1st 10 JAZZ Albums You Have Heard From RYM All Time...

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I have the entire top 10!
1 Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
2 Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959)
3 John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965)
4 Miles Davis In a Silent Way (1969)
5 Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um (1959)
6 John Coltrane Giant Steps (1960)
7 Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch (1964)
8 John Coltrane My Favorite Things (1961)
9 Miles Davis Bitches Brew (1970)
10 Miles Davis Jack Johnson (1971)

i've heard them all too! and wtf, overpraised canon be damned, they're all great! though i do find it weird that Blacks Saint is so high up there. Not the most accessible jazz record by a long shot.

1 Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
2 Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959)
3 John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965)
4 Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um (1959)
5 John Coltrane Giant Steps (1960)
6 Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch (1964)
7 John Coltrane My Favorite Things (1961)
8 Miles Davis Bitches Brew (1970)
9 Vince Guaraldi A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
10 Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

I may have heard the Miles Davis ones I left off, but I don't think I have.

i've heard them all too! and wtf, overpraised canon be damned, they're all great! though i do find it weird that Blacks Saint is so high up there. Not the most accessible jazz record by a long shot.

It's long been my favourite but I had no idea others held it in such high regard. Never seems to make it in most rock mag lists as the token jazz entry.

1 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
2 Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
3 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
5 Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
6 John Coltrane - Giant Steps
7 Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
8 John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
9 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
11 Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
12 Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

Nice to see Karma at 23. I love those New Age-y Sanders records.

i've got the top 10. "black saint" has never really stuck with me though.

Karma is probably my 2nd fave jazz album
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I wonder if Lester Bangs' championing of Black Saint played a part--I know that's why I sought it out.

1 Charles Mingus, The Black Saint...
2 Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
3 John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
4 Miles Davis, In a Silent Way
5 Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um

7 Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch

9 Miles Davis Bitches Brew (1970)
10 Miles Davis Jack Johnson (1971)

13 Oliver Nelson, The Blues and the Abstract Truth
15 Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come

lol gaps in my jazz canon knowledge

2 Kind of Blue
3 A Love Supreme
4 In a Silent Way
9 Bitches Brew
10 A Tribute to Jack Johnson
11 A Charlie Brown Christmas
20 Ella Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
25 Time Out
48 Empyrean Isles
61 Free Jazz

a charlie brown xmas worth searching out? nearing december i suppose i could be in the mood for it then

I also own the first 10. Mingus Ah Um may be an "obvious" Mingus choice, but it's so fucking great. Columbia got good stuff from him.

I have heard the Top 9 and Getz/Gilberto.

I've heard #1-38 without gaps, although I'm not 100% sure about the Ella Cole Porter songbook one.

Overall, I'm sure I've heard at least 82 of the top 100.

I killed a lot of freshman year listening to records in the music library

I've heard 1-16, but not the Ellington at 17.

a charlie brown xmas worth searching out? nearing december i suppose i could be in the mood for it then

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Very much so. It's kind of lightweight if you're looking serious jazz or something like that, but it's a lot of fun.

it's a great record period

That Guraldi album is something more people in america have heard than anything else on the list, consciously or not. the peanuts christmas special is a touchstone of several generations of americans.

^^^both otm

thanks to this thread i'm going to spend the next hour watching peanuts clips on youtube.

oh hey i love that peanuts christmas special too. second only to yogi's 1st christmas for me.

I've owned #1 thru 13, and have heard about 61 of the 100.

I think I actually own or have owned a little over half of the top 100

Out of the top 100 I own only these:

A Love Supreme
In a Silent Way
Saxophone Colossus
Karma
Time Out
Journey in Satchidananda
The Inflated Tear
Rip, Rig and Panic

For a jazz fan I suck at the jazz canon.

I mean, I own only one John Coltrane album but several Alice Coltrane albums, and even though I must own about 10 Herbie Hancock albums, none of the are from the 60s.

how was this calculated? i guess there's a weighting for number of ratings etc.— totally some weird results thrown out ('ask the ages'?), never mind the ones that are there due to being incidentally categorised as jazz, like the snoopy one and the yoko kanno record (which is a pretty good piece of soundtracking, but hardly belongs here ...)

i've heard forty-odd of these but could only hum you something from something-teen, out of that.

Top 11, 23 of the top 40. I need to brush up on Monk.

Tuomas why don't you own the 60s albums? They're fab.

7 & 8 are the first two I don't own, is the easiest way of dong this. Although I only own the Vince Guaraldi as files.

i dont even have files. I should try it.

First ten. And yeah, they're all deserving.

Yeah, the whole top 10 for me too. Bitches Brew is the one I've listened to the least out of all them them (maybe a total of 3 times all the way through). I went backwards into electric Miles, starting with Agharta, so Bitches Brew always sounded too tentative for me.

Complete Bitches Brew >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bitches Brew

Even the original tracks breathe much more in the remasters from the boxed set.

top 12, check. but only 38 of the top 100. :^(

you can get the other 62 for Christmas

for some reason i was reading these threads as "how many albums do you have", not "have heard". i've heard most of these.

Rahsaan makes a surprisingly late appearance on this list - and not his best showing either??

Heard because a lot of people these days just have mp3s of albums.

I guess the list keeps shifting, but based on what they have up now, these are topmost 10 I've heard all the way through:

2 Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
3 John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
5 Charles Mingus
Mingus Ah Um
6 John Coltrane
Giant Steps
8 John Coltrane
My Favorite Things
10 Vince Guaraldi
A Charlie Brown Christmas
11 Miles Davis
Jack Johnson
12 Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus
14 Ornette Coleman
The Shape of Jazz to Come
18 Charles Mingus
Blues & Roots

I'm surprised that you have to go all the way to 29 before reaching any Monk. I mean I expected that pre-album era artists would get short-changed (Ellington, Armstrong, Bird, etc.), but Monk has a lot of classic albums.

I have 25 of the top 40 ... I need to fill in some gaps!

I believe the list is changing only once every six weeks or something. They don't scan constantly for genre lists, but do it once in a while.

2. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
4. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
9. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
10. Vince Guarldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
11. Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
14. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
15. Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
23. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
33. Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
35. Miles Davis - Round About Midnight

Shows you just how much I need to broaden my jazz horizons beyond Miles and Ornette.

oh well i dont have the top 10 anymore

I think there were 2 or 3 Monk albums in the top 20 the other day when I looked at it.

RYM's top 10 as of today:

1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
3. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
4. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (1969)
5. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970)
6. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969)
7. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (1959)
8. John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1960)
9. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (1961)
10. John Coltrane - Blue Train (1958)