Question: Jazz folks, some recommendations?

Oh man. That's a tall order. I've put asterisks (*) next to personal favorites.

Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer* and Adam's Apple*
John Coltrane - Crescent*, Ballads, and A Love Supreme
Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth
George Russell - The Jazz Workshop
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch*
Max Roach - We Insist! (Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite)*
Charles Mingus - Ah Um and Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy 1964*
Sonny Rollins - Live at the Village Vanguard* and Way Out West*
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure*
Thelonious Monk - The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall*
Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz and Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Jaki Byard - Blues for Smoke*
Joe Henderson - In 'N Out
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Art Blakey - Moanin' and A Night in Tunisia
Tony Williams - Spring*
Miles Davis - Milestones and ESP
Larry Young - Unity
Lou Donaldson - Sunny Side Up
Dexter Gordon - Go and One Flight Up*
Freddie Hubbard - Hubtones
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century* and This Is Our Music*
Duke Ellington - ...And His Mother Called Him Bill*, Live at Newport, Such Sweet Thunder
 
I just reviewed Wes Montgomery's new record called In The Beginning. It's got never heard before live club gigs and a session produced by Quincy Jones. This runs from 1949 to 1958. If you want to hear Wes abandoned his typical solo stuff, check it out. Highly recommended.
 
Awesome list, Flamencology. There are several I've never listened to (yet).

The story behind the success of Duke Ellington's Live At Newport, and "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue":
(this album was a staple in my family's jazz diet while growing up)

 
Flamencology said:
Oh man. That's a tall order. I've put asterisks (*) next to personal favorites.

Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer* and Adam's Apple*
John Coltrane - Crescent*, Ballads, and A Love Supreme
Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth
George Russell - The Jazz Workshop
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch*
Max Roach - We Insist! (Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite)*
Charles Mingus - Ah Um and Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy 1964*
Sonny Rollins - Live at the Village Vanguard* and Way Out West*
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure*
Thelonious Monk - The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall*
Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz and Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Jaki Byard - Blues for Smoke*
Joe Henderson - In 'N Out
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Art Blakey - Moanin' and A Night in Tunisia
Tony Williams - Spring*
Miles Davis - Milestones and ESP
Larry Young - Unity
Lou Donaldson - Sunny Side Up
Dexter Gordon - Go and One Flight Up*
Freddie Hubbard - Hubtones
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century* and This Is Our Music*
Duke Ellington - ...And His Mother Called Him Bill*, Live at Newport, Such Sweet Thunder
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Ahem:

Time_out_album_cover.jpg
 
Ima go wid artists:

Coltrane, Davis, Parker, Dizzy, Brubeck, Evans, Tyner, Grant Green, Mingus, Rollins, Holiday and Hawkins, Tal Farlow, Jimmy Raney...check Flam's list too. You could even just pick a label and dwell for a while. It's arguably one of the richest periods in jazz where some of the biggest movements/changes happened. It's the era of my favorite stuff and/or clearly inspires the stuff I like best that has inspired "newer" artists.

Davis is great to just start listening to the guys that were in his band.
 
Flamencology said:
I also omitted Kind of Blue. I assumed that Mark had already heard them.

That said, while Time Out was incredibly popular, it had very little influence.
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I know what you mean. I think that perhaps jazz is a strange form that tends to eschew that which is enjoyed by the hoi polloi. There does seem to be a certain amount of an haughty/contemptuous streak in the form.
 
bsman said:
I know what you mean. I think that perhaps jazz is a strange form that tends to eschew that which is enjoyed by the hoi polloi. There does seem to be a certain amount of an haughty/contemptuous streak in the form.
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I don't necessarily think it's that, in this case. If people could have replicated it, they would have. Even Brubeck tried and failed. It was just a dead-end street with one really beautiful house.
 
bsman said:
Ahem:

Time_out_album_cover.jpg
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Flamencology said:
I also omitted Kind of Blue. I assumed that Mark had already heard them.

That said, while Time Out was incredibly popular, it had very little influence.
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I do have both of those, Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell), '58 Miles, most of the existing Charlie Parker, Blue Trane, A Love Supreme and some other stuff in my neglected boxes of CD's. Doing a search through those this week.

EDIT: also, collections of Thelonius Monk, Blue Note "hits" and some other things....
 
Flamencology said:
Well, yeah, but it's one that the evidence backs up.
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Influences can cause ripple effects that don't always turn into imitation or extrapolation. Sometimes an influence can push you in an opposite direction or inspire emotions in other ways. I know for a fact that the success of that record had an impact on the performing community. Hearing everybody and theeir brother playing in odd time signatures would be a bit captain obvious.
 
Ahh man my list never got posted...

Anyway outside what was said before, here is my contribution

Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at the Half Note
Wes Montgomery - Wes Montgomery Trio
Hank Garland - Jazz Winds From a New Directions
Sonny Stitt - Sonny Stitt
Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Cannonball Adderly - Something Else
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Joe Henderson - One

If you stretch to 1966

Freddie Hubbard - Sky Dive
 
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