List some of your favorite live Jazz recordings


Here are a few of mine, in no particular order:

Jackie McLean: Dynasty

Betty Carter: The Audience With Betty Carter

Bill Evans: Live at the Village Vanguard

Gary Bartz: There Goes the Neighborhood

Abraham Burton: The Magician

Joe Henderson: State of the Tenor

Dave Holland Octet: Pathways

Stanley Cowell Trio: Live

Cannonball Adderly: Live at the Lighthouse

Michel Petrucciani: Complete Concert in Germany

NHOP: The Unforgettable NHOP Trio Live

Woody Shaw: Live in Bremen, United, Master of the Art,

Sarah Vaughan: Live in Tokyo

John Coltrane Quartet: Live at Birdland

George Coleman: Live at Yoshi’s

Stan Getz Quartet: Live in Paris

Miles Davis QuintetFour and More, Live in Antibes, Live at 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival and My Funny Valentine.

stuartk

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Thanks for this one...Really good as many Japan jazz musician are blended with american one...

Something a little difficult to find, but worth it if you can is "Long Yellow Road" by the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band.

Thanks very much... I will check it...

my deepest regards

i will not object to Frisell... 😊

@mahgister 

Are you familiar with Wadada's work with Yo Miles with Henry Kaiser? Kaiser is an interesting improv guitar player who has played in a variety of different genres. Check out his album with David Lindley, A World Out of Time, recorded in Madagascar with local musicians. Great Stuff.

Sun Ra - "China Gates."

Congratulations! Thanks very much...

I will look at it... Sun ra output is unequal but he is a genius no doubt about it...

i even bought his bio...

Listen a documentary about him...

my favorite album is with Walt Dickerson...A more underscore genius with only 25 albums or so...

It seems a stunning Sun Ra album from 1961...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADzymiCkcAk&list=PLKLPE6Ph1xZr0-IHKels61Dzg8PcB4oGX

 

Joe Pass - Guitar Virtuoso (Live at the Kiel Opera House 1992

I admired Pat Martino as a guitarist Master...

But Joe Pass  rival him.., On par with him..

it takes Django Rheinhardt the master of all jazz guitarist to top these two geniuses in a trinity...

But  all trinity need a fourth point : Wes Montgomery ..

As a fifth i will add Grant Green ...

But there is many more other great guitarists... it is the one i know best and love the most..

 

Wadada Leo Smith & Jack DeJohnette - America

A very creative  trumpet master musician, i own all his albums..

i concur with this choice...

I remember exactly the first day i listened to it in 1977 i think...

I will chime in with two previously mentioned selections which I love but which are astonishingly different: The Koln Concert by Keith Jarrett and Swiss Movement - Live at Montreux!

For Cohen i will not oppose you...

To be frank i know him because he isw in one of my favorite jazz trumpet summit...One with three others and Harrell rule the show here...

i will listen to you and wait before buying too much of his..

😊 Thanks for your impression...

I guess you are right..

but my favorite cd is stunning live...

 

Mahgister

Tom Harrell is interesting and way less known..or Avishai Cohen at the trumpet

Avishai Cohen s++ks.  Does not (will not) play two notes back to back in tune/key.  At  least the recordings I have.  I appreciate that style but can only take so much of it.  Like RAP.  I have recordings where he is a guest artist and when he comes in, he ruins the whole thing. 😖  My far and between 2 cents.

 Thanks stuartk...

but my problem is how to embed an image...

No problem for adress link...

 

@mahgister

OK ... to embed url, select the "chain" image to the right of the emoji image at the top of the audiogon text box. 

A Link box will open, where you can paste the url.

The url for the Trumpet Summit video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omgOfzCgFy0

I apologize...

I realize i miss the point...

😊

I dont distinguish between live or in studio, apart for the different soundfield in the recording process...

My best live jazz recording or i must say my favorite live recording is this one :

 

How do we insert an image ?

It does not work anymore it seems ?

Anyway title : "trumpet summit philarmonie de Paris 2016 " very entertaining live recording of 4 trumpet masters with Cohen and Harrell and two french one.. The "live" aspect make this album shine... 2 hours of perfect pleasure...

 

For Turre i had many albums and i dont remember which one is live or if one is live.. Sorry ... All his albums are more than good...

 

@mahgister

Well, OK but given just how many live recordings Jarrett has released, odds are no-one has heard them all. ;o)

There aren’t as many live Miles releases (definitely not hundreds) but the "Bootleg Series" has certainly increased their number.

I don’t know why Harrell isn’t better known. Or Charles Tolliver, for that matter. I haven’t heard any live Harrell recordings. Have you? We’re focusing on live releases, here. Accordingly, can you suggest a live Steve Turre recording you like?

Steve Turre... Because he is underscored as trombonist master ..

Why writing Keith Jarrett... everybody know him...😊 I had one hundred albums of him...

Junko Onishi who know her ? Original unique pianist...

I will not say Miles Davis or Chet Baker... everybody know them..

Tom Harrell is interesting and way less known..or Avishai Cohen at the trumpet

etc...Or Larry Goldings with Peter bernstein...

Walt Dickerson is a musical magician who know him  ? Buy the two albums he make with Sun Ra and call that a great day in jazz...

Pat Bianchi with another master Pat Martino...one of my favorite albums of Jazz..."Formidable" at the same level than "kind of blue!"...

Buy the album of Ed Cherry at the guitar : "It s all good"... A perfect musical cake...

Etc

My list will be way too long...😊