Name 5 Jazz tracks you really love

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.