Building a Jazz Library: Pick Your Top Ten - Page 25

SOONERFAN · January 20th, 2012, 07:39 PM

Louis Armstrong JSP Hot Fives and Sevens Box
Jelly Roll Morton JSP Box
Billie Holliday Lady Day 10 disc box
Charlie Parker JSP Box
Count Basie Complete Decca Recordings
Duke Ellington Blanton Webster Box
Lester Young Proper box
Miles Davis Kind Of Blue
Art Blakey Moanin'
John Coltrane A Love Supreme

v1p · February 14th, 2012, 01:56 PM

TOP 5 in chronological order

Jackie McLean - Destination Out

Andrew Hill - Judgment

Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch

Andrew Hill - Point of Departure

Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue

ben741 · April 15th, 2012, 06:05 PM

Miles Davis Porgy and Bess
Freddie Hubbard Red Clay
Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come
Keith Jarrett The Koln Concert
Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Dave Holland Extended Play Live at the Birdland
Art Blakey Moanin'
Thelonius Monk Brilliant Corners
Pat Metheny Trio 99>00
Kenny Garrett Beyond the Wall
John Coltrane Giant Steps

Though it would be interesting to see the top ten albums to recommend as a primer on Jazz, not for teaching history or theory but as a evangelical tool to convert to neophyte.

poetrylover3 · June 5th, 2012, 11:15 PM

Duke Ellington: Never No Lament (The Blanton/Webster Box)
Miles Davis: Chronicle
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Billie Holiday
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Hum
Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners
Louis Armstrong: Hot Fives & Hot Sevens
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Charlie Parker: Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes
Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
John Coltrane:The Complete Live At The Village Vanguard Seesions,
Count Basie: Classic Lester Young With Count Basie 1936-1941
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Collosus
Art Blakey: A Night At Birdland, Volumes 1 & 2
Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy's Diamonds
Ahmad Jamal At The Pershing Lounge
Weather Report: Forecast Tomorrow
Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section
Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song
Dexter Gordon: Homecoming

Honorable Mention: Heavyweight Champion, The Complete Classic Quartet, Blue Train-John Coltrane; . Too many more to type at this hour....

joels344 · July 1st, 2012, 01:28 PM

I'm usually terrible at creating lists, because my lists are always changing. However, here's some of my favorite records, in alphabetical order by artist.

Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Best jazz album)
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
George Russell - Ezz-thetics
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop
Sun Ra - Space is the Place

poetrylover3 · July 4th, 2012, 01:35 AM

Trying to add a little originality and contradicting my previous post:

Billie Holiday-Master Takes and Singles
Duke Ellington- Original Masters
Charlie Parker-Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
Miles Davis: Chronicle
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz (An Ideal "starter kit")
Louis Armstrong: The Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man
Charles Mingus: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus
The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall
John Coltrane: The Classic Quartet
Sonny Rollins: Original Album Classics

Auxerre · August 4th, 2012, 12:14 PM

I did 25, because it seemed such a nice, round number.

1. Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis (what else?)
2. A Love Supreme -- John Coltrane (ditto)
3. Ole Coltrane -- John Coltrane
4. The Magic City -- Sun Ra
5. Cecil Taylor Unit -- Cecil Taylor Unit
6. The Very Best of Bird -- Charlie Parker (compilation)
7. My Favorite Things -- John Coltrane
8. Jazz in Silhouette -- Sun Ra
9. People in Sorrow -- Art Ensemble of Chicago
10. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady -- Charles Mingus
11. The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings -- Louis Armstrong (box set)
12. Ezz-Thetics -- George Russell Sextet
13. Attica Blues -- Archie Shepp
14. Super Nova -- Wayne Shorter
15. Super Chief -- Count Basie
16. A Night in Tunisia -- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
17. Search For the New Land -- Lee Morgan
18. Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
19. The Hal Russell Story -- Hal Russell NRG Ensemble
20. "Les Stances A Sophie" -- Art Ensemble of Chicago
21. The Freedom Book -- Booker Ervin
22. New Soil -- Jackie McLean
23. Modern Music From Chicago -- Red Rodney Quintet
24. The Inner Mounting Flame -- Mahavishnu Orchestra
25. Latino America -- Gato Barbereri

murphythecat · August 18th, 2012, 06:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by murphythecat

A love Supreme-Coltrane
Ole-Coltrane
Kind of Blue-Davis (Not this again! but its my favorite miles playing and also brings the early coltrane)
savoy and dial studio recordings-Parker
Search for the new land-Lee Morgan
The matador-Grant Green
Crossings-Herbie Hancock
Thrust/headhunters-Herbie Hancock
Night dreamer-Wayne shorter

Damn taste change.

My list now:

Coltrane- ole, giant steps, a love supreme, the john coltrane quartet plays.
Davis- Kind of blue, On the corner
Rollins- saxophone colossus
Monk- Brilliant corners
Tristano- crosscurents, intuition, live in toronto
Shorter- speak no evil
Mingus- Ah Um

urgent-jazz · September 27th, 2012, 10:55 AM

Hey folks,

here's my top 10 jazz albums as presented on my jazz review channel on YouTube, URGENT JAZZ:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oapYqDWdYQg

-laters

jagor · November 5th, 2012, 01:17 AM

The First Nine of My Top Ten Jazz Works in Alphabetical Order by Artist

Note: In several instances I have included more than one album since I consider them all part of the same work--something like Bartok's Six String Quartets or Bach's Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites.

1. Terence Blanchard The Malcolm X Jazz Suite Columbia Terence’s best work. An eloquent and elegiac tribute.

2. Miles Davis Kind of Blue Columbia Best-selling jazz album in history. Rightly so.

3. Joe Henderson Page One, Our Thing, In ‘n Out, Inner Urge, Mode for Joe Blue Note Joe Henderson made five albums for Blue Note; consider them as parts of a whole, but each stands alone as a masterpiece.

4. Harold Land Xocia’s Dance Muse Perhaps a surprising choice, but I consider this the quintessential jazz album of all time. It's the one album I always recommend to anybody who doesn’t know about jazz but is interested. Unfortunately, it's out of print, hard to find and expensive. Title track4:63

5. Wynton Marsalis The Marciac Suite Columbia/Sony Written for and premiered at the Marciac Jazz Festival, in southwest France, it’s a summation of Marsalis’s art.

6. Thelonious Monk The Complete London Collection Black Lion Three discs, all recorded on the same day in 1971. The quintessence of Monk.

7. Joe Pass Virtuoso Pablo The greatest exponent of jazz guitar.

8. Wayne Shorter Night Dreamer, Juju, Speak No Evil, The Soothsayer, Et Cetera, Adam’s Apple, The All-Seeing Eye, Schizophrenia Blue Note Wayne Shorter recorded eight masterpieces for Blue Note in the short period of tme between 1964 and 1967. As with the Henderson works, they should be taken as a unified oeuvre. All are absolute masterpieces. Sometimes I will listen to all eight of them at one sitting. Bliss.

9. Art Tatum The Complete Solo Masterpieces Pablo Seven albums in one boxed set. The quintessence of jazz piano. One of the monuments of world musical history. Tatum was unmatched; he was simply the greatest jazz pianist who ever lived.

10. Far too many to choose from...

Open Lane · January 2nd, 2013, 09:00 AM

1) Shawn lane 'powers of ten live' (a fusion album)
2) Return to forever 'the romantic warrior' (a fusion album)
3) Pat Martino 'footprints'
4) John Coltrane 'meditat'ions'
5) Peter Brotzmann 'machine gun' (avantgarde jazz)
6) Keith Jarrett 'vienna concert'
7) Weather Report 'black market' (fusion)
8) Pharoah Sanders "Karma'
9) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the emerald beyound' (fusion
10) Miles Davis - Bitches brew live (fusion)

chris books · January 20th, 2013, 12:44 PM

01. John Coltrane / Soultrane
02. Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin (rel. 1958 on Argo, starts with "I Cried for You")
03. Art Farmer / Early Art (mix of early quintet and quartet dates, originally issued as two separate 10" by Prestige)
04. Miles Davis / Kind of Blue
05. Thelonious Monk / Live at the Five Spot feat. Johnny Griffin
06. Jimmy Smith / Organ Grinder Swing
07. Modern Jazz Quartet / Django
08. Dizzy Gillespie / A Portrait of Duke Ellington
09. Sun Ra / Purple Night
10. Cannonball Adderly / Somethin' Else

My wife's top ten (ahem..)

01. Ella Fitzgerald / Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife
02. Dave Brubeck / Jazz: Red Hot and Cool
03. Carla Bley Band / Social Studies
04. Frank Morgan / Love, Lost, and Found
05. Ornette Coleman / Shape of Jazz to Come
06. Benny Goodman / Benny Goodman Vol. 2: Clarinet a la King
07. Hank Mobley / Soul Station
08. Thelonious Monk / Solo Monk
09. John Coltrane / Village Vanguard Master Takes
10. Eric Dolphy / Conversations

walkin · January 26th, 2013, 08:01 AM

Good picks! Good to see Carla Bley`s Social Studies in your wife`s list,I really like that album

PeterCS · March 30th, 2013, 06:21 PM

These lists are well-nigh impossible .... there are so many great sets, and particular selections depend on mood, circumstances, occasion.

Without wishing to commit myself to saying these are by any means the best, perhaps not even my favourites (certainly not in all conditions), here are 20 selections I have played very (very) many times.

They are not in order, just 20 off the top of my head (and heart):

Lee Konitz & Red Mitchell (duet) - I Concentrate On You

Steve Lacy - Epistrophy (live in Paris 1969, with Romano, Jenny-Clark, Graillier)

Jimmy Knepper - Cunningbird (w Al Cohn, Hanna, Mraz, Richmond)

Enrico Rava - difficult to select one, maybe: What a Day!!!

Aldo Romano (Italian Quartet) - of the five sets, perhaps: To Be Ornette (To Be)

Herbie Nichols - Love, Gloom, Cash, Love (Duvivier, Richmond)

Zbigniew Namyslowski Quintet - Kujawiak Goes Funky

Chico Freeman - very tough, so many goodies. The Emissary perhaps, or if in ballad mood Still Sensitive, if in energetic mode Tradition in Transition

Eric Dolphy - any of the Five Spot 1961 (with Booker Little, Waldron, Davis, Blackwell), though the Live in Europes 1961 are also great favourites

Red Mitchell & Communication - Blues for a Crushed Soul (with Bosse Broberg, Goran Strandberg, Nisse Sandstrom, Bertil Strandberg and the mighty Rune Carlsson)

Bill Evans Trio (LaFaro, Motian) - any of the Live at the Village Vanguard

Masada (John Zorn, Douglas, Baron, Cohen) - any, perhaps Beit (2)??

Shelly Manne - any of the Black Hawks (1959) with Richie Kamuca, Joe Gordon, Vic Feldman & Monty Budwig)

John Tchicai - probably: Timo's Message (with two basses and drums)

Jukka Eskola - same title (2005)

Frank Strozier - Remember Me

Don Byron - Bug Music (esp the versions of Raymond Scott)

Coleman Hawkins - anything from 1944-1945, perhaps Hollywood Stampede

Howard McGhee - Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out

Sahib Shihab - Conversations

But man, I shouldn't be doing this. The longer the list gets, the more I am leaving out treasured music that hasn't yet jumped into my mind.

June 5th, 2012, 11:15 PM	#364
poetrylover3 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 11	Building A Library Duke Ellington: Never No Lament (The Blanton/Webster Box) Miles Davis: Chronicle Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Billie Holiday Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Hum Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners Louis Armstrong: Hot Fives & Hot Sevens John Coltrane: A Love Supreme Charlie Parker: Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961 Miles Davis: Kind of Blue John Coltrane:The Complete Live At The Village Vanguard Seesions, Count Basie: Classic Lester Young With Count Basie 1936-1941 Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Collosus Art Blakey: A Night At Birdland, Volumes 1 & 2 Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy's Diamonds Ahmad Jamal At The Pershing Lounge Weather Report: Forecast Tomorrow Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song Dexter Gordon: Homecoming Honorable Mention: Heavyweight Champion, The Complete Classic Quartet, Blue Train-John Coltrane; . Too many more to type at this hour.... Last edited by poetrylover3; June 5th, 2012 at 11:31 PM. Reason: Expanding list to permitted 20

September 27th, 2012, 10:55 AM	#369
urgent-jazz Registered User Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 9	top 10 video review by URGENT JAZZ Hey folks, here's my top 10 jazz albums as presented on my jazz review channel on YouTube, URGENT JAZZ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oapYqDWdYQg -laters

November 5th, 2012, 01:17 AM	#370
jagor Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 94	First Nine of my Top Ten Jazz Albums The First Nine of My Top Ten Jazz Works in Alphabetical Order by Artist Note: In several instances I have included more than one album since I consider them all part of the same work--something like Bartok's Six String Quartets or Bach's Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites. 1. Terence Blanchard The Malcolm X Jazz Suite Columbia Terence’s best work. An eloquent and elegiac tribute. 2. Miles Davis Kind of Blue Columbia Best-selling jazz album in history. Rightly so. 3. Joe Henderson Page One, Our Thing, In ‘n Out, Inner Urge, Mode for Joe Blue Note Joe Henderson made five albums for Blue Note; consider them as parts of a whole, but each stands alone as a masterpiece. 4. Harold Land Xocia’s Dance Muse Perhaps a surprising choice, but I consider this the quintessential jazz album of all time. It's the one album I always recommend to anybody who doesn’t know about jazz but is interested. Unfortunately, it's out of print, hard to find and expensive. Title track4:63 5. Wynton Marsalis The Marciac Suite Columbia/Sony Written for and premiered at the Marciac Jazz Festival, in southwest France, it’s a summation of Marsalis’s art. 6. Thelonious Monk The Complete London Collection Black Lion Three discs, all recorded on the same day in 1971. The quintessence of Monk. 7. Joe Pass Virtuoso Pablo The greatest exponent of jazz guitar. 8. Wayne Shorter Night Dreamer, Juju, Speak No Evil, The Soothsayer, Et Cetera, Adam’s Apple, The All-Seeing Eye, Schizophrenia Blue Note Wayne Shorter recorded eight masterpieces for Blue Note in the short period of tme between 1964 and 1967. As with the Henderson works, they should be taken as a unified oeuvre. All are absolute masterpieces. Sometimes I will listen to all eight of them at one sitting. Bliss. 9. Art Tatum The Complete Solo Masterpieces Pablo Seven albums in one boxed set. The quintessence of jazz piano. One of the monuments of world musical history. Tatum was unmatched; he was simply the greatest jazz pianist who ever lived. 10. Far too many to choose from... Last edited by jagor; November 5th, 2012 at 01:19 AM. Reason: Edits.

January 26th, 2013, 08:01 AM	#373
walkin Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 2,899	Good picks! Good to see Carla Bley`s Social Studies in your wife`s list,I really like that album __________________ "I wonder who`s on trombone"-Superchicken

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January 20th, 2012, 07:39 PM	#361
SOONERFAN Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 2	Louis Armstrong JSP Hot Fives and Sevens Box Jelly Roll Morton JSP Box Billie Holliday Lady Day 10 disc box Charlie Parker JSP Box Count Basie Complete Decca Recordings Duke Ellington Blanton Webster Box Lester Young Proper box Miles Davis Kind Of Blue Art Blakey Moanin' John Coltrane A Love Supreme

February 14th, 2012, 01:56 PM	#362
v1p Registered User Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Posts: 15	TOP 5 in chronological order Jackie McLean - Destination Out Andrew Hill - Judgment Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch Andrew Hill - Point of Departure Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue

April 15th, 2012, 06:05 PM	#363
ben741 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Iroquois, ON Posts: 8	Miles Davis Porgy and Bess Freddie Hubbard Red Clay Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come Keith Jarrett The Koln Concert Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard Dave Holland Extended Play Live at the Birdland Art Blakey Moanin' Thelonius Monk Brilliant Corners Pat Metheny Trio 99>00 Kenny Garrett Beyond the Wall John Coltrane Giant Steps Though it would be interesting to see the top ten albums to recommend as a primer on Jazz, not for teaching history or theory but as a evangelical tool to convert to neophyte.

July 1st, 2012, 01:28 PM	#365
joels344 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: United States Posts: 24	I'm usually terrible at creating lists, because my lists are always changing. However, here's some of my favorite records, in alphabetical order by artist. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century John Coltrane - A Love Supreme John Coltrane - Blue Train Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra Andrew Hill - Black Fire Andrew Hill - Point of Departure Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Best jazz album) Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth George Russell - Ezz-thetics Pharoah Sanders - Karma The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop Sun Ra - Space is the Place

July 4th, 2012, 01:35 AM	#366
poetrylover3 Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 11	Trying to add a little originality and contradicting my previous post: Billie Holiday-Master Takes and Singles Duke Ellington- Original Masters Charlie Parker-Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes Miles Davis: Chronicle The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz (An Ideal "starter kit") Louis Armstrong: The Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man Charles Mingus: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall John Coltrane: The Classic Quartet Sonny Rollins: Original Album Classics

August 4th, 2012, 12:14 PM	#367
Auxerre Registered User Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 7	I did 25, because it seemed such a nice, round number. 1. Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis (what else?) 2. A Love Supreme -- John Coltrane (ditto) 3. Ole Coltrane -- John Coltrane 4. The Magic City -- Sun Ra 5. Cecil Taylor Unit -- Cecil Taylor Unit 6. The Very Best of Bird -- Charlie Parker (compilation) 7. My Favorite Things -- John Coltrane 8. Jazz in Silhouette -- Sun Ra 9. People in Sorrow -- Art Ensemble of Chicago 10. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady -- Charles Mingus 11. The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings -- Louis Armstrong (box set) 12. Ezz-Thetics -- George Russell Sextet 13. Attica Blues -- Archie Shepp 14. Super Nova -- Wayne Shorter 15. Super Chief -- Count Basie 16. A Night in Tunisia -- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers 17. Search For the New Land -- Lee Morgan 18. Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus 19. The Hal Russell Story -- Hal Russell NRG Ensemble 20. "Les Stances A Sophie" -- Art Ensemble of Chicago 21. The Freedom Book -- Booker Ervin 22. New Soil -- Jackie McLean 23. Modern Music From Chicago -- Red Rodney Quintet 24. The Inner Mounting Flame -- Mahavishnu Orchestra 25. Latino America -- Gato Barbereri

January 2nd, 2013, 09:00 AM	#371
Open Lane Registered User Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 75	1) Shawn lane 'powers of ten live' (a fusion album) 2) Return to forever 'the romantic warrior' (a fusion album) 3) Pat Martino 'footprints' 4) John Coltrane 'meditat'ions' 5) Peter Brotzmann 'machine gun' (avantgarde jazz) 6) Keith Jarrett 'vienna concert' 7) Weather Report 'black market' (fusion) 8) Pharoah Sanders "Karma' 9) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the emerald beyound' (fusion 10) Miles Davis - Bitches brew live (fusion)

January 20th, 2013, 12:44 PM	#372
chris books Registered User Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Utah Posts: 5	01. John Coltrane / Soultrane 02. Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin (rel. 1958 on Argo, starts with "I Cried for You") 03. Art Farmer / Early Art (mix of early quintet and quartet dates, originally issued as two separate 10" by Prestige) 04. Miles Davis / Kind of Blue 05. Thelonious Monk / Live at the Five Spot feat. Johnny Griffin 06. Jimmy Smith / Organ Grinder Swing 07. Modern Jazz Quartet / Django 08. Dizzy Gillespie / A Portrait of Duke Ellington 09. Sun Ra / Purple Night 10. Cannonball Adderly / Somethin' Else My wife's top ten (ahem..) 01. Ella Fitzgerald / Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife 02. Dave Brubeck / Jazz: Red Hot and Cool 03. Carla Bley Band / Social Studies 04. Frank Morgan / Love, Lost, and Found 05. Ornette Coleman / Shape of Jazz to Come 06. Benny Goodman / Benny Goodman Vol. 2: Clarinet a la King 07. Hank Mobley / Soul Station 08. Thelonious Monk / Solo Monk 09. John Coltrane / Village Vanguard Master Takes 10. Eric Dolphy / Conversations

March 30th, 2013, 06:21 PM	#374
PeterCS Registered User Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 733	These lists are well-nigh impossible .... there are so many great sets, and particular selections depend on mood, circumstances, occasion. Without wishing to commit myself to saying these are by any means the best, perhaps not even my favourites (certainly not in all conditions), here are 20 selections I have played very (very) many times. They are not in order, just 20 off the top of my head (and heart): Lee Konitz & Red Mitchell (duet) - I Concentrate On You Steve Lacy - Epistrophy (live in Paris 1969, with Romano, Jenny-Clark, Graillier) Jimmy Knepper - Cunningbird (w Al Cohn, Hanna, Mraz, Richmond) Enrico Rava - difficult to select one, maybe: What a Day!!! Aldo Romano (Italian Quartet) - of the five sets, perhaps: To Be Ornette (To Be) Herbie Nichols - Love, Gloom, Cash, Love (Duvivier, Richmond) Zbigniew Namyslowski Quintet - Kujawiak Goes Funky Chico Freeman - very tough, so many goodies. The Emissary perhaps, or if in ballad mood Still Sensitive, if in energetic mode Tradition in Transition Eric Dolphy - any of the Five Spot 1961 (with Booker Little, Waldron, Davis, Blackwell), though the Live in Europes 1961 are also great favourites Red Mitchell & Communication - Blues for a Crushed Soul (with Bosse Broberg, Goran Strandberg, Nisse Sandstrom, Bertil Strandberg and the mighty Rune Carlsson) Bill Evans Trio (LaFaro, Motian) - any of the Live at the Village Vanguard Masada (John Zorn, Douglas, Baron, Cohen) - any, perhaps Beit (2)?? Shelly Manne - any of the Black Hawks (1959) with Richie Kamuca, Joe Gordon, Vic Feldman & Monty Budwig) John Tchicai - probably: Timo's Message (with two basses and drums) Jukka Eskola - same title (2005) Frank Strozier - Remember Me Don Byron - Bug Music (esp the versions of Raymond Scott) Coleman Hawkins - anything from 1944-1945, perhaps Hollywood Stampede Howard McGhee - Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out Sahib Shihab - Conversations But man, I shouldn't be doing this. The longer the list gets, the more I am leaving out treasured music that hasn't yet jumped into my mind.