the broadcast.)
Monk's Misterioso (Live at the Five Spot)
Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby
Miles Davis' Round About Midnight
Steve Kuhn's Motility
Dexter Gordon's One Flight Up
Sonny Rollins' Volume 2 (Blue Note)
Horace Silver's Stylings of Silver
Gil Evans' & Ten
Red Mitchell's Presenting (on Contemporary)
Chet Baker's ...& Crew
Gerry Mulligan's What Is There To Say?
Count Basie's For the First Time
Charles Mingus Ah Um
Toshiko Mariano Quartet (Candid)
Clare Fischer's Surging Ahead
Red Allen & Pee Wee Russells' The College Concert
Clifford Brown/Max Roach's Brown and Roach Incorporated
I know this is not especially responsive to your post, but I could live without either Kind of Blue or A Love Supreme far more easily than any of the 20 I listed.
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from looking in on the jazz threads, it appears ALS and KOB get most attention, could be very wrong, just what i remember seeing
H.F.N.
I wasn't really quibbling with your original post. It's just that those two, while great recordings, seem to get all the attention. And that's the problem for me, because there are indeed many others that offer equal rewards.
there are so many other great players/recordings out there. Not to denigrate those two but - geez - seems like they're all you hear about.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
One of the things I like about these posts is that they will often prompt me to go to the shelves and pull out stuff I may not have listened to in a long time.So - last night I listened to both "Surging Ahead" and "Extension" on Pacific Jazz. I hope you have the latter - it's excellent with some rather unusual arranging and instrumentation.
As for Horace Silver - "Song for My Father" is a perennial favorite.
It is my good fortune to own most of the stuff you list and I agree with your overall assessment.
Do you have the DVD of the "Sound of Jazz" from the TV show? Fogy that I am I remember sitting in front of the TV with my parents and watching it live.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Edits: 10/31/11
I do have the Sound of Music DVD and also clearly recall watching the broadcast-at age 15-although not with my parents, who never could understand my fascination with jazz. I must say, however, that I was a bit disappointed with the show, since my interest then was almost exclusively bop musicians. Little did I know that years later the recording would become one of my all time favorites.
I don't know how I missed the Clare Fischer Extension you mentioned, since I own quite a few of his recordings, but I will soon rectify that after listening to a sampling on Amazon. Thanks for the tip.
I can always dub you a CDR. There appears to be only one on Amazon and one on Ebay and neither have any sample tracks.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Edits: 10/31/11
You can sample on Amazon by going to the MP3 download. I really appreciate the CDR offer, but I'm looking for an LP. There are currently several on eBay, but in mono. I'd prefer the stereo version if there is one.
Guess you and I are the same age. I, though, was not yet into Bop. I loved Jimmy Rushing, Billie Holiday etc., and that "Nervous" thing by Mal Waldron, Jimmy Giuffre "Train And The River" and on and on. Still love that record.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
The Sound of Music?1?1? Wow, what a slip. I intended to refer, of course, to The Sound of Jazz.
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