Top 5 Jazz Albums

[jenson]

Seeking not the too obvious ones from Miles, Coltrane...outside of the conventional, underrated, your island pick
Thanks!

 

[acemachine26]

Eberhard Weber - Colours of Chloe
Henri Texier - Amir
Dorothy Ashby - The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat

 

[jenson]

Eberhard Weber - Colours of Chloe
Henri Texier - Amir
Dorothy Ashby - The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat

just heard - Eberhard Weber - Colours of Chloe, heart breaking. just lovely. never heard of these albums, thanks for sharing.

 

[acemachine26]

just heard - Eberhard Weber - Colours of Chloe, heart breaking. just lovely. never heard of these albums, thanks for sharing.

Glad you liked it
It's an album that touches me like very few other albums can.

 

[G401fan]

If you are looking beyond the usual suspects, check out this video:

 

[Sushant Sharma]

Leroy Vinegar Leroy walks
Gerry Mulligan meets Johnny Hodges
Night Train Oscar Peterson
Don Sleet (only one album as leader.A recent discovery for me). Hard bop afficianados must give it a whirl. The band playing with him are the who's who of jazz.
Curtis Fuller Bluesette.

 

[chander]

Roy Hargrove - Hard Groove
Kenny Garrett - Do your Dance
Jimmy Smith - Root Down

 

[moktan]

Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Dave Holland - Conference of Birds
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity

 

[Fiftyfifty]

Don Ellis - How Time Passes
Grachan Moncur iii - Evolution

 

[Fiftyfifty]

If you are looking beyond the usual suspects, check out this video:

I like the fact that he says something about each of his choices, and we should too. On this thread as well as on the other on jazz

 

[moktan]

On the proverbial island from where presumably there is no escape , one has to take music which one finds fresh , challenging , protean , open to rediscovery every time one listens to them even now. The albums I have chosen have those qualities I believe. Am sure there are many such out there.
Since the OP wants to take 5, I would perhaps add Anthony Braxton’s Saxophone Improvisations; I can imagine myself listening to just its RKRR ( Opus 77C) all day long for days. And Coltrane’s A Love Supreme for its spiritual heft , the gratefulness and the hope it engenders.

 

[coaltrain]

Not the usual suspects, but albums I return to on a regular basais:

Bill Frisell - Valentine
Nomo - Ghost Rock
Christian McBride - Sci-Fi
Ernest Ranglin - Modern Answers to Old Problems
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Uninvisible and/or Tonic

 

[jenson]

Not the usual suspects, but albums I return to on a regular basais:

Bill Frisell - Valentine
Nomo - Ghost Rock
Christian McBride - Sci-Fi
Ernest Ranglin - Modern Answers to Old Problems
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Uninvisible and/or Tonic

Superb (rocking) choices! Just skimmed thru them on YouTube. Please add 5 more

 

[coaltrain]

Please add 5 more

Happy to oblige

Al Di Meola - Kiss My Axe and/or World Sinfonia
Joe Henderson - Big Band
Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement
Jimmy Smith - Fourmost and Fourmost Return
Vijay Iyer - Accelerando

 

[Bhim Bhai]

FABULOUS NOTES AND BEATS OF THE INDIAN CARNATIC JAZZ by TK RAMAMOORTHY

 

[jaiwant_alex]

Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights
Ike Quebec - Bossa Nova Soul Samba
Jimmy Smith - Grooving at Smalls paradise
Lester Young with the Oscar Petersen trio
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin brothers

 

[jls001]

Vijay Iyer - Accelerando

Great music, poor recording.

 

[himadri]

My Alt 5:
Keith Jarett. standards
Allan Holdsworth .secrets
MIchael Brecker. Michael Brecker
Pat Martino. Think tank
Ornett coleman . Tomorrow is the question
Cheers.

 

[coaltrain]

Great music, poor recording.

Agree.
For great music and sound, check out his ECM albums - Break Stuff, Far From Over and Uneasy.
Yet to get my hands on his latest, Compassion, also on ECM.

 

[bornfi]

I have limited knowledge about this genre of music but I have a radio station created in Pandora for the artist Ahmad Jamal that I like.