BEST little know Jazz Album that you ever heard?

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 ...

@everyone I play the Duke Pearson Right Touch album at Audio shows and people lose their ones with how good it is. 

@stuartk i own songbook but will try Bill Evans and Chick Corea for sure thanks. 

@calvinj 

What are your top 3 favorite albums. 

Just now, these are the first three that spring to mind: 

Kenny Garrett: "Songbook"

Bill Evans: the Village Vanguard recordings with LaFaro and Motion

Chick Corea and Gary Burton: "Crystal Silence"

These are recordings that I return to over and over but I wouldn't categorize them as my top 3 favorite Jazz recordings. I couldn't possibly restrict my list of favorites to just three. 

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 ...

There are so many, but for Chet Baker fans, the double CD "Blue Room".  Recorded in Holland in 1979 but as far as I know, only just released in 2023.  Chet's playing is superb and the recordings are excellent.  IMHO one of his best.

I do not listen to much jazz, but enjoy "Mose Allison - Alive" recorded in a beach community South of where I live.

Think is was done in the 80's, but it has a kind of Beatnik thing going on.

DeKay

@stuartk thanks for you suggestions. 

@stuartk i definitely understand. No problem.  I just want to discover more.  What are your top 3 favorite albums. 

@calvinj

I bear no disrespect. I’ve been a Jazz fan for nearly 50 years; it’s a topic that interests me very much. I was simply attempting to garner a clearer impression of what you mean by "lesser known". 

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

Thanks for all past and future contributions ...

The pianist Albert Dailey's 1972 Columbia debut album "The Day After the Dawn".

@hotei 

Listen: 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unforgettable+NHOP+trio+live

@stuartk i mean just to the general public. I do this we all can discover more and respect the contributions 

stuartk,  the NHOP you mentioned is definitely unknown to me.  Thank you for the heads up.  I will definitely check them out.  

@calvinj 

"Little known" is pretty subjective...   you mean, to the general public? To most Jazz fans? To most audiophiles? How are you defining this? 

@wharfy 

If the Counce release qualifies, then  is "Hear Ye Hear Ye" by Red Mitchell Harold Land Quintet any "better known"? 

@hotei 

If the Peterson, Pederson, Pass trio counts, then what about  "The Unforgettable NHOP Trio Live"? Ulf Wakenius plays brilliantly on this release but his name is nowhere as familiar as that of Joe Pass. Does this make it "little known"? 

Very difficult to select only one but George Muribus-Trio '77 certainly qualifies.

To me it was little known,  "The Trio" Peterson, Pass, Pedersen

Brad Mehldau - The Art of the Trio (vol 3)

The Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited - Dream Queen

@calvinj 

With those guys I knew!

👍 Understood.

Charles

@charles1dad @wharfy on the Duke Pearson cd. Stanley Turrentine, Grady Tate, James Spaulding, Freddie Hubbard, Gene Taylor, Jerry Dodgen, Garnett Brown.  With those guys I knew! 

@wharfy

Good choice! I’ve had that CD at least 15years and still listen to it. Love the combination of Jack Sheldon (Trumpet) and Harold Land (Tenor saxophone) terrific chemistry.

My choice for "little known gem" (So many I could name 😊) "Constellation" by Sonny Stitt. He alternates between Alto and Tenor saxophones with superb accompanying by pianist Barry Harris. Nice mixture of Hard bop and ballads.

Charles

Curtis Counce-You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce

https://www.discogs.com/release/2544505-Curtis-Counce-You-Get-More-Bounce-With-Curtis-Counce