Name 5 Jazz tracks you really love

another five switched--

Don Byas & Slam Stewart - I Got Rhythm (live 1945)
Dizzy Gillespie - Lover, Come Back To Me (big band 1947)
Sonny Rollins - I've Told Ev'ry Little Star (and The Contemporary Leaders)
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'/Two Sleepy People (V disc)
Coleman Hawkins - Thru' For The Night (with the Cozy Cole All Stars 1945)

Freddie Slack and Ella Mae Morse - "House of Blue Lights"
Joe Turner and Pete Johnson - "Roll 'em Pete"
Louis Jordan - "Beware"
Roy Brown - "Butcher Pete"
Louis Jordan - "Ain't That Just Like a Woman"

swapped for 5 more tracks--

Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four (featuring Lonnie Johnson) - Jet Black Blues
Clifford Jordan - Take This Hammer
Count Basie (featuring Eddie Lockjaw Davis) - Paradise Squat
Coleman Hawkins & Shelly Manne - Me & Some Drums
Gerry Mulligan featuring Bob Brookmeyer & an obnoxious whistler - Limelight/Utter Chaos (live)

Switched mine out for some guitar playing.

Binky's Beam - John McLaughlin
Blues for Los Angeles - Bill Frisell
Ashes - Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society (Jack DeSalvo, Jef Lee Johnson, Stevie Salas on guitars)
Sonny Sharrock - The Princess Sonata: Like Voices of Sleeping Birds
Farewell, Farwell - Charles Mingus (Spotify has the song title wrong; Larry Coryell, guitar)

John Coltrane/Duke Ellington - In A Sentimental Mood
Miles Davis - Sanctuary
Tony Williams - Love Song
Bill Evans - Time Remembered
Eric Dolphy - Come Sunday (ok this is an Ellington-tune, but I really like this particular version)

cheat! for guitarists, this would be my top 5:

Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt
Wes Montgomery - Snowfall
Sonny Sharrock - Once Upon a Time
Marc Ribot - Witches and Devils
John Abercrombie - Class Trip

another 5 on spotify--

Don Ellis - Turkish Bath
Cannonball Adderley - Inside Straight
Stan Getz - Body & Soul
World Saxophone Quartet - Let's Get It On
Ray McKinley - Hangover Square

Grant Green - Cantaloupe Woman
Bill Evans/Jim Hall - Stairway to the Stars
Kenny Burrell - Mule
Chet Baker - But Not For Me
Don Ellis - Two Autumns

Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree
Archie Shepp - Blase
Sam Rivers - Euterpe
Gil Evans - Las Vegas Tango

double otm!

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723183103/facing-homelessness-and-crushing-medical-debt-a-renowned-jazz-guitarist-reaches-?t=1575578423202

depressing read on Kenny Burrell here :(

Gerry Mulligan Quartet - As Catch Can
Bill Evans - Milestones
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
John Coltrane - The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Sonny Rollins & Jim Hall - John S

Art Blakey New World
Dizzy Gillespie The Champ
Sun Ra Say
John Coltrane My Favourite Things (not sure which recording right now)
Pharaoh Sanders Creator Has A Master plan

Herbie Hancock – Sun Touch

Oliver Nelson – Stolen Moments

Grant Green – Jean De Fleur

Horace Silver – Kissin' Cousins

Paulinho da Costa – Toledo Bagel

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/15/723183103/facing-homelessness-and-crushing-medical-debt-a-renowned-jazz-guitarist-reaches-?t=1575578423202

depressing read on Kenny Burrell here :(

I remember chucking a few quid into that fund during the summer. I just had a look and it has raised a quarter of a million dollars when the goal was a hundred grand. So hopefully Kenny is living in a half-decent level of comfort.

good to hear

wow horrible stuff tho.

Mark Murphy - Stolen Moments
Jazzmeia Horn - Out The Window
George Shearing - Summertime
Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul
Kenny Barron/Charlie Haden - Twilight Song

Africa Struggle - Mal Waldron Trio
Walk, Don't Run - Johnny Smith
Blues For Yolanda - Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster
B Flat Blues - Bud Powell
Chazz (for Charles Mingus) - Lucky Four

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Compared To What
Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Jim Hall - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Joy Spring
Louis Armstrong - St James Infirmary

Wayne Shorter- Tom Thumb
Billy Harper- Priestess
Clifford Jordan- John Coltrane
Bill Evans- Gloria's Step
Bobby Hutcherson- Effie

off the top of my head

Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
John Coltrane - Africa
Sun Ra And His Arkestra - Ancient Aiethopia
Pharoah Sanders - Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord

Alice Coltrane - 'Turiya and Ramakrishna'
Donald Byrd - 'Kofi'
Lonnie Liston Smith - 'Rejuvenation'
Ornette Coleman - 'Street Woman'
Herbie Hancock - 'Wandering Spirit Song'

Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor
Sun Ra - Springtime Again
Lee Morgan - Search for a New Land
Helen Merrill - Don't Explain
George Benson - Footin' It

bill evans - waltz for debby
rahsaan roland kirk - the black and crazy blues
wayne shorter - dance cadaverous
donald byrd - the emperor
isamu mcgregor - relentless

Philip Corhan & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble - The Minstrel
Bengt Berger - Bitter Funeral Beer
Rabin Abou-Khalil - Sahara
McCoy Tyner - Salvadore De Samba
Harold Alexander - Mama Soul

ornette coleman - rubber gloves
misha mengelberg trio - rollo 2
joey baron / barondown - i've been holding it all my life
henry threadgill - try some ammonia
eivind opsvik overseas - brraps

Bobby Hutcherson - Montara
Charles Lloyd - Forest Flower
Willie Bobo - Fried Neckbones and Some Home Fries
Bobbi Humprey - Harlem River Drive
Cal Tjader - Los Bandidos

Ahmad Jamal Trio - "Snowfall"
Grant Green - "Idle Moments"
Duke Ellington - "Chelsea Bridge"
Coleman Hawkins - "Picasso"
Bobby Hutcherson - "Little B's Poem"

Carla Bley 5

Music Mecanique i
Two Banana
Song Of The Eternal Waiting Of Canute
Silence
The Girl Who Cried Champagne

Nice to see Bobby Hutcherson show up 3 times since the revive.

Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
Theloniuos Monk - Hackensack
Grant Green - Bedouin
Miles Davis - 'Round Midnight (love Coltrane on this version)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - A Night in Tunisia

Hutch is one for the 'I always mix those two up!' pile, as I regularly add the Bobby Henderson playlist to my iPod by mistake instead of the Bobby Hutcherson playlist (or vice versa).

Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder

this was my ringtone for years!

That Grant Green "Bedouin" song is either quoting from "So What", or it's just suspiciously similar. Great tune though -- never knew about this Matador album from him. Loving all these suggestions.

wish I had the time to compile all these. what a lovely thread. thanks everyone

I really like Battleship by Carla Bley

Played a while with a drummer and we were bonding over “Such Sweet Thunder” - he knew it from his high school marching band.

It must be a great school band number- a simple and direct riff, keep piling on the horns and percussion, might even gain some ferocity with sloppy playing.

It's a beautiful album, Lady Mac, Star Crossed Lovers to name some other ace tunes off there - the Ellington album era (late 50's to 70's) is one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century imo.

ok, off the top of my head:

pat martino - baiyina
raymond scott quintette - war dance for wooden indians
miles davis - circle in the round
cap'n john handy - ice cream
anne phillips - born to be blue

I'll name one, because I heard it for the first time today, but the McCoy Tyner tribute to Coltrane, "Bluesin for John C" (featuring Pharaoh Sanders, among others) knocked me on my butt today. At least I think that's what it was.

It's a beautiful album, Lady Mac, Star Crossed Lovers to name some other ace tunes off there - the Ellington album era (late 50's to 70's) is one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century imo.

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SST is one of the greatest records ever recorded by anybody, ever, imo

It must be a great school band number- a simple and direct riff, keep piling on the horns and percussion, might even gain some ferocity with sloppy playing.

i know that often HS bands will work from arrangements that are watered-down (so to speak), but you might be surprised by how many incredibly dissonant, very tricky and dense harmonies are written into those horn parts. that it so effortlessly comes off as this elephantine, lumbering riff is part of its majesty

wish I had the time to compile all these. what a lovely thread. thanks everyone
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I created a Spotify playlist to start collecting these as I explore the suggestions on the list:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3yqzpKT3DBYiWQxlWruxEL?si=MRV2sApRTMySy6RJzSV6Ww

> surprised by how many incredibly dissonant, very tricky and dense harmonies are written into those horn parts

Was sorta hoping someone who knew more than me might say something like that.

I dunno that there's sufficient popular discussion around Ellington to say things have shifted, but when I was getting into him rather blindly in the 90s, I was surprised to see how old guard critics really saw everything after the 1940s as inferior. It was the album-era stuff that really drew me in. For me his peaks are evenly distributed, and I might even hold the very beginning (1920s sides) and end (Afro-Eurasian Eclipse) as my personal favs.