Name 5 Jazz tracks you really love

> 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.

Patty Waters - Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair

Had a Waters CD with that on it years ago and honestly it was just too much for me.

Some might be interested in this little Mixcloud thing I put together. It was really designed as a primer for people curious about jazz.

https://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/goodbye-porkpie-hat-selected-jazz-cuts/

don cherry -- moving pictures for the ear
pharoah sanders -- harvest time
steve reid -- lions of judah
byard lancaster -- it's not up to us
sun ra -- sleeping beauty

its completely unfair to exclude pete la roca, freddie hubbard, andrew hill, grachan moncur, mtume, FUCKING MILES DAVIS, ornette coleman, john & alice, sonny sharrock, sunny murray, charles tyler, bill evans, jeanne lee, cecil taylor, don friedman, and UM a million others, but this is today's list

A lot of the classic stuff (pre-1980s) has already been mentioned, so I tried to add some more new(ish) favourites of mine to the Spotify list.

In chronological order:

Amina Claudine Myers Trio - Christine (1984)
Burhan Öçal & Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Nihavend longa (1999)
Marilyn Mazur's Future Song - Malibalo (2004)
Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Aquarium (2005)
Ricky-Tick Big Band & Julkinen Sana - Ne burnaa (2013)

I guess "Christine" is the only "straight" jazz tune among those, though, the others include stuff like Turkish folk orchestrations and Finnish big band jazz-rap... I love straight jazz too, but it feels the classics serve that need well enough, with the newer stuff, hybrids are more interesting.

Couldn't find the 1960 version of "Straight No Chaser" on grooveshark --- searched a bit and could only find a :30 sec snippet on amazon uk -- nice vibes from Mike Mainieri.

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!

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.