Name 5 Jazz tracks you really love

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!

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