Name 5 Jazz tracks you really love

I didn't think I needed another Brilliant Corners in my life but Braxton knows how.

I'll leave the playlist alone, but these are my five:

grant green - idle moments
john coltrane - alabama
ornette coleman - blues connotation
charles mingus - hearts' beat and shades in physical embraces
cecil taylor - jumpin' punkins

John Coltrane---Song of the Underground Railroad---or anything else from Africa Brass Sessions Volume 2
Gato Barbieri---India
Cecil Taylor---Bulbs
Charles Mingus---Goodbye Porkpie Hat
Sheila Jordan---Better Than Anything

The Spotify playlist is a good'un already. Added four of my picks - the Ray Russell isn't available, so substituted 'Mortgage On My Soul [Wah-Wah]', Keith Jarrett's funkiest track

Wes Montgomery - Blue n' Boogie
John Coltrane- Ole
Wayne Shorter- Speak No Evil
Charles Mingus- Moanin'
Bill Evans- NYC Is No Lark

oliver nelson - "stolen moments"
thelonious monk - "well you needn't"
ornette coleman - "una muy bonita"
eddie jefferson - "moody's mood for love"
miles davis - "my funny valentine"

Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra - "Love In Outer Space"
Miles Davis - "Frelon Brun (Brown Hornet)"
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonius Monk - "Blue Monk"
Pat Metheny/Dave Holland/Roy Haynes - "Solar"
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "The Inflated Tear"

Decent amt of variety in the playlist -- Monk's the only featured name that's shown up more than twice. (I'm sure there are sidemen who show up on a bunch of tracks.)

nice call on the Ornette, m coleman. LOVE the way Don and OC play on the final few bars ; those few seconds brings it up a notch from great to sublime, imo

xxpopst

Ornette Coleman - Beauty is a Rare Thing
Herbie Nichols - Terpsichore
Louis Armstrong - Hotter Than That
Thelonious Monk - Pannonica
Zu + Ken Vandermark - Vegetalista

Just added my 5 to the play list. Thanks WilliamC.

Gabor Szabo - Bacchanal
Pat Martino - Baiyina
Steve Reid - Lions of Judah
Duke Pearson - The Phantom
Mor Thiam - Ayo Ayo Nene

Shit I forgot Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Sharrock, Alice Coltrane...

John Coltrane - Welcome
Keith Jarrett - In Front
Bill Evans - Some Other Time
Albert Ayler - Truth Is Marching In
George Russell ft. Eric Dolphy - Round Midnight

DL, I don't see the Abdullah Ibrahim track among yours. Is that one of those "tough luck, Americans" cases?

Dave Holland Quartet - "Conference of the Birds"
Charles Mingus - "Haitian Fight Song"
Albert Ayler- "Our Prayer"
Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus - "Little Pocket Sized Demons"
Joseph Jarman & Don Moye f. Johnny Dyani - "Mama Marimba"

> duke ellington - fleurette africaine

this is the track where the jazz light bulb flicked on for me. So, yeah.

Charles Mingus - Far Wells, Mill Valley
King Oliver - Deep Henderson
Bobby Brown Quartet - Venus Velvet
Thelonious Monk - Little Rootie Tootie

added to the Spotify

WilliamC it's in the queue im looking at. Although it appears to be a different version from the one I know.

i took it off. the version on Spotify is rubbish. I Couldn't find a Youtube either. Must be banned from the internet or somehting.

http://youtu.be/Pw5za2BBPkw

Alice Coltrane - Galaxy in Turiya
Pharoah Sanders - Upper Egypt Lower Egypt
Hal Singer and Jeff Gilson - Chant Inca
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - In A Sentimental Mood
John Coltrane - Afro Blue (Live at Birdland)

xpost, yeah that seems to be a different version to the one i know sadly.

Utter jazz novice, but:

Django Reinhardt & Josette Daydé - "Coucou"
John Coltrone - "Olé"
Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Thème de Yoyo"
Thelonious Monk - "Caravan"
LaVern Baker - "On Revival Day"

Leee, 3 of your tracks on the Spotify list (Django, Trane, LaVern) were added as local files from your computer rather than from Spotify, which means nobody else can listen to them. Can you re-do those? All of them are available.

Also a Spotify novice! Sorry about that, re-added them now.

Cool, thanks.

Up to 54 tracks and 7 hrs. on the playlist. Great music to work by, as I've been discovering all weekend long. I'm going to switch my 5 out probably once a week if I can remember to.

Michel Camilo Trio - "Tombo in 7/4" (from Suntan)
Weather Report - "Birdland" (from Heavy Weather)
Bill Frisell - "Egg Radio" (from Quartet)
Claude Bolling with Jean-Pierre Rampal - "Fugace" (from Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano)
Thelonious Monk - "Straight, No Chaser" (from the 1967 album of that title)

I don't have a Spotify account, so someone else will have to add these if it interests them.

Nice stuff, particularly intrigued by George Lewis & Bobby Brown. I'll probably switch tracks out in about a week as well. Thanks to the spotify playlist I played "Homage To Charles Parker" on the radio yesterday in a set with "Gunslinging Birds" from The Mingus Big Band & "Requiem" by Lennie Tristano.

Is it cheating to post five more?

Lennie Tristano - Line-Up
Gerry Mulligan Quartet - As Catch Can
Bobby Timmons - This Here
Jackie McLean - Love and Hate
Jeff Ballard/Larry Grenadier/Mark Turner - Todas Las Cosas Se Van

> particularly intrigued by George Lewis & Bobby Brown.

I've never been able to find out anything more about the Bobby Brown Quartet. If I recall, the notes from the 1970 comp "Stars of the Apollo" it appears on says something like "the Quartet is one of the new breed of jazz groups that now appear occasionally at the Apollo." But that's it.

Couldn't find the Phil Moore track on Spotify, so I swapped in Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" for the time being.

Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Jan Garbarek Quartet - Beast of Kommodo
Satoko Fujii & Tatsuya Yoshida - Ayentanams
Ellery Eskelin with Andrea Parkins & Jim Black - Visionary of the Week
Tim Berne's Bloodcount - Prelude: The Brown Dog Meets The Spaceman

added all of mine except for Sun Ra's "The Magic City", not on Spotify. I subbed in the title track of Blue Delight, a late period track that never fails to bring me joy

The JC track I was thinking of is from "Infinity" but called "Living Space"

could you add my selections? i don't have a spotify account. thx!

I will try when I have time! that goes for other stuff here too

Spotify is badly lacking in the best Sun Ra material.

I think most of the stuff reissued on Evidence is unavailable on Spotify.

Jimmy Smith - "Oh No, Babe"
Sun Ra - " Reflections in Blue"
Wynton Kelly w/ Wes Montgomery - "No Blues"
Cannonball Adderley - "Autumn Leaves"
Roland Kirk - "Blue Rol"

Don Cherry - Complete Communion - added
Jan Garbarek Quartet - Beast of Kommodo N/A
Satoko Fujii & Tatsuya Yoshida - Ayentanams N/A
Ellery Eskelin with Andrea Parkins & Jim Black - N/A
Tim Berne's Bloodcount - Prelude: The Brown Dog Meets The Spaceman N/A

― cock chirea, Tuesday, January 7, 2014 8:13 PM

sorry man!

ok for those with no spotify access, i went and put together an alternative grooveshark playlist with all the stuff i could find. 157 tracks, there's a few ones missing but most of em are there. enjoy!

http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/5+Jazz+Tracks+You+Really+Love/94159019

Cecil Taylor, "Steps"
Miles Davis, "Footprint"
Charles Mingus, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"
Chick Corea/Return to Forever, "Light As A Feather"
John Coltrane, "Ogunde"

xpost nice one cock chirea

Switched out my 5 on the playlist --

Max Roach Quintet + Buddy Rich Quintet - "The Casbah"
Peter Brötzmann Octet - "Machine Gun"
Spring Heel Jack - "Duel"
Eric Dolphy - "Music Matador"
Susie Ibarra - "Drum Sketch No. 7"

Great call on Music Matador, such rambunctious joy. Here are my spotify swaps--

Chick Webb - "Jungle Mama"
Charlie Christian - "Waitin' For Benny"
Buddy Rich - "Straight No Chaser"
David Fathead Newman - "I Wish You Love"
World Saxophone Quartet - "Snanapo"

I don't know if anybody here remembers that 70s budget label Everest Records, but the Dolphy title they had with "Music Matador" and "Jitterbug Waltz" was one of the first 2 or 3 jazz records I ever bought, so I sort of came into jazz thinking that that sort of angular, knees-and-elbows soloing was not weird in any way. I wish I'd bought more of those Everest titles -- they were $4.95 each at the record stores in Tupelo and Starkville.

Damn, that Buddy Rich "Straight No Chaser" is blinding. I remember a Zappa-hating music writer once using the phrase "a gratuitous display of advanced technique" to diss him -- that phrase came to mind during the Rich track, but in a good way.

Joe McPhee - Shakey Jake
Herb Alpert - Beyond
Louis Armstrong - Skokiaan
Tony Bennett - Samba de Orfeu
Patty Waters - Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair

Maybe it's the version i listened to (Tribute to Buddy Rich), but this incarnation of "Straight, No Chaser" sounds like the theme song to some late night TV talk show of yore.

Stan Tracey Quartet - Starless and Bible Black
Pharoah Sanders - Astral Traveling
Bill Evans - Peace Piece
Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
John Coltrane Quartet - After the Rain

The version of "Straight No Chaser" on Tribute To Buddy Rich was recorded in the '90s with Kenny Aronoff on drums--not awful by any means--but the version I was going for was the one Rich recorded with Emarcy in 1960, arrangement by Ernie Wilkins. Pops up on three or four spotify comps & is 4:25 long.

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.

― calzino, Wednesday, December 11, 2019 5:35 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin)

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.