The 10 Greatest Jazz Albums (of all time) 🤔
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
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Peter Martin is about to take you through the REAL top 10 jazz albums of ALL TIME!
⚠️ WARNING: This is a highly subjective list - please proceed with caution!
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00:00 Introduction
01:35 I Love You, Paris (1992) by Shirley Horn
02:54 This One's For Blanton! (1972) by Duke Ellington
04:22 Alone in San Fransisco (1959) by Thelonious Monk
05:48 Crescent (1964) by John Coltrane
07:13 Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud (1957) by Miles Davis
08:38 River: The Joni Letters (2007) by Herbie Hancock
10:00 Hard Groove (2003) by Roy Hargrove
11:20 Bridges (1999) by Dianne Reeves
12:48 Interplay (1963) by Bill Evans
14:00 (????) by ????
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Great, Peter!! You STILL da man!!! Incidentally, RB told me that Blanton was the reason he played bass. And it wasn't his solos that lured him as much as his big fat groove. I think he first heard it on a juke box somewhere (vaguely recall him saying that). I remember when he made the duo album with Duke. he came back to LA and told me what a dream it was to make that album. He was on cloud nine when he came home from Vegas. Excellent choice, my man. All great choices. Dianne is my fav, as you know!!!
John!! Thanks for watching and for those RB recollections - priceless. I got to rehearse and play with him for one day, and it was one of my fondest and most enlightening musical encounters to date.
Nice, Peter!
Peter! I feel honoured to be part of your REAL 10 Greatest list! Recording that session in 2002 with Roy & touring in the RH Factor Band was a serious boundary breaking musical movement! It's funny. All we were doing was having some fun sharing the music to the World & giving it ALL for the music ... as Roy did his entire life on this Earth! May his music & legacy live forever! Holla... Rh Factor Family
Reggie! Thanks for checking out the vid, honored! 🙏🏼
Hey man, you certainly gave the world a true work of art, which touches us deeply. Here in Brazil, we are big fans of you. I listen to Roy every day, it keeps me alive in music, it keeps me going with such difficulty. Thank you for breaking the barriers and transforming this world for the better!
Great comment! By the way, I was living and working in Dallas in 1988 (it must have been) and one night wandered into a small jazz club on a Sunday or Monday night only to find this young kid playing trumpet with some friends, and as a long time jazz fan I immediately knew he was an incredible talent. I chatted with him and Roy told me he was about to go to Berklee. So that must have been late summer 88. I remember it well. He was just a kid, but obviously hugely talented.
não conhecia nada sobre esse canal ou seu apresentador mas a chamada ser esse album, fez eu correr aqui rapido. amem pelas indicações.
Oh yes shure, the most influential album in jazz for the last 25 years.
Out of the 10 albums on this list, 7 were new to me and I cannot thank you enough. Discovering "new" music is a joy of life
your welcome, and I wholeheartedly agree - I'm amazed & inspired by the breadth of great music still to be discovered 💯
Dude .... picking the top ten jazz albums of all time is a damn stupid thing to do, but if you're still going to do it, at least do it right (because there are a lot of innocent people hanging around the net who tend to believe every damn thing fools like you say, and I don't think is a healthy contribution at all. By the way, have you thought about wearing a wig? It would be more real than your top ten albums, that's for sure.
Ffs. You’re welcome, not your welcome.
Thanks for sharing your good attitude.
@@judeirwin2222 Lookie here. We have a grammar school English teacher with nothing better to do, You can't even spell GED
The Roberta Flack track blew me away. Thanks for introducing me to this!
Thanks for talking about these less often mentioned jazz gems! Introduced me to some GREAT albums I'd never heard of! Love the videos!
A beautiful list. Could easily be replaced with 10 different albums. The great thing about it is that even that list could be replaced with another list with completely different artists and still we could not argue. I love this.
thanks! exactly the spirit I was hoping to convey 🙏🏼
@@pianopeter Which begs the question: When is list B coming out? 😁
Dude .... picking the top ten jazz albums of all time is a damn stupid thing to do, but if you're still going to do it, at least do it right (because there are a lot of innocent people hanging around the net who tend to believe every damn thing fools like you say, and I don't think is a healthy contribution at all. By the way, have you thought about wearing a wig? It would be more real than your top ten albums, that's for sure.
@@teebeecurl From funny!!! 💖
If easily then something is not...
I was skeptical during the introduction when you were dismissing the usual selections for top 10 jazz albums of all time, but I have to say you really knocked the ball out of the park with your selections! This is a great reminder that there is so much great music out there beyond the tried and true selections, and that it is worth venturing off the usual path to explore the roads less travelled in the world of jazz. Thank you.
Agreed, and thank you for your words.
I’d vote CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
CRAZY LITTLE THING 🌴😎❤️✌️👍
Man. I'm SO glad you put Coltrane's "Crescent" on this list.
With so much music out there to listen to, I now only listen to Coltrane once in a long while, and I used to own and listen to most of his discography on CD when I was younger. And when I feel like having some Coltrane, my first thought is alway "Crescent" (the title tune). The first few choruses have to be some of the best improvised lines in the history of music.
Some that come to mind in no particular order:
Young Jazz Giants, Self Titled (2004)
-Stephen Bruner/Thundercat on bass and his brother Ronald Bruner on drums. Kamari Washington on sax, Cameron Graves on keys. conceptual, almost giving you a tour of jazz on their version of Giants Steps following the poem YJG. Interesting foreshadowing of artists who would go on to really occupy the cutting edge
Butcher Brown - All Purpose Music (2014)
Devonne Harris- keyboards, guitar, percussion
Corey Fonville- drums, percussion
Andrew Randazzo- bass
Keith Askey- guitar
Marcus Tenney - trumpet/flugelhorn/sax
These guys communicate on such a high level and have excellent compositions to showcase their love of music. Incredible drumming and tasteful fusion of influences. Lots of groove here. Endorsed by and featuring Nic Payton
DOMi and JD BECK - NOT TiGHT (2022)
They’ve got a fresh perspective, polished musicianship, a cohesive vision, and plenty of well deserved support and collaboration from artists like Herbie, Busta Rhymes, Mac Demarco
Kiefer - Happysad 2018
Lofi hip hop or jazz? Stretching the expectations of what might be on a list of jazz albums with this one. Listening to piano playing on a track like FOMO might soothe any anxieties about categorization
Anomalie - Métropole (2017)
Electronic music? Jazz? Electronic jazz? Very interesting, beautiful music and beautiful piano playing. Highly structured and very composed, even when performed live. Backbeat.
Robert Glasper - Black Radio (2012)
When I play with young piano playing peers of mine, Robert Glasper is often more of an influence on them than Herbie. His influence has personally reached me.
Thundercat - Golden Age of the Apocalypse (2011) As much a songwriter as he is a bass player. Another musician who has touched my friends and I. Them Changes is a modern jazz standard. Not on this album, I know.
Joe Henderson - Power to the People (1969)
Gotta have some older deep cuts. Underrated saxophone player. Rhythmically intriguing. This album is tied with his album In n Out. Afrocentric is an insane song, piano playing by Herbie on that track beyond my comprehension but not beyond my appreciation. Same with Jack Dejohnette’s drumming. So glad the performance was captured on this record. Mike Lawrence the trumpet player, sadly was later taken by cancer early in his life. Ron Carter with an appearance on electric bass.
Sun Ra - Atlantis (1969)
Swinging but in such an unexpected way. Otherworldly, almost too apt a description. Inspired me to take risks. Best served with THC.
Larry Young - Unity (1966)
Hard to pick only 10. Larry Young is underrated and it’s a shame there’s not more footage of him playing live. Joe Henderson again, but with Woody Shaw playing in his sophisticated style. Intervalic trumpet playing that makes me rethink what’s possible on that instrument. The moontrane is an amazing song. Called at a jazz jam I was at once and the whole band had already been working on it individually. Miraculous!
There’s many more but the agreement was 10.
Love Kiefer. Going to see him in february
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady would def be on my top 10
incredible album from top to bottom 🙏🏼
I agree !! So much
I kinda miss Chick Corea on this list cause I feel like out of all the greats he is the one getting the least attention or at least to little attention which is sad cause he was such a genius.
agreed - genius as a player and human. Miss CC. 🙏🏼
Agreed! Try 'Tones For Joan's Bones'. Fantastic album!
Agreed, musicmagic is a criminally underated album, such beautiful arrangements
Yeah, if you've heard one of his most recent albums, hot house with Gary on the vibes. With chicks arrangements and the interplay between the two, it all together mashes up to be a superb album in my opinion - but as Peter said, this kind of is more an introduction to lesser known albums without disregarding other great ones, such as the one I mentioned.
Totally agree
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Great list.
Roy Hargrove album "Family"👍❤💯
Sorry to say and no offense to you 😮 but for me BS!!
Thanks for taking the trouble to do this; much appreciated!
Hey man! I loved everything you played. Almost all of the artists you played and the classics you didn't play I have in my collection. The Crescent lp by John Coltrane is a must have and should be played first, then followed by A Love Supreme. The two lp's were recorded in that order and I truly believe they were meant to be a double album set.They are both connected in concept, execution, and movement.
Great post. Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions! Can't wait to listen.
I find the album Crescent and specifically the tune Lonnie's Lament so unbelievably beautiful and touching, thank you for mentioning it
Dude .... picking the top ten jazz albums of all time is a damn stupid thing to do, but if you're still going to do it, at least do it right (because there are a lot of innocent people hanging around the net who tend to believe every damn thing fools like you say, and I don't think is a healthy contribution at all. By the way, have you thought about wearing a wig? It would be more real than your top ten albums, that's for sure.
So happy to see some love for Roy Hargrove; as you mentioned, 'Earfood' is probably one of my favorite jazz albums of the 21st century, and he is sorely missed
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His cuban album (“Habana”) is fantastic, too.
Oh! And “The Vibe”...
@@DarkeningSkies1 The VIBE! You're going back........a great place to go!
Crescent an atf for sure and well record! Some good stuff for me to dig into! Thanks!
Crescent and Hardgroove! Woo so glad they made the list. Stoked to check the rest of these records out. Thank you for your channel and all the work you do to educate and inspire!
Your welcome 🙏🏼
So glad I have found this channel as it has introduced me to some great music,, It makes me excited to think about what else is yet to be discovered. Thanks for showcasing these lesser mentioned albums.
I totally agree with you, Peter, about the Robert Flack album, especially Tryin' Times. Not only is it musically brilliant, but it is also an historical document that does capture the domestic strife of the 60's. When I was a science teacher at East Orange (NJ) high school during that period, I used this track at an after-school class to introduce kids to the blues, and to demonstrate how such a fundamental progression can be crafted into such sophisticated, soulful & meaningful art. So, thanks for highlighting it!
thanks for sharing this, so well said 🙏🏼
Thanks for helping to introduce kids to our most wonderful American export
Oh man that Duke and Ray Brown record is absolutely killer. Thank you! I may have never otherwise found it. I adore this album.
you're welcome. I don't remember who hipped me to it many years ago, but I remember how revelatory it felt when I first heard it
@@pianopeterPeter, can you make a top 10 video on your favourite Ray Brown records. I love "Way Out West" and "The Gifted Ones", apart from the Duke duo, what else should I check out?
I'm a musician, but not a jazzer (although with a huge admiration for jazz musicianship and improv). I'm just starting to try to get a feel for the "canon". Thank you SO MUCH for this list!! Every selection is fantastic and outside the 'usual suspects" friends and UA-cam have recommended for me. But a special thanks for "This One's for Blanton". It immediately goes on my favorite albums of all time! Gorgeous recording, juicy lucid playing, so melodic, playful and fun. Maybe hardcore guys might say it's too simple, but man it hits a certain spot for me! I would love to see you do an extended list. Your insight and taste provide invaluable guidance for relative noobs like me. Sincere thanks again.
You're welcome, and thanks for your kind words. I agree - "This One's for Blanton" is a revelation. Happy listening!
One of my faves is Estate from that Shirley Horn album you noted before sharing your #10, so I decided to stick around and am glad I did. You just gained another subscriber who's eager to see what you generously share in '24. Thank you!
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Thank you, Peter! I always love and appreciate all the music content you share with us so generously!🎹🎶
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Thanks for turning us on to such a great selection of albums and songs. I listen to a lot of jazz, but am really happy to have found such a great collection that I wasn‘t aware of. 😀🎹🎸🎷
your welcome! happy listening
Excited that Miles Davis' Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud gets some attention. Well deserved to be mentioned. I think, it is one of his masterpieces. Stunning record!
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It’s my favorite album
Thank you for spelling that out, so I can find it! I don't understand french.
Yes, but he should have also recommended seeing (Elevator to the Gallows) the movie, itself. A must see film, IMO. --Mind twisting.
@@histubeness - true!
I wasn’t sure at first, but you stole my heart. Well done. It is always a beautiful thing to be taking on such a wonderful journey.
Cheers
Danny
PS I’m a bari sax player…….may have to find one to add😂😂😂😂
Glad to see Shirley Horn , she’s so underrated, I’ve been going through a rabbit hole of her live performances on UA-cam just brilliance.
And Peter's pick is superb. Shirley didn't make bad albums, but "I Love You Paris" and "Close Enough for Love" really define the core of her art. To me they are the platonic ideal Shirley Horn albums.
Don't forget The Main Ingredient; one of my favorites!
The Miles album is a real gem. Listening now! Awesome as ever Peter.
The live UA-cam stuff of Shirley is so great to have - I saw her live quite a few times throughout the 90's, and to have these video documents is priceless.
Speaking of lesser known jazz artists: I had never heard of Gil Scott Heron before I heard his song, “The Prisoner,” on Sirius XM radio one day. I haven’t listened to the entire album that that song is from yet, but I fully intend on doing just that….there were/are so many GREAT jazz artists, that it is mind boggling sometimes, to even think about listening to all of their work! (It probably can’t be done.)
Thanks for being bold enough to do this. A fine public service.
your welcome 🙏🏼
A million thanks for posting this and making me discover these gems!
Thanks for this fresh list. It’s only a wait for a colder day to dig into your list. I can’t wait for a rainy day to listen and relisten to this all. Roy is king!
This is what jazz is all about: listening to music with fresh ears. This list is true "tour de force". Thanks a lot!
You're welcome, and I wholeheartedly agree on 'fresh ears'. 🙏🏼👂🏼
Thank you for continuing to help broadening my listening experience of this amazingly incredible music, known as JAZZ !🎵🎶😎❤🔥👌
Spot on bullseye list indeed. Great calls. I’m always in tears with Lonnie’s Lament, over the past 52 years to first hearing Crescent when I was 16. And #1 is a blow your mind bringing us back to when we were young and loved this , and Chapter 2!
Thank You. I love the path that you took here. These are very good selections and some new standards. Much appreciated. Subscribed.
The Ornette Coleman Trio, Live at The Golden Circle vol.1
Smack Up, Art Pepper
Mingus at Antibes, Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane at The Five Spot
Decoy, Miles Davis
Out to Lunch, Eric Dolphy
Moanin', Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
Midnight Blue, Kenny Burrell
The Bridge, Sonny Rollins
Blues and the Abstract Truth, Oliver Nelson
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! Finally some love for Ornette and Eric!
YES!
Very interesting list; I like where you go with it. I have to toss into the mix "The Music" by the Clayton Brothers: John Clayton (bass), Jeff Clayton (reeds), Jeff Hamilton (drums), and Bill Cunliffe (piano). The touch and emotion on that album from all four players is simply superb, and the programming of the record (a dying art) is masterful. If the album is unfamiliar, I would start with the song "I Concentrate on You".
Many thank. Listening to Jazz for ages but did not know most of your suggested albums. What a great experience!
Peter! Thank you so much for your unique take on the old warhorse "top 10 best list." Refreshing and very insightful..... you've expanded my somewhat "limited" viewpoint. Your style and presentation is enjoyable and motivating for exploring beyond the backyards of old top ten yardbirds.
Great, diverse top 10 Peter. I think the Roberta Flack album is a great choice! Anyway - here's another 10 (in no particular order):
Miles Davis - The '58 Sessions
Aretha Franklin - Yeah!!!
Jarrett Trio - Still Live
Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea
Return to Forever - Light as a Feather
Egberto Gismonti - Alma
Michel Camilo - One More Once
Getz/Gilberto
Herbie Hancock - The New Standard
Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)
I had to look up that Miles record, and then remembered from listening many years ago - that Bill Evans intro on Green Dolphin 😘
@@pianopeter Yes - Green Dolphin is fantastic. As is the Love for Sale which I first heard on this weird, rather incoherent outtakes compilation called Circle in the Round. It's been my go to Love for Sale ever since ... just beautiful from start to finish.
That pat metheny record is top tier
You know your "S"
I'm a 58 year old Classic Rocker who still knows very little about jazz. That said, Roy Hargrove's "With the Tenors of Our Time" is the first jazz CD I ever bought. I subsequently bought two or three more of his CDs. For me he was the perfect bridge into jazz, as his music was more accessible to my untrained ear than so much other jazz I had heard.
What a great first album, one of my favorites!
THAT Roy album is awesome. I got a chance to play all that music with Roy's quintet while touring with his quintet in 1994. I was young and ig-nant, but that experience shaped my musical life. Very weird to see this from that summer 1994--> ua-cam.com/video/GgELdy4rmLc/v-deo.html
@@pianopeter Thanks so much for the link! Who's that young dude on piano? ;) Wow, you're the REAL DEAL, man! Too bad Roy is no longer with us.
The first track of that album, "Soppin' the Biscuit," is _killin'!_
@@terrellholmes2726 I couldn't agree more. I still love the entire lp. So much legendary talent and is ultra swinging, soulful, and funky!!👍👍👍
Thanks so much for pulling this together!!!
Wow..This One For Blanton is real eargasm..Mister your channel is a cut above the rest.. preview of a track each no matter how brief really drives the point home..and the omissions of great but overhyped album is a welcome relief. And your clear voice goes over with great conviction..takes me back when i am working at Tower Records Jazz department. 😊
I think Crescent always gets overlooked because A Love Supreme came out so soon after, but it's certainly no less an album. Thanks for highlighting it.
your welcome - and it's such stunningly different album from Love Supreme!
Yes, true. It's a great counterpoint to ALS - quietly introspective. In many ways I prefer it.
Both Crescent and Olé Coltrane deserve their flowers
Jimmy Giuffre deserves some recognition. His approach to jazz composition is quite unique. Western suite or The easy way are incredible albums that changed my way of understanding jazz.
Another album that I really love is Paul Desmond - Glad tu be unhappy, with the unique Jim Hall at guitar.
Wow! I'm so glad that I came upon your video. Thanks so much! ❤
I pivoted into jazz because I’m a drummer. While these all sound very nice and relaxing (granted, I love the last two), my place in the jazz journey has recently landed me at 1) Buddy Rich’s “Big Swing Face” album, and 2) Bill Evans “At the Montreux Jazz Festival”. (likely neither of these are ‘under the radar’ picks; I’m a novice listener.) These are two recent finds I’ve had where I had to replay the album immediately because I was so thoroughly floored by the amazing talent and energy of the group. I’ll have to circle back to your list, when I’ve developed my ear a bit better. Cheers!
P.S. Not sure about anyone else, but I’d love to see a list of “top ten jazz drumming albums” for folks who have already thoroughly sifted through the usual top 10 miles/coltrane/the usual picks.
Thank you, brother! Great list and indeed, not all of them would have been on my list! Will give them a good listen-to. I am a big sucker for scandinavian jazz. LOVE Esbjörn Svensson Trio - and here perhaps the most "Good Morning Susie Soho". Feelings, man! As well, one of my most listened to albums is from a Swedish saxophone player, Per "Texas" Johansson and here perhaps the album "Alla Mina Kompisar" ("all my friends"). This is where I fell in love with pedal steel guitar in jazz. Listen to "miljarder stjärnor" ("millions of stars"). FEELINGS, man!!!
I am very happy that you featured Roy Hargrove & The RH Factor album "Hardgroove." I instinctively bought the album back in 2007 because I thought the cover art was so unique. I didn't even know RH back then, but I'm hooked on him ever since. There are other hits in that album: Poetry, The Joint, Liquid Streets, Juicy, and The Stroke.
RIP the best melancholic trumpeter. Roy Hargrove, you'll be missed. ❤
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Good switch up 😎👍🏻thanks for the list
Thanks for this list. I haven’t heard most of this list before. Loved it and loved your enthusiasm. Cheers!!
I love Duke Ellington's Afro-Eurasian Eclipse. It's totally underrated and needs to be heard more! What fantastic music.
Agreed. Late Duke is kinda overlooked...but killing!
a great one!
I agree
"Such Sweet Thunder" by Duke
Hard Groove is utterly fantastic. I bought it not long after it was originally released. I was just thumbing through the CDs in my local music store and I saw the cover and thought: "Interesting". I'd never heard of Roy Hargrove at that point. When I got home and played it, it blew my socks off. A fantastic mix of soul/blues/rap/hip-hop inflected jazz. Simply superb.
ah the days of flipping thru CD's at a local music store, and buying based on an interesting cover - I miss that! Thanks for sharing
This is great - thank you! I love jazz but am only recently beginning to dig past the classics so this video is a Godsend - your picks are spot on. To think I might never have heard the RH Factor without your input. That is a beautiful record! I’ve already gone and purchased the Herbie Hancock too… thanks so much - this is a massively valuable video to the likes of me - hugely appreciated! 👍👍👍
Nice picks, enjoyed that. Always loved Duke’s Far East Suite and the great contributions from Billy Strayhorn. Just subscribed, thanks.
I was once walking through the city at night. It was drizzling, the lights in the apartment blocks along the harbor were providing some background lighting and Miles' Ascenseur pour L'échafaud was playing through my headphones. I couldn't have picked a better setting for this soundtrack. Goosebumps.
agreed
I bet that was a classic noir experience. I have done a similar thing sitting in my jeep with the window open just enough to allow the fresh air and hear the rain. I played a few tracks from the Round midnight sound track, Miles' Kind of Blue and Dexter Gordon's Ballads.
This is great. I’d love to see more album recommendation videos like these.
Edit: like more of these lesser know “inside picks”
more to come for sure
Thanks for this list. Great pick that "Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud" it reminds me the time when I was digging in our public music's library.
Greetings from Belgium.
Thank you! Just added them all to my playlist, and can’t wait to go exploring. Two new artists for me to dive into, and 9 new records. Very excited. Where to begin…
The man may have a point! Peter, thanks for this list. The joy is in always getting new lists to listen to. I love the later albums by artists. It shows they have still grown. That is why Jazz is so great
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Thanks for opening my eyes and ears to this selection. What a great selection of albums.
A favorite of mine is Something Else by Cannonball Adderley. Miles' playing on this album is sublime
Something Else is very aptly named - a favourite of mine as well. Blues In Orbit, for me, is very much a companion album despite them not being connected.
I'm sure you've heard it, but Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue is up there with the other "Blue" album as far as I'm concerned - at least in terms of listenability.
Dude! That top 10 list f*cks so hard, my head is still spinning. Thank you so much for your thoughtful curation. I was lucky enough to see Roy Hargrove and his big band live before his untimely passing. And what seems to be ironic to me only now, Roberta Flack opened that show! I listen to many of those recordings already but there is more than enough new-to-me material to keep me going for a long time. Instant subscribe! 😄
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Thanks so much! Adding all of these to my Spotify list!
A very creative and interesting list including some obscure pieces... Roberta is great. I saw her in DC in a Stanley Turrentine sit-in back in the day before she was even known, and she was fabulous then, even before the world heard of her.
Love this. This One’s for Blanton, Crescent, Interplay, Ascenseur Pour L’echafaud, Alone in San Francisco, First Take, all amazing. I’ll have to check out the others (I love Shirley Horn) Would be great to see a series of lists like this. Here’s ten of my lesser-known favorites:
10. Larry Young - Of Love and Peace
9. Gil Mellé Quartet - Quadrama
8. Pete La Roca - Turkish Women at the Bath
7. Sam Rivers - Waves
6. Randy Weston Trio with Cecil Payne - Jazz à la Bohemia
5. Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Thesis
4. Carmen McRae - Bittersweet
3. John Coltrane - First Meditations (for quartet)
2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Rahsaan
1. Art Farmer Quartet - Sing Me Softly of the Blues
Honorable Mention - Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef), Walt Dickerson Plays Unity, Herbie Mann & the Bill Evans Trio - Nirvana, Honi Gordon - Honi Gordon Sings, Ornette Coleman - Body Meta
That order and list could change on a daily basis as I know I’m forgetting many more I’d like to include.
fantastic list, thanks for sharing. Carmen McRae!! What an artist...🙏🏼
Great additional list. Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Haven't listened to him in a while, but now I have to go do it. Unique talent!
@@pianopeter anytime. Carmen McRae, my favorite singer! And really enjoying the Joni Letters today. Thank you.
@@DavidRamsey1 thanks! Highlight track of Rahsaan Rahsaan has to be the Dvorak-Sentimental Journey-Rogers and Hart medley. Amazing what he does with the different melodies on his horns!
deep list there. Thanks for the reminders and new recommendations! I've never listened to 7 of these, but will remedy that ASAP!
Fantastic list! The Shirley Horn, and the Miles Davis picks are two of my favorite albums of all time!
Well done!
Thank you for sharing this top 10, love it! I like the fact it was a bit outside the obvious ones, i love to discover new stuff.
Here in Montreal, we're pleased to have the Jazz Festival: It's another chance to enjoy / discover music. I was lucky to get tickets in 2022 when the Brubeck Brothers came: It was in Gesù theater, inside a Church, great show!
I'll try to get the albums of your top 10 i don't have (hope they are good recordings). As i am an audiophile too, i'm in heaven when i hear great jazz musicians on a well recorded / mixed / mastered all digital media! Great recording is a big plus. I'd say that in my record collection, Patricia Barber's albums are probably the best sounding ones i have. With my new DAC, it's simply MARVELOUS!
Montreal Jazz Fest is indeed a great event, and a fantastic city - cheers!
Happy to see in the list Ascenseur pour l'echefaud by Miles. A great album and a remarkable landmark in my life (I discovered it in 1990, when I was young and still free to discover things). Thanks for the list, I did one similar for a blog in Italy, but it was meant to consider the 11 album which cannot be missed, so it is more classical.
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Thanks for this "not the usual suspects" approach! I had thought about this for quite some time - you not only beat me to it, but did so in a clearly better-informed way.
Great list! Thanks for sharing
Loved the Shirley Horn and Bill Evans picks, but I would definitely have gone with the Roy Hargrove/Mulgrew Miller "In Harmony" recent release as my pick for any Hargrove related album. Those two create some magic that is rarely heard on any recording and as a duo they compliment each other perfectly.
Well...that was excellent! Too many things to say, so I'll say this. I am always on the look out for new music. My tastes range wide and far, and yet I am also picky. There are at least five albums on this list that I'll now go and track down. Thank you so much!!
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Interesting list you have there Peter. Definitely some new things to look at and listen to for me on your list. I have two albums that are in my top ten that you didn't mention on your list or on the overstated list of albums you mentioned, and they are Ugetsu - Art NBlakey and the Jazz Messengers, and Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley.
Great video! Glad to have found your channel!
Crescent is my favorite John Coltrane's album!
Fun list! The one I'm especially on board with is that Monk album. It's always been an important & much loved album for me.
The whole video reminds me of one of my favorite Norm McDonald jokes: I got stuck on a deserted island once, and I gotta say, those 10 CDs I brought with me didn't help a damn thing! XD
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I wanted to hate your list! But I love it! As a piano plodder (what I do could never be mistaken for playing) I am a huge Shirley Horn fan. The Miles & Bill Evans LPs you featured are simply brilliant. Great job!
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Excited like many of your other commenters!
A fresh and new list for me, a long listener.
Your love of this music is lauded and appreciated.
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Old guy here, stuck in the jazz classics. Love your list. Jazz needs to be fresh and new, and most of these are new to me. I used to have the Ellington/Brown album until somebody liked it more than I did. I remember trying to play the bass parts.
Great list Peter. I would add, if possible -- Anthony Braxton's Five Pieces 1975, Steve Swallow's Home, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble's Dance With the Ancestors, Larry Goldings' As One, and Lee Konitz/Albert Mangelsdorf's Art of the Duo.
To avant garde for these people
@@nakim55 There's room for everybody and everything! I'm a big fan of Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Bobby Blue Bland but also Ornette Coleman, Andrew Hill and Sam Rivers as well : why not? It all flows from the same source.
Yes -- Crescent! My favorite Coltrane album, and one of my very favorite jazz albums ever. And Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud is so great. But Roberta Flack's First Take is an inspired and unexpected choice.
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This was so unbelievably awesome experiencing your tasteful selection of multi - textual artistic manifestation of art, sonic art, and sonic spaces from sonic transcendentalists. Thank you for your exquisite masterful taste and indulgence. I was captured and lured into heavenly spaces beautifully guided and explained 😊 I wish I had more than a delectible morsel.😢 thank you.
Being a new listener (Well not really new, just stuck in my ways) and starting to branch out from the "norm", this list is refreshing. Thank you so much. You've given me another rabbit hole to go down with some of these artist. Much Love!
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I enjoyed that! I would kind of like a more track-focussed top 10, as album contents obviously vary widely in quality. I'm a dedicated bebopper, but nothing speaks to me more than that ephemeral explosion of art that started in a taxi cab and ended in a recording called 'The Minor Drag', For me, that recording stands as the preserved scintilla of a frantic, youthful, intoxicated and brilliant exposition of joyful young jazz!
thanks for sharing that story- a track oriented list makes sense, I’ll throw it in the mix 🙏
You gave me a couple of albums to listen to, thanks! 😁
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Peter, love this. Got some listening to do. Instantly felt the urge to jam to these great recordings ❤
Excellent compilation!! Really a curated list. I didn’t know a few of these artists - great that you expanded my jazz knowledge.
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I gotta say Sam Rivers' "Contours" is an absolute bomb of an album. I hardly ever see it listed, don't know why. It's personal, surprising and fresh still today, imo.
I've overlooked it in my personal listening...thanks for the reminder.
great one!
When it comes to Sam, I'll take "Fuchsia Swing Song."
So good to see Dianne Reeves appreciated (haven't seen anyone react to that selection as I scrolled thru comments). Got a chance to see her live early after her first LP and loved her ever since. I urge others to check out her catalog.
Yes, I am with you. Dianne Reeves never gets a mention, even when people discuss female vocalists
I agree.
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I first (unknowingly) listened to her because of her collaboration with Calder in "Ancient Source" (killer song, give it a chance if you feel like to)
I recognized her almost immediately when I heard her in this list, I'll definitely check out for some of her catalogue later :)
Great list and great way to present it. I really enjoyed you starting with Shirley Horn and finishing it with Ron Carter and Roberta Flack and not forgetting Coltrane in the middle. We’ll done!
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What a fantastic bunch of records. Thanks very much. Already ordered Herbie 🙂
Quick T10 hit
10. The Nurturer - G. Allen
9. Dances and Ballads - WSQ
8. Expansions - D. Holland
7. The Prisoner - H. Hancock
6. Intermodulation - Evans/Hall
5. Broken Shadows - T. Berne
4. Village Vanguard Again - Trane
3. At the 5 Spot - Dolphy/B. Little
2. Live @ the Lighthouse - E. Jones
1. While the Gate is Still Open - G. Thomas
This is a much more interesting list than Peters.
This is a delicious list! Never heard four of them - must remedy. Thanks!
Yes, Dolphy belongs on any list.
I miss 1, Chick corea - Return to forever , and 2 ,Patrica Beysens - Circels , and 3, Modern Jazz Quartet - Last Concert. 3 super albums to ☝🏻
Here's my "not that obvious" top ten jazz albums of all time:
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges - Back to back
Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan - Two of a mind
Gerry Mulligan - What is there to say
Chet Baker - Peace
Charles Lloyd - Voice in the night
Ginger Baker - Coward of the county
Rabih Abou-Khalil - The sultan's picnic
Jacinta - A tribute to Bessie Smith
Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Jasmine
Bernardo Sassetti Trio - Motion
Lament for Thelonious, from Chet Baker's Peace is a hidden gem
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Your list is AMAZING!! Love the "Jazz" concept applied here. You stepped somewhat away from the known, tried-n-true standards. The Miles selection was spot on. Discovered this album in a used record store a few years back and MAN, it's a stunner. Thanks for thinking outside the box (as a good jazz man should).
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Nice list....I know a couple but the rest are new to me so thanks for that!!!
My fav of all time? Bill at the Village Vanguard!! Masterful trio !!!
Feel proud that two of these albums are on my “can’t live without” list. Crescent, and River: Joni Mitchell letters
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Etcetra by Wayne Shorter. What a masterpiece! Most would not put it onto Shorters top 5 or top 10 albums but believe me. If you havent listened to it yet - DO IT. You’re welcome! 😊
I agree! Cecil McBee & Joe Chambers really complete it
@@arikayemusicyeah. Rhythm section is amazing. Soundscapes.
There would definitely be a Wayne 60s Blue Note album on my list if I made a list like this, possibly Adam’s Apple
no doubt. A def some Newk! @@jazzfan7491
A beautiful list and I only have about half of these! Thank you!
Peter - I love your channel! Fantastic list and insight. Looking fwd to your next post.
thank u sir!
Spot On - John Coltrane’s Crescent and Lonnie’s Lament 🙌. All of the Roy Hargrove’s RH Factor output is killin ! You also named some others that I need to definitely pickup….
My Top Ten Acoustic Jazz - No Particular Order - There are so many….
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
John Coltrane - Crescent
Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner
Wayne Shorter - Adam’s Apple
Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time Vol. 3
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Joshua Redman - Moodswing
Carmen McRae - Sings Monk
Lee Morgan - Search For Thé New Land
Art Blakey - Indestructible
tbh "My Funny Valentine" is the Miles album I would take to an actual desert island if I can only take 1 😂....and Prisoner - YEAH!
@@pianopeter Totally Agree !!!
Shirley Horn is such a good place to start. Such piano mastery and strength in her vocals create such an enormously striking balance and a powerfully expressive performance every time..
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Refreshing! I love your frickin list! Some I have in my collection but many I don’t and will be checking out. Thank you. And for all your other content!
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THANK YOU! Such loving and rewarding selections! God bless you. GREAT!!!!!
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