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!!

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

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!

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!

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 🇩🇰

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.

Great show Andy. Keep Jazz shows coming. Cheers

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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!

Definitely do more jazz videos. I'll watch!

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.

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.

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

Here's a vote for more jazz Andy! So much more to cover and your informed analysis is "music" to my ear.

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!

Just discovered your channel. Love your joyful , knowledgeable , compassionate approach to music ( especially jazz) and human dialogue. Thank you.

Yes, please I would encourage you to make lots of jazz videos! Your enthusiasm in infectious and inspiring !

Thanks Andy Love your channel Love your charsmatic voice and music taste Such a gem of a channel

Your enthusiasm makes me want to listen to all these albums again. Thanks!

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.

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.

Great video. I will watch everything you post about jazz. Especially the secondary stories that are not often told.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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 love the way you outlined each album.Excellent

This is absolutely brilliant. Your knowledge and enthusiasm make the presentation an archival lecture for any learned institution.

Awesome list!!! Thanks for sharing!❤

You did a video series about the history/impact of jazz and that’s how I got into your channel. Please do more.

Keep the Jazz videos coming Andy. More Jazz more Zappa. Rinse repeat. Top shelf viewing mate, keep up the great work 👍👊

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.

Your videos about jazz priceless. For now your channel is my door to jazz & fusion. Please do more! Thank you.

Really interesting video, thanks. I learned alot. I've been collecting jazz records since 2010 and this has really opened my eyes to some recordings I haven't heard. Thanks again

Love the Jazz videos, keep them coming!

Just a great countdown. Full of insights and examples of the very history, innovation and spirituality of jazz. Good stuff!

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 😊

Mate what a great bit of educated chat on jazz history. Loved it.

Thanks so much for these recommendations. I'm not a musician, just a casual jazz listener, and I've struggled to find the "great" jazz recordings over the years ever since being exposed to Kind of Blue long ago. I will definitely be giving your recommendations a taste in the coming weeks. Thanks again! Just sub'd to your channel.

Hey Andy thanks for this mate, that was very nice thank you for your effort, it was a great video and very coherent, and yes please do more jazz 👍☺️🙏❤️

A Brilliant episode, it was good to get the dates right, but when you just started rapping things go really interesting. Thanks much!

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.

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.

Awesome video Andy -- makes me want to go get a bunch of albums out that I haven't listened to in a while

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.

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.

Superb selections and comments, Andy.

This might be the best analysis of jazz music that I've ever heard. Thank you!

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’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

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.

Amazing video. Thanks Andy. I find you knowledge on music captivating.

Bill Evans' contributions to jazz is definitely something worth spending time on I think. Another jazz giant.

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.

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

So much information!! Wow...I've been listening to Jazz since the late 70's, familiar with every song you mentioned, but didn't know most of the information you shared.....WHAT A GIFT, tyvm!!!!

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.

Thank you so very much for this jazz albums review Yes you should make many more I do share a lot of choices with you Keep it coming

I loved your discussion. Gave me ideas for albums to explore.

Just found you...Excellent Video I Loved the Material and Your approach....Thank you...I will watch your other Videos....Request , could you explain Jazz music structure and the techniques that the greatest musicians used in detail.....Peace

Excellent job Andy. I am a jazz Saxophonist & clarinet artist in Los Angeles, from Philadelphia. Best wishes, Murray Middleman

I just watched and subscribed. I love your depth of knowledge how you share your love and understanding of music. I also would encourage you to do more on jazz. There are two on this list that I don’t have, but will shortly. I am going to watch all of your jazz videos now. And maybe a few rock as well. Thank you. 🎉

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 would have a different list, but it doesn't matter. I would never be able to give such wonderful explanations. Great video.

Thank you so much. Great list with some albums I haven‘t heard.

OMG! Easily the best video I've watched this year. What an experience Andy. I just discovered you today and I'm thrilled to and have immediately Subscribed to your channel. Please, please dive deeper into this wonderful music called jazz and all of the topics you mentioned towards the end of this segment. The hour seemed more like 15 minutes, as it passed so quickly. Thank you so much.

Great take. Love the insights and your opinions.

Many thanks for a great video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm a real fan of Chick Armando Antonio Corea so I was hoping one of his albums would be on your list. I have three albums on your list and love them.

I'd love to hear you talking more about jazz. If you record them the people will come.

Incredible information! Much appreciated!

More Jazz please. Jazz rock or classic quintets, trios etc. Your knowledge is wonderful - this is a great compilation of the greatest and important music recorded.

Love these jazz presentations!

Wonderful video - and please, more jazz!

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.

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.

I have never listened to jazz before but after watching your videos about jazz it has me genuinly currious to check it out.

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.

Andy, I am so impressed with your passion and scholarship.Thanks from a jazz buff wannabe..

Yes. Please do more jazz videos. Your top 10 had a lot of my top 10.

Thank you for including Ellington at Newport! An extremely important jazz record!

Good video. 1959 was quite a year. To answer your question at the end, yes, please do more on Jazz!

So glad you included Ellington. I saw him and the orchestra in the early 70s, shortly before he died. Blessed.

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!

Really enjoyed the video. I can't argue about anything you picked

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.

Very informative video. I have Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme. I will now endeavour to track down copies of all your other recommendations here. At some point in future, would love to see you do a video on the albums of Bill Evans please.

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 normally run from “best ten lists” but this is a great personal list and I thoroughly enjoyed your comments. 🙏

Great job, Andy, at the impossible (keeping it to 10!) I love getting your insights into what's special about these records. I vote more jazz, yes, but I understand the need to capture views, if you don't do it much!

It's amazing that forty percent of your list (plus one honorable mention) were released within six months of each other.

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!

First time viewer. WOW! great stuff. great presentation. Your love and knowledge of music comes through loud and clear. Yes, more Jazz.

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.

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!