Top ten jazz tunes. Did I get that backwards?
- Helen Reddy – Delta Dawn
- Weather Report – Birdland
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HELEN REDDY!!??!!??
I couldn’t possibly list only ten tunes, but here are ten of my favorite jazz albums:
-Shadowfax- Shadowdance
-Bela Fleck- UFO Tofu
-Weather Report- Tale Spinnin’
-Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain
-Chick Corea- My Spanish Heart
-Gerry Mulligan- and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard
-Eddie Harris- Exodus to Jazz
-Dave Brubeck Quartet- Newport 1958
-Oscar Peterson Trio- West Side Story
-Miles Davis- Filles de KilimanJaro
-Larry Coryell & Phillip Catherine- Twin House
-Woody Herman & The Herd- Carnegie Hall 1946 (My vote for best Big Band EVER)
Thats more than ten but I could just keep on keepin on! 
I think all this top ten stuff really should be what is your favorite.
I like Chick Corea. Especially in Return to Forever. I think that was the band’s name. and the album was called Romantic Warrior. or it might be the other way around.
Jazz fans are unique. I had a video of Jaco Pastorius at Monterey. He used to play bass in Weather Report. When they showed the audience, I would say that over 95% of the guys had beards.
I like The Modern Jazz Quartet. I guess they can’t be considered modern anymore. But I like that nice quiet vibraphone sound. I had the CD, Live at the Budokan. At one quiet moment, you can hear someone from the audience yell, “Psycho!” Which is real funny if you don’t know that in Japanese that means “Excellent!”
I had a friend from Philadelphia who has a picture of his brother taken with Stanley Clarke. How cool is that?
What??? I didn’t see Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters on that list. :uhhuh: What a great album (although I guess some might say it’s not actually jazz but fusion).
well the keith jarrett trio-live at the blue note box set is No. 1 to No. 6 hands down…if you don’t own it then…go buy it
and then: miles davis…kind of blue (should be issued at birth)
oscar peterson trio w. milt jackson; worksong…a lesson in swing and controlled improvisation…worth buying just to listen to ed thigpen define the concept of drumming in the groove
um can’t decide on what next…john coltrane, stan getz, roland kirk (spot the ex sax player)
[quote]and then: miles davis…kind of blue (should be issued at birth)
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Whew! Just as well you put that up – I was about to call you all retards HAHAHAHAHA!
Anything by or with Miles, up to You’re Under Arrest. After that, he got a bit silly.
Anything by or with Trane
Anythoing by or with Sonny Rollins
Anything by or with Bill Evans
ANything by or with Charlie Mingus
Anything by or with Bird
Anything by or with Long Tall Dexter
Anything by or with … look, this is just stupid. 
ah yes long tall dexter gordon…plays so far behind the beat it be sometime next week by the time he catch up…best jazz movie ever…um that one he’s in playing an ex-junkie in paris…name please?
“Aimez-vous le basketball?”
'Round Midnight. Also with Herbie Hancock and a host of others. Not only the best jazz movie ever, its also simply a damn good movie in its own right, which sets it apart from all the other “jazz movies” I can think of.
Anything by or with:
Cannonball Adderly
Donald Byrd
Stan Getz
Clifford Brown
Horace Silver
Count Basie
The Duke
The Duke (well of course, he gets mentioned twice)
Diz
The Prez
Billie
The Hawk
The Duke (OK, three times)
Wow! I got that one sitting on my desk as I read this. Is that coincidence or what?
My fav jazz artists (because that is what they are - artists):
Hot Lips Page (described as a poorer version of Louis Armstrong, but I don’t care - I know what I like, and I think his playing and singing is superb!)
George Melly, with John Chiltern (total Brit trad jazz)
Chris Barber (total Brit trad jazz)
Bessie Smith (one of the real originals - IMO better than her “teacher” Ma Rainey) (OK jazz and blues, but still…)
Henry “Red” Allen
Duke Ellington
Charlie Parker
Ray Gelato Giants (Uk-Italian, more swing than jazz, but v v good live!!)
King Oliver
Jelly Roll Morton
Count Basie
and I suppose I should also add Louis Armstrong aswell…
Does anyone have any fav jazz songs that they love almost regardless of who sings/plays it?
My 2p worth:
Sweet Georgia Brown, Alexanders Ragtime Band, Sam Jones Blues, Empty Bed Blues (superb), You Rascal You, Mama Don’t Allow, Bourbon Street Parade, High Society, A Night in Tunisia, Kitchen Man, After You Have Gone, They Raided the Joint, The Shiek of Araby, Uncle Sam Blues, and St James Infirmary, plus a few more they cannot remember at the moment…
any others…?
/Trapper
Come see Dave Chen and the Muddy Basin Ramblers then.
Trapper, good call on the “fav jazz songs that they love almost regardless of who sings/plays.” Some of mine would be:
Once In A While
There Is No Greater Love
My Funny Valentine
My Romance
Some Day My Prince Will Come
Have You Met Miss Jones
The Man I Love (the Lena Horne version is very good)
These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Chega De Saudade (No More Blues)
Felicidade (especially the Joe Henderson version)
A Primeira Vez
You can see I tend more towards the melodic, ballad style although I don’t like it too slow and syrupy. I do feel that there was a kind of golden age of songwriting between say the thirties and the early fifties, and that jazz interacted with this and benefited greatly from it.
The converse of this is that I feel that a lot of bop and the jazz that came after lacked feeling and was too intellectual. I only really enjoy listening to Charlie Parker’s ballads, and it’s only then that I feel his tone comes out.
While tenor sax is now probably the most popular, it used to be the alto. Altos used to carry the melody a lot of the time, and made the most of their delicate, woodwind-esque sound. Since bop it seems that a lot of alto players have sacrificed tone for speed. Since the eighties it has been popular to make the alto’s sound as big and brassy as possible. That can be good – David Sanbourn’s playing on that James Bond theme ‘Nobody Does It Better’ is a good example – but too often it’s just abrasive and says nothing.
For incredibly smooth, beautiful forties-style alto sounds, look to Johnny Hodges and Jimmy Dorsey. In a slightly different vein is the underrated Sonny Chriss, who was a great fan of Charlie Parker but whose playing is more listenable and has a better tone than a lot of Charlie Parker’s. He did an album which I’ve forgotten the name of, but which has great versions of “Black Coffee,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” and “When Sunny Gets Blue” among others.
Michel Petrucciani was a great piano player, and he did a great album called “Promenade With Duke.”
I’m not all about the 40s stuff: I also really like some 70s R&B/funk/jazz players such as Stanley Turrentine and Grover Washington, Jr. But these latter two are also masters of emotion and melody whereas I’m not so keen on fusion such as Weather Report.
[quote=“bear64”]well the keith jarrett trio-live at the blue note box set is No. 1 to No. 6 hands down…if you don’t own it then…go buy it
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Here, fuckin here! Keith’s version of Autumn leaves in that set just rocks my socks off every time. That stuff is so intense I can only take it in occasionally.
For all you sax fans: Lockjaw Davis: YEAH 
My favourite era for Jazz is between 68 - 76. All the miles davis stuff from that era, (although he retired before 76 he was booked into the studio in 76 but never came out with anything).
I love all the Billy Cobham albums from the 70s. Couldn’t get into his 80s stuff. Same with Miles Davis’ 80s stuff although I do like the live album we want miles.
Coltrane’s a love supreme is my favourite jazz album.
I love some Jimmy Smith too.
Thelonious Monk has made some great records as has cannonball adderley.
Stanley Clarke’s early stuff is also great.
There are many more artists already mentioned here that are great.
I too used to have that Jaco vid from Monterey but some f@cker back home recorded over it. Wonder if it is online…
Mingus, Mingus, and more Mingus.
there’s one short jaco vid on kazaa from monterey…but the man is out of it and playing rubbish…i’m gunna do a bigger search and will keep u posted
Helen Reddy just passed away
She just passed away at 78
I liked her song
You’re My World
