i’d be pissed that god has no turntable. ’1’s and ’0’s? really? 😎

not my idea of heaven.

For me it would be Harry James, What About Harry. 

Miles Davis Kind of Blue. 

scottya118

I'm at the pearly gates and they tell me I can only bring in one jazz cd

One CD - for all eternity? I don't want to be the one to tell you, but you aren't at the Pearly Gates. You're at the other place.

+1 Kinda blue.

+1 Kinda blue.

You may actually be at the gates of hell.

Hell would be where they don’t play the John Coltrane but the Julie Andrews version.

My choice would be Ellington "1940 Live From the Crystal Ballroom Fargo, North Dakota".

Stan Getz - The Lost Sessions

Miles Davis Escalier sur l‘Echafaut (not the pearly gates but same outcome)

In A Silent Way!

At one place they ain't giving you the choice, the other one would become a hell for me, having only one cd to play over and over again for eternity! This is why I can't play any best ever games, variety is the essence of what's best for me.

Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane

If the only thing they'd let me bring in was Jazz, I'd turn around and go the other way - what's the expression? "The devil's got all the best music!". For my tastes, he does! 

Easy, Sonny Stitt could carry a melody and improv it at the same time.

IMO , the greatest American Jazz Man !

A Love Supreme

Not religious at all…but Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (a very spiritual, gospel-y masterpiece).  

Personally (given that choice) I would tell them to F-Off.

DeKay

First thing first, is my Labrador greeting me from inside the gate ?

Prez and Teddy seems to capture the essence of "Jazz" at its best - bluesy, folksy, sophisticated, and optimistic - always in the moment yet reflective and forward thinking

Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven.

But why in God's name would anyone listen to jazz on CD? That ain't heaven.

Between a rock and a hard place! In heaven only one piece of music, sounds like hell to me. In hell, all your records warp! I think I would be shooting for limbo. I hear their power grid is pretty clean.

hands down fave- red norvo, "the forward look."

Actually, it's a trick question.
(Heaven is 52nd St., NYC, circa 1945).
Only those choosing Charlie Parker discs are allowed inside. 

one disc? Miles Round Midnight.  one song? Grant Green Idle Moments.

Buddy Holly: "Jazz is strictly for the stay-at-homes." ;-)

None. Hell is torture enough. 

Cannonball Adderley jazz workshop revisited San Francisco 1962. It has the song primitivo

Bill Evans "Waltz for Debby"

+1 Jonny Hartman and John Coltrane

Doesn’t sound like my idea of heaven if you can only bring one!

I hear that they have “the 72 virgins” on heavy rotation up there.

Another vote for "Kind of Blue"...

for sonics  , consider Jazz at the Pawn Shop

Sucks you can bring only one, because the Lord has a heavenly system.

More seriously, why would you need to bring anything?  All those jazz are in heaven.  Live show every night!

it is unlikely that any of us will go to heaven (it's too hard to deserve it) ... and in hell it will hurt so much that there is no time for music ... only eternal tears of flour and screaming - without the ability to change it.

Bitches Brew

Tough assignment. I might have to go with Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall…just because it’s underrepresented and i KNOW someone will share their copy of Kind of Blue

Yeah, I'm afraid I'll be passing through fiery gates, but I'd have to bring Kind of Blue with me. That recording still effects me, and one I've never grown tired of. Plus, down there, it will likely be my only respite to chill a bit.

In 1977 my father gave me the Bill Evans quintet recording "Quintessence" as I was leaving to study jazz at university. I have listened to it thousands of times since that day in every stage of my life and it has never failed to move me, A Child Is Born in particular. Wonderful music beautifuly recorded. Good enough for my life's sound track, good enough for after.

I get all the votes for Kind of Blue.  Groundbreaking record and all that, but honestly, it's not my favorite Miles.  To my ears he took a giant leap forward with In A Silent Way, and I find that LP much more interesting to listen to.  Having said that, I would be just as inclined to pick Grant Green's LP Idle Moments.  I don't consider Green to be the best guitarist by a long shot but that LP, and the tile track in particular, knock it out of the park.  Just never get tired of listening to it.  But that's just my opinion, and you know what they say.  Opinions are like a**holes.  Everyone has one and nobody wants to hear someone else's.  😂

Harry James Still Harry After All These Years. 

Sneaking in another, Miles Davis Bitches Brew. or Sketches of Spain. 

It would be easy to say Miles Davis ...Kinda Blue, that record really did it for me. BUT if I can only bring one then i’m bringing ....Back at the chicken shack by The Incredible Jimmy Smith! or Billy Cobham... Spectrum, dam I cant decide!!

Matt M

I must be taking the down elevator, because I can’t choose just one.  Maybe one artist?? I have thirty something Bill Evans albums.

Chet Baker-CHET!

Chet is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker first released in 1959. The record is sometimes subtitled The Lyrical Trumpet of Chet Baker. Chet features performances by Baker with alto flautist Herbie Mann, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, pianist Bill Evans, guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist Paul Chambers, and either Connie Kay (on six tracks) or Philly Joe Jones (on four tracks) playing drums. It was recorded in December 1958 and January 1959 and released on the Riverside

frogman, thank you for that.