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Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album?
Just got back into analog after not having a turntable for 38 years. That was a Thorens TD 320. Now I have a VPI. Building a jazz album collection now since jazz seems to be what I enjoy now. I have barely 12 albums from Miles Davis, Art Blakey, King Curtis, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Ike Quebec and Illinios Jacquet. Can you suggest a must have album? I generally like great sax, and percussion and sometimes a good vocalist, but I am open to anything that sounds GREAT. Also, if there is a particular label, issue or type of album. Thanks in advance.
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Which Miles and Coltrane recordings do you have and do you like them? If not, why not? Of the artists that you mention, Miles and Coltrane were the only ones who ventured outside of what can be called “mainstream”. This would help offer suggestions that you might like. There is so much great Jazz in various styles from different periods and so much that could be considered “must have” which isn’t necessarily well known, as demonstrated by @slf ‘s great list. Incredibly rich art form. Enjoy! Here’s one that is not well known. Great sax like you like from the great Joe Henderson with percussion by the also great Elvin Jones who you may know from his work with Coltrane.
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Thelonious Monk Quartet with Coltrane at Carnegie Hall. Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street. Loius Armstrong Complete RCA Victor Recordings. Louis Armstrong Hot fives and Hot Sevens. Dexter Gordon Go. Kurt Elling, Flirting with Twilight and Live at the Green Mill. Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Miles Davis and Coltrane, Live in Stockholm. Jackie McLean and Dexter Gordon, Montmartre Summit 1973. Duke Ellington, Mingus and Max Roach, Money Jungle. Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges, Side by Side. Cannonball Adderly, Somethin' Else. Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus. All the Billie Holiday you can find. Ditto Charlie Parker. Lester Young-Teddy Wilson Quarter, Pres and Teddy. Thelonious Monk, Straight No Chaser. |
Some strong female voices with terrific Jazz Musicians Betty Carter, Finally https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/3058070200 Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light Till Dawn https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Dawn-Classic-Vinyl/dp/B09T642S68/ref=tmm_vnl_swatch_0 Abbey Lincoln, You Gotta Pay the Band https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/2936146591
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Dave Brubeck, Time Out, and Gone With The Wind Listened enjoyably for decades, I just learned a bit about them just now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_(album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(album) Note: The more Jazz you collect, the more Mono LP’s you will come across by artists in their ’rise to fame’ 40’s, 50’s. The recording techniques were already excellent, and a true mono cartridge is a little/lot/whole lot better at producing less noise and more distinction of individual instruments and voices. Hopefully you have a tonearm with a removable headshell that allows you to change to a true Mono cartridge, even better is two tonearms with a mono cartridge ready to go, mix and match during a listening session.
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