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

Bill Watrous - Manhattan Wildlife Refuge

Been listening to it regularly for over 45 years and never get tired of it.

I’m thinking Art Ensemble of Chicago , "The Third Decade"

The perly gates are still in the past century so records are almost unlimited

Jazz at the Pawnshop

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

That sounds more like Hell to me.

Also agree that KOB is timeless, so is Birth of the Cool, and all the other Miles and Coltrane mentioned here. Since I expect all of you will be there and willing to share your single copies, I’ll add The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery. Love me some West Coast Blues!

If you are only allowed one jazz CD, you aren't in heaven buddy.

This will be controversial.  Allen Toussaint "Bright Mississippi".  Old style Kansas City jazz but with modern overlays by Toussaint.  Can't keep from tapping your toes while enjoying the solo excursions.  This is the only "jazz" CD Toissant every made (he was mostly noted for NOHO "funk".)  But it managed to win the title of best Jazz record of the year .... and in its creative juxtaposition of style is a jazz wonder.

I’m off to Hell, they allow Vinyl 🤪

What happens if Heaven and Hell turn out to be real places? How trivial then would this thread be.

KTEL Jazz Classics!!  Great find.

Tonight it's Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderly. Check back tomorrow night. I'm assuming God uses a 275 and a pair of A7s for playback.

@hipsterjefe 

Yup like minded folks here with a very deep bench too. 

I'm new to the forum,  I joined for the music discussions. Love listening to new suggestions thanks to streaming.

wsrrsw: "How many of you listen to these suggestions and add to your digital or 33&1/3 collections?"

Me! I am spinning three Art Blakey albums this week, newly procured after reading another comment on this forum last week!

One album for Heaven? I’d go with Maynard Ferguson’s "Live at Jimmy’s." It was the first jazz album my father gave me (I was a trumpet player), and I played that album so much I wore it out (bad turntable cartridge in my childhood) and had to get another copy recently.

"Samara Joy" by Samara Joy, a great young jazz singer.

“Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette
Puff puff puff
And if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait
You gotta have another cigarette” Songwriters: Merle Travis / Tex Williams

Also “Kind of Blue”

David Warren Brubeck anyone?

How many of you listen to these suggestions and add to your digital or 33&1/3 collections?

Mark Isham - Blue Sun 

What's the point of bringing even one CD?

Up there you can listen to all these guys live!

Or is it dead?

I would turn around - I'm obviously at the wrong place.

rpeluso, you’re welcome.

jkbunell, as I pondered the OP’s question and before I decided it was impossible to pick just one, “Unity” was one of the first that came to mind.  I figured there would be many copies of KOB and other faves up there to share; so better to bring one that few know 😇. Fantastic recording and one of the greatest little known records of all time.   
 

Kind of Blue

Surely they’ll want Woody Shaw, so Larry Young’s “Unity.”

First let’s see if heaven will even let you get in?There is a requirement before they will let you in...

A difficult one. But - Keith Jarrett - The survivor's suite

frogman, thank you for that.

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

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

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

Harry James Still Harry After All These Years. 

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

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.  😂

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.

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.

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

Bitches Brew

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.

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!

for sonics  , consider Jazz at the Pawn Shop

Another vote for "Kind of Blue"...

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

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

+1 Jonny Hartman and John Coltrane

Bill Evans "Waltz for Debby"

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

None. Hell is torture enough.