Thursday, October 13, 2011

My Amazon list of best jazz albums

Being the Swiss cheese brain that I am, it never occurred to me to bring my Amazon music lists to the blog.

Here's the link to my list of recommendations to build your Jazz collection at Amazon.com: Amazon.com: "Begin a diversified Jazz collection - for jazz newbies!", with reviews for each recording.

Other recordings beyond the list are also mentioned, but the initial list suggests how you should build your jazz collection...in order.


Here's the list:
  1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
  2. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
  3. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
  4. John Coltrane - Blue Train
  5. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
  6. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
  7. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
  8. Charlie Parker - With Strings (The Master Takes)
  9. Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
  10. Clifford Brown & Max Roach (eponymous)
  11. Louis Armstrong - The Hot Fives & Sevens
  12. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
  13. Matthew Shipp - Harmony & Abyss
  14. Frank Sinatra with Count Basie - Sinatra at the Sands
  15. Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Complete Jazz at Massey Hall
  16. Billie Holiday & Lester Young - A Musical Romance
  17. Wynton Marsalis - Live at the Village Vanguard
  18. Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
  19. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
  20. Jaco Pastorius (eponymous)
  21. Dave Holland - Live at Birdland
  22. Wayne Shorter - Adams Apple
  23. McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
  24. The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
  25. Thelonius Monk - Straight No Chaser
  26. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night in Tunisia
  27. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
  28. Jason Moran - The Bandwagon
  29. Modern Jazz Quartet - Django
  30. Miles Davis - Bags' Groove
Those are my recommendations on starting your jazz collection.