Jazz Recommendations

Some of the best of the jazz recordings

Kind of Blue (Amazon: 5/5 Stars- based on 602 reviews)

Miles Davis with John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Cannonball Adderly, Jimmy Cobb, Wynton Kelly. Even people who don't generally like jazz like this album. It just has great music.

1. So What [ watch & listen video: So What video ]
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches
6. Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)

Sugar Stanley Turrentine- bluesy album, I especially like the title track

1. Sugar [ listen: windows media || real one ]
2. Sunshine Alley
3. Impressions
4. Sugar (Live)

Dig (Amazon: 4/5 Stars- based on 6 reviews)

"This was the set where I recorded my best work in a long time . . . . Sonny played his ass off on this album and so did Jackie McLean . . . . I liked what I played on Dig, because my sound was really becoming my own thing."
Miles Davis (Miles pgs 147-148)

1. Dig [ listen: windows media || real one ]
2. It's Only A Paper Moon
3. Denial
4. Bluing
5. Out Of The Blue
6. Conception
7. My Old Flame

Red Clay (Freddie Hubbard)

Basie & Beyond Quincy Jones

Speak No Evil

(Wayne Shorter)

Saxophone Collossus
5 Stars - Excellent ...Rollins displays humor, gentleness, a delicate feeling for beauty....I find this entire album excellent on all counts and for all persons concerned. Down Beat

Song for My Father (Amazon: 5/5 Stars- based on 24 reviews)

Horace Silver- my favorite album of his. Joe Henderson's tenor solo on the first track is awesome.

1. Song For My Father [ listen: windows media || real one ]
2. The Natives Are Restless Tonight
3. Calcutta Cutie
4. Que Pasa
5. The Kicker
6. Lonely Woman
7. Sanctimonious Man
8. Que Pasa (Trio Version)
9. Sighin' And Cryin'
10. Silver Threads Among My Soul

Light As a Feather (Amazon: 4.5/5 Stars- based on 23 reviews)

Chick Corea- vocalist Flora Purim, saxophonist-flutist Joe Farrell, bassist Stanley Clarke, and drummer Airto- 1973. I really like "Spain" which is based off of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez

1. You're Everything
2. Light As A Feather
3. Captain Marvel
4. 500 Miles High
5. Children's Song
6. Spain [ listen: windows media || real one ]

Page One (Amazon: 5/5 Stars- based on 5 reviews)

(Joe Henderson- his debut as a band leader. I really like his recording of Blue Bossa

1. Blue Bossa [ listen: windows media || real one ]
2. La Mesha
3. Homestretch
4. Recorda Me
5. Jinrikisha
6. Out Of The Night

Time Out (Amazon: 5/5 Stars- based on 158 reviews)

(Dave Brubeck Quartet)

Joe Henderson- Relaxin' at Camarillo (Amazon: 5/5 Stars- based on 1 review)

Double Rainbow (Amazon: 5/5 Stars- based on 12 reviews)

Joe Henderson- The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. The first half has Joe Henderson playing with Brazillians: Oscar Castro-Neves on guitar (and some percussion), Eliane Elias on piano, Rico Assumpcao on bass, and Paulo Braga on drums. Next he plays with Americans: Christian McBride on bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums, and Herbie Hancock on piano. Hence "double rainbow" The groove that it kicks off with is great and I like the entire album.

1. Felicidade [ listen: windows media || real one ]
2. Dreamer (Vivo Sonhando)
3. Boto
4. Ligia
5. Once I Loved (Amore Em Paz)
6. Triste
7. Photograph
8. Portrait in Black & White (AKA Zingaro)
9. No More Blues (Chega De Saudade)
10. Happy Madness
11. Passarim
12. Modinha

Outpost Freddie Hubbard- this album tells a story. The rhythm section is tight with a relaxed groove. Track 4, Dual Force, is my favorite.

Mulatos (Omar Sosa)- I saw Sosa live and really enjoyed his performance. After buying three of his CD's, this one is my favorite. You can get it for less on omarsosa.com and give him a bigger cut

1. Ternura [ listen: windows media || real one ]
2. Nuevo Manto
3. La Tra
4. Reposo
5. La Llamada
6. Dos Caminos
7. Iyawo
8. L3zero
9. El Consenso

This Is What I DoSonny Rollins

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall (Amazon: 4.5/5 Stars- based on 158 reviews)

Recently released, now you can hear these two jazz greats playing together
1. Monk's Mood [ listen: windows media || real one ]
2. Evidence
3. Crepescule With Nellie
4. Nutty
5. Epistrophy (Live)
6. Bye-Ya
7. Sweet And Lovely
8. Blue Monk
9. Epistrophy

A Love Supreme John Coltrane- "a suite about redemption" from late in Coltrane's life

Disc: 1
1. Part 1 - Acknowledgement [ listen: windows media || real one ]
2. Part 2 - Resolution
3. Part 3 - Pursuance
4. Part 4 - Psalm

Disc: 2
1. Introduction
2. Part 1 - Acknowledgement (Live)
3. Part 2 - Resolution (Live)
4. Part 3 - Pursuance (Live)
5. Part 4 - Psalm (Live)
6. Part 2 - Resolution (Alternative Take)
7. Part 2 - Resolution (Breakdown)
8. Part 1 - Acknowledgement (Alternative Take)
9. Part 1 - Acknowledgement (Alternative Take)