ILX All-Time Greatest Jazz Albums Poll - Nominations Thread

Anyway, some of my noms would be:

Herbie Hancock - Emperyan Isles
John Coltrane - Complete Live at the Village Vanguard, Giant Steps, Coltrane's Sound
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music, Thelonious in Action
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge, At the Village Vanguard
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Cookin', Filles De Kilamanjaro, The Sorcerer
Ornette Coleman - This is Our Music, Free Jazz
Chico Hamilton - The Dealer

We're having xposts galore!

Cannonball Adderley - Something Else
Chet Baker - Sings
George Benson - Breezin'
Art Blakey - Moanin'
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Getz/Gilberto
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Herbie Hancock - Flood
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at the Half Note
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Larry Young - Unity

VAMP on the xpost

haha now we've exhausted my extensive knowledge of jazz!

Mingus: Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis: On the Corner
Thelonious Monk: Underground
Charlie Parker: Savoy Original Masters
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
John Coltrane: My Favorite Things
Louis Armstrong: The Best of the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens
Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage
Pharoah Sanders: Tahuid
Stan Kenton: City of Glass
Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency!
Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman & Prime Time: Tone Dialing

Shit, I don't think I know any Duke Ellington that isn't a comp!

johnny griffin- a blowing session 1957
absolutely perfect in every way session with three tenors (griffin, coltrane and mobley), lee morgan, wynton kelly, art blakey

sonny sharrock- monkey-pockie-boo 1970
not really discussed much album even when sharrock is the topic. my favorite free recording ever. his wife's vocals are batshit but lovely imo

THIS IS NOT A NOMINATION: The only Ellington I have is Live at the Blue Note. It sounds good to me but I'm hesitant to nominate it just because I have no idea how it is compared to other albums of his.

Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction, Skies Of America, Ornette!
Andrew Hill - Passing Ships
Booker Little - Out Front
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess

On the fence?: Does La Monte Young count? Well-Tuned Piano can't be too far removed from Keith Jarrett, say. What about something like Optometry by DJ Spooky et al?

Miles Davis "Birth of the Cool"
Mingus "Tijuana Moods"
Oliver Nelson "Blues and the Abstract Truth"
Wayne Shorter "Juju"
Monk "Brilliant Corners" (this one is probably my favorite ever, and certainly one of my 10 or so favorite albums of all time)
Jack Teagarden "Mis'ry and the Blues"
Lee Wiley "West of the Moon"
Cannonball Adderley "Somethin' Else"
Henry Threadgill "Too Much Sugar for a Dime"
James Blood Ulmer "Black Rock"
Ornette Coleman "Free Jazz"
Coltrane "Giant Steps"
Miles Davis "Tribute to Jack Johnson"
Miles Davis "Agartha"

Well, I nominate Fanfare for the Warriors, Nice Guys, and Urban Bushmen!

oh yes indeed

Max Roach - Bitter Percussion Sweet
Dizzy Gillespie - Afro
The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - A Night At Birdland Vol. 1
Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker With Strings
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach - Money Jungle
Gillespie, Rollins, Stitt - Sunny Side Up
Dave Brubeck Quartet - At Carnegie Hall
Thelonious Monk - Monk Alone
Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers & Thelonious Monk - With Monk
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Various Artists - The Sound of Jazz

Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Gil Evans - The Individualism of Gil Evans
Steve Lacy - School Days
Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh - The Complete Atlantic Recordings

And some that aren't:

Randy Weston - Little Niles
Sam Rivers - Crystals
Sonny Rollins - A Night At the Village Vanguard Vols. 1 & 2
Clifford Brown - The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings

AMM - The Crypt
Art Ensemble of Chicago - People In Sorrow
Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost
Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity
Derek Bailey - Ballads
Derek Bailey/Evan Parker - The London Concerts
Paul Bley/Annette Peacock - The Paul Bley/Annette Peacock Synthesiser Show
Carla Bley - Escalator Over The Hill
Carla Bley - Tropic Appetites
Blue Notes - Blue Notes For Mongezi
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Lester Bowie/Baden-Baden Free Jazz Workshop - Gittin' To Know Y'All
Anthony Braxton - The Montreux/Berlin Concerts
Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun
Peter Brotzmann - Fuck De Boer
Willem Brueker Kollektief - Live In Berlin (check out the concluding rendition of "Our Day Will Come"!)
Gary Burton/Carla Bley - A Genuine Tong Funeral
Centipede - Septober Energy
Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge
Don Cherry/Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Relativity Suite
Ornette Coleman - The Complete Science Fiction Sessions
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman - Crisis!
Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
Ornette Coleman - Tone Dialing
Lol Coxhill/Simon Emmerson - Digswell Duets
Leo Cuypers - Zeeland Suite
John Dankworth - The £1,000,000 Collection
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Bill Evans Trio - Portrait In Jazz
Bill Evans/George Russell - Living Time
Gil Evans - There Comes A Time
Gil Evans - Live At The Royal Festival Hall, London, 1978
Gil Evans - The Individualism Of Gil Evans
Jan Garbarek/Ralph Towner - Dis
Stan Getz/Eddie Sauter - Focus
Michael Gibbs - Michael Gibbs/Tanglewood '63
Globe Unity Orchestra - Jahmarkt/Local Fair
Barry Guy - Statements For Double Bass And Violone
Barry Guy/London Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Ode For Jazz Orchestra
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
Charlie Haden - Closeness
Joe Harriott - Abstract
Joe Harriott and John Mayer - Indo-Jazz Fusions Vols 1 & 2
Coleman Hawkins Quartet - Today And Now
Tubby Hayes Quartet - Mexican Green
Tubby Hayes - 200% Proof
Laurie Johnson - Synthesis
Sheila Jordan - Portrait Of Sheila
Last Exit - s/t (first album)
George Lewis - Homage To Charles Parker
Michael Mantler/Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Communications #8-11/Preview
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath - s/t (first album)
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath - Procession
Harry Miller's Isipingo - Family Affair
Charles Mingus - Mingus Oh Yeah
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Antibes
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Roscoe Mitchell - Nonaah
Louis Moholo Octet - Spirits Rejoice!
Music Improvisation Company - 1968-70
Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth
Mike Osborne Trio - Border Crossing
Mike Osborne and Stan Tracey - Tandem
Ovary Lodge - s/t (Ogun)
Tony Oxley Quintet - The Baptised Traveller
Evan Parker - The Snake Decides
Art Pepper - Today (is "Patricia" the greatest alto sax solo ever played?)
Power Tools - s/t (first - and only? - album)
Julian Priester - Love, Love
Don Pullen - Healing Force
Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
George Russell - Outer Thoughts (Riverside best-of)
George Russell - Jazz In The Space Age
Paul Rutherford - Gentle Harm Of The Bourgeoisie
Pharaoh Sanders - Karma
Pharaoh Sanders - Black Unity
Pharaoh Sanders - Izipho-Zam
Manfred Schoof - European Echoes
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Oliv
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - The Source: From And Towards
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Big Band And Quartet Live
John Stevens/Trevor Watts/Barry Guy - No Fear
Strata Institute - Cipher Syntax
Cecil Taylor - Chinampas
Cecil Taylor Unit - One Too Many, Salty Swift, And Not Goodbye
Keith Tippett's Ark - Frames: Music For An Imaginary Film
Stan Tracey Octet - The Bracknell Connection
Stan Tracey Quartet - Jazz Suite: Under Milk Wood
Stan Tracey Trio - Perspectives
Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Marching Song Vols 1 & 2
Mike Westbrook Orchestra - The Cortege
Kenny Wheeler - Song For Someone
Norma Winstone - Somewhere Like Home
John Zorn - The Big Gundown

Art Farmer / Benny Golson Jazztet - Meet the Jazztet
Johnny Dyani Quartet - Song For Biko
Dexter Gordon - Go
Max Roach / Clifford Brown Quintet - Live at Basin Street
Noah Howard - The Black Ark

Also I remembered this thread--

Best Jazz Albums Ever?

so everything I said on there as well...

also, we need more global representation in general .. so also put me down for, I dunno, how about Masahiko Togashi / Mototeru Takagi - Isolation.

I wuz gonna put down Karyobin but then I remembered that Julio once berated me over some kind of free jazz / improv split dichotomy that he wanted to impose. now I'm browbeaten!

Actually, a somewhat more successful SME "jazz" record is 1973's So What Do You Think?, with the same line-up as Karyobin except that Trevor Watts replaces Evan Parker on sax. Flows a little more nicely.

Also there is insufficient respect in my list for Steve Lacy, so add Weals and Woe, a compilation of his Stations solo album and The Woe group album, the latter one of the greatest anti-Vietnam records there is.

whats love love like? - been wanting to hear that fer ages.

also if they haven't been nominated

bill evans - sunday afternoon at the village vanguard, waltz for debby

The good news is that ECM are FINALLY reissuing it on CD on 15 August!

man i need to hear those eddie h recs too (hi jaXon!)

Grachan Moncur III - Evolution
Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
Shorty Rogers et al - Collaboration West
Chet Baker - Italian Movies

Oh, and while we're on the subject of Grachan Moncur III, New Africa (BYG, 1969) - an absolute classic. Andrew Cyrille's drumming on "When" has to be believed to be heard.

evolution is a great record

Head explodes at the thought of the excess grooviness contained therein.

I don't think these have been mentioned (sorry if they have):

Sam Rivers - Fuschia Swing Song, Contours
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Mingus - At Carnegie Hall
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Jackie McLean - Bluesnik, Destination Out!, One Step Beyond, Let Freedom Ring
Lee Morgan - Leeway
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
Lester Bowie - Fast Last
Don Cherry - Mu
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Reese and the Smooth Ones
Peter Brotzmann - Nipples, More Nipples, Fuck da Boere
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
Dave Holland - Conference of the Birdst
Keith Jarrett - The Wind Up
Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley - Leaf Palm Hand
New York Art Quartet - s/t
Marion Brown - Three for Shepp
Grachan Moncur III - New Africa
David S. Ware - Go See the World
Other Dimensions in Music - Time is of the Essense...
TEST - TEST
Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport 1956
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (London) 1985, 3 Compositions of New Jazz

The prob with no best ofs is no early jazz but I guess that is ok.

(I'd like some Raymond Scott, but they're all comps, no?)

Herbie Hancock - Manchild
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear

More like consecutive tracks ala, say, the Sun Sessions.

Bill Frisell - This Land, Have a Little Faith

Don Byron - Tuskegee Experiments, Music for Six Musicians

Last Exit - Headfirst Into the Flames, Koln

McCoy Tyner "Enlightenment"
Albert Ayler "Ghosts" or "Vibrations" (It goes by different titles..the one with Don Cherry)
Benny Goodman "Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert"
Sun Ra "Jazz in Silhouette"

Mose Allison - I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin'
Miroslav Vitous - Infinite Search

Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight

Man, is this some good shit here.

People here really need to step their Lee Morgan discography game up! I like Sidewinder a lot but its not touching Cornbread.

Oscar Peterson - Night Train
Art Blakey - Buhania's Delight
John Coltrane - Afro Blue Impressions
Chick Corea - Light as a Feather
Bill Frisell - Live
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Dave Holland - Prime Directive
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Grant Green - Talkin' About
Grant Green - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Grant Green - Solid
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
Wes Montgomery - Incredible Jazz Guitar
Wes Montgomery - Full House
Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba (diff than the one listed above)
Keith Jarrett - Belonging
Pat Martino - Live!
Wes Montgomery - Tequila
Wes Montgomery - Movin' Wes
Wes Montgomery - Bumpin'
Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time
Horace Silver - Silver's Serenade

John Coltrane - Stellar Regions
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Don Cherry - Orient
Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communications Orchestra - double cd on BYG, can't actually work out if it has a title
John Zorn - Spy Vs Spy
Cruel Frederick - The Birth Of The Cruel (underrated if you ask me)
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - The Paris Session
Beau Hunks - Manhattan Minuet : The Music Of Raymond Scott

How do you pick one Sun Ra album? Or even ten??

once we have the list, could we reasonably split it up by artist/label/period?

i.e. the inevitable six herbie albums (empyrean isles, maiden voyage, my point of view, inventions & dimensions, etc) could just become "herbie hancock, early blue note"?

with some editorial finessing on gear's part you could divvy up the 2nd half of his career like "hancock: mwandishi period", "hancock: headhunters period", "hancock: future shock period".

i dunno, it would probably become a logistical nightmare ...

miles davis, dark magus

Maurice McIntyre - Humility In Light of Creator
Eddie Gale - Black Music Happening
Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music
Bobby Hutcherson - Now!
Andy Bey - Experience & Judgement
Archie Schepp - Atica Blues
Scorch Trio
Supersilent - 4
Max Roach - It's Time
Bill Cosby presents - Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band
Abdullah Ibrahim & Johnny Dyani - Echos from Africa
Codona - 1
The Heath Brothers - Marchin' On
Alice Coltrane - Eternity
Pharoah Sanders - Wisdom Through Music
John Klemmer - Blowin' Gold
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Donald Byrd - Places & Spaces
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - My Goal's Beyond
Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller
Bob James - One
Horace Silver - Silver 'n Percussion

fuck voting on this is gonna be hard

woody shaw: the moontrane
paul bley: open, to love
mccoy tyner: the real mccoy
grant green: idle moments
kenny burrell: midnight blue

and (hate on me now) keith jarrett: the koln concert

Charles Earland - Black Talk!
Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet
Jimmy Smith - Root Down

Looking forward to the voting and the results enormously.

A few I forgot to mention earlier.

Charles Tolliver & Music Inc.: Impact
Herbie Hancock: Mister Hands
(That one should win the prize for the best ever jazz record cover, at the least. Though it's really quite good, if you can get past the cheesy early-eighties synth sounds [which are actually cute].)

This is what I meant when I said The Wind Up upthread -- there's a track on Belonging called "The Wind Up" and I got it confused. Sorry, gear!

There are lots on this thread that I haven't heard. However, I could probably keep on nominating! ...

Frank Lowe/Rashied Ali - Duo Exchange
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity

Please do yourselfs all a favour
oh yeah Medeski martin and wood=Shack man

(Art Tatum)

Archie Shepp- Fire Music(if not only for "prelude to a kiss"- manifique)

Jimmy Giuffre's "Free Fall"

-- mullygrubbr (fan...), August 2nd, 2005.

the find tool be yer friend

John Zorn's Masada - Aleph
Steve Lacy - Remains
Henry Threadgill's Make A Move - Up Popped the Two Lips
Jenny Scheinman - Shalagaster and 12 Songs
L'Ensemble Pierre Labbe - Risque et Pendule
Michael Moore's Jewels and Binoculars - Music of Bob Dylan

Woops- that title should have been "Everybody's Mouth a Book"

KIND OF BLUE - Miles Davis

thanks everyone!

lots of great picks so it was muy worthwhile, but still..

The timing is a little unforunate here--I was thinking of starting this up again this week, but I totally forgot it's "that time of year" and some people may be a little burned out from end-of-year listmania and sleepless nights over pazz & jop results. It may be best to wait a little while in the hopes of getting a better participation rate, I'm not sure.

The Wildest - Louis Prima
Call Of The Wildest - Louis Prima
The Wildest Show At Tahoe - Louis Prima
20th Century Piano Genius - Art Tatum

The poll will be open nominations, so this thread can serve as the place for recommendations/suggestions.

?

One more vote for Gary Burton/Carla Bley - A Genuine Tong Funeral

Also, Voivod - Dimension Hatross

If Gear or Keith C doesn't want to do it, I'd like to arrange this. In old-school ILX poll style, with votes and blurbs emailed to me, and the results revealed one by one, instead of having a nu-ILX poll. We'd probably need a new nominations thread though, I think the number of nominations should be limited.

What do people say?

Michael Gibbs - Michael Gibbs/Tanglewood '63

^I'm really enjoying this lately. I haven't heard all of the first one yet but Tanglewood '63 is really adventurous