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Surprised this has never been done before. I was going through my Blue Note album covers book with a friend the other night and kept seeing one great album after another. I've been kind of neglecting jazz for the last few years, and have probably forgotten about a bunch of my favorites. Any thoughts?

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Cecil Taylor - Jazz Advance
Tony Williams - Spring
Herbie Hancock - Emperyan Isles
Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music Vol. 2
Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Ellington/Mingus/Roach - Money Jungle
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
Ornette Coleman - Live at the Golden Circle Vol. 2

Ah, that Blue note sound.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil
Art Blakey, Moanin'
Art Blakey, Mosaic
Hank Mobley, Soul Station
Horace Silver, Blowin' the Blues Away
Eric Dolph, Out to Lunch
Cannonball Adderley, Somethin' Else
McCoy Tyner, The Real McCoy
Larry Young, Unity
Medeski, Martin & Wood, Combustication (yeah, I said it)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Man, I'll try...

Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Grant Green - In the Spirit
John Scofield - Grace Under Pressure
Charlie Haden and LMO - Dream Keeper
Ornette Coleman - New York is Now
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Wayne Shorter - Supernova

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

xpost - I almost picked Combustication.

I also forgot Out to Lunch - might have to swipe out Sonny Clark Trio for that one (though I kind of wanted at least one super straight ahead record on the list)

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 7 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

johnny griffin, volume 2- a blowin session
eric dolphy, out to lunch
eddie gale, ghetto music
eddie gale, black rhythm happening
bobby hutcherson, now
horace silver, song for my father
kenny dorham, quiet kenny
bud powell, amazing- vol. 1
archie shepp, fire music
grant green, alive!

― jared, Friday, 7 October 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

fuck that archie shepp is an impulse i fucking knew it
replace with mogie's search for the new land

― jared, Friday, 7 October 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

jared OTM.

i've never been a huge blue note fan. the only ones i can think of off the top of my head are those two Eddie Gale records, Bobby Hutcherson's "Now" (3 of my all time fave records ever) and Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage"

― Bobby Count (jaxon), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm not up for narrowing it down to 10 right now, but is there any love for Andrew Hill out there? "Black Fire," baby.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

ok, lemme actually look at the blue note discographies and put some more thought into it

Eddie Gale - Ghetto Music
Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening
Bobby Hutcherson - Now!
Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues
Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
Donald Byrd - Steppin' Into Tomorrow
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
Horace Silver - Silver 'n Percussion
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Ronnie Laws - Pressure Sensitive (only because Black Moon sampled the intro of one song. the rest of that song and the rest of the album sux)

xpost - and i'd LOVE to hear Andrew Hill's "Lift Every Voice" but haven't been able to find it.

― Bobby Count (jaxon), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Obvious choices, but hey, they are good. There's tons I don't have.

Larry Young - Unity
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Horace Silver - Song For My Father
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Grant Green - Solid
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Art Blakey - Buhania's Delight

One thing about the "blue note sound"--there's something very unique and great about the way the piano sounds on these records (the bass too). It's like a softer, almost duller timbre than you normally hear, even for other records of the time. What I can't get my head around is that other albums recorded around the same time in Van Gelder's studio on Prestige, etc. don't sound this way (could have been the tape they used, I don't know). It's weird.

― Keith C (lync0), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

herbie hancock - my point of view
joe henderson - inner urge
freddie hubbard - blue spirits
lee morgan - the sixth sense
jim hall / bill evans - undercurrent
eddie henderson - sunburst
bobbi humphrey - blacks + blues
jimmy smith - the sermon
jimmy smith - prayer meeting
donald byrd - electric byrd

and does BLUE BREAK BEATS count?

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

xpost It might be the studio, or the house piano.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 8 October 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Let Freedom Ring Jackie Mclean
Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock
Cornbread Lee Morgan
Point of Departure Andrew Hill
Go! Dexter Gordon
Evolution Grachan Moncour III
Free Form Donald Byrd
Matador Grant Green
Genius of Modern Music Vol 1 & 2 Thelonious Monk (2)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

thank god someone finally mentioned Grachan Moncur III...

― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch
John Coltrane Blue Train
Art Blakey A Night In Tunisia
Jackie McLean Let Freedom Ring
Archie Shepp Mama Too Tight
Wayne Shorter The All-Seeing Eye
Cecil Taylor Unit Structures
Dexter Gordon Dexter Calling
Andrew Hill Point Of Departure
Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 9 October 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

John Coltrane - Blue Train
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Jackie McLean - Destination...Out
Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time
Joe Lovano - From the Soul
Don Cherry - Complete Communion
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil

As I suppose most people, I mainly know the label's pre-70s releases.
I feel guilty for not including Monk, but nah, the genius records just aren't as great to me as his later stuff on Riverside and Columbia.

― Øystein (Øystein), Sunday, 9 October 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

As I suppose most people, I mainly know the label's pre-70s releases.

6 of my 10 are 70s releases and the two eddie gale releases are super late 60s and sound as if they should be 70s. i think that's why i think i don't like blue note as much because their "seminal" relases are all pre-70s

― Dickset! Dickset! Disckset! (jaxon), Sunday, 9 October 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

...Jesus, how stupid do I feel, including an Archie Shepp album on my list, and taking me ten times as long to realize it as it took Jared when he made the very same mistake!

Substitute Don Cherry's Complete Communion.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

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Been listening to this today. Bought it 10 or so years ago. All voices and percussion, really raw in the Alfred Lion recording style.

― Squash weather (Eazy), Saturday, 3 October 2009 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

Nothing from that ^^ record on YouTube, but here's later Sabu M.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPI0lqqszk

― Squash weather (Eazy), Saturday, 3 October 2009 19:14 (sixteen years ago)

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― ian, Saturday, 3 October 2009 19:36 (sixteen years ago)

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