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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
you are off to a good start with the mingus ah hum, and the SOmethin else. that somethin else is a fucking KILLER album
Jimmy Smith - THE SERMON (Jimmy plays organ)
John Coltrane - BLUE TRAIN
Ornette Coleman - SOMETHING ELSE
Art Blakey - THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
Sonny Rollins - SAXOPHONE COLLOSUS
Thelonius Monk - MYSTERIOSO
Dexter Gordon - DOIN' ALLRIGHT
The Quintet - VSOP (Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shroter and Tony Williams. LIVE, jesus fucking christ this is a goddamn BAD ASS ALBUM
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...good list, Rob.
I especially second Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and Saxophone Collosus with Sonny and Max. I can listen to those every once in a while and always enjoy 'em.
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And, it almost goes without sayin' that Dolphy's Out to Lunch and Mingus Ah Um are indispensable as well.
Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh - Intuition
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Miles Davis Quintet - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Joe Henderson - Our Thing
Warne Marsh - Release Record, Send Tape
Horace Silver Quintet - s/t
(...tried to stick to ten but could not...)
John Coltrane - The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions
John Coltrane - Coltrane's Sound
John Coltrane - Lush Life
John Coltrane - Soultrane
John Coltrane - s/t (Prestige label)
John Coltrane - s/t (Impulse label)
this list of great early-to-mid Trane could go on for awhile...
Miles Davis Quintet - My Funny Valentine + Four & More
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child
Horace Silver - The Jody Grind
Horace Silver - Song For My Father
Horace Silver Quintet - Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet
(This 1958 Horace Silver recording was just remastered by Rudy Van Gelder and rereleased by Blue Note a couple of months ago)