I'm only 19 years old and i would love to hear more about jazz I'm falling in love with this genre and you are one the reasons why such a thing is happening, you talk with so much love that yours words cativate me to start this journey, yes i would love to have more jazz videos!!
found it catching the way you connected those 10 pieces with stories around them, the background and the influences which went so far, there is a few people know their way around jazz, and even more who know a lot about rock or prog-rock, etc, but your combined knowledge and the way you tie those fields together has impressed me so much, great enjoyment, THANKS!
Far and away, the best of these 'Top Ten Jazz' videos I've seen. This guy really knows what he's talking about. This is a great starting place for anyone new to jazz and a very succinct education on its key artists and contributors. I have a hard time quibbling with any of his selections. You would not be wrong in going out and buying all of these.
i fot i terested un jazz music when rock bands started losing their originality, early 70's. traded in hundreds of albums and started buying jazz records. the jazz radio station in Los Angeles was a great help. after college i tended bar at Carmelos Jazz Club in LA and met many jazz musicians. i took a class in colkege on Jazz History, the teacher said that I should teach the class. this is a rhrough and comprehensive look at the very best in jazz history.
Thanks Andy, Don't know how I came upon this anthology and therefore your channel but you've filled a giant hole in my musical knowledge and I'm very grateful for that. Took a few sessions to get up the mountain but the view is fabulous, I'll listen to it all. I think the greatest gift is that, thanks to the path to the summit you've illuminated, I'll run each album complete and stay the course rather than dip and dive, skipping over the difficult bits. Liked and subscribed - 'cause I want more Jazz content please!
Allan Holdsworth said transcribing Charlie Christian didn't get him anywhere. When Allan wondered what Charlie Christian was thinking when he solo'd, then he got somewhere. I love that quote. Too bad that we live in a musical world where everyone thinks success is defined by copying what others have done. This mindset of Allan must be preserved and preached about.
Yes I agree but it’s important to learn transcriptions and theory etc when you’re learning but ultimately you have to forget all that and relax into the feeling and melody and trust your muscle memory to execute what you’re thinking, like talking.
As Bird was quoted saying - You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail. His point was you have to get good enough on your instrument that you can forget mechanics and use your emotions.
10. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane 1957 9. Time Out The David Brubeck Qt 1959 8. Piano Starts Here Art Tatum 1968 (1933) 7. Giant Steps John Coltrane 1959 6. The Shape of Jazz to Come Garnett Coleman 1959 5. Ellington at Newport 1956 4. The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes Charlie Parker 3. The Best of Lou Armstrong 2. A Love Supreme John Coltrane 1964 1. Kind of Blue Miles Davis 1959
Of course Bill Evans was great. But when doing videos like that, the idea is to imagine the world without this artist. Can you imagine the music world without Loius? Duke?Parker? Coltrane? Miles? Tatum? Monk? Brubeck? Coleman? I also think This list should have included Mingus, Django, Blakey, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Gillespie, Wes Montgomery and Jobim which had top notch albums and could have gone as the next best top 10 albums. Then there are the amazing musicians who were just as great but made slightly less impact like Evans, Getz, Chet Baker, Peterson, Dolphy, Les Paul, Adderley, Morgan and god, there are so many great ones.
Some other mentions: "The Blues and the Abstract Truth" Oliver Nelson, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Eric Dolphy, Paul Chambers. "Time Further Out" Dave Brubeck Quartet - Dave, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Eugene Wright. "Jazz Impressions of Japan" Dave Brubeck Quartet. "Land of Make Believe" Chuck Mangione Concert - Chuck Mangione Quartet with Esther Satterfield.
Thank you so much, Andy. It takes a brave soul to attempt a ranking of this sort. I am sure there are strong disagreements between aficionados, but you've made a slice at the impossible here, and I have some good listening ahead. My dad was a big band enthusiast who would spend hours talking about Benny Goodman, Arte Shaw, Bix Biederbecke, Billie Holiday, Helen Forrest.... In some ways, I think that generation of listeners felt abandoned by jazz as it developed in the 1950s. In every style, there was more left to explore while jazz moved on. And although you measure the interest in and the impact of your videos by how many likes you receive, please know that even the least popular of your videos is very much appreciated.
I really enjoyed this Top Ten list, sir. I've been into Jazz since the mid-70's. My Dad liked to play Herb Alpert & The TJB on the weekends. I started playing trumpet in Jr. High, so of course I was a fan of Chuck Mangione and Maynard Ferguson in that time frame. Got the Jazz bug big time in High school. So you keep right on making these Jazz videos, sir!
Enjoying your vids Andy. I saw you in a clinic at Drum Tech years ago and enjoyed your down to earth approach. I'm finding a lot of your comments on Jazz very relevant to blues too ( I'm more of a Blues Player). all the best. Ed
Andy - Thank you so much for this video! I thought I knew a lot about jazz but you taught me SO MUCH! You brought us right inside each album and what went into your thinking about why it was on your list. And I really like how you present this sometimes complex information. I'm going over to your Patreon page now to add my support. Thank you again!!
Thanks for this great list, and count me amongst your viewers who would welcome more jazz posts! Although prog is a genre I enjoy very much, and there's certainly great diversity amongst its practitioners, it's a pretty limited area of music when compared to jazz. I suspect it might not be long before you run up against difficulty coming up with new things to discuss in the progosphere. On the other hand, the world of jazz, from Armstrong to Braxton, is so vast, and filled with just as much impassioned debate as to what does or does not merit inclusion under its banner, that it could keep anybody going for a lifetime.
Andy, the raw emotion when describing what A Love Supreme means to YOU gave me goosebumps. If you ever wonder if you are getting it right...wonder no more cousin.
Wonderful selections! I particularly appreciate your description of A Love Supreme and placing it where you did. It’s such a personal album for me, and your thoughts were quite moving.
Just watched this video Andy. I'd love to see you do more Jazz content. I'm originally from Walsall but I've been living in Australia for the past 42 years. I visited my Mom in Aldridge, West Midlands for her 100th Birthday in February. I'm a massive Jazz Rock & Prog Rock fan and also Heavy Rock. But I grew up in the 60's listening to my Dad's Jazz & Classical records and my older sisters Motown & Beatles 45's. Because I was a teenager in the 70's I had the great fortune to see many of the great Jazz Rock, Prog Rock and Heavy Rock bands play live. Unfortunately, I missed out on seeing Hendrix and Cream play live because I was a bit too young (born in 1958). Anyway, I love your videos and yes, please cover more Jazz, I have an extensive collection of Jazz music. PS The Clee Hills and Ludlow were brilliant in the snow on my recent trip back home. And the drive back through Cleobury Mortimer to Bridgenorth from a trip to Wales brought back a lot of memories of my youth. All the best and keep up the good work. Regards, John Scarratt
Even though it's a personal list, all the albums are selected for cultural and historical significance and their influences and you are very articulate in explaining your selections. Some of it seem like textbook classics to the more experienced jazz listeners but they're unavoidably essential. If you renamed it as the 10 most influential jazz albums, no one would blink an eye. I often struggle with the conflicting ideas of should I pick the "greatest" or simply my favorites as they don't always converged. My baker's dozen in no particular order: The Willisau Concert - Cecil Taylor A Love Supreme - Coltrane The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins Out To Lunch - Eric Dolphy Black Saint & Sinner Lady - Charlie Mingus Machine Gun - Peter Brotzmann Pakistani Pomade - Schlippenbach Trio Lennie Tristano - Lennie Tristano The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Jimmy Giuffre Complete Savoy/Dial Recordings - Charlie Parker Complete Hot 5/Hot 7 - Louis Armstrong Complete Candid Recordings - Cecil Taylor Complete Miles & Coltrane Columbia Recordings - Miles Davis Your channel is way better than Rick Beato!
It's also hard to rank Jazz albums before the LP era. Still, an interesting video, I'm sure. Andy's videos are always filled with really great insights and insightful anekdotes.
Sunday at the Village Vanguard needs to be on the list - in your own words, the greatest jazz piano trio and their greatest album , along with Waltz for Debby. But great choices and really great descriptions and explanations/justifications. Love it 😊
So fantastic, Andy. This is also such a help to someone like myself who is getting into and exploring Jazz on a far more appreciative level. ❤ Thank you.
I loved this topic and how you connect the dots. Bravo, and thank you. I also really, really enjoyed your discussion on modern jazz musicians sounding the same and the roots of that and how, again, you connect the dots. Rampant food for thought, my man. I’m digging it, and working through it to find my own voice on the matter. You ignited that. More jazz 🎉 Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
I really enjoyed this video Andy and would love to see more jazz videos. I'm 67 years old and have only been listening seriously to jazz for about the last five years. I've learned a lot about the genre watching your videos and I really appreciate your channel.
I agree with everything you say, but I must mention my 'guilty pleasure' in jazz, it's Coltrane's My Favorite Things on his album of the same title, the transcendent soprano sax art, because it is art, then especially the McCoy Tyner solo that is such breathtaking genius, it is my vote for the best solo of all time, yeah McCoy Tyner on that track sends me, really sends me. How's that for a stringy sentence?
I discovered you via your jazz discussions so I raise my hand for more jazz videos. I don't always agree with you but you are a very engaging speaker and you are so clearly immersed in this world. I always learn a lot from and enjoy your clips.
Brilliant video! I was interrupted and had to pause after album 5, which irked me because I couldn’t wait to find out what the top 4 were. You managed to make the history of jazz gripping in the form f a top 10 listi. More jazz videos please.
Thank you for this excellent rundown of these albums. I'm a jazz musician. And, I still learned more about my heroes from you. So, Thank you! And, yes please, produce videos on Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro!
I love your riffs on the evolution of jazz which brought back memories of my introduction in the early 1950s via hearing Stan Kenton's City of Glass in person at Syracuse University. Also hearing Strayhorn's Lush Life sung by the incredible Sarah Vaughn.
I was so glad that right at the end Charlie Christian got a little look in. Jazz guitar gets such short shrift in Jazz analysis. Definitely more jazz content please. Just found your channel and it is great to have commentary that is so knowledgeable and enthusiastic, yet also open and exploratory. I absolutely loved your video on "What most people get wrong about jazz" which expressed so well my own feelings about the music. Great work.
More jazz please! Here's my top 10 : 1- Mingus : The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 2- Coltrane : A Love Supreme 3- Don Cherry : Complete Communion 4- Jarrett : Survivors Suite 5- Monk : At Town Hall 6- Hancock : Maiden Voyage 7- Tristano : Live at Toronto 1952 8 - Tyner : Fly with the Wind 9- Braxton : Performance (Quartet) 79 10- Dolphy : Out to Lunch HM : Silver "Song for my Father", Hill "Point of Departure", Corea "Three Quartets"
A very challenging goal ranking by innovation like that. A very well done video, Andy! Brilliant as always. I love it that no matter how many albums I get, I always end up hearing something new after every video. Thanks you! Love each and every album on this list and I think I even agree with the ranking.
That story about the woman dancing while Ellington was playing at Newport is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!! Hey, when you gotta dance, you gotta dance! The whole video is excellent. To answer your question at the end, I love jazz and your videos about jazz! I also love prog rock though I haven't explored your prog rock videos yet. Btw, have you ever heard of the classical composer Lois Vierk? I have her cd River Beneath the River which I think is excellent.
Loved this video. Keep the jazz videos coming! Couldn’t agree more about Thelonious Monk - listening to him (like Louis Armstrong) is a jaw-dropping experience. Art Tatum’s Solo Masterpieces is an album I have listened to over and over again and really cemented my love of the genre. The list is superb … I have listened to all these albums many times (except the Parker collection … need that!) and to me the intangible that sets them apart is the pure emotion that bleeds from these works. Joy … melancholy …. when you get goosebumps, you know something good is going on.
I came to this video by some kind of chance and thought to myself the very last thing the world needs is someone's top ten of all the thousands of jazz recordings. But this lecture was brilliant. Taken as a whole, the selection was very well considered and ties together logically many of the important sub genres of jazz, and how they interweave historically and stylistically. Thank you for educating and sharing this great effort.
Really nice to hear your opinions, so indepth discussion that wants me to listen to the ones I have again and play on Spotify the ones I haven't. I don't play but I do listen and your commentary puts so much in perspective.
I love your videos about jazz and agree that your Louis Armstrong video is one of your best (after watching it, I sent links to several friends, something I rarely do)--only surpassed by your series on the history of jazz. For my money, you're at your best when you talk about the history of music; the dynamics of how popular music changes over time. But then, nobody's ever accused me of having my finger on the pulse of the general taste of the public at large.
Really enjoyed this! Just to let you know - I found this channel while searching for Jazz content. Not as interested in Prog, but will stay for more Jazz stuff. Hope to see more of it.
Stumbled upon this video and thought that no one needs to tell me what the greatest jazz albums are. But, I really enjoyed this list and Edward's deep analysis. Excellent and highly recommended.
Always educational, thank you Andy! I have 5 of these albums in my collection. Just ordered Monk/Coltrane, Ellington at Newport, Art Tatum, Time Out (damn, can’t find my copy!), and also Charlie Christian at Mintons.
I enjoyed this quite a bit - would love to see a Bill Evans video and a discussion of Scott LaFaro. This video is wonderful because of the musical innovations, cultural, and historical references - but more so simply because you so clearly love the genre.
Just do it man, jazz is where everyone who loves music ends up. I loved this video on jazz and your favourite 10 albums. There’s great depth there and I will be up for more, for sure l!!! Thanks man.
I enjoyed this video and learned from it. I own only 3 of his top 10, Giant Steps, Love Supreme and Kinda Blue. Now I want the others. I think I will listen to this video again.
Looking forward to this. I wonder where Mingus Ah Um, Kind of Blue, Somethin' Else and Blue Train will rank. I wonder if A Night in Tunisia, Waltz for Debbie or Song for my Father will get a mention.
I love this video, I love jazz/creative music. My father introduced me to John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, and many others early in my life, so I am familiar with many of the classics you have featured here. Today, I listen to John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, Mary Halvorson, Henry Threadgill, and many others. I guess what I'm getting at is, do you have an opinion on these or any contemporary musicians playing jazz music today? I'd love to hear your take on modern music. Keep on keeping on Andy, your efforts are greatly appreciated!
One of the many beautiful things about the classic Coltrane quartet is its undeniable appeal to the average rock music fan. Coltrane, Tyner, Jones and Garrison were an indestructible force much in the same way that Page, Plant, Bonham and Jones were or even Ozzy, Iommi, Geezer, and Ward! (as you alluded to, haha!). There is a fundamental unifying quality amongst these individuals that enabled them to create some of the greatest music ever. Replace one person and the results are dramatically changed. Perfect chemistry. Beauty is a rare thing, indeed. Hope your video gets a billion views.
Thanks very much. I really appreciate this as an old man who started my collection late. I look forward to some of the persons you mention. Can you put the list in a summary. I would like to fill my gaps. Bravo
Great video. More jazz content would be a great idea. As well as delving in to the great acts and musicians who laid the foundations of jazz it would be interesting to hear your views on newer acts - I've recently gained a lot of enjoyment from discovering acts like Nik Bartsch's Ronin, The Necks, Mammal Hands etc.
Great list Andy. I'd go along with you on most of it. I'd probably put Monk a bit higher in the list, although which ones you would have to bump, I don't know. Yes, more Jazz please, way more. I'd love to hear you going off on the importance of Art Blakey. from his early days as a side man to Dexter Gordon, Dizzy, Monk etc, to the proving ground of so many A list musicians with the Jazz Messengers. There has to be an hours worth there. I know you don't really worry about the view count for the occasional video, I mean you did rank biscuits at one point 🙂
I'm only 19 years old and i would love to hear more about jazz I'm falling in love with this genre and you are one the reasons why such a thing is happening, you talk with so much love that yours words cativate me to start this journey, yes i would love to have more jazz videos!!
found it catching the way you connected those 10 pieces with stories around them, the background and the influences which went so far, there is a few people know their way around jazz, and even more who know a lot about rock or prog-rock, etc, but your combined knowledge and the way you tie those fields together has impressed me so much, great enjoyment, THANKS!
Far and away, the best of these 'Top Ten Jazz' videos I've seen. This guy really knows what he's talking about. This is a great starting place for anyone new to jazz and a very succinct education on its key artists and contributors. I have a hard time quibbling with any of his selections. You would not be wrong in going out and buying all of these.
I’m just getting into Jazz and I love hearing you talk about it. I feel your passion. I’m a rocker at heart but I’m finding jazz be quite interesting
Just great. I shared because you have fresh enthusiasm and great in depth discussion about what makes an album so revolutionary. Well done. Loved it.
i fot i terested un jazz music when rock bands started losing their originality, early 70's. traded in hundreds of albums and started buying jazz records. the jazz radio station in Los Angeles was a great help. after college i tended bar at Carmelos Jazz Club in LA and met many jazz musicians. i took a class in colkege on Jazz History, the teacher said that I should teach the class. this is a rhrough and comprehensive look at the very best in jazz history.
Thanks Andy,
Don't know how I came upon this anthology and therefore your channel but you've filled a giant hole in my musical knowledge and I'm very grateful for that.
Took a few sessions to get up the mountain but the view is fabulous, I'll listen to it all.
I think the greatest gift is that, thanks to the path to the summit you've illuminated, I'll run each album complete and stay the course rather than dip and dive, skipping over the difficult bits.
Liked and subscribed - 'cause I want more Jazz content please!
Allan Holdsworth said transcribing Charlie Christian didn't get him anywhere. When Allan wondered what Charlie Christian was thinking when he solo'd, then he got somewhere. I love that quote. Too bad that we live in a musical world where everyone thinks success is defined by copying what others have done. This mindset of Allan must be preserved and preached about.
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Yes I agree but it’s important to learn transcriptions and theory etc when you’re learning but ultimately you have to forget all that and relax into the feeling and melody and trust your muscle memory to execute what you’re thinking, like talking.
As Bird was quoted saying - You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
His point was you have to get good enough on your instrument that you can forget mechanics and use your emotions.
How do you learn how he’s thinking without transcribing or doing the theory work in your mind
@@nomnomnommy2955 you can do a lot of that from just listening. But point taken
Here's a vote for more jazz Andy! So much more to cover and your informed analysis is "music" to my ear.
Great show Andy. Keep Jazz shows coming. Cheers
10. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane 1957
9. Time Out The David Brubeck Qt 1959
8. Piano Starts Here Art Tatum 1968 (1933)
7. Giant Steps John Coltrane 1959
6. The Shape of Jazz to Come Garnett Coleman 1959
5. Ellington at Newport 1956
4. The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes Charlie Parker
3. The Best of Lou Armstrong
2. A Love Supreme John Coltrane 1964
1. Kind of Blue Miles Davis 1959
It is Ornette Coleman
You must know that there's entire Carnegie Hall album from Monk and Coltrane, don't you??
Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert should be in the top 5.
The Sidewinder Lee Morgan 1964
Song ForMy Father Horace Silver 1965
Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil 1966
@@choward5430thank you for including Lee Morgan people overlook him a lot he’s TOP 10 best jazz artist in my book
Definitely do more jazz videos. I'll watch!
Just discovered your channel. Love your joyful , knowledgeable , compassionate approach to music ( especially jazz) and human dialogue. Thank you.
Thank you kindly!
Bill Evans' contributions to jazz is definitely something worth spending time on I think. Another jazz giant.
Bill evans yes.
Of course Bill Evans was great. But when doing videos like that, the idea is to imagine the world without this artist. Can you imagine the music world without Loius? Duke?Parker? Coltrane? Miles? Tatum? Monk? Brubeck? Coleman? I also think This list should have included Mingus, Django, Blakey, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Gillespie, Wes Montgomery and Jobim which had top notch albums and could have gone as the next best top 10 albums.
Then there are the amazing musicians who were just as great but made slightly less impact like Evans, Getz, Chet Baker, Peterson, Dolphy, Les Paul, Adderley, Morgan and god, there are so many great ones.
@@kzustang those are all great and yes I agree with you but personally I would have learned more into the thirties and less fifties.
Bill Evans actually is represented as a musician - he played the piano on ‚Kind of Blue‘ which is on the list.
Bill is probably my favorite musician of all time
You did a video series about the history/impact of jazz and that’s how I got into your channel. Please do more.
Your enthusiasm makes me want to listen to all these albums again. Thanks!
Some other mentions:
"The Blues and the Abstract Truth" Oliver Nelson, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Eric Dolphy, Paul Chambers.
"Time Further Out" Dave Brubeck Quartet - Dave, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Eugene Wright.
"Jazz Impressions of Japan" Dave Brubeck Quartet.
"Land of Make Believe" Chuck Mangione Concert - Chuck Mangione Quartet with Esther Satterfield.
Thank you for this video, I love your passion and how you can riff with so much knowledge on the Jazz greats. This is a very very good list of albums.
My pleasure!
Thank you so much, Andy. It takes a brave soul to attempt a ranking of this sort. I am sure there are strong disagreements between aficionados, but you've made a slice at the impossible here, and I have some good listening ahead. My dad was a big band enthusiast who would spend hours talking about Benny Goodman, Arte Shaw, Bix Biederbecke, Billie Holiday, Helen Forrest.... In some ways, I think that generation of listeners felt abandoned by jazz as it developed in the 1950s. In every style, there was more left to explore while jazz moved on. And although you measure the interest in and the impact of your videos by how many likes you receive, please know that even the least popular of your videos is very much appreciated.
I really enjoyed this Top Ten list, sir. I've been into Jazz since the mid-70's. My Dad liked to play Herb Alpert & The TJB on the weekends. I started playing trumpet in Jr. High, so of course I was a fan of Chuck Mangione and Maynard Ferguson in that time frame. Got the Jazz bug big time in High school. So you keep right on making these Jazz videos, sir!
Enjoying your vids Andy. I saw you in a clinic at Drum Tech years ago and enjoyed your down to earth approach. I'm finding a lot of your comments on Jazz very relevant to blues too ( I'm more of a Blues Player).
all the best. Ed
Mate what a great bit of educated chat on jazz history. Loved it.
Great video. I will watch everything you post about jazz. Especially the secondary stories that are not often told.
Loved this video. Your passion and enthusiasm and how you justified your choices was great✌️
Loved this video. A great collection of ten works of art. Love your ‘riffing’ Andy.
Andy - Thank you so much for this video! I thought I knew a lot about jazz but you taught me SO MUCH! You brought us right inside each album and what went into your thinking about why it was on your list. And I really like how you present this sometimes complex information. I'm going over to your Patreon page now to add my support. Thank you again!!
This is absolutely brilliant. Your knowledge and enthusiasm make the presentation an archival lecture for any learned institution.
Wow, thank you!
Thanks for this great list, and count me amongst your viewers who would welcome more jazz posts! Although prog is a genre I enjoy very much, and there's certainly great diversity amongst its practitioners, it's a pretty limited area of music when compared to jazz. I suspect it might not be long before you run up against difficulty coming up with new things to discuss in the progosphere. On the other hand, the world of jazz, from Armstrong to Braxton, is so vast, and filled with just as much impassioned debate as to what does or does not merit inclusion under its banner, that it could keep anybody going for a lifetime.
I love the way you outlined each album.Excellent
Yes, please I would encourage you to make lots of jazz videos! Your enthusiasm in infectious and inspiring !
Andy, the raw emotion when describing what A Love Supreme means to YOU gave me goosebumps. If you ever wonder if you are getting it right...wonder no more cousin.
Wonderful selections! I particularly appreciate your description of A Love Supreme and placing it where you did. It’s such a personal album for me, and your thoughts were quite moving.
A Love Supreme and Crescent: hypnotic music. You hear the echos when turning the music off. Giant Steps is more on the "athletic jazz" file.
You say on Giant Steps that three of the tracks are named for people. Actually, it’s four, the fourth being, of course, Cousin Mary.
Just watched this video Andy. I'd love to see you do more Jazz content. I'm originally from Walsall but I've been living in Australia for the past 42 years. I visited my Mom in Aldridge, West Midlands for her 100th Birthday in February. I'm a massive Jazz Rock & Prog Rock fan and also Heavy Rock. But I grew up in the 60's listening to my Dad's Jazz & Classical records and my older sisters Motown & Beatles 45's. Because I was a teenager in the 70's I had the great fortune to see many of the great Jazz Rock, Prog Rock and Heavy Rock bands play live. Unfortunately, I missed out on seeing Hendrix and Cream play live because I was a bit too young (born in 1958). Anyway, I love your videos and yes, please cover more Jazz, I have an extensive collection of Jazz music. PS The Clee Hills and Ludlow were brilliant in the snow on my recent trip back home. And the drive back through Cleobury Mortimer to Bridgenorth from a trip to Wales brought back a lot of memories of my youth.
All the best and keep up the good work.
Regards,
John Scarratt
Even though it's a personal list, all the albums are selected for cultural and historical significance and their influences and you are very articulate in explaining your selections. Some of it seem like textbook classics to the more experienced jazz listeners but they're unavoidably essential. If you renamed it as the 10 most influential jazz albums, no one would blink an eye. I often struggle with the conflicting ideas of should I pick the "greatest" or simply my favorites as they don't always converged.
My baker's dozen in no particular order:
The Willisau Concert - Cecil Taylor
A Love Supreme - Coltrane
The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman
Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins
Out To Lunch - Eric Dolphy
Black Saint & Sinner Lady - Charlie Mingus
Machine Gun - Peter Brotzmann
Pakistani Pomade - Schlippenbach Trio
Lennie Tristano - Lennie Tristano
The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Jimmy Giuffre
Complete Savoy/Dial Recordings - Charlie Parker
Complete Hot 5/Hot 7 - Louis Armstrong
Complete Candid Recordings - Cecil Taylor
Complete Miles & Coltrane Columbia Recordings - Miles Davis
Your channel is way better than Rick Beato!
Some excellent choices there, HP. Jimmy Giuffre's 'Thesis', 'Fusion' and 'Free Fall' are among my jazz favourites.
Wow! The Jimmy Giuffre 3 are so extremely underrated, glad to see them mentioned in your list, would be in mine, too.
"The Complete Ellington Indigos" is a exquisite and most beautiful album which came out in 1957 ... Due listen to it !
It's also hard to rank Jazz albums before the LP era. Still, an interesting video, I'm sure. Andy's videos are always filled with really great insights and insightful anekdotes.
Sunday at the Village Vanguard needs to be on the list - in your own words, the greatest jazz piano trio and their greatest album , along with Waltz for Debby. But great choices and really great descriptions and explanations/justifications. Love it 😊
So fantastic, Andy. This is also such a help to someone like myself who is getting into and exploring Jazz on a far more appreciative level. ❤
Thank you.
I loved this topic and how you connect the dots. Bravo, and thank you.
I also really, really enjoyed your discussion on modern jazz musicians sounding the same and the roots of that and how, again, you connect the dots. Rampant food for thought, my man. I’m digging it, and working through it to find my own voice on the matter. You ignited that.
More jazz 🎉
Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
I really enjoyed this video Andy and would love to see more jazz videos. I'm 67 years old and have only been listening seriously to jazz for about the last five years. I've learned a lot about the genre watching your videos and I really appreciate your channel.
Superb selections and comments, Andy.
I agree with everything you say, but I must mention my 'guilty pleasure' in jazz, it's Coltrane's My Favorite Things on his album of the same title, the transcendent soprano sax art, because it is art, then especially the McCoy Tyner solo that is such breathtaking genius, it is my vote for the best solo of all time, yeah McCoy Tyner on that track sends me, really sends me. How's that for a stringy sentence?
I'd love to hear you talking more about jazz. If you record them the people will come.
I discovered you via your jazz discussions so I raise my hand for more jazz videos. I don't always agree with you but you are a very engaging speaker and you are so clearly immersed in this world. I always learn a lot from and enjoy your clips.
Yes! More jazz, please! And more again! I don't often listen to/watch hour-long videos, but about five minutes in, I knew I was here for the duration.
Brilliant video! I was interrupted and had to pause after album 5, which irked me because I couldn’t wait to find out what the top 4 were. You managed to make the history of jazz gripping in the form f a top 10 listi. More jazz videos please.
Thank you so much. Great list with some albums I haven‘t heard.
Thank you for this excellent rundown of these albums. I'm a jazz musician. And, I still learned more about my heroes from you. So, Thank you! And, yes please, produce videos on Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro!
I love your riffs on the evolution of jazz which brought back memories of my introduction in the early 1950s via hearing Stan Kenton's City of Glass in person at Syracuse University. Also hearing Strayhorn's Lush Life sung by the incredible Sarah Vaughn.
A Brilliant episode, it was good to get the dates right, but when you just started rapping things go really interesting. Thanks much!
Excellent job Andy. I am a jazz Saxophonist & clarinet artist in Los Angeles, from Philadelphia. Best wishes, Murray Middleman
Amazing video. Thanks Andy. I find you knowledge on music captivating.
Thank you for including Ellington at Newport! An extremely important jazz record!
I was so glad that right at the end Charlie Christian got a little look in. Jazz guitar gets such short shrift in Jazz analysis. Definitely more jazz content please.
Just found your channel and it is great to have commentary that is so knowledgeable and enthusiastic, yet also open and exploratory. I absolutely loved your video on "What most people get wrong about jazz" which expressed so well my own feelings about the music. Great work.
I have never listened to jazz before but after watching your videos about jazz it has me genuinly currious to check it out.
More jazz please!
Here's my top 10 :
1- Mingus : The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
2- Coltrane : A Love Supreme
3- Don Cherry : Complete Communion
4- Jarrett : Survivors Suite
5- Monk : At Town Hall
6- Hancock : Maiden Voyage
7- Tristano : Live at Toronto 1952
8 - Tyner : Fly with the Wind
9- Braxton : Performance (Quartet) 79
10- Dolphy : Out to Lunch
HM : Silver "Song for my Father", Hill "Point of Departure", Corea "Three Quartets"
This might be the best analysis of jazz music that I've ever heard. Thank you!
A very challenging goal ranking by innovation like that. A very well done video, Andy! Brilliant as always. I love it that no matter how many albums I get, I always end up hearing something new after every video. Thanks you! Love each and every album on this list and I think I even agree with the ranking.
Many thanks!
Yes, I’m still listening and I’d love to hear MORE about jazz. This was excellent, i didn’t think I’d still be watching - thank you!
Happy to learn more about jazz. Cool!
That story about the woman dancing while Ellington was playing at Newport is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!! Hey, when you gotta dance, you gotta dance!
The whole video is excellent.
To answer your question at the end, I love jazz and your videos about jazz! I also love prog rock though I haven't explored your prog rock videos yet.
Btw, have you ever heard of the classical composer Lois Vierk? I have her cd River Beneath the River which I think is excellent.
Thanks Andy
Love your channel
Love your charsmatic voice and music taste
Such a gem of a channel
Good video. 1959 was quite a year. To answer your question at the end, yes, please do more on Jazz!
Loved this video. Keep the jazz videos coming! Couldn’t agree more about Thelonious Monk - listening to him (like Louis Armstrong) is a jaw-dropping experience. Art Tatum’s Solo Masterpieces is an album I have listened to over and over again and really cemented my love of the genre. The list is superb … I have listened to all these albums many times (except the Parker collection … need that!) and to me the intangible that sets them apart is the pure emotion that bleeds from these works. Joy … melancholy …. when you get goosebumps, you know something good is going on.
So glad you included Ellington. I saw him and the orchestra in the early 70s, shortly before he died. Blessed.
Andy, I am so impressed with your passion and scholarship.Thanks from a jazz buff wannabe..
I came to this video by some kind of chance and thought to myself the very last thing the world needs is someone's top ten of all the thousands of jazz recordings. But this lecture was brilliant. Taken as a whole, the selection was very well considered and ties together logically many of the important sub genres of jazz, and how they interweave historically and stylistically. Thank you for educating and sharing this great effort.
Great take. Love the insights and your opinions.
I normally run from “best ten lists” but this is a great personal list and I thoroughly enjoyed your comments. 🙏
A great list and commentary
Really nice to hear your opinions, so indepth discussion that wants me to listen to the ones I have again and play on Spotify the ones I haven't. I don't play but I do listen and your commentary puts so much in perspective.
I'd love to hear more about Jazz Andy, this was really interesting, well done for getting all that info in within an hour! :)
I love your videos about jazz and agree that your Louis Armstrong video is one of your best (after watching it, I sent links to several friends, something I rarely do)--only surpassed by your series on the history of jazz. For my money, you're at your best when you talk about the history of music; the dynamics of how popular music changes over time. But then, nobody's ever accused me of having my finger on the pulse of the general taste of the public at large.
Please do more on Jazz. I enjoyed this video very much.
Incredible information! Much appreciated!
Really enjoyed this! Just to let you know - I found this channel while searching for Jazz content. Not as interested in Prog, but will stay for more Jazz stuff. Hope to see more of it.
Love these jazz presentations!
Love the Jazz videos, keep them coming!
Please add more jazz. I found your top ten all time jazz albums fascinating and very informative. I just discovered you and I will be back!
Stumbled upon this video and thought that no one needs to tell me what the greatest jazz albums are. But, I really enjoyed this list and Edward's deep analysis. Excellent and highly recommended.
Always educational, thank you Andy! I have 5 of these albums in my collection. Just ordered Monk/Coltrane, Ellington at Newport, Art Tatum, Time Out (damn, can’t find my copy!), and also Charlie Christian at Mintons.
I enjoyed this quite a bit - would love to see a Bill Evans video and a discussion of Scott LaFaro. This video is wonderful because of the musical innovations, cultural, and historical references - but more so simply because you so clearly love the genre.
Just do it man, jazz is where everyone who loves music ends up. I loved this video on jazz and your favourite 10 albums. There’s great depth there and I will be up for more, for sure l!!! Thanks man.
Awesome list!!! Thanks for sharing!❤
Keep the Jazz videos coming Andy. More Jazz more Zappa. Rinse repeat. Top shelf viewing mate, keep up the great work 👍👊
Really enjoyed the video. I can't argue about anything you picked
I enjoyed this video and learned from it. I own only 3 of his top 10, Giant Steps, Love Supreme and Kinda Blue. Now I want the others. I think I will listen to this video again.
It's amazing that forty percent of your list (plus one honorable mention) were released within six months of each other.
Looking forward to this. I wonder where Mingus Ah Um, Kind of Blue, Somethin' Else and Blue Train will rank. I wonder if A Night in Tunisia, Waltz for Debbie or Song for my Father will get a mention.
What an assemblage of iconic albums... If they aren't on the list, they should be.
I love this video, I love jazz/creative music. My father introduced me to John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, and many others early in my life, so I am familiar with many of the classics you have featured here. Today, I listen to John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, Mary Halvorson, Henry Threadgill, and many others. I guess what I'm getting at is, do you have an opinion on these or any contemporary musicians playing jazz music today? I'd love to hear your take on modern music.
Keep on keeping on Andy, your efforts are greatly appreciated!
Count Basie - The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-39) is absolutely essential.
Your videos about jazz priceless. For now your channel is my door to jazz & fusion. Please do more! Thank you.
One of the many beautiful things about the classic Coltrane quartet is its undeniable appeal to the average rock music fan. Coltrane, Tyner, Jones and Garrison were an indestructible force much in the same way that Page, Plant, Bonham and Jones were or even Ozzy, Iommi, Geezer, and Ward! (as you alluded to, haha!). There is a fundamental unifying quality amongst these individuals that enabled them to create some of the greatest music ever. Replace one person and the results are dramatically changed. Perfect chemistry. Beauty is a rare thing, indeed. Hope your video gets a billion views.
Thanks very much. I really appreciate this as an old man who started my collection late.
I look forward to some of the persons you mention.
Can you put the list in a summary. I would like to fill my gaps.
Bravo
"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." j.coltrane. 🎶🎶🎶 Another fine list and presentation Andy.
Great video. More jazz content would be a great idea. As well as delving in to the great acts and musicians who laid the foundations of jazz it would be interesting to hear your views on newer acts - I've recently gained a lot of enjoyment from discovering acts like Nik Bartsch's Ronin, The Necks, Mammal Hands etc.
Just subscribed, yes more jazz, please!
I really enjoy your commentary and I feel like I learn from it
Great list Andy. I'd go along with you on most of it. I'd probably put Monk a bit higher in the list, although which ones you would have to bump, I don't know. Yes, more Jazz please, way more. I'd love to hear you going off on the importance of Art Blakey. from his early days as a side man to Dexter Gordon, Dizzy, Monk etc, to the proving ground of so many A list musicians with the Jazz Messengers. There has to be an hours worth there. I know you don't really worry about the view count for the occasional video, I mean you did rank biscuits at one point 🙂
Just a great countdown. Full of insights and examples of the very history, innovation and spirituality of jazz. Good stuff!
Wonderful video - and please, more jazz!
Love your insight on all of these great albums and musicians. I would of had to include something by Wayne Shorter!
Giant steps, love it