ILX All-Time Greatest Jazz Albums Poll

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Jazz albums! List 'em!

No "greatest hits" sorts of things, but that'll still allow for something like Holy Ghost, the Grant Green/Sonny Clark sessions collection, etc.

Nominations will last for two weeks!

― gear (gear), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Haha I only have Miles Davis fusion albums (and like a dozen Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock and Sunny Sharrock) but even if I had more my vote would go to. . . ON THE CORNER!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

WE HAEV A WINNER

― gear (gear), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Do we just list however many we want?
I think on the corner is boring.

― deej.., Monday, 1 August 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

: )

― deej.., Monday, 1 August 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

When you say "no greatest hits" do you mean you don't want Best of Miles Davis? Or do you mean you don't want "Kind of Blue?"

Anyway, some of my noms would be:

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

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Jamie Cullum

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Charles Mingus--The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
Miles Davis--Kind of Blue
John Coltrane--My Favorite Things
Pharoah Sanders--Karma
Sun Ra--Atlantis
Ornette Coleman--Free Jazz

― steve hise, Monday, 1 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

list however many you want! by no "greatest hits" i mean no compilations that are "greatest hits", Kind of Blue is allowable of course!

― gear (gear), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Monk - Brilliant Corners, at the Five Spot, Solo Monk
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Coltrane - My Favorite Things, Africa Brass, Love Supreme
Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come, Free jazz
Miles - Milestones, Kind of Blue, Live-Evil
Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Charles Mingus--The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
Pharoah Sanders--Karma
John Coltrane - Ascension
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Archie Shepp - Fire Music
Big John patton - Let Em Roll
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Grant Green - Matador
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Sun Ra - Atlantis
Joe Henderson - Page one
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Herbie Hancock - Sextant, Mwandishi
Miles Davis - Agharta
Dave Brubeck - Time Out

― jmeister (jmeister), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Kenny Garrett - Songbook
Dave Holland - Prime Directive
Brian Blade Fellowship - Perceptual
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Clifford Brown - Study in Brown
Art Blakey - Moanin'
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Christian McBride - Family Affair
Gary Burton - Like Minds
Leroy Jones - Mo' Cream from the Crop

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Moanin'
Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
Ornette Coleman Dancing In Your Head
John Coltrane Giant Steps
Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
Miles Davis Miles Smiles
Miles Davis Tribute to Jack Johnson
Eric Dolphy Outward Bound
Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster Band; Black Brown & Beige; Jazz Party; ...And His Mother Called Him Bill
Gil Evans Out of the Cool; The Indvidualism of Gil Evans
Grant Green Matador
Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage
Andrew Hill Point of Departure
Jackie McLean Let Freedom Ring
Charles Mingus Mingus at Antibes; Oh Yeah; Mingus Dynasty
Thelonious Monk Genius of Modern Music Volume I & II; Monk's Dream; Criss Cross; Brilliant Corners
Lee Morgan The Sidewinder
Oliver Nelson Blues and the Abstract Truth
Charlie Parker The Charlie Parker Story (Savoy)
Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus; Alfie
Pharoah Sanders Tahuid
Horace Silver Song For My Father
Cecil Taylor Unit Structures; Conquistador!
Ben Webster Soulville

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Miles Davis - Workin'
Count Basie - The Atomic Mr. Basie

We're having xposts galore!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

SUPERFUN

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

VAMP on the xpost

― Keith C (kcraw916), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Miles Davis - Agharta
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd
Andrew Hill - Black Fire
Jackie Mclean - One Step Beyond

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

are you collating these gear?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Ornette Coleman - Live at the Golden Circle
David S. Ware - Go See the World

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

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Charles Mingus - Mingus!Mingus!Mingus!Mingus!

― J (Jay), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Charles Mingus - Mingus Presents Mingus
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosus
Miles - Miles Smiles

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

are ellington and armstrong not being named because of the word "album" in the title??

― oops (Oops), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

its cos they're shit oops

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

actually theres plenty of great ellington recorded as albums.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

duke ellington - uptown

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Shit, didn't mean to hit return. So, add:

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

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

― J (Jay), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis

― Keith C (kcraw916), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

are we voting or nominating?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Duke Ellington - Blanton Webster box set

― Masked Gazza, Monday, 1 August 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

(nominating)

― gear (gear), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

ornette: dancing in your head, body meta

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

charlie hayden - music liberation orchestra
carla bley - escalator over the hill
joe harriot - free form

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Duke Ellington - The Carnegie Hall Concerts, January 1943

― Eggzakly Huh? (Zach), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

2 noms:

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

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

― jared**, Monday, 1 August 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Peter Brotzmann Octet Machine Gun

― Steev (Steev), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Dave Douglas - Freak In
Bill Frisell - Unspeakable
John McLaughlin - Devotion

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

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Clifford Jordan - Glass Bead Games
Horace Silver - Total Response
Archie Shepp -Attica Blues
Sun-Ra - Sleeping Beauty
Max Roach - Members Don't Git Weary

― Shonky Whitlow, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Some that haven't been nommed yet:

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

― - (smile), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Matthew Shipp - Nu Bop
Ornette Coleman/Pat Metheny - Song X
Derek Bailey - Ballads
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light, Journey In Satchidananda
NOJO - Highwire

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

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

James 'Blood' Ulmer - Tales of Captain Black

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

I'll second a few of the popular choices (Out To Lunch, Black Saint..., Unit Structures) and add a coupla personal faves, Coltrane's Interstellar Space and Roland Kirk's Rip Rig & Panic.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

o yeah thats my favourite kirk

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

i guess its not gonna get many votes comapred to the other coltranes but fuckit: crescent

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure i'm repeating some, but i wanted to post these without lookin' at what others have done. and this is one tough question, given how many great jazz albums there are, and how pitifully few jazz albums i have compared to how many i should have...

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

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Weather Report - Mr Gone
Remember Shakti

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Pharoah Sanders, Black Unity

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Giuffre: Free Fall

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

George Russell: electronic sonata for souls loved by nature

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

Larry Young - unity

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Lightbox Orchestra (Fred Lonberg-Holm) - First Contact!
Naked City - Naked City
Sun Ra - Space is the Place

― Stingy (stingy), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

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Lionel Hampton: Historical Recording Sessions 1939-1941
Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan (1954), reissued as Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
Sonny Rollins: What's New?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

trying not to repeat:

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

― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

who's the vocalist on the eddie gale discs jaxon?

fuck voting on this is gonna be hard

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

"The Noble Gale Singers."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

ok for no good reason other than to give gear! a headache (and cos i always enjoy 'em):

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

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

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

Here are a few others that haven't been mentioned:

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

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

bump

― bump, Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Absolutely everything I can think of that I'd have wanted to suggest has already been nominated, in several cases more than once, many of them by the esteemed Mr. Carlin (although curiously he seems to have omitted Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue, which I happen to know, despite all his protestations to the contrary, is actually his absolute favourite!).

Looking forward to the voting and the results enormously.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

Grant Green - Live At The Lighthouse.
Lee Morgan - Search For A New land.
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground
Anthony Braxton - For Alto

A few I forgot to mention earlier.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Kind of Blue is fine as it goes, but I think I could happily and usefully live out the rest of my life without ever hearing it again. It's the "She Loves You" of jazz.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

A couple I forgot to nominate earlier...

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

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

Keith Jarrett - Belonging

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

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

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

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 4 August 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen
Bill Evans "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"
Alice Coltrane "Journey in Satchidinanda"
so I'll add those two for now.

― Sparkle Moiton's Rising Force, Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

At this point, why bother with a nomination list? We could just vote on whatever we want.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002KQNZO.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Keith C (kcraw916), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

BOOKER LITTLE- "out front"
ARCHIE SHEPP- "mama too tight" , "fire music" , "four for trane"
JOHN COLTRANE- "a love supreme" , "my favorite things" , "blue train" , "giant steps" , "a meditation" , "ascension"
GRANT GREEN- "am i blue" , "grantstand"
CECIL TAYLOR- "unit structures"
ANDREW HILL- "point of departure" , "black fire" , "passing ships"
CHARLES MINGUS- "let my children hear music" , "the black saint and the sinner lady" , "mingus ah um" , "mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus"
CHARLIE PARKER- "the greatest jazz concert ever"
ALBERT AYLER- "spiritual unity"
ART BLAKEY- "moanin'"
DAVE BRUBECK- "time out"
HERBIE HANCOCK- "empyrean isles"
KEITH JARRETT- "koln concert"
MILES DAVIS- "birth of cool" , "porgy and bess" , "sketches of spain" , "bitches brew" , "miles smiles" , "on the corner" , "relaxin'"
MILT JACKSON AND WES MONTGOMERY- "bags meets wes!"
WES MONTGOMERY- "goin' outta my head"
OLIVER NELSON- "blues and the abstract truth"
STAN GETZ- "getz/gilberto"
ERIC DOLPHY- "out to lunch"
LEE MORGAN- "cornbread"
ANTHONY BRAXTON- "for alto"
JOHNNY DIYANI- "song for biko"
DEXTER GORDON- "our man in amsterdam"
ORNETTE COLEMAN- "shape of jazz to come" , "free jazz" , "change of century" , "love call" , "new york is now" , "science fiction" , "this is our music" , "ornette!" , "skies of america"
THELONIOUS MONK- "monk and coltrane" , "brilliant corners"
SUN RA- "jazz in silhouette"

― ERIC LASKA (Ricky Ben-Udi), Thursday, 4 August 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

okay that's it. you guys can vote for whoever you want, I'll sort it out later. 50 albums per ballot. I'll set up the email address in a week and a half, so start thinking it over!

― gear (gear), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Can we vote for as many as we want in no order of preference?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

No Yusef Lateef
does no one know the brilliance of
Eastern Sounds or
The doctor is in and out or
The Blue Yusef

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

― Banksy, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Not one mention of the greatest piano player of (most likely) all time?

(Art Tatum)

― PB, Friday, 12 August 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

banksy you were doing so well...

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

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

― banksy, Sunday, 14 August 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

keith jarrett - sun bear concerts

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 14 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Also amazingly not mentioned,

Jimmy Giuffre's "Free Fall"

― dirt farmer, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Giuffre: Free Fall

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

the find tool be yer friend

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (note that this 1999 4-disc set isn't a best-of)
Artie Shaw, The Last Recordings

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Watta Gwan?

― OG it's ILX!, Monday, 5 September 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

What ever happened to this?

― Keith C (lync0), Friday, 23 September 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Shhhh Gear was hoping everyone had forgotten.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I'd still like this to happen.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 24 September 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

votin' will take place after the '80s polls have closed.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

discuss albums to vote for here. this is the poll thread: OMG IT'S THE ALL-TIME JAZZ RECORDS POLL (finally)

― gear (gear), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I didn't see these mentioned anywhere:

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

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Henry Threadgill's Make A Move - Up Popped the Two Lips

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

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

John Patton-"Understanding"
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers-"Drum Suite"
Jimmy McGriff-"Electric Funk"

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

gear, is this up for grabs?

― Keith C (lync0), Saturday, 14 January 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

The winner is

KIND OF BLUE - Miles Davis

thanks everyone!

― gear (gear), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:08 (twenty years ago)

Weather Report: Heavy Weather
Mezzoforte: Observations
Herbie Hancock: Future Shock
Pat Metheny Group: American Garage
Miles Davis: Sketches Of Spain

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 14 January 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

The eighties poll is closed now, can we still do this?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 14 January 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

If nominations are reopening, we're getting some Louis Prima in there. Unless someone gives me a clear enough definition of jazz to exclude him (easy listening in many stores now).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 January 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

all THIS for Kind of Blue? teh tyranny of consensus

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

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 14 January 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

This poll never really happened. I'm offering to run it if that's ok with gear.

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

― Keith C (lync0), Saturday, 14 January 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Okay, well for whenever it does happen, it doesn't look as if any of these have been nominated:

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

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 January 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

i actually did have a voting thread. the polls closed in november with one ballot received. anyone else wants to do it, ok with me. i'm not touching this.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

John Zorn - Naked City

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Saturday, 14 January 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Ok thanks gear, hopefully we'll do better than one ballot this time around. I'll start a new voting thread in a little bit.

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

― Keith C (lync0), Saturday, 14 January 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

― randomrules, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 02:37 (eighteen years ago)

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

Also, Voivod - Dimension Hatross

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

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

What do people say?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Michael Gibbs - Michael Gibbs/Tanglewood '63

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

― but I want a bongo drum (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

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