Nominations Thread for ILX POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL (nominations now closed)(includes Spotify playlist)

Seandalai has kindly agreed to do the tabulations , ie the important stuff that's beyond me , so without further ado lets start the nominations and see how that goes.

Will have no limits just now *unless* people get silly and we have to implement that rule. So please use common sense and nominate stuff you want to vote for rather than showing off how obscure you can go. However, I will make a biggish list of noms to start with and then everyone can fill in the important gaps of those artists. No doubt 20 people have different Miles & Coltrane albums for instance. So don't worry about filling in those important albums missing. Same goes for other artists nominated. I like things to be comprehensive as to avoid the shouts of oh album x is missing.

Have fun and feel free to start your campaigning for albums. The best thing about these polls is that you can discover new stuff, whether you're new to jazz or really into it. So please , don't worry if you don't know much, you can use the time between now and voting closing to come up with a ballot. You will enjoy discovering albums you didn't know. Hopefully we can have some really good results.

Apologies to gear if he wanted to run this since he started nominations years ago elsewhere on ilx but nothing came of it. But his nominations thread might help you with ideas.

EDITED TO ADD: A pre-album-era poll will come after this one. The nominations spreadsheet is at https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=tQQSM3avvN3nLk4gFzHWXdQ

And to start things off

Albert Ayler - spiritual unity
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Anthony Braxton - for alto
Archie Shepp - Fire Music
Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - les stances a sophie
Big John Patton - Along Came John
Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
Curtis Fuller - the opener
Don Cherry - Mu - Parts 1 & 2
Donald Byrd - off to the races
Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd
Elvin Jones - Illumination!
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Grant Green - Matador
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Herbie Mann - Memphis underground
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
(Brother) Jack McDuff - Tough 'Duff
Jackie McLean - Destination Out
Jimmy McGriff - The Worm
Jimmy Smith - Open house
Joe Henderson - Page One
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - Ascension
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious
McCoy Tyner - Expansions
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music
Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Sun Ra - Nothing Is
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil

wait I thought the Beatles poll was next

Oh sorry, I thought that the bands polls were their own things.

plus by the time these results are due wont they be over?

The band polls are their own things. Mark G was kind enough to delay the Beatles results this week while the 50s poll had its rollout (which turned out to be a good thing for the Beatles results, as they were improperly tabulated).

I figure whatever single-artist poll is up the week of this rollout will similarly take a delay.

Well the results wont be for a while, don't know how long we will keep voting open for, but at least 2 weeks I imagine maybe more if need be. Don't want to put anyone out, so results will roll out when a gap arises. No one has to be put aside just to let us in.

Ayler/Cherry/Tchicai/Rudd/Peacock/Murray - New York Eye and Ear Control
New York Art Quartet - s/t
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Challenge

Wait, how do these work -- are we only supposed to nominate stuff not already on the thread or do multiple nominations carry weight?

Nominate anything you like that hasn't already been nominated. Makes it much easier for sean & i to get the nominations together.

No compilations btw. If compilations are nominated please point them out. Live recordings are obviously OK.

A couple of things:

Alice Coltrane - Eternity
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Marching Song I+II
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia
Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Roland Young - Isophonic Boogie Woogie
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Sun Ra - Strange Strings

Anyway

Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard (for these two -- are we excluding live albums?)
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
McCoy Tyner - Inception
William Parker & Hamid Drake - Piercing the Veil
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (if we're including really fusiony stuff)
Max Roach feat. the Legendary Hassan
Miles Davis - Sorcerer
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Paul Bley - Closer

To get some obvious ones out the way:

John Coltrane - Meditations
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach - Money Jungle
Mile Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite

when's the prince poll?

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington

Couple of quick questions/clarifications:

1. Just albums and no comps, so I assume all pre-album jazz is out of the running? This means no Django Hot Club or Louis Hot Fives.

2. No latter day reassessments of material? For example, one could nominate John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard, but not The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings.

Just want to make sure I'm clear early in the process.

I'm not sure on the 1st part. I think that is something we need to discuss on this thread. Maybe pre-war jazz comps would be ok? We will go with what the majority wants.

As for part 2 - yeah no box sets but the original live albums are totally fine.

i am pro pre-war jazz comps

I kinda want to include the 78rpm guys, but they recorded for the singles market. I vote save 'em for a tracks poll.

How about simply allowing comps that have no overlap with previously released albums?

Andrew Hill - Judgment!
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure

Sounds fine. Greatest hits type comps is what we want to avoid really especially when said artists have made albums.
xp

ut if you look at Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens, you either talk about the whole massive block of recordings or you are talking about a "greatest hits" of that time period. They are not the equivalent of an album recorded at most on a handful of dates.

ut=but

i think for the pre-war era comps are ok unless most people object. Im fine with it.

I'd like to point out to everyone that Spotify has a fantastic jazz selection, pretty much all the bluenote for a start. So get listening!

Here's some more nominations:

Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Anthony Braxton - Dortmund (Quartet)
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell - Old and New Dreams (ECM album)
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
John Coltrane - First Meditations
Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot Vol. 1
Johnny Griffin - Introducing Johnny Griffin
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Carnegie Hall
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
David Murray - Flowers For Albert
Sonny Murray - Sonny's Time Now
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Dewey Redman - The Ear of the Behearer
The Revolutionary Ensemble - The Revolutionary Ensemble
Sam Rivers - Hues
Sam Rivers - Contrasts
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
Henry Threadgill Sextet - Easily Slip Into Another World
Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus - Too Much Sugar For a Dime

Everyone ok with pre 1945 artists compilations then?

think you need to extend that to cover stuff like the charlie parker savoy & dial recordings

wait, that falls foul of the box set rule

Thelonius Monk - Genius of Modern Music volume one (BLP-1510, 1956)*
Miles Davis + 19 - Miles Ahead
Herbie Mann - Live At The Whiskey A Go Go
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages

*is this allowed? Technically a compilation of sessions from the late 40s

I dunno, he did have proper albums out. I'd be inclined to say no, however others might disagree.
Were the tracks on other albums? if not then i guess that would be ok.

It's a bit of a minefield if the Wikipedia entry is anything to go by. The 1956 version seems to be the first outing for the sessions on 12" LP though.

It's canon now anyway

well lets see what everyone else thinks and go with the majority.
If these issues occur again we can deal with it on an album by album basis and let everyone on the thread have their say.

I'm just dreading 80s herbie hancock gets nominated and people say its not really jazz and more electronic.
Or 70s acts albums are more funk than jazz and shouldn't be in it. That will be fun..

i see someone has already nommed a spontaneous music ensemble rec, so free improv is included (d bailey turning over in his grave)?

Here's a few nominations:

Airto - Seeds on the Ground
Patti Austin - Havana Candy
Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy
Stanley Cowell - Regeneration
Jack DeJohnette - Zebra
Duke Ellington - Second Sacred Concert
The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson - People Get Ready
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight
Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane - The Elements
The Roland Kirk Quartet featuring Elvin Jones - Rip, Rig and Panic
Roland Kirk - Please Don't You Cry, Beutiful Edith
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Blacknuss
Idris Muhammad - Black Rhythm Revolution!
Idris Muhammad - Kabsha
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
Flora Purim - Stories to Tell
Flora Purim - Encounter
Joe Sample - Fancy Dance
Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun
Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling
Leon Thomas - Spirits Known and Unknown
Leon Thomas - The Leon Thomas Album
Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan (the 1955 album also known as "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown")
Victor Wooten - What Did He Say?

Some more nominations:

Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Jack DeJohnette with Michael Cain & Steve Gorn - Dancing with Nature Spirits
Eric Dolphy - Out There
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar – Gling-Gló
Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle Of Time
Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel
Return to Forever - Musicmagic
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man
Charles Tolliver with Music Inc. & Orchestra - Impact

Or 70s acts albums are more funk than jazz and shouldn't be in it. That will be fun..

Yeah, unavoidable though. I was listening to Gary Bartz "Music is my Sanctuary" last night and thinking it's a great album but the main genre difference between it and, say, War is that Bartz played with Miles once upon a time.

Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
Art Farmer Quintet - Blame It On My Youth
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Clifford Brown/Max Roach (verve, 1954)
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Billy Bang - Rainbow Gladiator

Obviously it's all subjective, but even though fusion/jazz-funk/jazz-rock/etc albums should be included in the poll, I don't think people should nominate albums where the other side of the equation is clearly more dominant than the "jazz" side, even if they were released by famous jazz artists on established jazz labels. I consciously tried to avoid nominating albums like that, for example the Herbie Hancock electro albums. Just because Herbie plays some keyboard solos on them doesn't mean they're jazz.

One good measuring stick is, how much improvisation there is on the album? If it's more about pre-written stuff than improvisation, then it probably shouldn't be here. There are of course jazz subgenres that don't fit that criteria, but I think it's a good way decide whether or not stuff like 70s fusion albums should be included.

so you dont think mahavishnu orchestra should be included but the miles davis rock albums are ok?

I'd say yes to that distinction.

The Bill Dixon Orchestra - Intents and Purposes
Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum
The Cecil Taylor European Orchestra - Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
Milford Graves - Babi

One good measuring stick is, how much improvisation there is on the album? If it's more about pre-written stuff than improvisation, then it probably shouldn't be here. There are of course jazz subgenres that don't fit that criteria, but I think it's a good way decide whether or not stuff like 70s fusion albums should be included.

― Tuomas, Friday, July 15, 2011 10:13 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so you dont think mahavishnu orchestra should be included but the miles davis rock albums are ok?

― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, July 15, 2011 10:20 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'd say yes to that distinction.

― Samantha Mumbahton (seandalai), Friday, July 15, 2011 10:34 AM Bookmark

I agree with this, but Mahavishnu orchestra records do have a lot of improvisation -- in fact they tend to do a pretty traditional round of solos over the changes kind of thing. And yet somehow in my mind they're not jazz, and I can't put my finger on why. Maybe it's just that they SOUND like prog rock records.

i would also add that The Headhunters and The Blackbyrds, despite being on Herbie Hancock & Donald Byrd albums, their own output is infact funk.

Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay

Actually I'd also say that Headhunters doesn't really feel like a jazz record for that matter. Thrust moreso.

Could someone maybe put these nominations into a Google spreadsheet so it would be easier to see what's been nominated already?

There's obviously some wooly territory around the borderline - for me Headhunters is more a jazz album than it is anything else.

One good measuring stick is, how much improvisation there is on the album? If it's more about pre-written stuff than improvisation, then it probably shouldn't be here.

Thing is, there are Ellington songs -- entire suites, even -- that have no improvisation at all.

Then again, as Bill Dixon used to say, "All music is improvised. You can't play the same thing the same way twice."

Throw Raymond Scott into the "no improv" mix too.

what about vocalists

This thread is exactly what I expected an ALL-TIME JAZZ ALBUMS POLL thread to look like.

Do New Order count as jazz?

I'm serious about the vocalists question!

I would certainly hope they count.

Do we really need to adjudicate the boundaries of what can be nominated? I think it would work out okay if we let people nominate and vote for whatever they think qualifies as jazz. If enough people think it's jazz, it will place - if they don't, it won't.

Updated noms list. Sean can maybe do a spreadsheet if you ask him nicely!

(Brother) Jack McDuff - Tough 'Duff
Airto - Seeds on the Ground
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
Albert Ayler - spiritual unity
Alice Coltrane - Eternity
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle Of Time
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Andrew Hill - Compulsion
Andrew Hill - Judgment!
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Anthony Braxton - Dortmund (Quartet)
Anthony Braxton - for alto
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Archie Shepp - Fire Music
Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight
Archie Shepp - On This Night
Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju
Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman
Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - les stances a sophie
Art Farmer Quintet - Blame It On My Youth
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Ayler/Cherry/Tchicai/Rudd/Peacock/Murray - New York Eye and Ear Control
Big John Patton - Along Came John
Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Billy Bang - Rainbow Gladiator
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar – Gling-Gló
Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Cecil Taylor - Jumpin' Punkins
Cecil Taylor - love for sale
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Carnegie Hall
Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Charles Mingus - The Clown
Charles Tolliver with Music Inc. & Orchestra - Impact
Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone
Clifford Brown/Max Roach (verve, 1954)
Curtis Fuller - the opener
Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
David Murray - Flowers For Albert
Dewey Redman - The Ear of the Behearer
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Don Cherry - Mu - Parts 1 & 2
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell - Old and New Dreams (ECM album)
Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd
Donald Byrd - off to the races
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Duke Ellington - Second Sacred Concert
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach - Money Jungle
Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
Elvin Jones - Illumination!
Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot Vol. 1
Eric Dolphy - Conversations
Eric Dolphy - Far Cry
Eric Dolphy - Last Date
Eric Dolphy - Out There
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Eric Dolphy - Outward bound
Flora Purim - Encounter
Flora Purim - Stories to Tell
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point
Freddie Hubbard - First Light
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Freddie Hubbard - The Body And The Soul
Freddie Hubbard - The Hub Of Hubbard
Grant Green - Alive
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Grant Green - Live At The Lighthouse
Grant Green - Matador
Grant Green - Solid
Grant Green - Street Of Dreams
Grant Green - Talkin' About
Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy
Hank Mobley - A Slice Of The Top
Hank Mobley - Dippin'
Hank Mobley - Hank Mobley Quintet
Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares
Hank Mobley - Peckin' Time
Hank Mobley - Roll Call
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter
Hank Mobley - Workout
Henry Threadgill Sextet - Easily Slip Into Another World
Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus - Too Much Sugar For a Dime
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Manchild
Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Herbie Mann - Memphis underground
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Idris Muhammad - Black Rhythm Revolution!
Idris Muhammad - Kabsha
Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed
Jack DeJohnette - Zebra
Jack DeJohnette with Michael Cain & Steve Gorn - Dancing with Nature Spirits
Jackie McLean - Bluesnik
Jackie McLean - Bluesnik
Jackie McLean - Destination Out
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man
Jimmy & Wes - The Dynamic Duo
Jimmy McGriff - The Worm
Jimmy Smith - A New Sound A New Star
Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith
Jimmy Smith - Crazy! Baby
Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
Jimmy Smith - Open house
Jimmy Smith - Root Down
Jimmy Smith - The Champ
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Joe Henderson - Four
Joe Henderson - In 'N Out
Joe Henderson - Inner urge
Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
Joe Henderson - Our Thing
Joe Henderson - Page One
Joe Henderson - power To The people
Joe Henderson - Straight No Chaser
Joe Henderson - The Kicker
Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane - The Elements
Joe Sample - Fancy Dance
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
John Coltrane - Ascension
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - Coletrane (Impulse)
John Coltrane - Coletrane Jazz
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues
John Coltrane - Crescent
John Coltrane - Dear Old Stockholm
John Coltrane - First Meditations
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - interstellar Space
John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
John Coltrane - Lush Life
John Coltrane - Meditations
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
John Coltrane - Stellar Regions
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
John Coltrane - The Avant Garde
John Coltrane - Training In
Johnny Griffin - Introducing Johnny Griffin
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
Leon Thomas - Spirits Known and Unknown
Leon Thomas - The Leon Thomas Album
Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling
Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (if we're including really fusiony stuff)
Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet
Max Roach feat. the Legendary Hassan
McCoy Tyner - Expansions
McCoy Tyner - Inception
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel
Mile Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Miles Davis - Agharta
Miles Davis - Bags' Groove
Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West
Miles Davis - Cookin'
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet
Miles Davis - Miles in The Sky
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Miles Davis - Milestones
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Miles Davis - Pangaea
Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Miles Davis - Sorcerer
Miles Davis - Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis - Walkin'
Miles Davis - Workin'
Milford Graves - Babi
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & Trane
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia
New York Art Quartet - s/t
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music
Patti Austin - Havana Candy
Paul Bley - Closer
Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun
Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought
Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Blacknuss
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Return to Forever - Musicmagic
Roland Kirk - Please Don't You Cry, Beutiful Edith
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Roland Young - Isophonic Boogie Woogie
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
Sam Rivers - Contrasts
Sam Rivers - Hues
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown")
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Murray - Sonny's Time Now
Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Challenge
Stanley Cowell - Regeneration
Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Sun Ra - Nothing Is
Sun Ra - Strange Strings
The Bill Dixon Orchestra - Intents and Purposes
The Cecil Taylor European Orchestra - Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson - People Get Ready
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Marching Song I+II
The Revolutionary Ensemble - The Revolutionary Ensemble
The Roland Kirk Quartet featuring Elvin Jones - Rip, Rig and Panic
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
Tony Williams - Lifetime
Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag
Victor Wooten - What Did He Say?
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
Wayne Shorter - Et Cetera
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Wayne Shorter - Night Dream
Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye
Wayne Shorter - The soothsayer
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
William Parker & Hamid Drake - Piercing the Veil

ok just spotted dave holland is in there twice

Bud Powell -The Amazing Bud Powell Vols 1 and 2
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study in Brown
Tubby Hayes -Tubbs in NY
Bill Evans -Everybody loves....
Coltrane/ Cherry - The Avant Garde
Anthony Braxton/ Max Roach -One in Two/ Two in One
Bobby Hutcherson - The View from the Inside
Cannonball Adderley -Soul Zodiac

found a few more. all fixed now

fixed spelling mistakes too

Sorry The Avant Garde was there already

Add Dancing in Your Head - Ornette

is 'Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel' jazz? I thought she was r n b.
Took out the mahavishnu as requested.

I thought she was r n b.

She's a lot of things. I trust Tuomas's judgement, even though I haven't heard that. But I kinda agree with o.nate about easing up on the nitpicking.

I really don't get all this rigid "Is this jazz? Or rnb? Or a rock record by a jazz cat, or vice versa? Can we nom this? Plzzzz?" Just nominate and the poll will show you if most people think it is jazz or not, by how they vote. You might get a troll vote here and there, but that's it.

xp

Yeah, I think it's cool to be fairly inclusive in the noms -- it'll all come out in the wash voting.

xp

Will save 500 posts of bickering too. I know some will be disappointed by that, but seriously.

Sorry hadn't read iatee's initial post but obv otm

Patty Waters - Sings

you guys can just bicker all you like, i will just ignore it and keep track of noms :)

just gonna get these out of the way

Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra at the Sands (w/Count Basie Orchestra)
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
Frank Sinatra - Swing Easy
Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair
Louis Prima - the Wildest!
Chet Baker - Chet
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
Jimmy Scott - The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott

I don't really know Ella or Billie's discogs very well, someone else should handle those

wasn't sure which Blossom Dearie to nominate

Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood of Breath
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue

Sinatra -- another artist I would not really file under Jazz but w/e, I guess Le Bateau Ivre's suggestion works

Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown With Strings
Derrick Shezbie - Spodie's Back
Henry Threadgill - Easily Slip Into Another World
Henry Threadgill - X-75 Volume 1

Oh, Easily Slip... is already in there. Scratch that.

Anthony Braxton - Saxophone Improvisations Series F.
Lester Bowie - Rope-A-Dope
Lester Bowie - The 5th Power

Ramsey Lewis - Funky Serenity

Sun Ra - Sunrise in Different Dimensions
Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music

i think this works
ILX jazz albums nominations Spreadsheet

Actually whatever about the Mahuvishnu Orch. John McLaughlin needs to be here, so
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation

Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas

I've made a start on a SPOTIFY LIST of nominations. It's by no means complete and i feel a bit ill tbh so i need a liedown, so if anyone wants to add stuff from the nominations to the playlist then please do.

louis armstrong - the complete hot five and hot seven recordings
django reinhardt - classic early recordings in chronological order
hermeto pascoal - hermeto
luiz bonfa - le roi de la bossa nova
luiz bonfa and maria toledo - braziliana
luiz bonfa - introspection
stan getz and joao gilberto - getz/gilberto
antonio carlos jobim - wave
antonio carlos jobim - stone flower

louis armstrong - the complete hot five and hot seven recordings
django reinhardt - classic early recordings in chronological order

are these box sets? My knowledge of pre-war jazz is zilch. I need to rectify that obviously, but need help with nominations for this era.

The Armstrong is a box set, not sure about the Reinhardt but I assume so.

i don't know much about pre-war jazz either. they are box sets, 4 cds each, so they aren't like everything but... i can't imagine a jazz poll without them! not like this matters but i listen to them like they're albums. and they both focus on a pretty specific era for the artists.

maybe a 1-cd/lp comp culling tracks from the same era is more acceptable, i'm just not sure what would be.

I understand what you're saying, but we did agree on no box sets. Is there a single hot 5 and a hot 7 album? that would be fine.

A box set that contains material not released in album form elsewhere absolutely should be votable imo.

I mean, The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings is a totally different animal than, say, something that's just all of Coltrane's Atlantic albums in a single package.

yes, these are different than later session boxes. don't see why we can't nominate the complete hot fives rather than splitting the vote among multiple volumes. it would leave more room for other stuff too.

w/o that provision, a likeminded blues poll would have to exclude Robert Johnson entirely.

well lets see if everyone agrees with you.

There's a difference between box sets which are artifact and box sets which are just a convenient way to get several albums at once.

I don't believe there is a Hot Fives/Sevens release that's not a complete recordings box. So it's all or nothing, and excluding one of the most important groups of the early jazz era would be nuts.

But you get into weird territory with something like Coltrane's Village Vanguard recordings. One short album's worth of the recordings (3 songs, 36 minutes) were released in his lifetime; now, four packed discs (22 songs, 4 1/2 hours) of the entire residency has been released. Should the box be eligible?

As I already stated (and nobody agreed with me, so I except being voted down after this little rant) I think we're better off talking of album length recordings released as artist and/or label initially intended. Yes, this kills off pre-war jazz. Make it a separate poll and it would probably be more eclectic and interesting, like the 50s Poll ended up being.

accept not except. Brain is not firing well.

well we can either include it or do EZ Snappins suggestion and have a separate pre-war jazz poll. i think thats a terrific idea but will anyone do it? *looks at johnny fever & ez snappin*

Its a great way to stop pre war jazz being shafted and we could all learn a lot from it.

So im not shooting you down EZ i think its a great idea

now, four packed discs (22 songs, 4 1/2 hours) of the entire residency has been released. Should the box be eligible?

Was all of this material available anywhere else before it appeared here? If not, then yes. It should absolutely be eligible. It's a proper artifact, presented over the course of 4 cds. It's not a reconstitution of material that was already available.

imo, it's really easy to tell the difference between what sorts of box sets are in and what sorts are out.

I don't believe there is a Hot Fives/Sevens release that's not a complete recordings box.

Not to muddy the waters, but the first CD issues of this material on Columbia were single-disc compilations, not compiled in a box.
http://www.spiralvinyl.com/imagelarge.php?id=12347369
etc. etc.

(and they sounded like ass)

btw originally i was going to do a 1945-75 poll purely to avoid this problem (miles retiring being the cut off) but curtis and sean said everyone would prefer an all-time and it would just mean complaining. So either way you cant win!

ok tarfumes that looks acceptable to me! but if someone wants to do a pre-war poll that would be even better

seconding the idea of a pre-war jazz poll

miles retiring being the cut off

You were seriously considering this idea?

Because Miles Davis is not God, iirc.

i would even do it, with the caveat that i know very little about pre-war jazz xp

i do see some sense in having a cut-off point tbh

I don't. It makes absolutely ZERO sense to me. There is still jazz being made.

i dont know guys this is hard questions lol

xp yeah but it sucks j/k kind of

I argued for alltime because 45-75 is a rather arbitrary slice of history and I didn't see any point in excluding more recent albums...it hadn't crossed my mind that we'd run into trouble at the other end.

It would be months - at best - before I could help run a pre-war poll, but I'd love to see what Louis or Django or Woody Herman etc. tracks people would rep for.

A start date makes sense. If you want to stop at the end of the century, that'd work too. 1975 is totally random and eliminates one of my personal jazz icons from consideration.

I do kinda like the idea of a pre-LP-era jazz poll (pre 1950? 1945?), but barring that, allowing historical-document boxes seems like the best way to go in a comprehensive jazz poll.

multixposts

I guess one alternative would be to mix up albums and singles in one poll - on the (dubious) assumption that once we get into the 50s no serious jazz is being released as singles anyway (I don't really know if this is true).

nah i reckon we limit this poll to post 1945 and let matt p or ez or whoever do a pre-war poll. Agree or disagree?

1945- present day unless you want it to end 1999.

i agree. we should let ez do it months from now. ;)

present day imo

Nomination:

Al Bowlly - Say Don't You Remember? (compilation)

Oh....

still no charlie parker or dizzy gillespie nommed yet

No pre '45?

or billie holliday xp

...or ella fitzgerald. Love all these people but don't really know what albums to nom.

there's always one

xp

nothing pre-1945. There will be a separate pre-1945 poll after this.

William please could you use your mod powers and edit the title to reflect the fact its a post 1945 album poll now? if you could edit the first post and say a pre-war poll will come afterwards that would be great too.

Maybe the first post could also be edited with a link to the nominations spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=tQQSM3avvN3nLk4gFzHWXdQ

sean can you pop into listening room at some point?

thanks william!

Found the old nominations thread from years ago.
ILX All-Time Greatest Jazz Albums Poll - Nominations Thread

if anyone spots pre 45 albums in there please let sean or i know

Gary Bartz - I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies
John Zorn - The Big Gundown
Larry Young - Unity

Ornette Coleman - In All Languages
Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis Again

So do you guys still want Mahavishnu Orchestra left out or will we add them back?

I have always considered M.O. a jazz(-rock) group -- I'm surprised there's any debate.

tuomas and someone else said no, but will leave it to majority to decide. Purists dont think its jazz but it is still jazz to most.

yep, to me it's akin to saying
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson isn't eligible which i'd totally consider voting for. can this be a nom? (thx!!)

its already nommed. I love MO, and I do want them eligible, but i can understand the thinking of "rock fans who know little about jazz will put it at the top of the ballot as its the one album they do know like with loads voting stooges in the metal poll and beating maiden,priest etc" but you cant veto because of a silly reason like that. MO are jazz.

but like i said, will leave it to a majority decision.

in or out?

In, definitely!

In.

Can't stand 'em, but they're jazz.

If you want proper jazzbo results, read Downbeat. If you want a totally fun/bonkers poll, do it ILM style.

Can't wait till Kenny G scores the #1 spot.

Charlie Parker - Complete Jazz at Massey Hall
Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers
Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Jon Hassell - Powerspot

Jon Hassell - Powerspot Jon Hassell - Power Spot

Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields

Fuck it:

Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics

ben webster - soulville
gil evans - out of the cool
milt jackson - sunflower
dexter gordon - go
ornette coleman - dancing in yr head
sonny clark - cool struttin'
duke ellington - jazz party
count basie - the atomic mr basie

Some doubles being posted now so I'll post an updated list now for those who can't click on the google spreadsheet link at work or wherever. https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=tQQSM3avvN3nLk4gFzHWXdQ#gid=0

Airto - Seeds on the Ground
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
Albert Ayler - spiritual unity
Alice Coltrane - A Monastic Trio
Alice Coltrane - Eternity
Alice Coltrane - huntington ashram monastary
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane - Ptah The El Daoud
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle Of Time
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Andrew Hill - Compulsion
Andrew Hill - Judgment!
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Anthony Braxton - Dortmund (Quartet)
Anthony Braxton - for alto
Anthony Braxton - Saxophone Improvisations Series F.
Anthony Braxton/ Max Roach -One in Two/ Two in One
antonio carlos jobim - stone flower
antonio carlos jobim - wave
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Archie Shepp - Fire Music
Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight
Archie Shepp - On This Night
Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju
Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead
Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman
Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - les stances a sophie
Art Farmer Quintet - Blame It On My Youth
Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
arthur doyle plus 4 - alabama feeling
Ayler/Cherry/Tchicai/Rudd/Peacock/Murray - New York Eye and Ear Control
Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen
ben webster - soulville
Big John Patton - Along Came John
Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Bill Evans -Everybody loves....
Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers
Billy Bang - Rainbow Gladiator
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar – Gling-Gló
Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
Bobbi Humphrey - Flute In
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco
Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up
Bobby Hutcherson - The View from the Inside
Bud Powell -The Amazing Bud Powell Vols 1 and 2
Cannonball Adderley -Soul Zodiac
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Cecil Taylor - Jumpin' Punkins
Cecil Taylor - love for sale
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Charles Earland - black talk
Charles Earland - Intensity
Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet
Charles Earland - Living Black
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Carnegie Hall
Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Charles Mingus - The Clown
Charles Tolliver with Music Inc. & Orchestra - Impact
Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone
Charlie Parker - Complete Jazz at Massey Hall
Chet Baker - Chet
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood of Breath
Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown With Strings
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study in Brown
Clifford Brown/Max Roach (verve, 1954)
count basie - the atomic mr basie
Curtis Fuller - the opener
David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
David Murray - Flowers For Albert
Derrick Shezbie - Spodie's Back
Dewey Redman - The Ear of the Behearer
dexter gordon - go
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Don Cherry - Mu - Parts 1 & 2
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell - Old and New Dreams (ECM album)
Don Patterson - The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson
Don Wilkerson - Elder Don
Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd
Donald Byrd - Byrd In Hand
Donald Byrd - Chant
Donald Byrd - Electric byrd
Donald Byrd - Fuego
Donald Byrd - off to the races
Donald Byrd - places and spaces
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
duke ellington - jazz party
Duke Ellington - Second Sacred Concert
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach - Money Jungle
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis Again
Elvin Jones - Dear John C.
Elvin Jones - Illumination!
Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot Vol. 1
Eric Dolphy - Conversations
Eric Dolphy - Far Cry
Eric Dolphy - Iron Man
Eric Dolphy - Last Date
Eric Dolphy - Out There
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Eric Dolphy - Outward bound
Flora Purim - Encounter
Flora Purim - Stories to Tell
Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra at the Sands (w/Count Basie Orchestra)
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
Frank Sinatra - Swing Easy
Fred Anderson - live in Verona
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point
Freddie Hubbard - First Light
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Freddie Hubbard - The Body And The Soul
Freddie Hubbard - The Hub Of Hubbard
Freddie Redd - Shades Of Redd
Gary Bartz - I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies
Gene Ammons - Golden Saxophone
Gene Ammons - Prime Cuts
gil evans - out of the cool
Grant Green - Alive
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Grant Green - Live At Club Mozambique
Grant Green - Live At The Lighthouse
Grant Green - Matador
Grant Green - Solid
Grant Green - Street Of Dreams
Grant Green - Talkin' About
Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy
Hank Mobley - A Slice Of The Top
Hank Mobley - Dippin'
Hank Mobley - Hank Mobley Quintet
Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares
Hank Mobley - Peckin' Time
Hank Mobley - Roll Call
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter
Hank Mobley - Workout
Henry Threadgill - X-75 Volume 1
Henry Threadgill Sextet - Easily Slip Into Another World
Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus - Too Much Sugar For a Dime
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Manchild
Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Herbie Mann - Memphis underground
hermeto pascoal - hermeto
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
Horace Parlan - Up & Down
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Idris Muhammad - Black Rhythm Revolution!
Idris Muhammad - Kabsha
Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed
j.j. johnson - proof positive
Jack DeJohnette - Zebra
Jack DeJohnette with Michael Cain & Steve Gorn - Dancing with Nature Spirits
Jack McDuff - Tough 'Duff
Jackie McLean - Bluesnik
Jackie McLean - Destination Out
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
Jackie McLean - Right Now
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man
Jimmy & Wes - The Dynamic Duo
Jimmy McGriff - The Worm
Jimmy Scott - The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott
Jimmy Smith - A New Sound A New Star
Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith
Jimmy Smith - Crazy! Baby
Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
Jimmy Smith - Open house
Jimmy Smith - Root Down
Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Jimmy Smith - The Champ
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Joe Henderson - Four
Joe Henderson - In 'N Out
Joe Henderson - Inner urge
Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
Joe Henderson - Our Thing
Joe Henderson - Page One
Joe Henderson - power To The people
Joe Henderson - Straight No Chaser
Joe Henderson - The Kicker
Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane - The Elements
Joe Sample - Fancy Dance
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
John Coltrane - Ascension
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - Coltrane (Impulse)
John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues
John Coltrane - Crescent
John Coltrane - Dear Old Stockholm
John Coltrane - First Meditations
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - interstellar Space
John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
John Coltrane - Lush Life
John Coltrane - Meditations
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
John Coltrane - Stellar Regions
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
John Coltrane - Training In
John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
John Zorn - The Big Gundown
Johnny Griffin - Introducing Johnny Griffin
Jon Hassell - Power Spot
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
kai winding and j.j. johnson - 1960 - the great kai & j.j
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Kenny Burrell - Blue Moods
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Kenny Burrell - The Cats
Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban
Kenny Dorham - Inta Somethin'
Kenny Dorham - Matador
Kenny Dorham - una Mas
Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop
Larry Young - Unity
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Leon Thomas - Spirits Known and Unknown
Leon Thomas - The Leon Thomas Album
Lester Bowie - Rope-A-Dope
Lester Bowie - The 5th Power
Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling
Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious
Louis Prima - the Wildest!
luiz bonfa - introspection
luiz bonfa - le roi de la bossa nova
luiz bonfa and maria toledo - braziliana
Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
Max Roach feat. the Legendary Hassan
McCoy Tyner - Expansions
McCoy Tyner - Inception
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel
Mile Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Miles Davis - Agharta
Miles Davis - Bags' Groove
Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West
Miles Davis - Cookin'
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet
Miles Davis - Miles in The Sky
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Miles Davis - Milestones
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Miles Davis - Pangaea
Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Miles Davis - Sorcerer
Miles Davis - Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis - Walkin'
Miles Davis - Workin'
Milford Graves - Babi
milt jackson - sunflower
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & Trane
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia
New York Art Quartet - s/t
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite
Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman - In All Languages
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music
Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow Is The Question!
Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X
Patti Austin - Havana Candy
Patty Waters - Sings
Paul Bley - Closer
paul chambers - bass on top
Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity
Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought
Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Blacknuss
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Ramsey Lewis - Funky Serenity
Rashied Ali - Duo Exchange
Return to Forever - Musicmagic
Roland Kirk - Please Don't You Cry, Beutiful Edith
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Roland Young - Isophonic Boogie Woogie
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
Roy Haynes - Out Of The Afternoon
Sam Rivers - Contrasts
Sam Rivers - Hues
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown")
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Sonny Clark - Leapin' And Lopin'
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Murray - Sonny's Time Now
Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Sonny Stitt - Burnin'
Sonny Stitt - Inter-Action
Sonny Stitt - Salt & Pepper
Sonny Stitt - Soul People
Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson
Sonny Stitt/Gene Ammons - Boss Tenors
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Challenge
stan getz and joao gilberto - getz/gilberto
Stanley Cowell - Regeneration
Stanley Turrentine - Blue Hour
Stanley Turrentine - Dont Miss With Mr T
Stanley Turrentine - in memory Of
Stanley Turrentine - Let It go
Stanley Turrentine - Look Out
Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song
Stanley Turrentine - Sugar
Sun Ra - Angels & Demons At Play
Sun Ra - Atlantis
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Sun Ra - Futuristic Sounds Of
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Sun Ra - Nothing Is
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated
Sun Ra - Sound Of Joy
Sun Ra - Space is The Place (Impulse)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings
Sun Ra - Sunrise in Different Dimensions
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 1
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 2
Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia
Sun Ra - Visits Planet Earth
Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones
The Bill Dixon Orchestra - Intents and Purposes
The Cecil Taylor European Orchestra - Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson - People Get Ready
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Marching Song I+II
The Revolutionary Ensemble - The Revolutionary Ensemble
The Roland Kirk Quartet featuring Elvin Jones - Rip, Rig and Panic
The Three Sounds - Babe's Blues
Thelonious Monk - A Genius Of Modern Music
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross
Thelonious Monk - It's Monks Time
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
Tony Williams - Lifetime
Tubby Hayes -Tubbs in NY
Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag
Victor Wooten - What Did He Say?
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
Wayne Shorter - Et Cetera
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Wayne Shorter - Night Dream
Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye
Wayne Shorter - The soothsayer
Wes Montgomery - Full House
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
William Parker & Hamid Drake - Piercing the Veil

just look at how awesome those John Coltrane and Miles Davis albums are. How to choose!!!!
coltrane polls on ilm never seem as well populated as miles or others so I really hope you all check out lotsa coltrane and make sure he gets lots of votes.

Spotify Playlist link

William could you or another mod please add that spotify link to the 1st post? Maybe even mention it in the thread title please? (with Spotify Playlist)will do.

I don't think I'm going to feel remotely well-enough equipped to vote in this poll, even with spotify etc. There are a couple of things I'd really like to rep hard for (Conquistador, Les Stances A Sophie) but I wouldn't be entirely comfortable with stating that they are the out-and-out best amongst a sea of albums I've never heard.

Title edited. Editing URLs into posts is actually a little bit of a pain in the ass. Anybody interested enough in voting in this to open the thread will find the playlist link.

Plenty of time to listen to albums and learn! Who knows when voting will end as there is no gap for a while so get on spotify and join in!

xp thanks william!

Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud
Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream
Jimmy Giuffre - 1961
Milford Graves - Meditation Among Us
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle
Lee Konitz - Motion
Julius Hemphill - Coon Bid’ness
Air - Air Lore
Noah Howard - The Black Ark
McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment
Charles Mingus - At Antibes
Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Himself
Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
Sun Ra - Black Myth/Out In Space

Joseph Jarman - Black Paladins

just thinking again about coltrane, he missed out in the 50s poll so please everyone familiarise yourself with him if you haven't already. Im working my way through the spotify list myself. but he really is a good place to start if youre unsure where to jump in. Dont ignore Miles pre-electric stuff either!

Air - Air Lore
Airto - Seeds on the Ground
Albert Ayler - At Slugs Saloon vol 1
Albert Ayler - Bells
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
Albert Ayler - Lörrach, Paris 1966
Albert Ayler - Love Cry
Albert Ayler - New grass
Albert Ayler - Nuits de La Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1
Albert Ayler - Nuits de La Fondation Maeght, Vol. 2
Albert Ayler - spiritual unity
Alice Coltrane - A Monastic Trio
Alice Coltrane - Eternity
Alice Coltrane - huntington ashram monastary
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane - Ptah The El Daoud
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle Of Time
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Andrew Hill - Compulsion
Andrew Hill - Dance With Death
Andrew Hill - Judgment!
Andrew hill - Passing Ships
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Anthony Braxton - Dortmund (Quartet)
Anthony Braxton - for alto
Anthony Braxton - Saxophone Improvisations Series F.
Anthony Braxton/ Max Roach -One in Two/ Two in One
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower
Antonio Carlos Jobim - wave
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Archie Shepp - Fire Music
Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight
Archie Shepp - On This Night
Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju
Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead
Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman
Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - A Jackson in Your House
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Bap-Tizum
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - les stances a sophie
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Live in Paris
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - People in Sorrow
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Phase one
Art Farmer Quintet - Blame It On My Youth
Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Arthur Doyle Plus 4 - Alabama Feeling
Ayler/Cherry/Tchicai/Rudd/Peacock/Murray - New York Eye and Ear Control
Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen
Ben Webster - Soulville
Big John Patton - Along Came John
Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum
Bill Evans - Everybody loves....
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Billie Holiday - An Evening With Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday - Billie holiday Sings
Billie Holiday - Body & Soul
Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday - Music For Torching
Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers
Billie Holiday - Stay With Me
Billie Holiday - Velvet Moods
Billy Bang - Rainbow Gladiator
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar – Gling-Gló
Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
Bobbi Humphrey - Flute In
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco
Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up
Bobby Hutcherson - The View from the Inside
Bud Powell -The Amazing Bud Powell Vols 1 and 2
Cannonball Adderley -Soul Zodiac
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Cecil Taylor - Jumpin' Punkins
Cecil Taylor - love for sale
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Charles Earland - Black Talk
Charles Earland - Intensity
Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet
Charles Earland - Living Black
Charles Mingus - At Antibes
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Carnegie Hall
Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Charles Mingus - The Clown
Charles Tolliver with Music Inc. & Orchestra - Impact
Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone
Charlie Parker - Carnegie Hall X-Mas '49
Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker (Verve)
Charlie Parker - Jazz at Massey Hall
Charlie Parker - Quintet Of The Year
Chet Baker - Chet
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
Chet Baker - playboys
Chet Baker - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Chet Baker - The Chet Baker Sextet
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood of Breath
Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown With Strings
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study in Brown
Clifford Brown/Max Roach (verve, 1954)
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Count Basie - Afrique
Count Basie - April In Paris
Count Basie - At Newport
Count Basie - Chairman Of The Board
Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie - The Swinging Count
Curtis Fuller - the opener
David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
David Murray - Flowers For Albert
Derrick Shezbie - Spodie's Back
Dewey Redman - The Ear of the Behearer
Dexter Gordon - Biting The Apple
Dexter Gordon - Body & Soul
Dexter Gordon - Go
Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris
Dexter Gordon - Something Different
Dexter Gordon - Stable Mable
Dexter Gordon - The Apartment
Dizzy Gillespie - An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport
Dizzy Gillespie - Birk's Works
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Gillespie and His Big Band
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Gillespie With Roy Eldridge
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy's Big 4
Dizzy Gillespie - For Musicians Only
Dizzy Gillespie - In Paris
Dizzy Gillespie - New Wave
Dizzy Gillespie - Something Old, Something New
Dizzy Gillespie - World Statesman
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Don Cherry - Mu - Parts 1 & 2
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell - Old and New Dreams (ECM album)
Don Patterson - The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson
Don Wilkerson - Elder Don
Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd
Donald Byrd - Byrd In Hand
Donald Byrd - Chant
Donald Byrd - Electric byrd
Donald Byrd - Fuego
Donald Byrd - off to the races
Donald Byrd - places and spaces
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Duke Ellington - jazz party
Duke Ellington - Second Sacred Concert
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach - Money Jungle
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella At The Opera House
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald - Lullabies Of Birdland
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Harold Arlen Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis Again
Elvin Jones - Dear John C.
Elvin Jones - Illumination!
Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot Vol. 1
Eric Dolphy - Conversations
Eric Dolphy - Far Cry
Eric Dolphy - Iron Man
Eric Dolphy - Last Date
Eric Dolphy - Out There
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Eric Dolphy - Outward bound
Flora Purim - Encounter
Flora Purim - Stories to Tell
Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra at the Sands (w/Count Basie Orchestra)
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
Frank Sinatra - Swing Easy
Fred Anderson - live in Verona
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point
Freddie Hubbard - First Light
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Freddie Hubbard - The Body And The Soul
Freddie Hubbard - The Hub Of Hubbard
Freddie Redd - Shades Of Redd
Gary Bartz - I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies
Gene Ammons - Golden Saxophone
Gene Ammons - Prime Cuts
gil evans - out of the cool
Grant Green - Alive
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Grant Green - Live At Club Mozambique
Grant Green - Live At The Lighthouse
Grant Green - Matador
Grant Green - Solid
Grant Green - Street Of Dreams
Grant Green - Talkin' About
Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy
Hank Mobley - A Slice Of The Top
Hank Mobley - Dippin'
Hank Mobley - Hank Mobley Quintet
Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares
Hank Mobley - Peckin' Time
Hank Mobley - Roll Call
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter
Hank Mobley - Workout
Henry Threadgill - X-75 Volume 1
Henry Threadgill Sextet - Easily Slip Into Another World
Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus - Too Much Sugar For a Dime
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Manchild
Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Herbie Mann - Memphis underground
hermeto pascoal - hermeto
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
Horace Parlan - Up & Down
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Idris Muhammad - Black Rhythm Revolution!
Idris Muhammad - Kabsha
Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed
j.j. johnson - proof positive
Jack DeJohnette - Zebra
Jack DeJohnette with Michael Cain & Steve Gorn - Dancing with Nature Spirits
Jack McDuff - Tough 'Duff
Jackie McLean - Bluesnik
Jackie McLean - Destination Out
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
Jackie McLean - Right Now
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man
Jimmy & Wes - The Dynamic Duo
Jimmy Giuffre - 1961
Jimmy McGriff - The Worm
Jimmy Scott - The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott
Jimmy Smith - A New Sound A New Star
Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith
Jimmy Smith - Crazy! Baby
Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
Jimmy Smith - Open house
Jimmy Smith - Root Down
Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Jimmy Smith - The Champ
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Joe Henderson - Four
Joe Henderson - In 'N Out
Joe Henderson - Inner urge
Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
Joe Henderson - Our Thing
Joe Henderson - Page One
Joe Henderson - power To The people
Joe Henderson - Straight No Chaser
Joe Henderson - The Kicker
Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane - The Elements
Joe Sample - Fancy Dance
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
John Coltrane - Ascension
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - Coltrane (Impulse)
John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues
John Coltrane - Crescent
John Coltrane - Dear Old Stockholm
John Coltrane - First Meditations
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - interstellar Space
John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
John Coltrane - Lush Life
John Coltrane - Meditations
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
John Coltrane - Stellar Regions
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
John Coltrane - Training In
John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
John Zorn - The Big Gundown
Johnny Griffin - Introducing Johnny Griffin
Jon Hassell - Power Spot
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics
Joseph Jarman - Black Paladins
Julius Hemphill - Coon Bid’ness
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
kai winding and j.j. johnson - 1960 - the great kai & j.j
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Kenny Burrell - Blue Moods
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Kenny Burrell - The Cats
Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban
Kenny Dorham - Inta Somethin'
Kenny Dorham - Matador
Kenny Dorham - una Mas
Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop
Larry Young - Unity
Lee Konitz - Motion
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Lee Morgan - Delightfulee
Lee Morgan - infinity
Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse
Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
Lee Morgan - Sonic boom
Lee Morgan - The Gigolo
Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Lee Morgan - Tom Cat
Leon Thomas - Spirits Known and Unknown
Leon Thomas - The Leon Thomas Album
Lester Bowie - Rope-A-Dope
Lester Bowie - The 5th Power
Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling
Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious
Louis Prima - The Call Of The Wildest!
Louis Prima - The Wildest Show At Tahoe
Louis Prima - The Wildest Comes Home
luiz bonfa - introspection
luiz bonfa - le roi de la bossa nova
luiz bonfa and maria toledo - braziliana
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Worlds
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
Max Roach feat. the Legendary Hassan
McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment
McCoy Tyner - Expansions
McCoy Tyner - Inception
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Miles Davis - Agharta
Miles Davis - Bags' Groove
Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West
Miles Davis - Cookin'
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet
Miles Davis - Miles in The Sky
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Miles Davis - Milestones
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Miles Davis - Pangaea
Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Miles Davis - Sorcerer
Miles Davis - Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis - Walkin'
Miles Davis - Workin'
Milford Graves - Babi
Milford Graves - Meditation Among Us
Milt Jackson - sunflower
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & Trane
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia
New York Art Quartet - s/t
Nina Simone - At Carnegie Hall
Nina Simone - At The Village Gate
Nina Simone - At Town Hall
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Nina Simone - Nina Simone & Her Friends
Nina Simone - Sings Ellington!
Nina Simone - The Amazing Nina Simone
Noah Howard - The Black Ark
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite
Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman - In All Languages
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music
Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow Is The Question!
Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X
Patti Austin - Havana Candy
Patty Waters - Sings
Paul Bley - Closer
paul chambers - bass on top
Peter Brötzmann - Balls
Peter Brötzmann - For Adolphe Sax
Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun
Peter Brötzmann - Nipples
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity
Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought
Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Blacknuss
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Ramsey Lewis - Funky Serenity
Rashied Ali - Duo Exchange
Return to Forever - Musicmagic
Roland Kirk - Please Don't You Cry, Beutiful Edith
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Roland Young - Isophonic Boogie Woogie
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
Roy Haynes - Out Of The Afternoon
Sam Rivers - Contrasts
Sam Rivers - Hues
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown")
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Sonny Clark - Leapin' And Lopin'
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream
Sonny Murray - Sonny's Time Now
Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
Sonny Rollins - Alfie
Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Rundown
Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
Sonny Rollins - Next Album
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins Plus 4
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
Sonny Rollins - What's New?
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Sonny Stitt - Burnin'
Sonny Stitt - Inter-Action
Sonny Stitt - Salt & Pepper
Sonny Stitt - Soul People
Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson
Sonny Stitt/Gene Ammons - Boss Tenors
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Challenge
stan getz and joao gilberto - getz/gilberto
Stanley Cowell - Regeneration
Stanley Turrentine - Blue Hour
Stanley Turrentine - Dont Miss With Mr T
Stanley Turrentine - in memory Of
Stanley Turrentine - Let It go
Stanley Turrentine - Look Out
Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song
Stanley Turrentine - Sugar
Sun Ra - Angels & Demons At Play
Sun Ra - Atlantis
Sun Ra - Black Myth/Out In Space
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Sun Ra - Futuristic Sounds Of
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Sun Ra - Nothing Is
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated
Sun Ra - Sound Of Joy
Sun Ra - Space is The Place (Impulse)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings
Sun Ra - Sunrise in Different Dimensions
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 1
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 2
Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia
Sun Ra - Visits Planet Earth
Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones
The Bill Dixon Orchestra - Intents and Purposes
The Cecil Taylor European Orchestra - Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson - People Get Ready
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Marching Song I+II
The Revolutionary Ensemble - The Revolutionary Ensemble
The Roland Kirk Quartet featuring Elvin Jones - Rip, Rig and Panic
The Three Sounds - Babe's Blues
Thelonious Monk - A Genius Of Modern Music
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross
Thelonious Monk - It's Monks Time
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Himself
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
Tony Williams - Lifetime
Tubby Hayes -Tubbs in NY
Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag
Victor Wooten - What Did He Say?
Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
Wayne Shorter - Et Cetera
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Wayne Shorter - Night Dream
Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye
Wayne Shorter - The soothsayer
Wes Montgomery - Full House
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
William Parker & Hamid Drake - Piercing the Veil

Think I've removed all doubles,spelling mistakes but maybe albums could be in twice under another acts name if its a duo or trio, so if anyone sees anything please let us know. Added Mahavishnu Orchestra to list since more people were for than against.
A lot of acts have quite a few albums listed but if anything important or an album you would consider voting for i missing by any act then please nominate.

I assume there's no greatest hits style comps there and all pre 45 jazz is gone but again let us know if you spot anything, thanks.

Charlie Haden - The Ballad Of The Fallen
Carla Bley/Paul Haines - Escalator Over The Hill

You might want to clean up the Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and The Roland Kirk Quartet nomenclature. Just pick one version and everyone will find it.

Same with Cecil Taylor & The Cecil Taylor, and Bill Dixon and The Bill Dixon. Might just want to drop all the "The" names where it is a band leader instead of a band name.

im not sure, that is the names on the records. However i can remove 'the'.

ok https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AglsYL265OYTdFFRU00zYXZ2TjNuTGs0Z0Z6SFdYZFE&hl=en_US updated. That look better?

A little. Volunteered Slavery is listed under both Rahsaan Roland Kirk and just Roland Kirk. I think it's actually the last album credited to just Roland (I think I'm responsible for that one - all my Kirk is listed as Rahsaan in iTunes regardless of when he recorded it).

If we're going just by what's on the records, then some of the Miles and Coltrane records need to change, as does Brotzmann's Machine Gun and probably lots of others. Gotta be consistent one way or the other.

I'm sorry I'm being such a nag and curmudgeon on this thread. I thank you for doing this poll, and don't normally piss all over people's parades, especially when I'm all for it.

But feel free and blame and problems on me from now on in!

well if there's no objections to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and just Roland Kirk being merged then i will do it. But you know someone will bring it up during voting who didn't read this thread.

Done. I just want to remind everyone that the spotify playlist is large but not complete, so anything that is not on it, please add it if you come across it. i bet neil will complete it though :)

Real shortage of non-US titles nominated - I'll stick up a few but I reckon there'll be no British/ Polish/ SA etc. titles in the final shake up.

Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood
Molombo -S/T
Michael Gibbs - S/T
Fred Stone - Music of
Krysztof Komeda -Astigmatic
Harriott/ Mayer -Indo-Jazz Fusion

Arve Henriksen - Strjon
Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush
Jaga Jazzist - The Stix
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Jan Garbarek - Rites

Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night
Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloë

Real shortage of non-US titles nominated - I'll stick up a few but I reckon there'll be no British/ Polish/ SA etc. titles in the final shake up.

It all depends on who votes. ILM has quite a few euro free jazz fans but who knows if they will vote. Maybe Marcello will be tempted into taking part if he still reads. Maybe Julio too hopefully. I don't participate in the jazz d-bags thread so I have no idea who will vote from it. but if any of you do, see if you can get the rest to participate. Would be nice to get a well rounded poll.

updated spotify playlist a bit more, noticed a few people are also doing the same. So anybody want to volunteer to help out with it?

Spotify Playlist

Are we missing any important albums on the nominations list or playlist?

Does Supersilent 6 count as jazz? I'm leaning towards no.

I would be inclined to agree with you

Al Haig - The Al Haig Trio Esoteric
Ben Webster - King of the Tenors
Betty Carter - The Audience With Betty Carter
Bobby Watson - Love Remains
Charles Gayle - Touchin' on Trane
David S. Ware - Godspelized
Edward Vesala - Lumi
Ganelin Trio - Ancora Da Capo
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree
Joe Lovano - From the Soul
John Surman - Tales of the Algonquin
Leonardo 'Gato' Barbieri - Chapter 4: Alive in New York
London Jazz Composers Orchestra - Ode
Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
Rahssan Roland Kirk - A Meeting of the Times
Sonny Rollins - G-Man
Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette

Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
John Coltrane - Ole Coltrane
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun

One of my noms upthread isn't in the master list. Here it is again:

Herbie Mann - Live At The Whiskey A Go Go

And here's one more:

Mike Westbrook - The Cortège

Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
John Coltrane - Ole Coltrane
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun

― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s),

they are nominated already

james blood ulmer ok to be nominated?

I was thinking of nominating Odyssey, myself, but I wasn't sure if it qualified.

I would say yes but dunno what others think

Think I'll include it but if there is any objections i can remove it

Air - Air Lore
Airto - Seeds on the Ground
Al Haig - The Al Haig Trio Esoteric
Albert Ayler - At Slugs Saloon vol 1
Albert Ayler - Bells
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
Albert Ayler - Lörrach, Paris 1966
Albert Ayler - Love Cry
Albert Ayler - New grass
Albert Ayler - Nuits de La Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1
Albert Ayler - Nuits de La Fondation Maeght, Vol. 2
Albert Ayler - spiritual unity
Alice Coltrane - A Monastic Trio
Alice Coltrane - Eternity
Alice Coltrane - huntington ashram monastary
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane - Ptah The El Daoud
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle Of Time
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Andrew Hill - Compulsion
Andrew Hill - Dance With Death
Andrew Hill - Judgment!
Andrew hill - Passing Ships
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Anthony Braxton - Dortmund (Quartet)
Anthony Braxton - for alto
Anthony Braxton - Saxophone Improvisations Series F.
Anthony Braxton/ Max Roach -One in Two/ Two in One
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower
Antonio Carlos Jobim - wave
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Archie Shepp - Fire Music
Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight
Archie Shepp - On This Night
Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju
Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead
Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman
Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - A Jackson in Your House
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Bap-Tizum
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - les stances a sophie
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Live in Paris
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - People in Sorrow
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Phase one
Art Farmer Quintet - Blame It On My Youth
Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Arthur Doyle Plus 4 - Alabama Feeling
Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro
Arve Henriksen - Strjon
Ayler/Cherry/Tchicai/Rudd/Peacock/Murray - New York Eye and Ear Control
Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen
Ben Webster - King of the Tenors
Ben Webster - Soulville
Betty Carter - The Audience With Betty Carter
Big John Patton - Along Came John
Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum
Bill Dixon Orchestra - Intents and Purposes
Bill Evans - Everybody loves....
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Billie Holiday - An Evening With Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday - Billie holiday Sings
Billie Holiday - Body & Soul
Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday - Music For Torching
Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers
Billie Holiday - Stay With Me
Billie Holiday - Velvet Moods
Billy Bang - Rainbow Gladiator
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar – Gling-Gló
Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
Bobbi Humphrey - Flute In
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco
Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up
Bobby Hutcherson - The View from the Inside
Bobby Watson - Love Remains
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Bud Powell -The Amazing Bud Powell Vols 1 and 2
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy Mercy Mercy!
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Cannonball Adderley - Soul Zodiac
Carla Bley/Paul Haines - Escalator Over The Hill
Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Cecil Taylor - Jumpin' Punkins
Cecil Taylor - love for sale
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Cecil Taylor European Orchestra - Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
Charles Earland - Black Talk
Charles Earland - Intensity
Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet
Charles Earland - Living Black
Charles Gayle - Touchin' on Trane
Charles Mingus - At Antibes
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Carnegie Hall
Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Charles Mingus - The Clown
Charles Tolliver with Music Inc. & Orchestra - Impact
Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone
Charlie Haden - Music Liberation Orchestra
Charlie Haden - The Ballad Of The Fallen
Charlie Parker - Carnegie Hall X-Mas '49
Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker (Verve)
Charlie Parker - Jazz at Massey Hall
Charlie Parker - Quintet Of The Year
Chet Baker - Chet
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
Chet Baker - playboys
Chet Baker - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Chet Baker - The Chet Baker Sextet
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood of Breath
Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown With Strings
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study in Brown
Clifford Brown/Max Roach (verve, 1954)
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Count Basie - Afrique
Count Basie - April In Paris
Count Basie - At Newport
Count Basie - Chairman Of The Board
Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie - The Swinging Count
Curtis Fuller - the opener
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
David Murray - Flowers For Albert
David S. Ware - Godspelized
Derrick Shezbie - Spodie's Back
Dewey Redman - The Ear of the Behearer
Dexter Gordon - Biting The Apple
Dexter Gordon - Body & Soul
Dexter Gordon - Go
Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris
Dexter Gordon - Something Different
Dexter Gordon - Stable Mable
Dexter Gordon - The Apartment
Dizzy Gillespie - An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport
Dizzy Gillespie - Birk's Works
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Gillespie and His Big Band
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Gillespie With Roy Eldridge
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy's Big 4
Dizzy Gillespie - For Musicians Only
Dizzy Gillespie - In Paris
Dizzy Gillespie - New Wave
Dizzy Gillespie - Something Old, Something New
Dizzy Gillespie - World Statesman
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Don Cherry - Mu - Parts 1 & 2
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell - Old and New Dreams (ECM album)
Don Patterson - The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson
Don Wilkerson - Elder Don
Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd
Donald Byrd - Byrd In Hand
Donald Byrd - Chant
Donald Byrd - Electric byrd
Donald Byrd - Fuego
Donald Byrd - off to the races
Donald Byrd - places and spaces
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Duke Ellington - jazz party
Duke Ellington - Second Sacred Concert
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach - Money Jungle
Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloë
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
Edward Vesala - Lumi
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella At The Opera House
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald - Lullabies Of Birdland
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Harold Arlen Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis Again
Elvin Jones - Dear John C.
Elvin Jones - Illumination!
Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot Vol. 1
Eric Dolphy - Conversations
Eric Dolphy - Far Cry
Eric Dolphy - Iron Man
Eric Dolphy - Last Date
Eric Dolphy - Out There
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Eric Dolphy - Outward bound
Flora Purim - Encounter
Flora Purim - Stories to Tell
Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra at the Sands (w/Count Basie Orchestra)
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
Frank Sinatra - Swing Easy
Fred Anderson - live in Verona
Fred Stone - Music of
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point
Freddie Hubbard - First Light
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Freddie Hubbard - The Body And The Soul
Freddie Hubbard - The Hub Of Hubbard
Freddie Redd - Shades Of Redd
Ganelin Trio - Ancora Da Capo
Gary Bartz - I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies
Gene Ammons - Golden Saxophone
Gene Ammons - Prime Cuts
gil evans - out of the cool
Grant Green - Alive
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Grant Green - Live At Club Mozambique
Grant Green - Live At The Lighthouse
Grant Green - Matador
Grant Green - Solid
Grant Green - Street Of Dreams
Grant Green - Talkin' About
Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy
Hank Mobley - A Slice Of The Top
Hank Mobley - Dippin'
Hank Mobley - Hank Mobley Quintet
Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares
Hank Mobley - Peckin' Time
Hank Mobley - Roll Call
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter
Hank Mobley - Workout
Harriott/ Mayer -Indo-Jazz Fusion
Henry Threadgill - X-75 Volume 1
Henry Threadgill Sextet - Easily Slip Into Another World
Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus - Too Much Sugar For a Dime
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Manchild
Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Herbie Mann - Live At The Whiskey A Go Go
Herbie Mann - Memphis underground
hermeto pascoal - hermeto
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
Horace Parlan - Up & Down
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree
Idris Muhammad - Black Rhythm Revolution!
Idris Muhammad - Kabsha
Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed
j.j. johnson - proof positive
Jack DeJohnette - Zebra
Jack DeJohnette with Michael Cain & Steve Gorn - Dancing with Nature Spirits
Jack McDuff - Tough 'Duff
Jackie McLean - Bluesnik
Jackie McLean - Destination Out
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
Jackie McLean - Right Now
Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush
Jaga Jazzist - The Stix
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man
James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey
Jan Garbarek - Rites
Jimmy & Wes - The Dynamic Duo
Jimmy Giuffre - 1961
Jimmy McGriff - The Worm
Jimmy Scott - The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott
Jimmy Smith - A New Sound A New Star
Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith
Jimmy Smith - Crazy! Baby
Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
Jimmy Smith - Open house
Jimmy Smith - Root Down
Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Jimmy Smith - The Champ
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Joe Henderson - Four
Joe Henderson - In 'N Out
Joe Henderson - Inner urge
Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
Joe Henderson - Our Thing
Joe Henderson - Page One
Joe Henderson - power To The people
Joe Henderson - Straight No Chaser
Joe Henderson - The Kicker
Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane - The Elements
Joe Lovano - From the Soul
Joe Sample - Fancy Dance
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
John Coltrane - Ascension
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - Coltrane (Impulse)
John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues
John Coltrane - Crescent
John Coltrane - Dear Old Stockholm
John Coltrane - First Meditations
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - interstellar Space
John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
John Coltrane - Lush Life
John Coltrane - Meditations
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
John Coltrane - Stellar Regions
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
John Coltrane - Training In
John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
John Surman - Tales of the Algonquin
John Zorn - The Big Gundown
Johnny Griffin - Introducing Johnny Griffin
Jon Hassell - Power Spot
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics
Joseph Jarman - Black Paladins
Julius Hemphill - Coon Bid’ness
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
kai winding and j.j. johnson - 1960 - the great kai & j.j
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Kenny Burrell - Blue Moods
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Kenny Burrell - The Cats
Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban
Kenny Dorham - Inta Somethin'
Kenny Dorham - Matador
Kenny Dorham - una Mas
Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop
Krysztof Komeda -Astigmatic
Larry Young - Unity
Lee Konitz - Motion
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Lee Morgan - Delightfulee
Lee Morgan - infinity
Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse
Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
Lee Morgan - Sonic boom
Lee Morgan - The Gigolo
Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Lee Morgan - Tom Cat
Leon Thomas - Spirits Known and Unknown
Leon Thomas - The Leon Thomas Album
Leonardo 'Gato' Barbieri - Chapter 4: Alive in New York
Lester Bowie - Rope-A-Dope
Lester Bowie - The 5th Power
Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender
London Jazz Composers Orchestra - Ode
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling
Lou Donaldson - Alligator Boogaloo
Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious
Lou Donaldson - Lou Takes Off
Lou Donaldson - Lush Life
Lou Donaldson - Signifyin
Louis Prima - The Call Of The Wildest!
Louis Prima - The Wildest Comes Home
Louis Prima - The Wildest Show At Tahoe
luiz bonfa - introspection
luiz bonfa - le roi de la bossa nova
luiz bonfa and maria toledo - braziliana
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Worlds
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
Max Roach feat. the Legendary Hassan
McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment
McCoy Tyner - Expansions
McCoy Tyner - Inception
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel
Michael Gibbs - S/T
Mike Westbrook - The Cortège
Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Marching Song I+II
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Miles Davis - Agharta
Miles Davis - Bags' Groove
Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West
Miles Davis - Cookin'
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet
Miles Davis - Miles in The Sky
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Miles Davis - Milestones
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Miles Davis - Pangaea
Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Miles Davis - Sorcerer
Miles Davis - Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis - Walkin'
Miles Davis - Workin'
Milford Graves - Babi
Milford Graves - Meditation Among Us
Milt Jackson - sunflower
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & Trane
Molombo -S/T
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia
New York Art Quartet - s/t
Nina Simone - At Carnegie Hall
Nina Simone - At The Village Gate
Nina Simone - At Town Hall
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Nina Simone - Nina Simone & Her Friends
Nina Simone - Sings Ellington!
Nina Simone - The Amazing Nina Simone
Noah Howard - The Black Ark
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite
Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman - In All Languages
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music
Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow Is The Question!
Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X
Patti Austin - Havana Candy
Patty Waters - Sings
Paul Bley - Closer
paul chambers - bass on top
Peter Brötzmann - Balls
Peter Brötzmann - For Adolphe Sax
Peter Brötzmann - Fuck De Boere
Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun
Peter Brötzmann - Nipples
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity
Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought
Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
Rahssan Roland Kirk - A Meeting of the Times
Ramsey Lewis - Funky Serenity
Rashied Ali - Duo Exchange
Return to Forever - Musicmagic
Roland Kirk - Blacknuss
Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Roland Kirk - Please Don't You Cry, Beutiful Edith
Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Roland Kirk Quartet featuring Elvin Jones - Rip, Rig and Panic
Roland Young - Isophonic Boogie Woogie
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
Roy Haynes - Out Of The Afternoon
Sam Rivers - Contrasts
Sam Rivers - Hues
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown")
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Sonny Clark - Leapin' And Lopin'
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream
Sonny Murray - Sonny's Time Now
Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
Sonny Rollins - Alfie
Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Rundown
Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
Sonny Rollins - G-Man
Sonny Rollins - Next Album
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins Plus 4
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
Sonny Rollins - What's New?
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Sonny Stitt - Burnin'
Sonny Stitt - Inter-Action
Sonny Stitt - Salt & Pepper
Sonny Stitt - Soul People
Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson
Sonny Stitt/Gene Ammons - Boss Tenors
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Challenge
stan getz and joao gilberto - getz/gilberto
Stanley Cowell - Regeneration
Stanley Turrentine - Blue Hour
Stanley Turrentine - Dont Miss With Mr T
Stanley Turrentine - in memory Of
Stanley Turrentine - Let It go
Stanley Turrentine - Look Out
Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song
Stanley Turrentine - Sugar
Sun Ra - Angels & Demons At Play
Sun Ra - Atlantis
Sun Ra - Black Myth/Out In Space
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Sun Ra - Futuristic Sounds Of
Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Sun Ra - Nothing Is
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated
Sun Ra - Sound Of Joy
Sun Ra - Space is The Place (Impulse)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings
Sun Ra - Sunrise in Different Dimensions
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 1
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 2
Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia
Sun Ra - Visits Planet Earth
Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones
The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson - People Get Ready
The Revolutionary Ensemble - The Revolutionary Ensemble
The Three Sounds - Babe's Blues
Thelonious Monk - A Genius Of Modern Music
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross
Thelonious Monk - It's Monks Time
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Himself
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night
Tony Williams - Lifetime
Tubby Hayes -Tubbs in NY
Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag
Victor Wooten - What Did He Say?
Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
Wayne Shorter - Et Cetera
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer
Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye
Wayne Shorter - The soothsayer
Wes Montgomery - Full House
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
William Parker & Hamid Drake - Piercing the Veil

600 albums exactly nominated. No doubt plenty missing so get nominating.

Charlie Parker – The Charlie Parker Story (Savoy)

I don’t if this one would be acceptable but:

Charlie Parker – The Legendary Dial Masters

Technically, this one is a compilation, but I wouldn’t consider it a “best-of”. This has to be the way that a lot of jazz fans in the compact disc era encounter the material that Bird recorded for the Dial label. It is the way that I did, anyway. However, I don't know for fact whether any of the original Dial vinyl lps ever been reissued in digital format.

If they were out on LP, material recorded after 1945, then it's in. Live lps are acceptable no matter what is on it.

Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark
Charles Mingus - Right Now!
Circle - The Paris Concert
Frank Lowe - Black Beings
Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia
Revolutionary Ensemble - Vietnam
Steve Reid - Nova
Alan Shorter - Orgasm
Jazz Composers Orchestra
James Blood Ulmer - Tales of Captain Black

I hate to potentially split the Alan Shorter vote, but...

Alan Shorter - Tes Esat

also:

Anthony Braxton - Creative Orchestra Music, 1976

and:

Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communication Orchestra - Seasons

Most acts have multiple albums but splits can be avoided by voting more than 1 or 2 albums per act.

if you want to vote for 10 albums each by miles or coltrane or mingus then go for it.

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This is a great undertaking. Well done. Most things I would vote for have been nominated already, but although it was used as an example, John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard hasn't been nominated. And a couple of others I like:

Art Blakey - Drum Suite
Kenny Wheeler - Angel Song

is 'Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel' jazz? I thought she was r n b.

All the other albums by Ndegeocello are rnb, but this one is her jazz project album (featuring jazz musicians like Oliver Lake, Jack DeJohnette, and Cassandra Wilson). She doesn't even sing on it.

Despite what someone said, I have nothing against Mahavishnu Orchestra being included here, since they played improvised music in the fusion jazz mold, plus all of the core members are established jazz players. On the other hand, I'd be hard-pressed to call "Wave" by Tom Jobim a jazz album, as great as it is. It's mostly pre-written songs, and unlike with some other pre-written stuff such as the Duke Ellington suites, it clearly belongs to an idiom other than jazz: bossa nova. Frank Sinatra is also a borderline case, but it'd be difficult not to call most of the albums nommed here "jazz".

Anyway, I'm fine with people nominating whatever albums they think are jazz. I'm sure any ridiculously non-jazz examples will be weeded out in the voting process.

ok that sounds fine. Anyone got anything to say about the albums Tuomas says isn't jazz?

Two more noms:

Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me A Song of Songmy
OK, so I guess people didn't think this was jazz at the time but what else do you call it? Anyway, a great weird record.

And if you ignore the non-Herbie bits

Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up

Grachan Moncur III - Evolution

Sun Ra - Other Planes of There

Also

Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues
Cecil Taylor - One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye
Cecil Taylor - Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)

I'd be hard-pressed to call "Wave" by Tom Jobim a jazz album, as great as it is.

?! this is totally a jazz album!

is the Getz/Gilberto album not jazz because it's bossa nova? crazy talk.

It's been a long time since I heard the Getz/Gilberto album, but IIRC it's more of a jazz/bossa nova hybrid with plenty of improvisation. Whereas 90% of "Wave" sounds pre-written to me.

Ornette Coleman - Ornette! (blimey, how did this one escape?)

Also, I feel there should be some jazz soundtrack albums on the list. Not an area I'm an expert on but how about Duke Ellington's Anatomy of a Murder score at least?

is that a nomination?

Sure, why not? And here's a few more soundtrack LPs to boot:

Leith Stevens - Jazz Themes from 'The Wild One'
Chico Hamilton Quintet - The Sweet Smell of Success
Kenyon Hopkins - The Hustler (OST)
Skip Martin - Music from 'Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer'

Just realized, no George Russell. So how about:

George Russell Sextet - Ezz-thetics

Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium

It's been a long time since I heard the Getz/Gilberto album, but IIRC it's more of a jazz/bossa nova hybrid with plenty of improvisation. Whereas 90% of "Wave" sounds pre-written to me.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Why is the improvisation/pre-written thing so important to you?

Gary Burton/Carly Bley - A Genuine Tong Funeral

That record knocks my socks off, and I don't know from Jazz.

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So far 631 albums nominated https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=tQQSM3avvN3nLk4gFzHWXdQ#gid=0

Air - Air Lore
Airto - Seeds on the Ground
Al Haig - The Al Haig Trio Esoteric
Alan Shorter - Orgasm
Alan Shorter - Tes Esat
Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communication Orchestra - Seasons
Albert Ayler - At Slugs Saloon vol 1
Albert Ayler - Bells
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
Albert Ayler - Lörrach, Paris 1966
Albert Ayler - Love Cry
Albert Ayler - New grass
Albert Ayler - Nuits de La Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1
Albert Ayler - Nuits de La Fondation Maeght, Vol. 2
Albert Ayler - spiritual unity
Alice Coltrane - A Monastic Trio
Alice Coltrane - Eternity
Alice Coltrane - huntington ashram monastary
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane - Ptah The El Daoud
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle Of Time
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Andrew Hill - Compulsion
Andrew Hill - Dance With Death
Andrew Hill - Judgment!
Andrew hill - Passing Ships
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Anthony Braxton - Creative Orchestra Music, 1976
Anthony Braxton - Dortmund (Quartet)
Anthony Braxton - for alto
Anthony Braxton - Saxophone Improvisations Series F.
Anthony Braxton/ Max Roach -One in Two/ Two in One
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower
Antonio Carlos Jobim - wave
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Archie Shepp - Fire Music
Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight
Archie Shepp - On This Night
Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju
Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead
Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman
Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - A Jackson in Your House
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Bap-Tizum
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - les stances a sophie
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Live in Paris
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - People in Sorrow
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Phase one
Art Farmer Quintet - Blame It On My Youth
Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Arthur Doyle Plus 4 - Alabama Feeling
Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro
Arve Henriksen - Strjon
Ayler/Cherry/Tchicai/Rudd/Peacock/Murray - New York Eye and Ear Control
Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen
Ben Webster - King of the Tenors
Ben Webster - Soulville
Betty Carter - The Audience With Betty Carter
Big John Patton - Along Came John
Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum
Bill Dixon Orchestra - Intents and Purposes
Bill Evans - Everybody loves....
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Billie Holiday - An Evening With Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday - Billie holiday Sings
Billie Holiday - Body & Soul
Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday - Music For Torching
Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers
Billie Holiday - Stay With Me
Billie Holiday - Velvet Moods
Billy Bang - Rainbow Gladiator
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar – Gling-Gló
Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
Bobbi Humphrey - Flute In
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco
Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up
Bobby Hutcherson - The View from the Inside
Bobby Watson - Love Remains
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Bud Powell -The Amazing Bud Powell Vols 1 and 2
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy Mercy Mercy!
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Cannonball Adderley - Soul Zodiac
Carla Bley/Paul Haines - Escalator Over The Hill
Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Cecil Taylor - Jumpin' Punkins
Cecil Taylor - love for sale
Cecil Taylor - One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye
Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Cecil Taylor - Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)
Cecil Taylor European Orchestra - Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
Charles Earland - Black Talk
Charles Earland - Intensity
Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet
Charles Earland - Living Black
Charles Gayle - Touchin' on Trane
Charles Mingus - At Antibes
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Carnegie Hall
Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Charles Mingus - Right Now!
Charles Mingus - The Clown
Charles Tolliver with Music Inc. & Orchestra - Impact
Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone
Charlie Haden - Music Liberation Orchestra
Charlie Haden - The Ballad Of The Fallen
Charlie Parker - Carnegie Hall X-Mas '49
Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker (Verve)
Charlie Parker - Jazz at Massey Hall
Charlie Parker - Quintet Of The Year
Charlie Parker – The Charlie Parker Story
Chet Baker - Chet
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
Chet Baker - playboys
Chet Baker - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Chet Baker - The Chet Baker Sextet
Chico Hamilton Quintet - The Sweet Smell of Success
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood of Breath
Circle - The Paris Concert
Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown With Strings
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study in Brown
Clifford Brown/Max Roach (verve, 1954)
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Count Basie - Afrique
Count Basie - April In Paris
Count Basie - At Newport
Count Basie - Chairman Of The Board
Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie - The Swinging Count
Curtis Fuller - the opener
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
David Murray - Flowers For Albert
David S. Ware - Godspelized
Derrick Shezbie - Spodie's Back
Dewey Redman - The Ear of the Behearer
Dexter Gordon - Biting The Apple
Dexter Gordon - Body & Soul
Dexter Gordon - Go
Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris
Dexter Gordon - Something Different
Dexter Gordon - Stable Mable
Dexter Gordon - The Apartment
Dizzy Gillespie - An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport
Dizzy Gillespie - Birk's Works
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Gillespie and His Big Band
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Gillespie With Roy Eldridge
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy's Big 4
Dizzy Gillespie - For Musicians Only
Dizzy Gillespie - In Paris
Dizzy Gillespie - New Wave
Dizzy Gillespie - Something Old, Something New
Dizzy Gillespie - World Statesman
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Don Cherry - Mu - Parts 1 & 2
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell - Old and New Dreams (ECM album)
Don Patterson - The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson
Don Wilkerson - Elder Don
Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd
Donald Byrd - Byrd In Hand
Donald Byrd - Chant
Donald Byrd - Electric byrd
Donald Byrd - Fuego
Donald Byrd - off to the races
Donald Byrd - places and spaces
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping
Duke Ellington - Anatomy of a Murder
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Duke Ellington - jazz party
Duke Ellington - Second Sacred Concert
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach - Money Jungle
Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloë
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
Edward Vesala - Lumi
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella At The Opera House
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald - Lullabies Of Birdland
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Harold Arlen Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis Again
Elvin Jones - Dear John C.
Elvin Jones - Illumination!
Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot Vol. 1
Eric Dolphy - Conversations
Eric Dolphy - Far Cry
Eric Dolphy - Iron Man
Eric Dolphy - Last Date
Eric Dolphy - Out There
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Eric Dolphy - Outward bound
Flora Purim - Encounter
Flora Purim - Stories to Tell
Frank Lowe - Black Beings
Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra at the Sands (w/Count Basie Orchestra)
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
Frank Sinatra - Swing Easy
Fred Anderson - live in Verona
Fred Stone - Music of
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point
Freddie Hubbard - First Light
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me A Song of Songmy
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Freddie Hubbard - The Body And The Soul
Freddie Hubbard - The Hub Of Hubbard
Freddie Redd - Shades Of Redd
Ganelin Trio - Ancora Da Capo
Gary Bartz - I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies
Gary Burton/Carly Bley - A Genuine Tong Funeral
Gene Ammons - Golden Saxophone
Gene Ammons - Prime Cuts
George Russell Sextet - Ezz-thetics
gil evans - out of the cool
Grachan Moncur III - Evolution
Grant Green - Alive
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Grant Green - Live At Club Mozambique
Grant Green - Live At The Lighthouse
Grant Green - Matador
Grant Green - Solid
Grant Green - Street Of Dreams
Grant Green - Talkin' About
Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy
Hank Mobley - A Slice Of The Top
Hank Mobley - Dippin'
Hank Mobley - Hank Mobley Quintet
Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares
Hank Mobley - Peckin' Time
Hank Mobley - Roll Call
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter
Hank Mobley - Workout
Harriott/ Mayer -Indo-Jazz Fusion
Henry Threadgill - X-75 Volume 1
Henry Threadgill Sextet - Easily Slip Into Another World
Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus - Too Much Sugar For a Dime
Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Manchild
Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Herbie Mann - Live At The Whiskey A Go Go
Herbie Mann - Memphis underground
hermeto pascoal - hermeto
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
Horace Parlan - Up & Down
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree
Idris Muhammad - Black Rhythm Revolution!
Idris Muhammad - Kabsha
Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed
j.j. johnson - proof positive
Jack DeJohnette - Zebra
Jack DeJohnette with Michael Cain & Steve Gorn - Dancing with Nature Spirits
Jack McDuff - Tough 'Duff
Jackie McLean - Bluesnik
Jackie McLean - Destination Out
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
Jackie McLean - Right Now
Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush
Jaga Jazzist - The Stix
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man
James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey
James Blood Ulmer - Tales of Captain Black
Jan Garbarek - Rites
Jazz Composers Orchestra
Jimmy & Wes - The Dynamic Duo
Jimmy Giuffre - 1961
Jimmy McGriff - The Worm
Jimmy Scott - The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott
Jimmy Smith - A New Sound A New Star
Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith
Jimmy Smith - Crazy! Baby
Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
Jimmy Smith - Open house
Jimmy Smith - Root Down
Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Jimmy Smith - The Champ
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Joe Henderson - Four
Joe Henderson - In 'N Out
Joe Henderson - Inner urge
Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
Joe Henderson - Our Thing
Joe Henderson - Page One
Joe Henderson - power To The people
Joe Henderson - Straight No Chaser
Joe Henderson - The Kicker
Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane - The Elements
Joe Lovano - From the Soul
Joe Sample - Fancy Dance
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
John Coltrane - Ascension
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - Coltrane (Impulse)
John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues
John Coltrane - Crescent
John Coltrane - Dear Old Stockholm
John Coltrane - First Meditations
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - interstellar Space
John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
John Coltrane - Lush Life
John Coltrane - Meditations
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
John Coltrane - Stellar Regions
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
John Coltrane - Training In
John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
John Surman - Tales of the Algonquin
John Zorn - The Big Gundown
Johnny Griffin - Introducing Johnny Griffin
Jon Hassell - Power Spot
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics
Joseph Jarman - Black Paladins
Julius Hemphill - Coon Bid’ness
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
kai winding and j.j. johnson - 1960 - the great kai & j.j
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Kenny Burrell - Blue Moods
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Kenny Burrell - The Cats
Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban
Kenny Dorham - Inta Somethin'
Kenny Dorham - Matador
Kenny Dorham - una Mas
Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop
Kenyon Hopkins - The Hustler (OST)
Krysztof Komeda -Astigmatic
Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark
Larry Young - Unity
Lee Konitz - Motion
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Lee Morgan - Delightfulee
Lee Morgan - infinity
Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse
Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
Lee Morgan - Sonic boom
Lee Morgan - The Gigolo
Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Lee Morgan - Tom Cat
Leith Stevens - Jazz Themes from 'The Wild One'
Leon Thomas - Spirits Known and Unknown
Leon Thomas - The Leon Thomas Album
Leonardo 'Gato' Barbieri - Chapter 4: Alive in New York
Lester Bowie - Rope-A-Dope
Lester Bowie - The 5th Power
Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender
London Jazz Composers Orchestra - Ode
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling
Lou Donaldson - Alligator Boogaloo
Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious
Lou Donaldson - Lou Takes Off
Lou Donaldson - Lush Life
Lou Donaldson - Signifyin
Louis Prima - The Call Of The Wildest!
Louis Prima - The Wildest Comes Home
Louis Prima - The Wildest Show At Tahoe
luiz bonfa - introspection
luiz bonfa - le roi de la bossa nova
luiz bonfa and maria toledo - braziliana
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Worlds
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet
Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
Max Roach feat. the Legendary Hassan
McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment
McCoy Tyner - Expansions
McCoy Tyner - Inception
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel
'Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel
Michael Gibbs - S/T
Mike Westbrook - The Cortège
Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Marching Song I+II
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Miles Davis - Agharta
Miles Davis - Bags' Groove
Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West
Miles Davis - Cookin'
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet
Miles Davis - Miles in The Sky
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Miles Davis - Milestones
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Miles Davis - Pangaea
Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Miles Davis - Sorcerer
Miles Davis - Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis - Walkin'
Miles Davis - Workin'
Milford Graves - Babi
Milford Graves - Meditation Among Us
Milt Jackson - sunflower
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & Trane
Molombo -S/T
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia
New York Art Quartet - s/t
Nina Simone - At Carnegie Hall
Nina Simone - At The Village Gate
Nina Simone - At Town Hall
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Nina Simone - Nina Simone & Her Friends
Nina Simone - Sings Ellington!
Nina Simone - The Amazing Nina Simone
Noah Howard - The Black Ark
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite
Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman - In All Languages
Ornette Coleman - Ornette!
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music
Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow Is The Question!
Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X
Patti Austin - Havana Candy
Patty Waters - Sings
Paul Bley - Closer
paul chambers - bass on top
Peter Brötzmann - Balls
Peter Brötzmann - For Adolphe Sax
Peter Brötzmann - Fuck De Boere
Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun
Peter Brötzmann - Nipples
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity
Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought
Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
Rahssan Roland Kirk - A Meeting of the Times
Ramsey Lewis - Funky Serenity
Rashied Ali - Duo Exchange
Return to Forever - Musicmagic
Revolutionary Ensemble - Vietnam
Roland Kirk - Blacknuss
Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Roland Kirk - Please Don't You Cry, Beutiful Edith
Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Roland Kirk Quartet featuring Elvin Jones - Rip, Rig and Panic
Roland Young - Isophonic Boogie Woogie
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
Roy Haynes - Out Of The Afternoon
Sam Rivers - Contrasts
Sam Rivers - Hues
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown")
Skip Martin - Music from 'Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer'
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Sonny Clark - Leapin' And Lopin'
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream
Sonny Murray - Sonny's Time Now
Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
Sonny Rollins - Alfie
Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Rundown
Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
Sonny Rollins - G-Man
Sonny Rollins - Next Album
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins Plus 4
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
Sonny Rollins - What's New?
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Sonny Stitt - Burnin'
Sonny Stitt - Inter-Action
Sonny Stitt - Salt & Pepper
Sonny Stitt - Soul People
Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson
Sonny Stitt/Gene Ammons - Boss Tenors
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Challenge
stan getz and joao gilberto - getz/gilberto
Stanley Cowell - Regeneration
Stanley Turrentine - Blue Hour
Stanley Turrentine - Dont Miss With Mr T
Stanley Turrentine - in memory Of
Stanley Turrentine - Let It go
Stanley Turrentine - Look Out
Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song
Stanley Turrentine - Sugar
Steve Reid - Nova
Sun Ra - Angels & Demons At Play
Sun Ra - Atlantis
Sun Ra - Black Myth/Out In Space
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Sun Ra - Futuristic Sounds Of
Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Sun Ra - Nothing Is
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
Sun Ra - Other Planes of There
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated
Sun Ra - Sound Of Joy
Sun Ra - Space is The Place (Impulse)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings
Sun Ra - Sunrise in Different Dimensions
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 1
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 2
Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia
Sun Ra - Visits Planet Earth
Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones
The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson - People Get Ready
The Revolutionary Ensemble - The Revolutionary Ensemble
The Three Sounds - Babe's Blues
Thelonious Monk - A Genius Of Modern Music
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross
Thelonious Monk - It's Monks Time
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Himself
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night
Tony Williams - Lifetime
Tubby Hayes -Tubbs in NY
Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag
Victor Wooten - What Did He Say?
Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
Wayne Shorter - Et Cetera
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer
Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye
Wayne Shorter - The soothsayer
Wes Montgomery - Full House
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
William Parker & Hamid Drake - Piercing the Veil

Time to start campaigning I think. I recommend...

A couple of older Coltrane & Miles since i think everyones familiar with later era. And a few other artists where i think is a good place for people to start but of course those who know these albums can refresh their memories.

John Coltrane- Giant Steps
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http://open.spotify.com/album/0hV673ygBr5jiVmeE6A2OR

Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
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http://open.spotify.com/album/2xxOmDc41TLTEml1zM87af

Archie Shepp - Fire Music
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http://open.spotify.com/album/1vz97Cr9Jw5A4tJnA7dLNk

Bobby Hutcherson - Components
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2B6dsBerJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3I384qOJvXmO8z1s3PqImP

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f964Cdv4L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2JiFGzHLaaH3snyNfPk0Wr

Donald Byrd - Off To The Races
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http://open.spotify.com/album/37LKWNJ1xP9OlbKwjDYkZi

Hank Mobley - Soul Station
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http://open.spotify.com/album/731OW49heGHCMrMOREHYlY

Herbie Hancock - Takin'Off
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http://open.spotify.com/album/6TylsbZ11vSNjYC4gh0KuY

Jackie McLean - One Step beyond
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5102mf%2BAy7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6uF5FWBpktRA9OAdC0mMZI

Joe Henderson - Page One
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http://open.spotify.com/album/7mQGTuvmdp56DNz0AmMwWi

Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
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http://open.spotify.com/album/6NmykD5FJftiDWqjWlwKfr

Pharoah Sanders - Karma

http://open.spotify.com/album/4VDXGlGAtdRymlguxaRTtB

Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream

http://open.spotify.com/album/5VTlqV8lZH3YspQ1cDcjrL

Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil

http://open.spotify.com/album/27Rl7A8jXEQOkIfUKOa6ZU

Don't forget the actual ILM Nominations Spotify Playlist

Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
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http://open.spotify.com/album/6NmykD5FJftiDWqjWlwKfr

Pharoah Sanders - Karma
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http://open.spotify.com/album/4VDXGlGAtdRymlguxaRTtB

Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream
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Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
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if a mod could remove the albums there that didn't show up that had to be reposted (and this post) i'd be quite grateful, thanks.

i don't think i saw eastern sounds by yusef lateef in any list, so would add that

good call, added.

bump

Anyone check out the albums i recommended or do you all know them?

Late addition....

Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra

im pretty sure i added that one myself

When are we closing nominations btw?

look at the title! So i guess 8am-ish july 29 our time?

There's a pitiful lack of EFI in these nominations.

Tim Berne's Bloodcount - Unwound
Anthony Braxton - Sexted (Istanbul) 1996
Anthony Braxton - Willisau (Quartet) 1991
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Dortmund) 1976
Anthony Braxton - Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions 1989 - For Warne Marsh
Gregg Bendian's Interzone - Requiem for Jack Kirby
Ronald Shannon Jackson - Texas
Barry Guy/Barre Phillips - Arcus
Mark Dresser - Force Green
John McLaughlin - Devotion
John McLaughlin - My Goal's Beyond
Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance for Silence
Oranj Symphonette - Plays Mancini
Spring Heel Jack - Masses
Spring Heel Jack - Amassed
Tony Oxley Quintet - The Baptised Traveller
Tony Oxley - The Enchanted Messenger
Tony Oxley - Ichnos
Evan Parker Trio - Atlanta
Evan Parker Trio - Breaths and Heartbeats
Evan Parker - Chicago Solo
Evan Parker - 50th Birthday Concert
Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - Topography of the Lungs
Derek Bailey - Ballads
Derek Bailey/George Lewis/John Zorn - Yankees
William Parker - In Order To Survive
Masada - Hei
John Zorn - The Circle Maker
Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness
Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet - Voodoo
John Zorn - Spy Vs. Spy
Naked City - Heretic: Jeux des Dames Cruelles
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Peter Brotzmann - Chicago Octet/Tentet
Vandermark 5 - Burn the Incline
Vandermark 5 - Free Jazz Classics, Vols. 1 & 2
Vandermark 5 - Free Jazz Classics, Vols. 3 & 4
George Lewis - Homage to Charles Parker

I especially hope everybody who hasn't heard that last one, the Lewis, will check it out. It is one of the most beautiful, emotional records you will ever hear.

It's been a long time since I heard the Getz/Gilberto album, but IIRC it's more of a jazz/bossa nova hybrid with plenty of improvisation. Whereas 90% of "Wave" sounds pre-written to me.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Why is the improvisation/pre-written thing so important to you?

Because Wave clearly belongs to a genre other than jazz (bossa nova), but I might count it as jazz if it had a lot of improvisation (like the Getz/Gilberto album), but it doesn't. I'm more lenient with pre-written albums that at least have an jazz arrangement/instrumentation/sound, like the Duke Ellington suites. IMO for some record to be jazz it should either have a "jazz sound" or be improvisation-based music, and Wave doesn't really fit either criteria. If neither improvisation nor sound is what makes something "jazz", we could just as well be voting for funk and soul and blues albums in this poll.

So do
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo

count?

"Hot Rats", no. The other two perhaps, except they're not good enough to be in this poll. I. M. O.

I've no idea, I've never listened to Zappa.

hot Rats is amazing, i know it is classed as his jazz album, seen it in fusion best of lists, but when I play it i dont consider it as listening to a jazz album tbh.

The other two are more jazz, if you ask me, his snooty attitude to jazz (but, then again, what wasn't he snooty about?) always struck me as a bit silly

Include the records I've nominated and quit micromanaging the fuck out of this suddenly-joyless experience.

I especially hope everybody who hasn't heard that last one, the Lewis, will check it out. It is one of the most beautiful, emotional records you will ever hear.

xpost: i know it's considered a classic by some and haven't heard it in 15 years but gave it a few chances then and it just didn't do anything for me except put me to sleep

clude the records I've nominated and quit micromanaging the fuck out of this suddenly-joyless experience. ―an excellent source of vitamins and minerals (WmC),

this is not a rap poll. and new order? really? sign of the times? naw. Norah Jones might be on blue note, but is she really jazz?

wow

I'm not 100% down with Zappa being on the noms list but you're just being insane here mr. BlindWillyPuller

Haha awesome, New Order ftw

C'mon pfunk, you know you want them in there.

I think one of the ILM bylaws states New Order must be present in the nominations for any poll.

I think one of the ILM bylaws states New Sockpuppet Account must be created to troll the starter of any poll.

i know sean does, he predicted it at the beginning of the thread.

xp

Gloomy Sunday vs Blue Monday

ilm with its new order and prince fanaticism reminds me of all those best ..........'insert genre' albums in the world cds in the early 90s that record execs made sure phil collins & sting were on.

Good call, we should have some Sting on here too.

New Order and Prince are actually the Phil Collins & Sting of ILM. Future mojo icons and multiple front covers await on mojo in a decade.

anyway added the sarah vaughan

The Greyboy Allstars - West Coast Boogaloo

thats my one nomm, hope it counts

Here are a few more ...

Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus
Bob Brookmeyer - New Works
Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender
Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite
Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
Eddie Henderson - Realization
Eddie Henderson - Inside Out
Gil Evans - Gil Evans & Ten
Gil Evans - The Individualism of Gil Evans
Gil Evans - Live at Sweet Basil
Gil Evans - Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
Gil Evans - Svengali
John Coltrane - Ballads
Kenny Burrell - Guitar Forms
Return to Forever, Light as a Feather
Stan Kenton - City of Glass
Theolonious Monk Quartet and John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall
Weather Report - Weather Report
Weather Report - Live in Toyko
Weather Report - Heavy Weather

got it. Still dunno how long to keep voting open for. Any suggestions? Will want to start the rollout on a monday.

few days left to nominate albums (no more new order or prince- they're not getting included)

Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife
George Shearing - The Way We Are
Peter Herbolzheimer - Big Band Man: The MPS And Polydor Studio Recordings
Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia – Live In Concert

got it

how long should voting be open? 2 weeks? more?

i don't know man this is a huge undertaking and if I'm going to vote in a way that's not random dart-throwing it should be 2 weeks AT LEAST. I'd be happy with a full month but I might be alone there.

Gerry Hemingway-Demon Chaser
George Lewis-Homage to Charles Parker
James Booker-Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah
Art Tatum–Group Masterpieces, Volume 2 (w/ Roy Eldridge)
Art Tatum–Group Masterpieces, Volume 8 (w/ Ben Webster)
Tommy Flanagan-Beyond the Bluebird
Richard Grossman-In The Air

i don't know man this is a huge undertaking and if I'm going to vote in a way that's not random dart-throwing it should be 2 weeks AT LEAST. I'd be happy with a full month but I might be alone there.

can make it longer if that is what everyone wants? So let sean and i know please.

This is just too overwhelming and even if this list feels pretty comprehensive I feel we're missing stuff.

Couldn't see them on the spreadsheet:

Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings
Jan Garbarek - Witchi-Tai-To
King Curtis - Live at Fillmore West

cheers
noms still open i suppose til tomorrow night. Dont think sean has set voting up so it shouldnt be a problem.

if he has set it up then noms will be closed when he lets me know, so add stuff now if there's anything missing. Once sean has set voting up its closed.

so you can still nominate until sean & i post here saying nominations are closed.

A month sounds good. There are about a million things on this list I always meant to check out that I would like to give a proper listen to before voting. How many votes do we get btw?

All will be revealed on the voting thread, but yeah a month is fine if it means lots of people will be listening to the albums, campaigning, recommending etc on the thread.

We have 710 albums nominated so far

Air - Air Lore
Airto - Seeds on the Ground
Al Haig - The Al Haig Trio Esoteric
Alan Shorter - Orgasm
Alan Shorter - Tes Esat
Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communication Orchestra - Seasons
Albert Ayler - At Slugs Saloon vol 1
Albert Ayler - Bells
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village
Albert Ayler - Lörrach, Paris 1966
Albert Ayler - Love Cry
Albert Ayler - New grass
Albert Ayler - Nuits de La Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1
Albert Ayler - Nuits de La Fondation Maeght, Vol. 2
Albert Ayler - spiritual unity
Alice Coltrane - A Monastic Trio
Alice Coltrane - Eternity
Alice Coltrane - huntington ashram monastary
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Alice Coltrane - Ptah The El Daoud
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle Of Time
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Andrew Hill - Compulsion
Andrew Hill - Dance With Death
Andrew Hill - Judgment!
Andrew hill - Passing Ships
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Anthony Braxton - Creative Orchestra Music, 1976
Anthony Braxton - Dortmund (Quartet)
Anthony Braxton - Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions 1989 - For Warne Marsh
Anthony Braxton - for alto
Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Dortmund) 1976
Anthony Braxton - Saxophone Improvisations Series F.
Anthony Braxton - Sexted (Istanbul) 1996
Anthony Braxton - Willisau (Quartet) 1991
Anthony Braxton/ Max Roach -One in Two/ Two in One
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower
Antonio Carlos Jobim - wave
Archie Shepp - Attica Blues
Archie Shepp - Fire Music
Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight
Archie Shepp - On This Night
Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju
Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead
Archie Shepp - Yasmina, a black woman
Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - A Jackson in Your House
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Bap-Tizum
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - les stances a sophie
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Live in Paris
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Message To Our Folks
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - People in Sorrow
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Phase one
Art Farmer Quintet - Blame It On My Youth
Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Art Tatum–Group Masterpieces, Volume 2 (w/ Roy Eldridge)
Art Tatum–Group Masterpieces, Volume 8 (w/ Ben Webster)
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Arthur Doyle Plus 4 - Alabama Feeling
Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro
Arve Henriksen - Strjon
Ayler/Cherry/Tchicai/Rudd/Peacock/Murray - New York Eye and Ear Control
Baby Face Willette - Stop And Listen
Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia – Live In Concert
Barry Guy/Barre Phillips - Arcus
Ben Webster - King of the Tenors
Ben Webster - Soulville
Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus
Betty Carter - The Audience With Betty Carter
Big John Patton - Along Came John
Big John Patton - Let 'Em Roll
Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum
Bill Dixon Orchestra - Intents and Purposes
Bill Evans - Everybody loves....
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Undercurrent
Billie Holiday - An Evening With Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday - Billie holiday Sings
Billie Holiday - Body & Soul
Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin
Billie Holiday - Music For Torching
Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers
Billie Holiday - Stay With Me
Billie Holiday - Velvet Moods
Billy Bang - Rainbow Gladiator
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar – Gling-Gló
Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do
Bob Brookmeyer - New Works
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
Bobbi Humphrey - Flute In
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings
Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco
Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up
Bobby Hutcherson - The View from the Inside
Bobby Watson - Love Remains
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Bud Powell -The Amazing Bud Powell Vols 1 and 2
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy Mercy Mercy!
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Cannonball Adderley - Soul Zodiac
Carla Bley/Paul Haines - Escalator Over The Hill
Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender
Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Cecil Taylor - Jumpin' Punkins
Cecil Taylor - love for sale
Cecil Taylor - One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye
Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
Cecil Taylor - Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)
Cecil Taylor European Orchestra - Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
Charles Earland - Black Talk
Charles Earland - Intensity
Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet
Charles Earland - Living Black
Charles Gayle - Touchin' on Trane
Charles Mingus - At Antibes
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus - Blues And Roots
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Carnegie Hall
Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus
Charles Mingus - New Tijuana Moods
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Charles Mingus - Right Now!
Charles Mingus - The Clown
Charles Tolliver with Music Inc. & Orchestra - Impact
Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone
Charlie Haden - Music Liberation Orchestra
Charlie Haden - The Ballad Of The Fallen
Charlie Parker - Carnegie Hall X-Mas '49
Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker (Verve)
Charlie Parker - Jazz at Massey Hall
Charlie Parker - Quintet Of The Year
Charlie Parker – The Charlie Parker Story
Chet Baker - Chet
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
Chet Baker - playboys
Chet Baker - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Chet Baker - The Chet Baker Sextet
Chico Hamilton Quintet - The Sweet Smell of Success
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Brotherhood of Breath
Circle - The Paris Concert
Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown With Strings
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Study in Brown
Clifford Brown/Max Roach (verve, 1954)
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Count Basie - Afrique
Count Basie - April In Paris
Count Basie - At Newport
Count Basie - Chairman Of The Board
Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie
Count Basie - The Swinging Count
Curtis Fuller - the opener
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
David Murray - Flowers For Albert
David S. Ware - Godspelized
Derek Bailey - Ballads
Derek Bailey/George Lewis/John Zorn - Yankees
Derrick Shezbie - Spodie's Back
Dewey Redman - The Ear of the Behearer
Dexter Gordon - Biting The Apple
Dexter Gordon - Body & Soul
Dexter Gordon - Go
Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris
Dexter Gordon - Something Different
Dexter Gordon - Stable Mable
Dexter Gordon - The Apartment
Dizzy Gillespie - An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Dizzy Gillespie - At Newport
Dizzy Gillespie - Birk's Works
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Gillespie and His Big Band
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Gillespie With Roy Eldridge
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy's Big 4
Dizzy Gillespie - For Musicians Only
Dizzy Gillespie - In Paris
Dizzy Gillespie - New Wave
Dizzy Gillespie - Something Old, Something New
Dizzy Gillespie - World Statesman
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Don Cherry - Mu - Parts 1 & 2
Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell - Old and New Dreams (ECM album)
Don Patterson - The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson
Don Wilkerson - Elder Don
Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd
Donald Byrd - Byrd In Hand
Donald Byrd - Chant
Donald Byrd - Electric byrd
Donald Byrd - Fuego
Donald Byrd - off to the races
Donald Byrd - places and spaces
Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping
Duke Ellington - Anatomy of a Murder
Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Duke Ellington - jazz party
Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite
Duke Ellington - Second Sacred Concert
Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach - Money Jungle
Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloë
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Eddie Henderson - Inside Out
Eddie Henderson - Realization
Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
Edward Vesala - Lumi
Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella At The Opera House
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife
Ella Fitzgerald - Lullabies Of Birdland
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Harold Arlen Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis Again
Elvin Jones - Dear John C.
Elvin Jones - Illumination!
Eric Dolphy - At The Five Spot Vol. 1
Eric Dolphy - Conversations
Eric Dolphy - Far Cry
Eric Dolphy - Iron Man
Eric Dolphy - Last Date
Eric Dolphy - Out There
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Eric Dolphy - Outward bound
Evan Parker - 50th Birthday Concert
Evan Parker - Chicago Solo
Evan Parker Trio - Atlanta
Evan Parker Trio - Breaths and Heartbeats
Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - Topography of the Lungs
Flora Purim - Encounter
Flora Purim - Stories to Tell
Frank Lowe - Black Beings
Frank Sinatra - A Swingin' Affair
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
Frank Sinatra - Sinatra at the Sands (w/Count Basie Orchestra)
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
Frank Sinatra - Swing Easy
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka
Fred Anderson - live in Verona
Fred Stone - Music of
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point
Freddie Hubbard - First Light
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Freddie Hubbard - Ready For Freddie
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me A Song of Songmy
Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
Freddie Hubbard - The Body And The Soul
Freddie Hubbard - The Hub Of Hubbard
Freddie Redd - Shades Of Redd
Ganelin Trio - Ancora Da Capo
Gary Bartz - I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies
Gary Burton/Carly Bley - A Genuine Tong Funeral
Gene Ammons - Golden Saxophone
Gene Ammons - Prime Cuts
George Lewis - Homage to Charles Parker
George Lewis-Homage to Charles Parker
George Russell Sextet - Ezz-thetics
George Shearing - The Way We Are
Gerry Hemingway-Demon Chaser
Gil Evans - Gil Evans & Ten
Gil Evans - Live at Sweet Basil
gil evans - out of the cool
Gil Evans - Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
Gil Evans - Svengali
Gil Evans - The Individualism of Gil Evans
Grachan Moncur III - Evolution
Grant Green - Alive
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Grant Green - Live At Club Mozambique
Grant Green - Live At The Lighthouse
Grant Green - Matador
Grant Green - Solid
Grant Green - Street Of Dreams
Grant Green - Talkin' About
Gregg Bendian's Interzone - Requiem for Jack Kirby
Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy
Hank Mobley - A Slice Of The Top
Hank Mobley - Dippin'
Hank Mobley - Hank Mobley Quintet
Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares
Hank Mobley - Peckin' Time
Hank Mobley - Roll Call
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Hank Mobley - Straight No Filter
Hank Mobley - Workout
Harriott/ Mayer -Indo-Jazz Fusion
Henry Threadgill - X-75 Volume 1
Henry Threadgill Sextet - Easily Slip Into Another World
Henry Threadgill Very Very Circus - Too Much Sugar For a Dime
Herbie Hancock - Blow-Up
Herbie Hancock - Crossings
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Manchild
Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight
Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Herbie Mann - Live At The Whiskey A Go Go
Herbie Mann - Memphis underground
hermeto pascoal - hermeto
Hermeto Pascoal - Slaves Mass
Horace Parlan - Up & Down
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree
Idris Muhammad - Black Rhythm Revolution!
Idris Muhammad - Kabsha
Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed
j.j. johnson - proof positive
Jack DeJohnette - Zebra
Jack DeJohnette with Michael Cain & Steve Gorn - Dancing with Nature Spirits
Jack McDuff - Tough 'Duff
Jackie McLean - Bluesnik
Jackie McLean - Destination Out
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Jackie McLean - New And Old Gospel
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
Jackie McLean - Right Now
Jaga Jazzist - A Livingroom Hush
Jaga Jazzist - The Stix
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man
James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey
James Blood Ulmer - Tales of Captain Black
James Booker-Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah
Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings
Jan Garbarek - Rites
Jan Garbarek - Witchi-Tai-To
Jazz Composers Orchestra
Jimmy & Wes - The Dynamic Duo
Jimmy Giuffre - 1961
Jimmy McGriff - The Worm
Jimmy Scott - The Fabulous Songs of Jimmy Scott
Jimmy Smith - A New Sound A New Star
Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith
Jimmy Smith - Crazy! Baby
Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
Jimmy Smith - Open house
Jimmy Smith - Root Down
Jimmy Smith - The Cat
Jimmy Smith - The Champ
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Joe Henderson - Four
Joe Henderson - In 'N Out
Joe Henderson - Inner urge
Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
Joe Henderson - Our Thing
Joe Henderson - Page One
Joe Henderson - power To The people
Joe Henderson - Straight No Chaser
Joe Henderson - The Kicker
Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane - The Elements
Joe Lovano - From the Soul
Joe Sample - Fancy Dance
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass
John Coltrane - Ascension
John Coltrane - Ballads
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - Coltrane (Impulse)
John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues
John Coltrane - Crescent
John Coltrane - Dear Old Stockholm
John Coltrane - First Meditations
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - interstellar Space
John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
John Coltrane - Lush Life
John Coltrane - Meditations
John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
John Coltrane - Stellar Regions
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
John Coltrane - Training In
John Coltrane/ Don Cherry - The Avant Garde
John McLaughlin - Devotion
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
John McLaughlin - My Goal's Beyond
John Surman - Tales of the Algonquin
John Zorn - Spy Vs. Spy
John Zorn - The Big Gundown
John Zorn - The Circle Maker
Johnny Griffin - Introducing Johnny Griffin
Jon Hassell - Power Spot
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics
Joseph Jarman - Black Paladins
Julius Hemphill - Coon Bid’ness
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
kai winding and j.j. johnson - 1960 - the great kai & j.j
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Kenny Burrell - Blue Moods
Kenny Burrell - Guitar Forms
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Kenny Burrell - The Cats
Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban
Kenny Dorham - Inta Somethin'
Kenny Dorham - Matador
Kenny Dorham - una Mas
Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop
Kenyon Hopkins - The Hustler (OST)
King Curtis - Live at Fillmore West
Krysztof Komeda -Astigmatic
Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark
Larry Young - Unity
Lee Konitz - Motion
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Lee Morgan - Delightfulee
Lee Morgan - infinity
Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse
Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land
Lee Morgan - Sonic boom
Lee Morgan - The Gigolo
Lee Morgan - The Procrastinator
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Lee Morgan - Tom Cat
Leith Stevens - Jazz Themes from 'The Wild One'
Leon Thomas - Spirits Known and Unknown
Leon Thomas - The Leon Thomas Album
Leonardo 'Gato' Barbieri - Chapter 4: Alive in New York
Lester Bowie - Rope-A-Dope
Lester Bowie - The 5th Power
Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender
London Jazz Composers Orchestra - Ode
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling
Lou Donaldson - Alligator Boogaloo
Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
Lou Donaldson - Good Gracious
Lou Donaldson - Lou Takes Off
Lou Donaldson - Lush Life
Lou Donaldson - Signifyin
Louis Prima - The Call Of The Wildest!
Louis Prima - The Wildest Comes Home
Louis Prima - The Wildest Show At Tahoe
luiz bonfa - introspection
luiz bonfa - le roi de la bossa nova
luiz bonfa and maria toledo - braziliana
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Worlds
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Marion Brown Quartet - Marion Brown Quartet
Mark Dresser - Force Green
Masada - Hei
Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
Max Roach feat. the Legendary Hassan
McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment
McCoy Tyner - Expansions
McCoy Tyner - Inception
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
McCoy Tyner - Song of the New World
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel
'Meshell Ndegeocello presents The Spirit Music Jamia - Dance of the Infidel
Michael Gibbs - S/T
Mike Westbrook - The Cortège
Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Marching Song I+II
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Miles Davis - Agharta
Miles Davis - Bags' Groove
Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West
Miles Davis - Cookin'
Miles Davis - Dark Magus
Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet
Miles Davis - Miles in The Sky
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Miles Davis - Milestones
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Miles Davis - Pangaea
Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Miles Davis - Sorcerer
Miles Davis - Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis - Walkin'
Miles Davis - Workin'
Milford Graves - Babi
Milford Graves - Meditation Among Us
Milt Jackson - sunflower
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - Bags & Trane
Molombo -S/T
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu of Ethiopia
Naked City - Heretic: Jeux des Dames Cruelles
New York Art Quartet - s/t
Nina Simone - At Carnegie Hall
Nina Simone - At The Village Gate
Nina Simone - At Town Hall
Nina Simone - Baltimore
Nina Simone - Nina Simone & Her Friends
Nina Simone - Sings Ellington!
Nina Simone - The Amazing Nina Simone
Noah Howard - The Black Ark
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Oranj Symphonette - Plays Mancini
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite
Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman - In All Languages
Ornette Coleman - Ornette!
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music
Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow Is The Question!
Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance for Silence
Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X
Patti Austin - Havana Candy
Patty Waters - Sings
Paul Bley - Closer
paul chambers - bass on top
Peter Brötzmann - Balls
Peter Brotzmann - Chicago Octet/Tentet
Peter Brötzmann - For Adolphe Sax
Peter Brötzmann - Fuck De Boere
Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun
Peter Brötzmann - Nipples
Peter Herbolzheimer - Big Band Man: The MPS And Polydor Studio Recordings
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity
Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
Pharoah Sanders - Jewels of Thought
Pharoah Sanders - Journey to the One
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
Rahssan Roland Kirk - A Meeting of the Times
Ramsey Lewis - Funky Serenity
Rashied Ali - Duo Exchange
Return to Forever - Musicmagic
Return to Forever, Light as a Feather
Revolutionary Ensemble - Vietnam
Richard Grossman-In The Air
Roland Kirk - Blacknuss
Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Roland Kirk - Please Don't You Cry, Beutiful Edith
Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
Roland Kirk Quartet featuring Elvin Jones - Rip, Rig and Panic
Roland Young - Isophonic Boogie Woogie
Ronald Shannon Jackson - Texas
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
Roy Haynes - Out Of The Afternoon
Sam Rivers - Contrasts
Sam Rivers - Hues
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan ( "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown")
Sarah Vaughan -Hot Jazz
Sarah Vaughan -Summertime
Skip Martin - Music from 'Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer'
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Sonny Clark - Leapin' And Lopin'
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet - Voodoo
Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream
Sonny Murray - Sonny's Time Now
Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
Sonny Rollins - Alfie
Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Rundown
Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
Sonny Rollins - G-Man
Sonny Rollins - Next Album
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins Plus 4
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
Sonny Rollins - The Cutting Edge
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
Sonny Rollins - What's New?
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Sonny Stitt - Burnin'
Sonny Stitt - Inter-Action
Sonny Stitt - Salt & Pepper
Sonny Stitt - Soul People
Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson
Sonny Stitt/Gene Ammons - Boss Tenors
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Challenge
Spring Heel Jack - Amassed
Spring Heel Jack - Masses
stan getz and joao gilberto - getz/gilberto
Stan Kenton - City of Glass
Stanley Cowell - Regeneration
Stanley Turrentine - Blue Hour
Stanley Turrentine - Dont Miss With Mr T
Stanley Turrentine - in memory Of
Stanley Turrentine - Let It go
Stanley Turrentine - Look Out
Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song
Stanley Turrentine - Sugar
Steve Reid - Nova
Sun Ra - Angels & Demons At Play
Sun Ra - Atlantis
Sun Ra - Black Myth/Out In Space
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Sun Ra - Futuristic Sounds Of
Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
Sun Ra - Nothing Is
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
Sun Ra - Other Planes of There
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated
Sun Ra - Sound Of Joy
Sun Ra - Space is The Place (Impulse)
Sun Ra - Strange Strings
Sun Ra - Sunrise in Different Dimensions
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 1
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds Of Vol 2
Sun Ra - The Nubians Of Plutonia
Sun Ra - Visits Planet Earth
Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones
The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson - People Get Ready
The Revolutionary Ensemble - The Revolutionary Ensemble
The Three Sounds - Babe's Blues
Thelonious Monk - A Genius Of Modern Music
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk - Criss Cross
Thelonious Monk - It's Monks Time
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Himself
Thelonious Monk - Underground
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
Theolonious Monk Quartet and John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall
Tim Berne's Bloodcount - Unwound
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night
Tommy Flanagan-Beyond the Bluebird
Tony Oxley - Ichnos
Tony Oxley - The Enchanted Messenger
Tony Oxley Quintet - The Baptised Traveller
Tony Williams - Lifetime
Tubby Hayes -Tubbs in NY
Vandermark 5 - Burn the Incline
Vandermark 5 - Free Jazz Classics, Vols. 1 & 2
Vandermark 5 - Free Jazz Classics, Vols. 3 & 4
Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag
Victor Wooten - What Did He Say?
Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
Wayne Shorter - Et Cetera
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer
Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
Wayne Shorter - The Allseeing Eye
Wayne Shorter - The soothsayer
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Weather Report - Live in Toyko
Weather Report - Weather Report
Wes Montgomery - Full House
Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
William Parker - In Order To Survive
William Parker & Hamid Drake - Piercing the Veil
Yusuf Lateef - Eastern Sounds

so pretty much the last chance to nominate stuff. but until sean or I say on here voting is closed, you can nominate!

Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street
Frank Wright Trio
Frank Wright - Your Prayer
Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement

Tommy Flanagan-Beyond the Bluebird

Sean is setting the voting up i think so i guess nominations are now closed. With the extra day allowed for nominations i would hope noone will say they missed the nominations.

I'll start the voting thread when seandalai has done his stuff. No idea how long that takes, that's Seany's show (la la la la)..

ai really hope we got everything

william if youre reading this could you amend the title to voting closed, please?

got it -- I assume you meant "nominations closed"

oops yes! thanks!

Norah jones is on blue note. That album is prince's jazz album ,just like the zappa. And why shouldnt jazz rap be in a jazz poll if jazz rock is? And new order did really play that jazz fest but it is a bootleg so i can see why you should not include it. You will get a lot more voters if you allow the jazz rap.

We all agreed no. not one person said yes.

rap is not jazz

Votez ici people: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDRaV25yRVZQRlhxajhxVy1OM0k1LUE6MQ

I unilaterally came up with the 14th as the close of voting, we can change it if needs be.

a cursory search of BlindWillyPuller's posts suggest he's a sock established specifically to troll kerr

Yeah, my thoughts exactly

VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD FOR ILM POST 1945 BEST JAZZ ALBUMS POLL (Voting closes August 27)