BEST little know Jazz Album that you ever heard?

Ed Cherry does not recorded much as solo man ...

He recorded one of my favorite guitar album ..."its all good"

His tone is very nuanced and his melodic sense was top and the music very relax as if he has nothing to prove ...

He was not a side man here ...

Thanks i did not know and was lacking in my Johansson collection ...

 Sometimes the sideman matter as much as the main player for us ..

Jan Johansson plays of my favorite but little known Stan Getz record "At Large"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Getz_at_Large

I am from Sweden, started to listen to jazz 3 years ago ( at the age of 70! ) and I love it. It is good to get recommendations.
I love the swedish altosaxophonist Arne Domnerus.

 Then you know one of the great creative jazz pianist : Jan Johansson... Almost  unknown in North America ...

And don’t forget that I was also recommending more "mainstream" period East European & Soviet jazz. Pleasae don’t let that get lost in the shuffle. Guys like Stancko & Komeda have tremendous catalogs that are (OK, just my opinion, but still) belong on a shelf with the best Miles, Coltrane, & Ellington recordings.

I concur... Jazz is a universal  earth phenomena not a north american one for a long time now ... The roots are in Africa the country of  the speaking drums ...And the canopy now enlightened the earth ...

Given the caliber of responses posted here I think most will appreciate the superb jazz guitarist Ed Cherry.

I concur with Ed Cherry...

One of my very loved jazz guitar album with "Formidable" by Pat Martino is Ed Cherry playing "it’s all good" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsH3Mr0tXws

Here he plays with a delicate fingering and his tone expression are fabulous ...

You are so right ...

I concur completely ...

I'm not sure how many are familiar with the Bobo Stenson Trio but War Orphans is a great place to start.  He has more of a contemplative style and some of the best recording quality I've heard.  

Gary

stuartk, the album you recommended with flute is astonishingly good ...

I am tempted to say that his flute mastery exceed sax ...

Tabackin  live in Japan and was married to a japan musician , flute playing in Japan produce supreme masters from the Zen school  , we can hear something of their sound in Tabackin playing phrase  ...

Thanks for the recommendation ... Especially because i am not a flute lover ...But i like to provoke my innate taste to go on new road...

Lew Tabackin has also released excellent recordings as a leader. Not only does he excel on sax but he has one of the most distinctive styles on flute in Jazz.

*I did not know this one... Thanks stuartk ...

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One of L. Tabackin's excellent releases as a leader w/ Hank Jones, Victor Lewis, Dave Holland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6X_5XPHPc

Lew Tabackin/Toshiko Akioshi Big Band.

All their albums are top jazz band ...

This one is one of the best known...

I concur ...

It is not so much unknown that an album who deserve to be more well known ...But i dont think it is well known... For me well known is common name in jazz ...Miles Davis , Chet baker, etc Brad Meldhau ... Etc

Who knows Jan Johansson piano trio albums or solo one , one of the most creative in swedish jazz history ?

Who said that there is no great jazz musician in Sweden ? 😁 not me...

All his albums deserved to be known out of Sweden ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2D5HlKLh34&t=15s

Jazz for me became after the war a universal musical expression worldwide...As classical  became ...

It is why half of my jazz listening is out of North America  where jazz is born ...

Possibly more "difficult to find" than "unknown," but "Long Yellow Road" by the Lew Tabackin/Toshiko Akioshi Big Band.

Bill Evans: the Village Vanguard recordings with LaFaro and Motion

For sure if not the best the second best jazz album of all times ...

But i dont even know what beat it ... Chet Baker  at his best rival it ...

Chet Baker is a musical genius for sure at least for me ... Am i alone ?

I read this very exact description :

«Baker’s inimitable trumpet sound, blown as if he’s barely exhaling, the phrasing a mix of drowsy musing and impulsive flurries that hardly jolt his hypnotically flatlining dynamics.»

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/21/chet-baker-blue-room-review-gorgeous-unreleased-sessions-by-maestro-of-drowsy-jazz

This album is really with his best .... Thanks ...

My two favorite jazz players are Bill Evans and Chet Baker , two brothers who play around and never too near and never too far from the melodic line ...Baker more minimalist and Evans more expansive ...They are unsurpassed and imitated by many ....

I own 100 albums of Chet but not this one ... 😪😋😁😉😊😎

Thanks for the information ...

This thread is a good idea for me and my huge ignorance and holes in jazz knowledge ...

Thanks for all past and future contributions ...