Let me know your 10 jazz albums to listen to before you die!

My top 10 in no order: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Miles Davis - Birth of The Cool Dexter Gordon - Go Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport 1956 The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch! Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father John Coltrane - Blue Train Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Kind of Blue is regularly mentioned as THE Miles Davis recording, and it is iconic, but my favorite Miles record is "Sketches of Spain", which is a spectacular jazz symphony. It brilliantly recreates that whole Ernest Hemingway, smoky bar in Madrid vibe. I'm also a big fan of the Jazzland recording "Theloneus Monk with John Coltrane", Art Blakey's "Moanin" mentioned below and for fusion, Pat Metheny's recording "Offramp".

Love Charlie Parker, but string arrangements for jazz are just so syrupy & sickly sweet. So many other Bird albums to choose fro

Thanks Dan. Great music in any order. Nice playing too.

So glad you included Mingus Ah Um. Often overlooked but it is possibly my favorite from the period.

Very good list. I have 6 of those albums, and agree completely with numbers 1 to 3. My only suggestion is that a Duke Ellington recording--he did plenty after WWII--should have been included. Two suggestions are "Far East Suite" and "Three Suites". Thanks for posting this, Dan.

1) Sonny Stitt - Personal Appearances 2) Sonny Rollins - Saxaphone Colossus 3) Dexter Gordon - Biting the Apple 4) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 5) Sonny Stitt ans Gene Ammons - Boss Tenors in Orbit 6) John Coltrane - Blue Train 7) Mingus - Blues ans Roots 8) Sonny Rollins - The Bridge 9) Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder 10) Sonny Stitt- Plays Bird

Good list. My top 5 jazz albums in no particular order are: 1. Getz/Gilberto 2. Blossom Dearie-My Gentleman Friend 3. Chet Baker Sings 4. Bill Evans-Undercurrent 5. Antonio Carlos Jobim-Passarim

Great list and I enjoyed your playing. Among my favourites are Moanin' by Art Blakey and Relaxin by Miles Davis quintet. From more recent times, I like Walter Smith III 'Still Casual'

New jazz fan here, love the video. I've got some Ornette Coleman, Miles, Coltrane, and Herbie on vinyl but Donald Byrd seems to be my favorite. Recommendations for similar artists? I like pretty much everything from 60s and 70s I've heard.

Here you are, Dan plus a bonus I couldn't leave off. True Blue-Tina Brooks Open Sesame-Freddie Hubbard Go-Dexter Gordon Power to Soul-Idris Muhammad Jackie's Bag-Jackie McLean Soul Station-Hank Mobley Birth of the Cool-Miles Davis Blue Train-John Coltrane Kind of Blue-Miles Davis The Sidewinder-Lee Morgan Bonus: Prime Time-Eric Alexander

LOVE the Charlie Rouse mention!

FINALLY... a list I have actually heard or 10 live to offend loved grew up with and recall devouring the liner notes over and over. I even tried playing alone with my 4-Piece slingerland set in the basement

Great Video! Thank you

Great choice. Coltrane will always be my choice for most stunning artist on Sax,

interesting that phonographic recordings turn clockwise in northern hemisphere.

We Get Requests - Oscar Peterson Trio Out There - Eric Dolphy Now's The Time - Charlie Parker Quartet Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Chick Corea Hidden Treasures - Gary Smulyan Inventions and Dimensions - Herbie Hancock Red Garland's Piano - Red Garland JuJu - Wayne Shorter Pepper Adams Quintet - Pepper Adams Quintet Inception - McCoy Tyner To be honest though, it probably changes every two weeks

Dave Brubeck-Time Out Art Blakey- Moanin Duke Ellington- Live at Newport Miles Davis-Sketches of Spain Charles Mingus,Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Thelonius Monk- Brilliant Corners The Quintet- Jazz at Massey Hall Herbie Hancock-Headhunters John Coltrane-A Love Supreme Miles Davis-Kind of Blue A great Jazz album I've really hooked on lately that i feel more people should hear. Yusef Lateef-Detroit Latitude 42° 30° Longitude 83° Really good stuff. Lateef is so underrated as a jazz legend.

My fave miles album ..hands down is tutu ..no its not his best but its my favourite

I must say, I really like this list. On could argue, easily, that Saxophone Colossus should be on it, and the lack of Armstrong and Ellington or any of the bebop trumpet players raises a question, but you did say it was saxophone weighted. I think Parker with Strings is a terrific choice. My favorite Parker album is Live at Massey Hall, followed closely by the Dial/Savoy sessions, but those won't appeal to anybody who doesn't like bebop to begin with. As you say, Parker with Strings is a great introduction. What sold me your list though, is that my go-to Coltrane recording is Blue Train, and I would guess that I listen to it more than any other jazz album. I like Giant Steps a lot, but that find A Love Supreme gets a bit tedious after a a listen or two, but Blue Train never does. The title cut is just fabulous, from Curtis Fuller's wonderful trombone riff to open it up, and then the absolutely searing solos by Lee Morgan and Coltrane. Just wonderful. The other four tracks are terrific too, Coltrane at his absolute best as a composer (except for I'm Old-Fashioned), arranger and leader. I'm not sure one needs to listen to Ornette Coleman before one dies, but it would be a shame to miss Blue Train.

Thanx, it is cool

1-KindOfBlue(Miles and the Cats) 2-Giant steps(Coltraine) 3-Love Supreme(Coltraine) 4-TimeOut (Brubeck) 5- Moanin (ArtBlakey and Jazz Messengers) 6-Takin Off (Hancock)

Jack Wilson, Easterly Winds Bobby Hutcherson, Spiral Miles Davis, Relaxing Gene Ammons, The Big Sound Lee Morgan, Cornbread Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil Art Blakey, The Big Beat Tony Williams, Civilization Parker/Gillespie, Bird and Diz Horace Silver, Silver 'n Percussion no particular order but it will give the listener a nice survey of 25 years of jazz. enjoy👊🏾😎👍🏼

Coltrane-Coltrane's Sound Horace Silver- Blowing The Blues Away Hank Mobley-The Workout Lee Morga-Cornbread Jazz Messengers ST album

In no order: Wes Montgomery: Smokin’ at the Half Note and Full House Miles Davis: Kind of Blue John Coltrane: Giant Steps and My Favorite Things Art Blakey and the Jazz Messangers: Moanin’ The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five Cannonball Adderley: Somethin’ Else Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds Bolden: Original Soundtrack by Wynton Marsalis Louis Armstrong: The Definitive Collection

I'd definitely go with Kind of Blue, Blue Train and Time Out, but for Herbie Hancock I'd go with the particularly piquant Mwandishi, for Monk I'd go for the intravenous cocktail of Straight No Chaser, I'd throw in the voluptuous On The Corner by Miles also, Eric Dolphy's carnivorous Out To Lunch, McCoy Tyner's totally tasty Real McCoy, Weather Report's haughty Heavy Weather and John Mclaughlin's awesome Extrapolation.

Great listening idea, Glad to see Miles high on the list. ps Kenny G is to jazz what Bert Kaempfert is to rock.

13 y/o future saxophonist here! Heavy Soul - Ike Quebec Blue and Sentimental - Ike Quebec The Complete 45 Sessions - Ike Quebec Soul Station - Hank Mobley Poppin - Hank Mobley At Ease with Coleman Hawkins - Coleman Hawkins To Etta with Love - Houston Person A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guarlaldi Trio Go! - Dexter Gordon Look Out! - Stanley Turrentine

you have 3 coltrane albums here. one is enough. kind of blue was selected by downbeat as the grwatest of all time

7:34 Bob Reynolds, fellow sax vlogger is one who started on Kenny G. I never hate on any musicians even Kenny G.

What is the track in the opening credits? Thanks!

My Top 10 Duke Ellington - A Drum Is A Woman Count Basie -Straight Ahead Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln - Freedom Now Suite Victor Feldman - The Arrival of Victor Feldman John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman MIles Davis and Horns Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Reflections in Blue Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit Blossom Dearie - Needlepoint Magic Clifford Brown - Study in Brown

Hello Dan, i am looking for a track/ album for several years now, maybe you have any idea, thank you for any help in advance. THis is the info i can provide: i heard the track before 2018. Style is contemporary (i would say say, the record is from at least the 90s, maybe even from 2000-2017). Now the track starts with a single note on an electric piano. the key is stroke a few times, each time a little hard. Then the piano plays an intro. After the, a larger (4?5?6? players) horn section comes in playing tutti. it's not a slow track, it's quite forward, but as said, rather modern. it's not acid jazz, not funk or similar, rather like modern UK style or french or german like Nils Wogram, but it also could be an anthem international record ( though it does not sound like "tribal style conscious jazz). Do you maybe have any idea? i guess there are not too many tracks, that start with that repeated not on one key on an electric piano. thank you so much!

Mine Top 10 in disorder John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Side Up Charles Mingus - Ah Um Bill Evans - You Must Believe in Spring Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus Charlie Parker - Jam Session John Coltrane - Crescent Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come Johnny Hartman - For Trane

I would have to include Bill Evans the Paris Concerts in the top ten.

Great list. I think Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue has to be in there. But, not sure which one you could take out because they are all fantastic. Maybe make it top 11 😀

I’ve got Sonny Rollins village vanguard, Chet Chet baker, joe Henderson in and out and mode for joe, blue train, miles smiles, bill evans explorations, herbie Hancock directions and dimensions, Freddie Hubbard ready for Freddie, monk the classic quartet live album. Deep cuts of course besides blue train

My ten would be vastly different. 1. Coltrane: Ascension. 2. Ellington: the Blanton-Webster Band 1939-1942 (double album). 3. Roscoe Mitchel: Nonaah (double album).4. Louis Armstrong: the Hot Five and Hot Seven: multiple albums. 5. Bob Brookmeyer-Jim Hall: 7x4: The Music of Alec Wilder. 6. 2 Degrees East 3 Degrees West: Grand Encounter (Bill Perkins, Jim Hall, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Chico Hamilton). 7. Peter Brotzman-Fred Van Hove-Han Bennink: FMP 0130. 8. Spirituals to Swing, 1938-1939. 9. Keith Jarrett: My Song. 10. Gianluigi Travesi-Giani Coscia: In Cerca di Cibo. The best live sets I've heard. Bud Powell trio, Cleveland, 1958. Horace Silver quintet, Cleveland, ca. 1959-60. Charles Mingus, NYC, 1963. Mongo Santamaria, with Hubert Laws and Bobby Capers, 1965. Abdullah Ibrahim, NYC, 1967. Shirley Horn, San Francisco, 1993? 4? David Murray, Cleveland (with Kahlil al-Zabar, ca. 2018? Comments welcomed.

Surely Blues for the Fisherman 1, Art Pepper meets the Rythm Section, Jazz at the Pawnshop, Satch & Josh

Herb Alpert?

At 34sec, the blues that comes in with horns...WHAT IS IT's NAME??It's driving up the _______ cause I can't name it & I know I should be able!!!(thanks.)

I was going to wait until I died to get to these, but I guess listen while I’m still alive.

Wow! That may be the first time I agree with someone's 10 jazz albums list!

Brillant choice, thank you. But where is the Kenny G album now........?????🙄

Steve Lacy Troubles, Evan Parker Trio Imaginary Values, Archie Shepp the Magic of Juju, Wayne Shorter Super Nova, the John Coltrane Quartet Plays, Arthur Blythe Illusions, Ornette Coleman Dancing Inside My Head……..

LOVE this list… most of these would be in my top 10 but a few would drop to my top 20. The only one that would not be close to my list is The Shape of Jazz to Come. I have it on cassette, which I purchased over 35 years ago. I listened to it exactly one time. The music went completely over my head, and I’ve never revisited it or anything else by Ornette Coleman.

Duke Ellington - Piano in the Background

1- Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis 2 - Moanin - ArtBlakey and Jazz Messengers 3 - TimeOut - Brubeck 4 - Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch! 5 - Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue 6 - Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder 7 - Kenny Burrell - Bluesy Burrell 8 - Herbie Hanckock - Head Hunters 9 - Sonny Rollins Way Out West 10 - Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy 11- Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady 12 - Charles Mingus - Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus 13 - Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk 14 - Eric Dolphy - Out There 15 - Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

The title "the Shape of Jazz to Come" must have come from the book "The Shape of Things to Come" by HG Wells, an early SF novel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come That also inspired the fantastic song by the Yardbirds, "Shapes of Things": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gMlhaqeiyKeagZc.html&ab_channel=Aerio12345678

Before we die? Why can't we hear them after we die?

I love the lost. A few I don't know yet. Ornette was always too much for me but maybe now I can appreciate it... Only one change I would make: instaed of Kind of Blue, my faves for Miles are, in order: 1. ESP 2.Nefertiti 3.Files de Kilimanjaro 4. In a Silent Way I also (given 15) would include something of Clifford Brown and something of Sonny Rollins. Some of my LPs were stolen years ago so I can't locate which one easily... Here it is!!! Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach- fantastic album. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jp6SndpnqbGzn3U.html&ab_channel=mistermister668 there was also some more obscure Coltrane I think with Miles? and also Coltrane Live at Birdland.

Not that anyone gives a damn, but 6 jazz albums that without even batting an eyelash, would crack my Top 10 list include… *Carmen Sings Monk - Carmen Mercedes McRae* *Ask The Ages - Sonny Sharrock* *Hi De Hi De Ho - Cab Calloway & his Orchestra* *Soul Station - Hank Mobley* *My Favourite Things - John Coltrane* *Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance - Wynton Marsalis*

If it really is 10 jazz albums before you die and Vince Guaradi’s “Charlie Brown Christmas” is not mentioned, it is a travesty

Rather Coltrane-centric, but better than G-centric.

1- brad mehldau art of the trio vol.3 (1998) 2- brad mehldau Largo 3- Miles davis Tutu

If I had to pick ten you would have to put a gun to my head. I think my list might change depending on my mood.

I could never understand why people think Dave Brubeck's Time Out is such a great album. I have always thought it is pretty bland, a kind of suburban middle class man's version of what jazz should be. It's all brain, no soul.

No Wes Montgomery, No Clifford Brown, No Lee Morgan, no list!

you should not play sax in the morning, ah um mingus,bitches brew miles,moanin blakey,shorter see no evil,

Only 10? LOL c'mon get serious! Totally unrealistic!