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bucky1960 Jun 19 2013 at 10:52 AM	For all of the jazz giants of the past and present, Dizzy, Ella, Miles, Chet... what is the album from that artist that a person should have in their collection. I know there will be personal opinions thrown out here but let’s give this a go. Name the performer and the album and the reason why you feel this is the album to have.
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franksexton Oct 11 2013 at 1:39 PM	for Weather Report I gotta’ go with Mysterious Traveler
shockandwoe Oct 09 2013 at 10:49 PM	Today, it really is Heavy Weather from Weather Report! Even Pat would have a hard time topping that.
everetta Oct 09 2013 at 5:11 PM	Wow, so much music. I’d have to say I love everything that’s been mentioned everything. Pat, Miles, John McLaughlin, Wes, Monk, Train, such beautiful music. However, “Kind of Blue” is the one that I’d give to a person looking to hear something different. A piece of work that would either turn them away or make them hungry for more, as it did me in the summer of 1972 while living with my Air Force father stationed in England. At 16 years old, living in a quite English village in the summer of 1972 with little to no TV, and all of my American friends living on the U.S Air Force base 21 miles away, made my summer days a total bore. No DVD’s or Xbox to past the time. So it was either get up at 0600 and ride out to the military base with my father so I cold hangout with my friends at the youth center, or stay at home bored to death. It was on one of those boring summer days that I started exploring into my father’s record collection. Yeah he had the great R&B stuff, but I was bored I needed something different. Weather Report, Miles Davis, “Kind of Blue”. Wow that sounds cool as @hit “Kind if Blue” I put the LP on and right away it was the coolest music I ever heard. The more I listened the cooler it became. Days later I took the album (my father would have killed me if he knew) to a friend’s house, he played the trumpet in the Jr. High school band, he loved it. We fired up a left handed cig and the music took life, we wanted to be in Miles band. That summer my father’s record collection became my summer vacation. As a young inspiring drummer the record collection became my friends and Kind Of Blue was my best friend. It was a great summer that started off, Kind of Blue.
mountain Oct 09 2013 at 12:12 PM	Well, my choice changes every second I breathe. In this moment, it is Pat Metheny’s "Bright Size Life."
naut Sep 19 2013 at 12:10 PM	You got that right, BobSmith. That’s her masterpiece. She released it when she was 33, kind of a mystical year. The writing is so dense, evocative, flawless. It really is a perfect album. "Refuge of the Roads" is one of my favorite compositions of hers, and is a stunning way to end the record. And you couldn’t see a city On that marbled bowling ball Or a forest or a highway Or me here least of all You couldn’t see these cold water restrooms Or this baggage overload Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads Amazing....
BobSmith Sep 19 2013 at 9:40 AM	Joni Mitchell-"Hejira". Joni was at the peak of her writing powers on this record. Jaco’s contribution...what can you say? He was heaven sent to create something so new and mind blowing in combination with her unusual acoustic guitar tunings and super-musical compositions. This record sounds to me now every bit as fresh and groundbreaking and hip as it has since I first heard it in the mid-70’s.
JamesInNC Sep 18 2013 at 8:16 PM	The shuffle on my music app loves PM...its like nothing else matters.
jk Sep 14 2013 at 1:00 PM	Dave Brubeck - last set at newport. play it the first day in spring when you first really need to throw all the windows open and play in loud. very hard to pick a best pat - but get the white album for the pure joy, positive energy and possibilities it portrays. wes - smokin joni - court mozarts 40th - many good versions jack bruce - songs for a tailor spirit - 12 dreams daniel lanois - beauty of wynona zappa - the best band you’ve never heard before beatles - white album Mel Brooks Greatest Hits (soundtrack tunes) kinda blue
franksexton Sep 13 2013 at 9:39 AM	naut, I’m on record here in the "there is no one record" camp so take my comment in that light. I love "Kind of Blue" esp. "So What". This album always gets mention as one of the greatest jazz recordings ever. However, even if you list "the greatest 500 albums in jazz history" you are going to have albums that you will miss getting in the list.
naut Sep 12 2013 at 8:40 PM	All those are good, frank, for sure. I was just going with a seminal album. One could also suggest 4 + More, Blue Train, Wes’ Smokin’, a number of Bill Evans records, Whisper Not, and scores beside. Folks here have suggested a lot of good ones. I guess trying to narrow it down to one is foolish and impossible. It was only my intention to suggest an album that anyone should hear, especially a newb. Cheers.
franksexton Sep 10 2013 at 1:39 PM	"naut" on Aug 28 2013 01:15AM wrote "...what seminal CD/album would you suggest that person get for their collection." I would suggest Kind of Blue for a newbie. I mean, you gotta hear that one, right? Not "Bright Sized Life" or "Witchi-Tai-To" from Jan Gararek-Bobo Stenson Quartet or "Birds of Fire" ?
JamesInNC Sep 05 2013 at 5:57 PM	Gotta be and must be "Travels" just for the cut, "Are You Going With Me."
SEABOB Sep 05 2013 at 4:22 PM	Listening to it know the Captain and Me by the Doobie Brothers. Came out in 73 and still sounds fresh and new.
Kooltrane Aug 31 2013 at 11:35 AM	Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil sublime.
bxl12378 Aug 29 2013 at 6:35 AM	Indeed.Kind of blue.Best ever.Changed everything about jazz.Pure history.
naut Aug 28 2013 at 1:15 AM	"...what seminal CD/album would you suggest that person get for their collection." I would suggest Kind of Blue for a newbie. I mean, you gotta hear that one, right?
yossarian Aug 27 2013 at 5:52 PM	I read this as a classic jazz album post... I see the Dan here, Weather Report, Pat etc... but I still think Kind of Blue is the one must have ’jazz’ album. It’s the essence of jazz with a freshness that could only come from groundbreaking material in 1959 when stuff was still new. It’s not the same as asking what album do I most enjoy... that would be The Way Up ( or is it Still Life Talking, or Aja, or Shadows and Light, or Letter from Home, or Speaking of Now or Secret Story?)
SEABOB Aug 27 2013 at 1:28 PM	SECRET STORY :)
bucky1960 Aug 23 2013 at 10:02 AM	Thanks to everyone who has responded to this question so far. Like most, I have numerous CD’s/albums of alot of the jazz greats and IT IS hard to name just one album. I’ve got tons of Chet Baker, Miles, Dizzy, Ella, Bob James and Weather Report just to name a few. This being said, maybe I should refine the question. For those just getting into jazz, if they have limited funds to buy music, what seminal CD/album would you suggest that person get for their collection. Hope this spurs more discussion. Thanks again for the responses. PEACE OUT!
mountain Aug 22 2013 at 11:57 AM	Just one? Really? Good grief. I think I have to take the 5th. I do enjoy hearing what others here offer though.
flatus Aug 22 2013 at 10:29 AM	June Tabor,Huw Warren,Iain Ballamy- "Quercus" -ECM
naut Aug 20 2013 at 9:52 PM	I don’t think this really addresses the topic directly, but "Shadows and Light" is a good ’un. It’s not the best from any of the players, but it’s got Joni, Pat, Jaco, Lyle, Michael, & Don, and you can’t go wrong with that line-up.
bxl12378 Aug 17 2013 at 2:47 PM	Dizzy Gillespie at the French Rivièra.Everyone reading this and who has never heard it should.This album was the reason I bought a Hard disk at the time allowing me to copy LP’s on CD.500$ back in ’95 or something but worth every penny! I save the album in my vault now, just to say...along with a Jimmy Hendrix/Litlle Richard album called Friends from the beginning.
patsfan Aug 17 2013 at 1:39 AM	Definitely the complete Metheny boxed set , but try Mark Johnson’s Bass Desires ( with Scofield and Frisell )
hman01 Aug 16 2013 at 1:39 PM	Barry Miles-"Fusion Is"
jhubbard Aug 15 2013 at 8:05 PM	Maybe I’m misreading the original question, but I thought the subject referred to just "jazz" artists and albums. Seeing lots of pop/rock here. I love that stuff, too, but the original question is difficult enough to answer! My response: Parker’s Complete Savoy and Dial Masters. If you ask me to justify that choice, you obviously haven’t heard that music.
MarcNebo Jul 10 2013 at 10:40 PM	The Complete Pat Metheny Box Set, when it is released.
bluepno Jun 28 2013 at 9:26 AM	nice jwmusic...i agree with every one...i could argue every one.
yossarian Jun 28 2013 at 3:02 AM	@jwmusic - your choices are non- controversial except one: Song X for Pat. Now that’s a fine album but a very personal choice! I’d be happy with all your other ones. For me the Pat album if I’m allowed only one is The Way Up becuase it has a richness and density that you never tire of.
jwmusic Jun 27 2013 at 5:16 PM	Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Keith Jarrett - Standards Vol. II (if cheating allowed Vol. I as well) Weather Report - Heavy Weather(choosing 1 Weather Report is extremely hard) Pat Metheny - Song XX (choosing 1 Metheny album is also extremely difficult) Steely Dan - Aja (if cheating allowed, also Gaucho) Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer Joni Mitchell- The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (if cheating, also Hejira and Mingus) Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (choosing 1 Stevie album is very hard) Donald Fagen - The Nightfly Paul Simon - Graceland (choosing 1 Paul Simon album is is difficult) James Taylor - Gorilla (JT also, if allowed to cheat)
bucky1960 Jun 27 2013 at 11:22 AM	Thanks to all the people who have responded to this so far. I know it is difficult to pick just one album from a particular artist. I guess this question was sort of like the one from awhile back regarding albums one would want if they were stranded on an island. Sometimes, when talking with friends, we ask each other the question if a someone had a gun to your head, would you pick A or B and why. I guess that is why I posed the question the way I did. For me regarding PM discs I’d have to put Travels up on top. Another disc would be Chet Baker’s Last Great Concert double set. This, as many of you may know, was a live recording of a concert just before Chet was killed/died. The horn playing is still crisp while his voice, while faint and weak, is haunting and deeply moving. Great set of discs. Thanks again to the responders. Hope this was not too rambling. Keep on commenting. PEACE OUT.
tiny_tim Jun 27 2013 at 1:44 AM	bluepno, am with you there!
HAMBONE Jun 26 2013 at 12:25 PM	No way I could pick just one, too many great ones to choose from and too close to call. But if I had my life on the line, I’d go with PMG Travels live. It’s one of the few I can listen to every day and never get tired of it.
bhal Jun 26 2013 at 12:03 PM	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin’
bluepno Jun 26 2013 at 10:17 AM	It has the giant sound palette...Cambodian voice choirs...Gil Goldstein...the arrangements...Live playing dvd performance...and the final 3 cuts.Then the surprise extra cuts.
bluepno Jun 26 2013 at 10:15 AM	Secret Story is the Magnum Opus for me...
franksexton Jun 26 2013 at 8:38 AM	I misunderstood the question, it is the one must have album for each of the jazz greats. Not that you could even do that. Just for Pat what would your choice be (Unity Band,Imaginary World,Serect Story,Trio Live,Day Trip,Metheny Mehldau) ? Wayne Shorter (Juju, Footprints Live) ? Coltrane (A Love Supreme,My Favorite Things,Ascension,Giant Steps,Live in Japan) Bill Frisell (Nashville, Good Dog - Happy Man,East/West) ?
sunship Jun 25 2013 at 4:15 PM	Kind of ridiculous to limit it to one, but if you dont have Keith Jarrett’s "Koln Concert" then your life is missing something really special.
blisterfree Jun 23 2013 at 11:11 PM	Frank Gambale: The Great Explorers. Jazz fusion with a healthy, and more importantly, tasteful dose of rock-god shred, all wrapped up in tight, memorable songwriting. Certainly a high point in the career of an artist whose output is often easily dismissed by one camp or another.
fredsimon Jun 23 2013 at 10:54 PM	The Band - The Band ... their masterpiece, IMNSHO.
Gyuri Jun 23 2013 at 12:32 PM	The Brecker Brothers: "Out Of The Loop" - no-nonsense, undiluted top-class jazz funk. John Scofield: "Quiet" - very subtle, refined, melodious "quiet" jazz featuring Wayne Shorter, and even Randy Brecker
mario toni Jun 23 2013 at 8:18 AM	Paul Mccandless "Hearsay" Paul Mccandless "Premonition" Lyle Mays "Lyle Mays" Pat Metheny Group "White Album" Nuff said!
foxesfred Jun 22 2013 at 12:56 PM	A Love Supreme-Trane .
bluepno Jun 21 2013 at 6:30 PM	Light As A Feather?Crystal Silence/Return To Forever. These 3 changed everything.
bluepno Jun 21 2013 at 7:48 AM	Blues and The Abstract truth...Oliver Nelson.
hman01 Jun 20 2013 at 9:44 PM	"Kooltrane"-no justification needed.A lot of great tunes on that one.My favorite- "The Juggler".
SEABOB Jun 20 2013 at 5:12 PM	Miles Davis- Kind of Blue Ground breaking album in so.... Many ways. The telepathy among band members was incredible never tire of listening a desert isle must:)
thehague Jun 20 2013 at 5:10 PM	Steely Dan - Aja, Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark, Yes - Fragile, Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue / Ascenseur Pour l’Echafaud, Todd Rundgren - Utopia, Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up, Beatles - Revolver, James Taylor - Fire & Rain, Mahler - Symphony No.9, Arvo Part - Fratres, Gorecki - Symphony No.3 . , Blue Nile - Hats, Yellowjackets - Greenhouse. Reasons in short: they were so innovative at the time, they are landmarks in my life, they are still shockingly beautiful and valid, I can’t imagine my life without having heard them.
john Jun 20 2013 at 4:19 PM	MO - Inner Mounting Flame.
bucky1960 Jun 20 2013 at 1:46 PM	Kooltrane, have to agree with you on this album. The music speaks for itself. No explanation needed.
franksexton Jun 20 2013 at 11:00 AM	there is no one must-have album, sorry.
Kooltrane Jun 20 2013 at 6:34 AM	Weather Report: Heavy Weather Zawinul, Shorter, Pastorius; do I really have to justify this?
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franksexton
Oct 11 2013
at 1:39 PM

for Weather Report I gotta’ go with Mysterious Traveler

shockandwoe
Oct 09 2013
at 10:49 PM

Today, it really is Heavy Weather from Weather Report! Even Pat would have a hard time topping that.

everetta
Oct 09 2013
at 5:11 PM

Wow, so much music. I’d have to say I love everything that’s been mentioned everything. Pat, Miles, John McLaughlin, Wes, Monk, Train, such beautiful music. However, “Kind of Blue” is the one that I’d give to a person looking to hear something different. A piece of work that would either turn them away or make them hungry for more, as it did me in the summer of 1972 while living with my Air Force father stationed in England. At 16 years old, living in a quite English village in the summer of 1972 with little to no TV, and all of my American friends living on the U.S Air Force base 21 miles away, made my summer days a total bore. No DVD’s or Xbox to past the time. So it was either get up at 0600 and ride out to the military base with my father so I cold hangout with my friends at the youth center, or stay at home bored to death. It was on one of those boring summer days that I started exploring into my father’s record collection. Yeah he had the great R&B stuff, but I was bored I needed something different. Weather Report, Miles Davis, “Kind of Blue”. Wow that sounds cool as @hit “Kind if Blue” I put the LP on and right away it was the coolest music I ever heard. The more I listened the cooler it became. Days later I took the album (my father would have killed me if he knew) to a friend’s house, he played the trumpet in the Jr. High school band, he loved it. We fired up a left handed cig and the music took life, we wanted to be in Miles band. That summer my father’s record collection became my summer vacation. As a young inspiring drummer the record collection became my friends and Kind Of Blue was my best friend. It was a great summer that started off, Kind of Blue.

mountain
Oct 09 2013
at 12:12 PM

Well, my choice changes every second I breathe. In this moment, it is Pat Metheny’s "Bright Size Life."

naut
Sep 19 2013
at 12:10 PM

You got that right, BobSmith. That’s her masterpiece. She released it when she was 33, kind of a mystical year. The writing is so dense, evocative, flawless. It really is a perfect album. "Refuge of the Roads" is one of my favorite compositions of hers, and is a stunning way to end the record. And you couldn’t see a city On that marbled bowling ball Or a forest or a highway Or me here least of all You couldn’t see these cold water restrooms Or this baggage overload Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads Amazing....

BobSmith
Sep 19 2013
at 9:40 AM

Joni Mitchell-"Hejira". Joni was at the peak of her writing powers on this record. Jaco’s contribution...what can you say? He was heaven sent to create something so new and mind blowing in combination with her unusual acoustic guitar tunings and super-musical compositions. This record sounds to me now every bit as fresh and groundbreaking and hip as it has since I first heard it in the mid-70’s.

JamesInNC
Sep 18 2013
at 8:16 PM

The shuffle on my music app loves PM...its like nothing else matters.

jk
Sep 14 2013
at 1:00 PM

Dave Brubeck - last set at newport. play it the first day in spring when you first really need to throw all the windows open and play in loud. very hard to pick a best pat - but get the white album for the pure joy, positive energy and possibilities it portrays. wes - smokin joni - court mozarts 40th - many good versions jack bruce - songs for a tailor spirit - 12 dreams daniel lanois - beauty of wynona zappa - the best band you’ve never heard before beatles - white album Mel Brooks Greatest Hits (soundtrack tunes) kinda blue

franksexton
Sep 13 2013
at 9:39 AM

naut, I’m on record here in the "there is no one record" camp so take my comment in that light. I love "Kind of Blue" esp. "So What". This album always gets mention as one of the greatest jazz recordings ever. However, even if you list "the greatest 500 albums in jazz history" you are going to have albums that you will miss getting in the list.

naut
Sep 12 2013
at 8:40 PM

All those are good, frank, for sure. I was just going with a seminal album. One could also suggest 4 + More, Blue Train, Wes’ Smokin’, a number of Bill Evans records, Whisper Not, and scores beside. Folks here have suggested a lot of good ones. I guess trying to narrow it down to one is foolish and impossible. It was only my intention to suggest an album that anyone should hear, especially a newb. Cheers.

franksexton
Sep 10 2013
at 1:39 PM

"naut" on Aug 28 2013 01:15AM wrote "...what seminal CD/album would you suggest that person get for their collection." I would suggest Kind of Blue for a newbie. I mean, you gotta hear that one, right? Not "Bright Sized Life" or "Witchi-Tai-To" from Jan Gararek-Bobo Stenson Quartet or "Birds of Fire" ?

JamesInNC
Sep 05 2013
at 5:57 PM

Gotta be and must be "Travels" just for the cut, "Are You Going With Me."

SEABOB
Sep 05 2013
at 4:22 PM

Listening to it know the Captain and Me by the Doobie Brothers. Came out in 73 and still sounds fresh and new.

Kooltrane
Aug 31 2013
at 11:35 AM

Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil sublime.

bxl12378
Aug 29 2013
at 6:35 AM

Indeed.Kind of blue.Best ever.Changed everything about jazz.Pure history.

naut
Aug 28 2013
at 1:15 AM

"...what seminal CD/album would you suggest that person get for their collection." I would suggest Kind of Blue for a newbie. I mean, you gotta hear that one, right?

yossarian
Aug 27 2013
at 5:52 PM

I read this as a classic jazz album post... I see the Dan here, Weather Report, Pat etc... but I still think Kind of Blue is the one must have ’jazz’ album. It’s the essence of jazz with a freshness that could only come from groundbreaking material in 1959 when stuff was still new. It’s not the same as asking what album do I most enjoy... that would be The Way Up ( or is it Still Life Talking, or Aja, or Shadows and Light, or Letter from Home, or Speaking of Now or Secret Story?)

SEABOB
Aug 27 2013
at 1:28 PM

SECRET STORY :)

bucky1960
Aug 23 2013
at 10:02 AM

Thanks to everyone who has responded to this question so far. Like most, I have numerous CD’s/albums of alot of the jazz greats and IT IS hard to name just one album. I’ve got tons of Chet Baker, Miles, Dizzy, Ella, Bob James and Weather Report just to name a few. This being said, maybe I should refine the question. For those just getting into jazz, if they have limited funds to buy music, what seminal CD/album would you suggest that person get for their collection. Hope this spurs more discussion. Thanks again for the responses. PEACE OUT!

mountain
Aug 22 2013
at 11:57 AM

Just one? Really? Good grief. I think I have to take the 5th. I do enjoy hearing what others here offer though.

flatus
Aug 22 2013
at 10:29 AM

June Tabor,Huw Warren,Iain Ballamy- "Quercus" -ECM

naut
Aug 20 2013
at 9:52 PM

I don’t think this really addresses the topic directly, but "Shadows and Light" is a good ’un. It’s not the best from any of the players, but it’s got Joni, Pat, Jaco, Lyle, Michael, & Don, and you can’t go wrong with that line-up.

bxl12378
Aug 17 2013
at 2:47 PM

Dizzy Gillespie at the French Rivièra.Everyone reading this and who has never heard it should.This album was the reason I bought a Hard disk at the time allowing me to copy LP’s on CD.500$ back in ’95 or something but worth every penny! I save the album in my vault now, just to say...along with a Jimmy Hendrix/Litlle Richard album called Friends from the beginning.

patsfan
Aug 17 2013
at 1:39 AM

Definitely the complete Metheny boxed set , but try Mark Johnson’s Bass Desires ( with Scofield and Frisell )

hman01
Aug 16 2013
at 1:39 PM

Barry Miles-"Fusion Is"

jhubbard
Aug 15 2013
at 8:05 PM

Maybe I’m misreading the original question, but I thought the subject referred to just "jazz" artists and albums. Seeing lots of pop/rock here. I love that stuff, too, but the original question is difficult enough to answer! My response: Parker’s Complete Savoy and Dial Masters. If you ask me to justify that choice, you obviously haven’t heard that music.

MarcNebo
Jul 10 2013
at 10:40 PM

The Complete Pat Metheny Box Set, when it is released.

bluepno
Jun 28 2013
at 9:26 AM

nice jwmusic...i agree with every one...i could argue every one.

yossarian
Jun 28 2013
at 3:02 AM

@jwmusic - your choices are non- controversial except one: Song X for Pat. Now that’s a fine album but a very personal choice! I’d be happy with all your other ones. For me the Pat album if I’m allowed only one is The Way Up becuase it has a richness and density that you never tire of.

jwmusic
Jun 27 2013
at 5:16 PM

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Keith Jarrett - Standards Vol. II (if cheating allowed Vol. I as well) Weather Report - Heavy Weather(choosing 1 Weather Report is extremely hard) Pat Metheny - Song XX (choosing 1 Metheny album is also extremely difficult) Steely Dan - Aja (if cheating allowed, also Gaucho) Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer Joni Mitchell- The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (if cheating, also Hejira and Mingus) Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (choosing 1 Stevie album is very hard) Donald Fagen - The Nightfly Paul Simon - Graceland (choosing 1 Paul Simon album is is difficult) James Taylor - Gorilla (JT also, if allowed to cheat)

bucky1960
Jun 27 2013
at 11:22 AM

Thanks to all the people who have responded to this so far. I know it is difficult to pick just one album from a particular artist. I guess this question was sort of like the one from awhile back regarding albums one would want if they were stranded on an island. Sometimes, when talking with friends, we ask each other the question if a someone had a gun to your head, would you pick A or B and why. I guess that is why I posed the question the way I did. For me regarding PM discs I’d have to put Travels up on top. Another disc would be Chet Baker’s Last Great Concert double set. This, as many of you may know, was a live recording of a concert just before Chet was killed/died. The horn playing is still crisp while his voice, while faint and weak, is haunting and deeply moving. Great set of discs. Thanks again to the responders. Hope this was not too rambling. Keep on commenting. PEACE OUT.

tiny_tim
Jun 27 2013
at 1:44 AM

bluepno, am with you there!

HAMBONE
Jun 26 2013
at 12:25 PM

No way I could pick just one, too many great ones to choose from and too close to call. But if I had my life on the line, I’d go with PMG Travels live. It’s one of the few I can listen to every day and never get tired of it.

bhal
Jun 26 2013
at 12:03 PM

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin’

bluepno
Jun 26 2013
at 10:17 AM

It has the giant sound palette...Cambodian voice choirs...Gil Goldstein...the arrangements...Live playing dvd performance...and the final 3 cuts.Then the surprise extra cuts.

bluepno
Jun 26 2013
at 10:15 AM

Secret Story is the Magnum Opus for me...

franksexton
Jun 26 2013
at 8:38 AM

I misunderstood the question, it is the one must have album for each of the jazz greats. Not that you could even do that. Just for Pat what would your choice be (Unity Band,Imaginary World,Serect Story,Trio Live,Day Trip,Metheny Mehldau) ? Wayne Shorter (Juju, Footprints Live) ? Coltrane (A Love Supreme,My Favorite Things,Ascension,Giant Steps,Live in Japan) Bill Frisell (Nashville, Good Dog - Happy Man,East/West) ?

sunship
Jun 25 2013
at 4:15 PM

Kind of ridiculous to limit it to one, but if you dont have Keith Jarrett’s "Koln Concert" then your life is missing something really special.

blisterfree
Jun 23 2013
at 11:11 PM

Frank Gambale: The Great Explorers. Jazz fusion with a healthy, and more importantly, tasteful dose of rock-god shred, all wrapped up in tight, memorable songwriting. Certainly a high point in the career of an artist whose output is often easily dismissed by one camp or another.

fredsimon
Jun 23 2013
at 10:54 PM

The Band - The Band ... their masterpiece, IMNSHO.

Gyuri
Jun 23 2013
at 12:32 PM

The Brecker Brothers: "Out Of The Loop" - no-nonsense, undiluted top-class jazz funk. John Scofield: "Quiet" - very subtle, refined, melodious "quiet" jazz featuring Wayne Shorter, and even Randy Brecker

mario toni
Jun 23 2013
at 8:18 AM

Paul Mccandless "Hearsay" Paul Mccandless "Premonition" Lyle Mays "Lyle Mays" Pat Metheny Group "White Album" Nuff said!

foxesfred
Jun 22 2013
at 12:56 PM

A Love Supreme-Trane .

bluepno
Jun 21 2013
at 6:30 PM

Light As A Feather?Crystal Silence/Return To Forever. These 3 changed everything.

bluepno
Jun 21 2013
at 7:48 AM

Blues and The Abstract truth...Oliver Nelson.

hman01
Jun 20 2013
at 9:44 PM

"Kooltrane"-no justification needed.A lot of great tunes on that one.My favorite- "The Juggler".

SEABOB
Jun 20 2013
at 5:12 PM

Miles Davis- Kind of Blue Ground breaking album in so.... Many ways. The telepathy among band members was incredible never tire of listening a desert isle must:)

thehague
Jun 20 2013
at 5:10 PM

Steely Dan - Aja, Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark, Yes - Fragile, Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue / Ascenseur Pour l’Echafaud, Todd Rundgren - Utopia, Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up, Beatles - Revolver, James Taylor - Fire & Rain, Mahler - Symphony No.9, Arvo Part - Fratres, Gorecki - Symphony No.3 . , Blue Nile - Hats, Yellowjackets - Greenhouse. Reasons in short: they were so innovative at the time, they are landmarks in my life, they are still shockingly beautiful and valid, I can’t imagine my life without having heard them.

john
Jun 20 2013
at 4:19 PM

MO - Inner Mounting Flame.

bucky1960
Jun 20 2013
at 1:46 PM

Kooltrane, have to agree with you on this album. The music speaks for itself. No explanation needed.

franksexton
Jun 20 2013
at 11:00 AM

there is no one must-have album, sorry.

Kooltrane
Jun 20 2013
at 6:34 AM

Weather Report: Heavy Weather Zawinul, Shorter, Pastorius; do I really have to justify this?

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