A dude who has a jazz music channel with a Bill Evans LP behind him, a Beatles poster in the background, and was into Pharaoh Sanders in grade school is one cool cat!
You dropped into my RUclips feed for 1st time; my top ten are. 10. Lonnie Listen Smith, Visions of a New World, 9. Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage, 8. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, 7. Idris Muhammad, Power of Soul, 6. Lee Morgan, Search for the New Land, 5. Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Miles Ahead, 4. Dave Brubeck, Take Five, 3. John Coltrane, Giant Steps, 2, Freddie Hubbard/ Stanley Turrentine, In Concert, (Povo) 1. For me, it's Kind of Blue with Flamenco Sketches as the top song on this album. Thanks for sharing, brother - I'm a 69-year-old former Trumpet/Flugelhorn Jazz Musician God bless!
Thank you very much for finding my channel and watching my video. Your top 10 is great 👍. I'm honored that a former jazz musician is viewing one of my videos 😊 ✌️
Great list! My top 10: 1. John Coltrane - My Favourite Things 2. Sonny Rollins - Newk’s Time 3. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage 4. Kenny Dorham - Matador 5. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 6. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come 7. Dave Brubeck - Time Out 8. John Coltrane - Soultrane 9. Art Blakey - Moanin’ 10. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Great list Kenny,I need to check out that Koln Concert album. So many great Jazz albums you can leave out some amazing albums in a top 50 never mind a top 10 but here goes... 1) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers ~ Moanin' 2)Cannonball Adderley ~ Somethin' Else 3)John Coltrane ~ A Love Supreme 4)Sonny Rollins ~ Saxophone Colossus 5)Wes Montgomery ~ Full House 6)Wayne Shorter ~ The All Seeing Eye 7)Duke Ellington ~Ellington Uptown 8)Alice Coltrane ~ Ptah The El Daoud 9)Thelonious Monk ~ Brilliant Corners 10)Charles Mingus ~The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Ask again in a years time and no doubt it'll be different
Its hard to compile a list as there is so much to listen to and yet to discover but let's name it a present favorite moods list in no particular order :) Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth Art Farmer - On The Road The Bobby Timmons Trio - In Person Walter Strerath - Trio Quartet Quintet The Ramsey Lewis Trio - Wade In The Water The Jan Huydts / Peter Trunk / Joe Nay Trio - Trio Conception The Horace Silver Quintet & Trio - Blowin' The Blues Away Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds Chico Hamilton Trio - Introducing Freddie Gambrell Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes - Reflections Of A Golden Dream I like different jazz styles but must admit I have had to learn to appreciate fusion (which I do now:) ) and still do, free jazz. Most of the time I tend to lean towards styles like hard bop, post bop, soul-jazz and jazz-funk. Probably because I like soul and funk too ;) For example I really like this particular song Wild And Peaceful by Kool & The Gang that has that dreamy mellow and jazz mood woven into it. That's why I also like the music from the era where soul-jazz developed in which a lot of jazz connoisseurs had difficulty with accepting as they were stating this wasn't actually on the path of real jazz anymore. And if i may take the liberty in adding a second top ten list of wanna haves :) (Again in no particular order) Freddie Hubbard - The Body & The Soul Dizzy Reece - Star Bright Freddie Redd Quintet - Shades Of Redd Lee Morgan - The Complete Live At The Lighthouse (Hermosa Beach, California) Herbie Hancock - Man-Child The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - At The Lighthouse Dave Bailey Quintet - Reaching Out Slide Hampton Octet - Sister Salvation Bobby Hutcherson - Montara The Nathan Davis Sextet - Makatuka
Both of your lists are awesome...I couple I have not heard before but your lists are great. Thank you very much for taking the time to post your lists and watching my video 😊 ✌️
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews Thank you for your kind reply and your content! Subscribe; Check! BTW, one down from the wants-list, Lee Morgan, the full 8 disc edition alongside the 3 disc witch will probably go up for sale now
Great list, Kenny. I can't rank my favorite jazz albums. Impossible task to me. But I can randomly name some records that I consider a core part of my journey in this fascinating music. In no particular order, here I go: - Crescent (John Coltrane) - You Must Believe in Spring (Bill Evans) - Destination... Out! (Jackie McLean) - Chick Corea (Return to Forever) - In a Silent Way (Miles Davis) - A Caddy for Daddy (Hank Mobley) - Slow Drag (Donald Byrd) - Out to Lunch (Eric Dolphy) - Matador (Kenny Dorham) - Time Waits (Bud Powell) - Moanin' (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers) - San Francisco (Bobby Hutcherson) - The Shape of Things to Come (Ornette Coleman) - Speak No Evil (Wayne Shorter) - Evolution (Grachan Moncur III) - One Flight Up (Dexter Gordon) - Extensions (McCoy Tyner) - Ptah The El Daoud (Alice Coltrane) - Death and the Flower (Keith Jarrett) - Power to the People (Joe Henderson) - Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock) - Cornbread (Lee Morgan) - Reminicent (Mal Waldron/ Terumasa Hino) - Offramp (Pat Metheny Group) - Star Bright (Dizzy Reece) - Afric Pepperbird (Jan Garbarek Quartet) - Night Train (Oscar Peterson Trio) - Cool Struttin' (Sonny Clark) - The Peace-Maker (Harold Land Quintet) - Color Changes (Clark Terry)
I really like your top 10. I have 5 of those albums and enjoy them regularly. In my top 10 are 3 of your selections with Kind of Blue at number 1. I cannot get enough of it even after all these years. Monk's Music (Thelonius Monk for those unfamiliar) is up there at number 2 with Time Out by Dave Brubeck number 3. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartmann (Nat King Cole's favorite singer and the only singer Coltrane ever played with despite invites from Frank Sinatra and other great singers) is number 4 and number 5 is Round Midnight with Dexter Gordon and an amazing list of collaborators. I realy like your efforts and successes with your channel. Best wishes.
I have the Monks Music album but I have not listened to it in some time, but I will soon 😊. I appreciate you and your kind words and comments, thank you very much 😊 ✌️
Really enjoyed this - thank you. Although there's a couple of your selections I don't know (McCoy Tyner, Pharaoh Sanders) I'll be sure to check them out as your choices that I do know are indeed excellent (Don Cherry: good call!). My jazz Top Ten could change every day, but at least half of these are set in stone for me: 1. Dave Brubeck Quartet 'Jazz Impressions of New York' 2. Gary Peacock 'Tales of Another' 3. Maynard Ferguson 'New Vintage' 4. Miles Davis 'Filles de Kilimanjaro' 5. Dave Brubeck Quartet 'At Carnegie Hall' 6.Jan Garbarek Quartet 'Afric Pepperbird' 7. John Coltrane 'Lush Life' 8. Mal Waldron 'The Call' 9. Erroll Garner 'Up in Erroll's Room' 10. Gary Peacock Quintet with Eberhard Weber 'Passengers'
My current top ten in no particular order would be: 01. Black Saint and The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus 02. Crescent - John Coltrane 03. Evolution - Grachan Monchur III 04. Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock 05. Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard 06. Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis 07. Stick-Up - Bobby Hutcherson 08. Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter 09. Idle Moments - Grant Green 10. Seagulls Of Kristiansund Live - Mal Waldron at The Village Vanguard.
Great list! Thank you for your video! My best jazz albums: 1.John Coltrane, Giant Steps 2.Art Pepper meets the rhythm section 3.Miles Davis, Kind of Blue 4.Dave Brubeck, Time Out 5.Cannonball Adderly, Sometin' else 6.John Coltrane, Blue Train 7.Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus 8.Wayne Shorter, Speak no Evil 9.Illinois Jacquet, Swing's the Thing 10, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto You probably guessed, I am a saxophone player.....
Interesting list. Our tastes in jazz are definitely different but I loved hearing your list. I own and love three of those albums 😊. Jazz is a big tent, lots to explore. I don’t rank art personally but you’re brave to put yours out there. Now regarding basketball……Bill Russell would like a word! 😆😆😆 Just a couple of my favorite jazz albums, not overlapping yours (unranked): Tijuana Moods - Mingus A Night in Tunisia - Blakey Somewhere Else - Ted Nash Blue Train - Coltrane Red Nichols And the Five Pennies at Marineland Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section Ella Fitzgerald & Louie Armstrong
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews I highly recommend the Somewhere Else album. The recording quality is outstanding and it’s the music of West Side Story done by his trio. Likely only available on Ted’s website. A real sleeper from a member of the JLCO. Much of the rest of the list I expect you’re familiar with given you’ve got a more extensive jazz listening history.
Great diverse list, here's my Top Ten Jazz Albums 1.Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue 1959 2.Cannonball Adderley - Something Else 1958 3.Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage 1965 4.John Coltrane - Love Supreme 1965 5.John Coltrane - Africa Brass 1961 6.Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes Tales From The Underground 1981 7.Charles Tolliver - Live In Tokyo 1974 8.Art Blakey - Album Of The Year 1981 9.Art Blakey - Keystone 3 1982 10.Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse 1970
Brother Kenny! I can’t argue with any of those selections. All of them very worthy and represent the beautiful array of creative options available in the jazz genre. I see that you slipped in “Focus”. I love Pan as well. Mr Cherry and Mr Coleman cohorts and celebrated masters indeed. Miles, Mingus, Trane, my goodness, the elite. Jarrett is a bad hombre and for me the Koln Concert is at the the top of his many excellent efforts. I saw Pharaoh perform Karma live at UCLA’s Royce Hall in 1969. It was a wonderfully intense performance with Lonnie Liston Smith, Stanford James and Clifford Jarvis. Of course, there was only one Tyner and he was/is the Real McCoy. Thanks again for sharing your insightful thoughts and loving connection to the music. BTW, I loved Mr Clutch Jerry West and hated to see the passing of Chet Walker. Both great players and human beings. In closing, Happy Father’s Day.
That must have been great to see Pharoah Sanders at UCLA. Jerry West was tremendous as a player and executive. It was nice seeing the Lakers win their fist championship in 1972.
Oh yes. I first got into jazz when a teacher turned me onto Herbie Mann Live at The Village Gate so that's my personal favorite. Birth of the Cool also kicked my behind. Larry Coryell's 11th House was also a favorite.
Blues and the Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson Go! - Dexter Gordon Art Pepper - Meets the Rhythm.Section Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus Impossible to do lasting list and exclude so many heroes I really am enjoying your podcasts! Billy on the coast
Who are your top ten jazz artists? That's virtually impossible for me to list. I have a list of favorites on each instrument. I love your channel. Keep 'em coming!
I think this was a good choice to be at someone's number one spot for a jazz album. I get the same vibes about the Africa Brass Sessions album. There was truly heart and soul put into those albums.
Brother Kenny, you are the King of Jazz! I have been into Fusion for so long, 45 years now, that I neglected the all-time greats. I just started getting into Miles, Lee Morgan, Chet Baker, Trane, Red Garland, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Gene Ammons, and Jimmy Forrest only around five years ago. I guess I was thinking that these old classics were too costly and not very good sound quality wise, that I stayed away. Now I am all in, thanks to you and Mazzy and Melinda! I tend to buy the newer pressings just because when I listen to Jazz trumpet, Jazz piano, or Jazz Sax, I just want to hear the music, not the Rice Krispys in the background, lol. Your Top 10 is stellar, btw, gonna have to check out that 'Karma' album from Pharaoh Sanders! My Top 5 at the moment are Jimmy Forrest-'Out of the Forrest' at #5, Somethin' Else at #4, Chet Baker-'The Blue Room', #3, Lee Morgan-'Search for the New Land ' at #2, and 'Milestones' by M.D. at #1! Love your channel, Peace and Love!
Very interesting selection! My one would just a bit different, but your choices are all lovely, no exception! I'll keep on following you. Thanks once again. Luigi (from Italy)
i Kenny, você sempre nos trazendo matéria perspicaz e para reflexão. Acho sua lista e a dos demais que postaram excelentes. Tenho diversos dos álbuns referidos e sinto falta apenas do Phineas Newborn jr, que entendo ser um pianista excepcional e deve estar presente em listas de grandes instrumentistas de jazz. Tenha uma ótima semana (zenon, from Brasil)
Zenon, thank you for watching my videos. I appreciate your comments about music and thank you very much for watching from Brazil....I hope that you have a great week.
Great selection. I would include any of the Miles Davis' second quintet albums. Love Hebie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, and of course Ron Carter.
I loved this video, and got a clue about some stuff I have never listened too, I could have easily had any number of the ones you chose here, but in your style I will lean towards my taste..but it is in no way really an accurate top ten..more like top of mind ten..I could have chosen any number of ensemble recordings of Keith, American or european, I ran out of room for Mingus Right Now,.and C.Lloyd-Fish out of Water..but I definitely love these and regularly listen.. There is some quite modern stuff here, but I believe it is not unreasonable to consider this stuff top of the food chain.. 10 Atomic/Schooldays -Nuclear Assembly Hall 9 David Murray/Milford Graves-Real Deal 8 The ICP Orchestra plays Nichols-Monk 7 Harold Land-The Fox (Elmo Hopes compositions man!!) 6 Keith Jarrett -Personal Mountains 5 Sonny Criss-Sonny's Dream(Horace Tapscott arr.) 4 Steve Lacy /Gil Evans- Paris Blues 3 Charles Mingus-at Antibes 2 Charles Lloyd -Notes from Big Sur 1 Miles Davis/Gil Evans- Porgy and Bess I mean snap brother...It is so hard to pick, What about Gil Evans -Old bottle New wine? So many... What about Oliver Nelson..? Anyway.. thanks for the tickle..I hope someone gets to discover something they too have never heard and yet maybe can enjoy...
Nicely done, I have a few of them, some of the others I'll need to check out. I appreciate your views. I don't think I'll understand the free jazz work, but I want to hear your views anyway. thank you.
Don't claim to be a jazz expert but my days off digging had landed me in some obvious and some random albums that i played a lot. Lee Morgan search for a new land, Randy Weston blue Moses, Donald Byrd voices (and all his mizell works), Mingus black saint, coltrane n hartman, wes mo bumping, horace silver song for my father, ... Obvious ones too like kinda blue, love su... But I'm going to visit some on your list.
Except for the Free Jazz albums, I have the same records. In my list I would add Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce, Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing, Paul Horn - Here's That Rainy Day, Charles Earland - Intensity, Charles Lloyd - Forest Flower, Chick Corea - Piano Improvisations Vol.1, Dave Brubeck - Time Out & Brandenburg Gate Revisited, Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island, Harry James - The King James Version & last but not least John Klemmer - Touch. These are just a few of my favorites. I'm a little older than you (76) and have been told I have very eclectic tastes when it pertains to music. I get as much enjoyment out of Frank Sinatra, Percy Faith, Erik Satié as I do out of Bill Evans. I enjoyed your list.
Thank you for your clear and repeated statement of artist & albums! ps I got up your top pick recently on CD for three dollars Australian recently (very pleased) along with Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, & Dizzy Gillespie CDs -Ten AUD all up! One of my 'tops' would be Grant Green's 'Idle Moments" just for the title track.
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews Hi Kenny, I'm not sure if you would be willing to do this and make a video out of it because both artist recorded across a few labels. It would be the 50's recordings of Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins; two pioneers on Tenor. Could you do a review and pick your favorite between the two?
I liked you from the start of the video, but as soon as I saw your #1 pick I recognized you as a brother. Now I have to go back and give #2 a proper listen!
Hey Kenny 🙌 There's a lot of great records I need to listen to... 😄 but my ranking is: 1° Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis 2° Night Train - Oscar Peterson 3° A Love Supreme - John Coltrane 4° Time Out - Dave Brubreck 5° Feelin' The Spirit - Grant Green 6° Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley 7° Milestones - Miles Davis 8° Stone Flower - Antonio Carlos Jobim 9° Inventions And Dimensions - Herbie Hancock 10° Straight Ahead - Count Basie Peace 🙌✌ God Bless 🙏
Hey Kenny, some interesting choices there. My list would be completely different, but that's the great thing about lists, nobody's right or wrong. Enjoy your channel. Keep them coming 👍
Thanks for the great video, I will be checking out the ones I haven't heard on your list. PS- I have a general recommendation: the Pat Martino album "Joyous Lake", a rare fusion album for him. I really enjoy it
Great picks! I’ve worn through all of those albums except the Cherry one. Thanks for the tip. Will check it out. Jarrett’s also a fantastic classical player. All genres. Baroque to Modern. Total master. His release of Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues is off the planet
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews He's one of my favorite musicians of all time. Nothing he can't do. And with excellence. I agree on it being close for first place. It's like Kind of Blue, Koln Concert, and A Love Supreme are a photo finish. Masterpieces.
I love the list and added a couple of these to my listening list. I love so much music it would be hard to make a list that I would still be in agreement with myself the next day! A Love Supreme as #1 is right. The album is very special. Karma is on regular rotation for me too. Jarrett's Köln Concert is another favourite. What I love about jazz is the depth. There's so much to love. I subscribed to your channel. Thanks!
Thank you very much for subscribing to my channel. I agree with you that it is very tough to make a top 10 list without challenging it myself a few day later; A lot of greats to choose from 😊✌️
You put smile on my face😊 Throughout your count down, I was saying "what? No love for Coltrane?" And there you go, your number one Love Supreme!, which happens to be my all time favorite.
Great channel. Rankings are hard for me. I always find my rankings to be the first albums that made me want to keep digging for more jazz. 1. Dolphy at the Five Spot Vol.2 2. McCoy Tyner Tender Moments 3. Miles Davis Miles Smiles 4. Bill Evans Waltz for Debbie 5. Coltrane Ole I mean I've only been listening to jazz for the last 12 years or so but these 5 kicked my butt.
Great looking music room. Between myself and my late brother-in-law, we probably have 4 or 5K vinyl records and another couple thousand CD's. But we still don't come close to what I'm seeing of your collection. Years of love can be seen in this video.
My favorite album is the one I really want to hear at the moment. There are literally hundreds of albums that could make a top ten list that change almost daily. There are about a thousand interchangeable albums on my list such as Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot Charles LLoyd at the Monterey Jazz Festival, John Handy at Monterey (If Only We Knew) Coltrane My Favorite Things, Rollins Saxophone Colossus, Wayne Shorter Night Dreamer, Ornette Colman Free Jazz. Like I said best album is the one you want to hear in the moment and the top ten is always changing because there are so many GREAT albums in the great and fluid art form we call jazz.
It’s always perilous to choose a top ten. Glad you chose “Fly With the Wind”. Confirms my feeling. I have ( or had) 4 of your picks. Been a fan of Jazz since high school in 1966. I had a friend who tried hard to make a name for himself but got nowhere. I produced one cut and sang on his one and only album. We covered Horace Silver’s and Lambert Hendrix and Ross’s “Come on Home”. I have a letter from Horace Silver praising the rendition. Nice man.
Interesting list. I’m one of those people who doesn’t like free jazz, so Don Cherry and Ornette aren’t my favs-though Cherry could also play a more inside, swinging style. Nice to see Sketches of Spain and Kind of Blue included. They’re such obvious choices that some people might want to avoid them in favor of more obscure items. My list in no order would be- Maynard Ferguson-“A Message from Newport” Count Basie-“I Told You So” Duke Ellington-“New Orleans Suite” Frank Sinatra-“Songs for Swingin’ Lovers” Miles-any of the Prestige records Lee Morgan-anything Chick Corea & RTF-“Light as a Feather” Don Ellis-anything Woody Herman-“Giant Steps” Tony Bennett-“Bennet/Berlin”
I have that Frank Sinatra album but I have not listened to it in a long time, I'm going to have to check it out soon. I glad that someone finally mentioned Maynard Ferguson on their list 👍
I wanted to tell you that it's a really nice RUclips channel of yours and that you clearly express your passion for jazz music. It would be impossible for me to make a top ten list of my best jazz albums, the same would be true for films. If I really have to list 10 jazz albums out of the many that I like, they are: 1) Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point! 2) Sun Ra - Atlantis 3) Ornette Coleman - At the ‘Golden Circle’ Stockholm, Volume 1 & 2 4) Herbie Nichols - The Complete Blue Note Recordings (3CDs box set) 5) Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives & Sevens (JPS Records 4CDs box set) 6) Miles Davis - Nefertiti 7) Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus 8) Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil 9) Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers - Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers 10) Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Thank you very much for your kind comments and for posting your list. Your list is great..I have about half of the albums on your list. That live Ornette Coleman album is nice ( I have the HI-RES digital download version).
Hi Kenny, it's of course a masterpieces list you share to us that most of them I got. The question is who's us? Us are between 40 and 70 years old. I would like to know if younger people have knowledge of these musicians, more, this music.
No Freddie Hubbard - Liquid Love?! No Mose Allison?! If you haven't heard before I dug up a deep Sun Ra album from his massive collection: 'Lanquidity' ; whole album is an experience man.
I'm a huge fan of Freddie Hubbard and the great voice of Mose Allison...unfortunately i cannot fit all of my favorites in a top 10.😊...I appreciate your comments
My 3 all time favorites in no order are Brilliant Corners, Thelonious Himself and Monk's Music. (Get my drift?....lol) Then Kind of Blue and Miles Ahead (I absolutely LOVE that first big band album. Gil Evans is awesome!!)
1970 I was three and I can remember laying on the settee/couch and my grandmother put her coat over me . Then she would put my favourite record on . The Riverboat Banjo band playing old songs . Is it Jazz yes , do I like it yes I do . They must be on RUclips
No love for Pat Metheny? Arguably one of the best jazz guitarists of all time. Not the "classic" jazz sound in the traditional sense but I think that's what makes him special especially his Metheny Group projects.
Man do you have your basketball messed up..... you put karem abdul Jabar first.... before Jorden.... and plus Bill Russel was far better than Karem and he played against Wilt while being height disadvantaged at 6ft 9. You haven't heard of Larry Byrd?
All of those opinions are totally subjective (yours, mine and eveyones)....I've seen all of them play and it's my opinion but I respect yours. I've seen Byrd play in college and I've seen him play in person and I do not think he is better than anyone in my top 5 and when you consider players outside of my top 5 like Shaq, Kobe, Tim Duncan, Hakeem...Byrd probably would not make my top ten but Byrd was a marvelous player.
Jarrett better composer than Monk😂 man you need to tell me what you are smoking. My top ten will include Miles Davis, Monk, Dizzy, Mingus, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane,, Tony Williams, Christian Scott, Hamed Jamal….
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews I am sorry if I have misunderstood you I got a little ttoo emotional but elder come on to leave Monk out is a little outrageous I think, he is to me with Miles Davis V greatest, Monk is just on another level he is perfection. All the one you have mentioned except from Miles there are trying to get their shit together compared to these two in my opinion but hey what do I know?thank you for your video, I wish you health and wealth.
A dude who has a jazz music channel with a Bill Evans LP behind him, a Beatles poster in the background, and was into Pharaoh Sanders in grade school is one cool cat!
I appreciate that 😊 😁 ✌️
Thinking the same
Yes, The Creator Has a Master Plan
You dropped into my RUclips feed for 1st time; my top ten are. 10. Lonnie Listen Smith, Visions of a New World, 9. Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage, 8. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, 7. Idris Muhammad, Power of Soul, 6. Lee Morgan, Search for the New Land, 5. Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Miles Ahead, 4. Dave Brubeck, Take Five, 3. John Coltrane, Giant Steps, 2, Freddie Hubbard/ Stanley Turrentine, In Concert, (Povo) 1. For me, it's Kind of Blue with Flamenco Sketches as the top song on this album. Thanks for sharing, brother - I'm a 69-year-old former Trumpet/Flugelhorn Jazz Musician God bless!
Thank you very much for finding my channel and watching my video. Your top 10 is great 👍. I'm honored that a former jazz musician is viewing one of my videos 😊 ✌️
Great list! My top 10:
1. John Coltrane - My Favourite Things
2. Sonny Rollins - Newk’s Time
3. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
4. Kenny Dorham - Matador
5. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
6. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
7. Dave Brubeck - Time Out
8. John Coltrane - Soultrane
9. Art Blakey - Moanin’
10. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Matador is such an underrated gem
The Kenny Dorhan - Matador album is underrated so is Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage. Your list is fantastic 👌 👏
yes Art Blakely - sublime pick.
Amazing list. Personally I believe that Kenny Durham is a top 10 trumpet player.
Great list!
Now here is a dude I’d love to hang out with and learn about Jazz!!!
Thank you very much 😊 ✌️
Great list Kenny,I need to check out that Koln Concert album.
So many great Jazz albums you can leave out some amazing albums in a top 50 never mind a top 10 but here goes...
1) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers ~ Moanin'
2)Cannonball Adderley ~ Somethin' Else
3)John Coltrane ~ A Love Supreme
4)Sonny Rollins ~ Saxophone Colossus
5)Wes Montgomery ~ Full House
6)Wayne Shorter ~ The All Seeing Eye
7)Duke Ellington ~Ellington Uptown
8)Alice Coltrane ~ Ptah The El Daoud
9)Thelonious Monk ~ Brilliant Corners
10)Charles Mingus ~The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Ask again in a years time and no doubt it'll be different
Your list is tremendous 👏 👌 👍, thank you very much for posting that. I agree, if you ask me a year from now, my list could change also 😁✌️
Lee morgan 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Its hard to compile a list as there is so much to listen to and yet to discover but let's name it a present favorite moods list in no particular order :)
Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth
Art Farmer - On The Road
The Bobby Timmons Trio - In Person
Walter Strerath - Trio Quartet Quintet
The Ramsey Lewis Trio - Wade In The Water
The Jan Huydts / Peter Trunk / Joe Nay Trio - Trio Conception
The Horace Silver Quintet & Trio - Blowin' The Blues Away
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
Chico Hamilton Trio - Introducing Freddie Gambrell
Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes - Reflections Of A Golden Dream
I like different jazz styles but must admit I have had to learn to appreciate fusion (which I do now:) ) and still do, free jazz.
Most of the time I tend to lean towards styles like hard bop, post bop, soul-jazz and jazz-funk. Probably because I like soul and funk too ;)
For example I really like this particular song Wild And Peaceful by Kool & The Gang that has that dreamy mellow and jazz mood woven into it. That's why I also like the music from the era where soul-jazz developed in which a lot of jazz connoisseurs had difficulty with accepting as they were stating this wasn't actually on the path of real jazz anymore.
And if i may take the liberty in adding a second top ten list of wanna haves :)
(Again in no particular order)
Freddie Hubbard - The Body & The Soul
Dizzy Reece - Star Bright
Freddie Redd Quintet - Shades Of Redd
Lee Morgan - The Complete Live At The Lighthouse (Hermosa Beach, California)
Herbie Hancock - Man-Child
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - At The Lighthouse
Dave Bailey Quintet - Reaching Out
Slide Hampton Octet - Sister Salvation
Bobby Hutcherson - Montara
The Nathan Davis Sextet - Makatuka
Both of your lists are awesome...I couple I have not heard before but your lists are great. Thank you very much for taking the time to post your lists and watching my video 😊 ✌️
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews Thank you for your kind reply and your content! Subscribe; Check!
BTW, one down from the wants-list, Lee Morgan, the full 8 disc edition alongside the 3 disc witch will probably go up for sale now
I have the 3 disc CD set....I did not know that there was a 8 disc set....I'll have to check out that one for sure
Nice work, combined with your list, you created one of the most valuable comment sections on RUclips!
Thank you very much 😊....I really appreciate that 😊✌️
Great list, Kenny.
I can't rank my favorite jazz albums. Impossible task to me. But I can randomly name some records that I consider a core part of my journey in this fascinating music. In no particular order, here I go:
- Crescent (John Coltrane)
- You Must Believe in Spring (Bill Evans)
- Destination... Out! (Jackie McLean)
- Chick Corea (Return to Forever)
- In a Silent Way (Miles Davis)
- A Caddy for Daddy (Hank Mobley)
- Slow Drag (Donald Byrd)
- Out to Lunch (Eric Dolphy)
- Matador (Kenny Dorham)
- Time Waits (Bud Powell)
- Moanin' (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers)
- San Francisco (Bobby Hutcherson)
- The Shape of Things to Come (Ornette Coleman)
- Speak No Evil (Wayne Shorter)
- Evolution (Grachan Moncur III)
- One Flight Up (Dexter Gordon)
- Extensions (McCoy Tyner)
- Ptah The El Daoud (Alice Coltrane)
- Death and the Flower (Keith Jarrett)
- Power to the People (Joe Henderson)
- Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock)
- Cornbread (Lee Morgan)
- Reminicent (Mal Waldron/ Terumasa Hino)
- Offramp (Pat Metheny Group)
- Star Bright (Dizzy Reece)
- Afric Pepperbird (Jan Garbarek Quartet)
- Night Train (Oscar Peterson Trio)
- Cool Struttin' (Sonny Clark)
- The Peace-Maker (Harold Land Quintet)
- Color Changes (Clark Terry)
You list, simply magnificent 👌 👏....thank you very much for taking the time to post your great list of jazz legends 😊✌️
I really like your top 10. I have 5 of those albums and enjoy them regularly. In my top 10 are 3 of your selections with Kind of Blue at number 1. I cannot get enough of it even after all these years. Monk's Music (Thelonius Monk for those unfamiliar) is up there at number 2 with Time Out by Dave Brubeck number 3. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartmann (Nat King Cole's favorite singer and the only singer Coltrane ever played with despite invites from Frank Sinatra and other great singers) is number 4 and number 5 is Round Midnight with Dexter Gordon and an amazing list of collaborators. I realy like your efforts and successes with your channel. Best wishes.
I have the Monks Music album but I have not listened to it in some time, but I will soon 😊. I appreciate you and your kind words and comments, thank you very much 😊 ✌️
Really enjoyed this - thank you. Although there's a couple of your selections I don't know (McCoy Tyner, Pharaoh Sanders) I'll be sure to check them out as your choices that I do know are indeed excellent (Don Cherry: good call!). My jazz Top Ten could change every day, but at least half of these are set in stone for me:
1. Dave Brubeck Quartet 'Jazz Impressions of New York'
2. Gary Peacock 'Tales of Another'
3. Maynard Ferguson 'New Vintage'
4. Miles Davis 'Filles de Kilimanjaro'
5. Dave Brubeck Quartet 'At Carnegie Hall'
6.Jan Garbarek Quartet 'Afric Pepperbird'
7. John Coltrane 'Lush Life'
8. Mal Waldron 'The Call'
9. Erroll Garner 'Up in Erroll's Room'
10. Gary Peacock Quintet with Eberhard Weber 'Passengers'
Surprising Maynard choice-I’d go with “A Message from Newport” or maybe “The Blues Roar”-but it’s nice to see an MF mention.
My current top ten in no particular order would be:
01. Black Saint and The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
02. Crescent - John Coltrane
03. Evolution - Grachan Monchur III
04. Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
05. Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard
06. Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
07. Stick-Up - Bobby Hutcherson
08. Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter
09. Idle Moments - Grant Green
10. Seagulls Of Kristiansund Live - Mal Waldron at The Village Vanguard.
Excellent top 10....I like the Freddie Hubbard- - Red Clay selection 👌 👍 👏
Cool top ten. Would have a few of them in my list👍
Great list!
Thank you for your video!
My best jazz albums:
1.John Coltrane, Giant Steps
2.Art Pepper meets the rhythm section
3.Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
4.Dave Brubeck, Time Out
5.Cannonball Adderly, Sometin' else
6.John Coltrane, Blue Train
7.Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus
8.Wayne Shorter, Speak no Evil
9.Illinois Jacquet, Swing's the Thing
10, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto
You probably guessed, I am a saxophone player.....
😊😁...that's a great list 👌 👍 🎶
That Pepper album is a killer.
@@joksal9108 Maybe my #1 album after a while....
Very good!
You had me at Kareem #1 AND you are talking music. I'm all in Kenny. Subscribed.
Thank you very much 😊✌️
Interesting list. Our tastes in jazz are definitely different but I loved hearing your list. I own and love three of those albums 😊. Jazz is a big tent, lots to explore. I don’t rank art personally but you’re brave to put yours out there. Now regarding basketball……Bill Russell would like a word! 😆😆😆
Just a couple of my favorite jazz albums, not overlapping yours (unranked):
Tijuana Moods - Mingus
A Night in Tunisia - Blakey
Somewhere Else - Ted Nash
Blue Train - Coltrane
Red Nichols And the Five Pennies at Marineland
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Ella Fitzgerald & Louie Armstrong
Your list is great.... I have no problem with Bill Russell being on anyone's list 👏 .
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews I highly recommend the Somewhere Else album. The recording quality is outstanding and it’s the music of West Side Story done by his trio. Likely only available on Ted’s website. A real sleeper from a member of the JLCO. Much of the rest of the list I expect you’re familiar with given you’ve got a more extensive jazz listening history.
Great diverse list, here's my
Top Ten Jazz Albums
1.Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue 1959
2.Cannonball Adderley - Something Else 1958
3.Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage 1965
4.John Coltrane - Love Supreme 1965
5.John Coltrane - Africa Brass 1961
6.Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes Tales From The Underground 1981
7.Charles Tolliver - Live In Tokyo 1974
8.Art Blakey - Album Of The Year 1981
9.Art Blakey - Keystone 3 1982
10.Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse 1970
All great albums although I'm not familiar with the two Art Blakey albums...I'll have to check them out.
A Wynton album! Wow.
Brother Kenny! I can’t argue with any of those selections. All of them very worthy and represent the beautiful array of creative options available in the jazz genre. I see that you slipped in “Focus”. I love Pan as well. Mr Cherry and Mr Coleman cohorts and celebrated masters indeed. Miles, Mingus, Trane, my goodness, the elite. Jarrett is a bad hombre and for me the Koln Concert is at the the top of his many excellent efforts. I saw Pharaoh perform Karma live at UCLA’s Royce Hall in 1969. It was a wonderfully intense performance with Lonnie Liston Smith, Stanford James and Clifford Jarvis. Of course, there was only one Tyner and he was/is the Real McCoy. Thanks again for sharing your insightful thoughts and loving connection to the music. BTW, I loved Mr Clutch Jerry West and hated to see the passing of Chet Walker. Both great players and human beings. In closing, Happy Father’s Day.
That must have been great to see Pharoah Sanders at UCLA. Jerry West was tremendous as a player and executive. It was nice seeing the Lakers win their fist championship in 1972.
Oh yes. I first got into jazz when a teacher turned me onto Herbie Mann Live at The Village Gate so that's my personal favorite. Birth of the Cool also kicked my behind. Larry Coryell's 11th House was also a favorite.
Blues and the Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson
Go! - Dexter Gordon
Art Pepper - Meets the Rhythm.Section
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Impossible to do lasting list and exclude so many heroes
I really am enjoying your podcasts!
Billy on the coast
I have those albums and they are great selections 👏 👍. Thank you very much Billy for viewing my video 😊✌️
I see your Bill Evans peeping behind you ;-)
😊😁🎶
Who are your top ten jazz artists? That's virtually impossible for me to list. I have a list of favorites on each instrument. I love your channel. Keep 'em coming!
I think this was a good choice to be at someone's number one spot for a jazz album. I get the same vibes about the Africa Brass Sessions album. There was truly heart and soul put into those albums.
The Coltrane Africa/Brass album is a great choice 👌 👍 👏 🎶
i sure enjoyed this. im new to jazz, but im absolutely in luv my man. im eager to get a copy of that pharoah sanders album.
Thank you very much for watching my video 😊 ✌️
Brother Kenny, you are the King of Jazz! I have been into Fusion for so long, 45 years now, that I neglected the all-time greats. I just started getting into Miles, Lee Morgan, Chet Baker, Trane, Red Garland, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Gene Ammons, and Jimmy Forrest only around five years ago. I guess I was thinking that these old classics were too costly and not very good sound quality wise, that I stayed away. Now I am all in, thanks to you and Mazzy and Melinda! I tend to buy the newer pressings just because when I listen to Jazz trumpet, Jazz piano, or Jazz Sax, I just want to hear the music, not the Rice Krispys in the background, lol. Your Top 10 is stellar, btw, gonna have to check out that 'Karma' album from Pharaoh Sanders! My Top 5 at the moment are Jimmy Forrest-'Out of the Forrest' at #5, Somethin' Else at #4, Chet Baker-'The Blue Room', #3, Lee Morgan-'Search for the New Land ' at #2, and 'Milestones' by M.D. at #1! Love your channel, Peace and Love!
My brother I appreciate your comments. You have a awesome top five 👏 👍 🎶 ...I hope that you have a great week 😊 ✌️
this was great and i want to listen again to some of these. i agree on number one. thank you-
Thank you very much for posting your comments and watching my video ✌️
Very interesting selection! My one would just a bit different, but your choices are all lovely, no exception!
I'll keep on following you.
Thanks once again.
Luigi (from Italy)
Thank you very much Luigi and thank you for watching from Italy 😊 ✌️
i Kenny, você sempre nos trazendo matéria perspicaz e para reflexão. Acho sua lista e a dos demais que postaram excelentes. Tenho diversos dos álbuns referidos e sinto falta apenas do Phineas Newborn jr, que entendo ser um pianista excepcional e deve estar presente em listas de grandes instrumentistas de jazz. Tenha uma ótima semana (zenon, from Brasil)
Zenon, thank you for watching my videos. I appreciate your comments about music and thank you very much for watching from Brazil....I hope that you have a great week.
Keith Jarrett….yes sir it’s amazing ❤
👏 👍 🎶
Great selection. I would include any of the Miles Davis' second quintet albums. Love Hebie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, and of course Ron Carter.
I agree, the second Miles Davis quintet was tremendous 👏 👍 👌
I loved this video, and got a clue about some stuff I have never listened too, I could have easily had any number of the ones you chose here, but in your style I will lean towards my taste..but it is in no way really an accurate top ten..more like top of mind ten..I could have chosen any number of ensemble recordings of Keith, American or european, I ran out of room for Mingus Right Now,.and C.Lloyd-Fish out of Water..but I definitely love these and regularly listen..
There is some quite modern stuff here, but I believe it is not unreasonable to consider this stuff top of the food chain..
10 Atomic/Schooldays -Nuclear Assembly Hall
9 David Murray/Milford Graves-Real Deal
8 The ICP Orchestra plays Nichols-Monk
7 Harold Land-The Fox (Elmo Hopes compositions man!!)
6 Keith Jarrett -Personal Mountains
5 Sonny Criss-Sonny's Dream(Horace Tapscott arr.)
4 Steve Lacy /Gil Evans- Paris Blues
3 Charles Mingus-at Antibes
2 Charles Lloyd -Notes from Big Sur
1 Miles Davis/Gil Evans- Porgy and Bess
I mean snap brother...It is so hard to pick, What about Gil Evans -Old bottle New wine?
So many...
What about Oliver Nelson..?
Anyway.. thanks for the tickle..I hope someone gets to discover something they too have never heard and yet maybe can enjoy...
About half your list are albums that I have not heard so thank you very much for the potential gems 👏 🎶
Wonderful list, no complaints. Just need to ask for some recognition for my childhood basketball hero Julius Erving - Dr. J, one of the greatest. 😊
Dr. J. is a all time great for sure, especially during his ABA days and early NBA career.
I love that you made the list your own, and didn't try to tell us what to think.
Nicely done, I have a few of them, some of the others I'll need to check out. I appreciate your views. I don't think I'll understand the free jazz work, but I want to hear your views anyway. thank you.
I appreciate that and thank you very much for posting your comments 😊 ✌️
Don't claim to be a jazz expert but my days off digging had landed me in some obvious and some random albums that i played a lot. Lee Morgan search for a new land, Randy Weston blue Moses, Donald Byrd voices (and all his mizell works), Mingus black saint, coltrane n hartman, wes mo bumping, horace silver song for my father, ... Obvious ones too like kinda blue, love su... But I'm going to visit some on your list.
The albums that you mentioned are great. I hope that you enjoy the albums on my list 😊 ✌️
Except for the Free Jazz albums, I have the same records. In my list I would add Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce, Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing, Paul Horn - Here's That Rainy Day, Charles Earland - Intensity, Charles Lloyd - Forest Flower, Chick Corea - Piano Improvisations Vol.1, Dave Brubeck - Time Out & Brandenburg Gate Revisited, Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island, Harry James - The King James Version & last but not least John Klemmer - Touch. These are just a few of my favorites. I'm a little older than you (76) and have been told I have very eclectic tastes when it pertains to music. I get as much enjoyment out of Frank Sinatra, Percy Faith, Erik Satié as I do out of Bill Evans.
I enjoyed your list.
Thank you for your clear and repeated statement of artist & albums! ps I got up your top pick recently on CD for three dollars Australian recently (very pleased) along with Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, & Dizzy Gillespie CDs -Ten AUD all up! One of my 'tops' would be Grant Green's 'Idle Moments" just for the title track.
Thank you very much for watching my video. I do not have to many Grant Green vinyl albums but I a few on CD, tremendous jazz guitar player for sure.
Fantastic pick with Karma. Truly a master work.
For sure, Karma is definitely a masterpiece 👏 👍 🎶
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews Hi Kenny, I'm not sure if you would be willing to do this and make a video out of it because both artist recorded across a few labels. It would be the 50's recordings of Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins; two pioneers on Tenor. Could you do a review and pick your favorite between the two?
Thank you very much for the idea. Unfortunately I do not have enough material from both musicians to do such a video but I do like Coleman Hawkins.
I liked you from the start of the video, but as soon as I saw your #1 pick I recognized you as a brother. Now I have to go back and give #2 a proper listen!
My brother I appreciate that very much, thank you for watching my video ✌️
Great video Kenny...you are the best ! what a wealth of information, thanks a million and keep it up...greetings from sunny Malta !
Thank you very much, I really appreciate that...thank you very much for watching my video from Malta 😊 ✌️
Hey Kenny 🙌
There's a lot of great records I need to listen to... 😄 but my ranking is:
1° Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis
2° Night Train - Oscar Peterson
3° A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
4° Time Out - Dave Brubreck
5° Feelin' The Spirit - Grant Green
6° Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley
7° Milestones - Miles Davis
8° Stone Flower - Antonio Carlos Jobim
9° Inventions And Dimensions - Herbie Hancock
10° Straight Ahead - Count Basie
Peace 🙌✌ God Bless 🙏
Great list but I really like the Herbie hancock and Antonio Carlos Jobim selections 👌 👍 👏 🎶
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews 🙌🙏
Hey Kenny, some interesting choices there. My list would be completely different, but that's the great thing about lists, nobody's right or wrong. Enjoy your channel. Keep them coming 👍
Thank you very much my brother I appreciate that ✌️
Thanks for the great video, I will be checking out the ones I haven't heard on your list.
PS- I have a general recommendation: the Pat Martino album "Joyous Lake", a rare fusion album for him. I really enjoy it
Great picks! I’ve worn through all of those albums except the Cherry one. Thanks for the tip. Will check it out.
Jarrett’s also a fantastic classical player. All genres. Baroque to Modern. Total master. His release of Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues is off the planet
Thank you, and thank you also for the Keith Jarrett recommendation 😀 😊
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews He's one of my favorite musicians of all time. Nothing he can't do. And with excellence. I agree on it being close for first place. It's like Kind of Blue, Koln Concert, and A Love Supreme are a photo finish. Masterpieces.
A great list with a couple unfamiliar to me. Thanks.
Thank you very much for watching my video ✌️
Wes Montgomery's Tequila and Lee Morgan's Sidewinder are 2 of my favs.❤🎉😊 Just sayin!!
Sidewinder is outstanding 👏 👌 🎶
Hey, love the Pharoah Sanders pick!! It's my favorite jazz album
That is a tremendous album, perhaps underrated.
Amen. I think of others. But many you have on the list would be in my list as well. There are sooo many.
I agree, there a many to choose from 🎶
Colman was a pioneer. Epic stuff
I love the list and added a couple of these to my listening list. I love so much music it would be hard to make a list that I would still be in agreement with myself the next day! A Love Supreme as #1 is right. The album is very special. Karma is on regular rotation for me too. Jarrett's Köln Concert is another favourite. What I love about jazz is the depth. There's so much to love. I subscribed to your channel. Thanks!
Thank you very much for subscribing to my channel. I agree with you that it is very tough to make a top 10 list without challenging it myself a few day later; A lot of greats to choose from 😊✌️
Great list and video Kenny greetings from Australia
I appreciate that very music...thank you very much for watching my video from Australia 😊 ✌️
Where in 'Straya? I'm in Brissy.
The combo of your picks and the picks in the comments make this a great reference. There are moments on Miles' Live Evil that are absolutely uncanny.
That is a nice Miles Davis album 👌 👏
Thank you very much for your kind comments 😊
SUGAR 1970 BY STANLEY TURRENTINE IS ONE OF MY TOP 10
Great list and a couple that I need to check out.
Thank you, and thank you very much for watching my video ✌️
100% agree with you on Love Supreme! thanks for the video.
Thank you very much 😊 ✌️
Great list, Kenny. Best wishes from Brasil.
I appreciate that, thank you very much 😊
You put smile on my face😊 Throughout your count down, I was saying "what? No love for Coltrane?" And there you go, your number one Love Supreme!, which happens to be my all time favorite.
Great channel. Rankings are hard for me. I always find my rankings to be the first albums that made me want to keep digging for more jazz.
1. Dolphy at the Five Spot Vol.2
2. McCoy Tyner Tender Moments
3. Miles Davis Miles Smiles
4. Bill Evans Waltz for Debbie
5. Coltrane Ole
I mean I've only been listening to jazz for the last 12 years or so but these 5 kicked my butt.
Thank you very much for posting that great top 5 👏 👍 🎶
Great looking music room. Between myself and my late brother-in-law, we probably have 4 or 5K vinyl records and another couple thousand CD's. But we still don't come close to what I'm seeing of your collection. Years of love can be seen in this video.
Thank you very much 😊 ✌️
My favorite album is the one I really want to hear at the moment. There are literally hundreds of albums that could make a top ten list that change almost daily. There are about a thousand interchangeable albums on my list such as Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot Charles LLoyd at the Monterey Jazz Festival, John Handy at Monterey (If Only We Knew) Coltrane My Favorite Things, Rollins Saxophone Colossus, Wayne Shorter Night Dreamer, Ornette Colman Free Jazz. Like I said best album is the one you want to hear in the moment and the top ten is always changing because there are so many GREAT albums in the great and fluid art form we call jazz.
Well said...I appreciate your comments tremendously ✌️
Glad I found your channel. Good list, thanks. A few on your list I need to check out. Love getting turned on to new music. 🎵👍🏼😎
Thank you for that I really appreciate it 😊 ✌️
It’s always perilous to choose a top ten. Glad you chose “Fly With the Wind”. Confirms my feeling. I have ( or had) 4 of your picks. Been a fan of Jazz since high school in 1966. I had a friend who tried hard to make a name for himself but got nowhere. I produced one cut and sang on his one and only album. We covered Horace Silver’s and Lambert Hendrix and Ross’s “Come on Home”. I have a letter from Horace Silver praising the rendition. Nice man.
Just subscribed Kenny, thanks!
Thank you very much 😊✌️
Kenny: I'm new to your channel. I really enjoyed this although my list would differ from yours a bit. I'm now subscribed. Keep them coming.
Thank you very much for subscribing and watching my video 😊✌️
Interesting list.
I’m one of those people who doesn’t like free jazz, so Don Cherry and Ornette aren’t my favs-though Cherry could also play a more inside, swinging style.
Nice to see Sketches of Spain and Kind of Blue included. They’re such obvious choices that some people might want to avoid them in favor of more obscure items.
My list in no order would be-
Maynard Ferguson-“A Message from Newport”
Count Basie-“I Told You So”
Duke Ellington-“New Orleans Suite”
Frank Sinatra-“Songs for Swingin’ Lovers”
Miles-any of the Prestige records
Lee Morgan-anything
Chick Corea & RTF-“Light as a Feather”
Don Ellis-anything
Woody Herman-“Giant Steps”
Tony Bennett-“Bennet/Berlin”
I have that Frank Sinatra album but I have not listened to it in a long time, I'm going to have to check it out soon. I glad that someone finally mentioned Maynard Ferguson on their list 👍
Thanks for the video! I’ll be watching.
Thank you 😊 ✌️
May I say that listening and watching you make yourself a top number, Kenny!
Thank you very much 😊
You ar the best. Best Regards from Germany
Thank you for watching my video from Germany, I appreciate it 😊 ✌️
excellent subjective list. god bless u.
Thank you very much and God bless 😊✌️
I wanted to tell you that it's a really nice RUclips channel of yours and that you clearly express your passion for jazz music. It would be impossible for me to make a top ten list of my best jazz albums, the same would be true for films. If I really have to list 10 jazz albums out of the many that I like, they are:
1) Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point!
2) Sun Ra - Atlantis
3) Ornette Coleman - At the ‘Golden Circle’ Stockholm, Volume 1 & 2
4) Herbie Nichols - The Complete Blue Note Recordings (3CDs box set)
5) Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives & Sevens (JPS Records 4CDs box set)
6) Miles Davis - Nefertiti
7) Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
8) Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
9) Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers - Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
10) Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Thank you very much for your kind comments and for posting your list. Your list is great..I have about half of the albums on your list. That live Ornette Coleman album is nice ( I have the HI-RES digital download version).
Hi Kenny, it's of course a masterpieces list you share to us that most of them I got.
The question is who's us?
Us are between 40 and 70 years old. I would like to know if younger people have knowledge of these musicians, more, this music.
Haha......man with the white T and jeans has the plan!
Always 😊😁😄
man, fly like the wind sure is one a my favorites. holy smoke.
#10. Horace Silver's "Cape Verdean Blues." 9. The Jazz Messengers with Horace Silver (on CBS). 8. Art Blakey, "Moanin'." 7. Miles Davis, "Miles Ahead." 6. Maynard Ferguson, "Live at Jimmy's." 5. Freddie Hubbard, "First Light." 4. John Coltrane, "Giant Steps." 3. Cannon Ball, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy." 2. Dave Brubeck, "Time Out." 1. Miles Davis, "Kinda Blue."
Great list.
Thank you 😊
Great vid, hope you have a happy Father's Day!.
Thank you very much, Happy Father's Day to you too 😊✌️
No Freddie Hubbard - Liquid Love?!
No Mose Allison?!
If you haven't heard before I dug up a deep Sun Ra album from his massive collection: 'Lanquidity' ; whole album is an experience man.
I'm a huge fan of Freddie Hubbard and the great voice of Mose Allison...unfortunately i cannot fit all of my favorites in a top 10.😊...I appreciate your comments
More great stuff, Kenny! Love your list! And since you mentioned it, a DEFINITE in my top 10 has to be "Fantabulous" by Oliver Nelson!
Kareem is my #1
Kareem was the best that I've seen no doubt 💯
My 3 all time favorites in no order are Brilliant Corners, Thelonious Himself and Monk's Music. (Get my drift?....lol) Then Kind of Blue and Miles Ahead (I absolutely LOVE that first big band album. Gil Evans is awesome!!)
Great albums 👌 👏 👍 🎶
great job - i will check out some of the ones I don't have!
Thank you 😊 ✌️
You said Fantabulous!👏
I have two original copies of focus, the stereo and the mono.
Kenny when you mentioned the creator has a master plan...I could smell the incense.
😊😁😄
There was a lot of agreement
Thank you 😊 ✌️
1970 I was three and I can remember laying on the settee/couch and my grandmother put her coat over me . Then she would put my favourite record on . The Riverboat Banjo band playing old songs . Is it Jazz yes , do I like it yes I do . They must be on RUclips
Have you ever rated the Soft Machine 3 an English group ! Great album
I have no idea how I would come up with a top ten, It might even change from year to year.
I agree there is the potential for change in anyone's top 10...there are so many great albums to choose from.
I prefer John Coltrane's Blue Train to A Love Supreme. 🙂
The don Cherry record has Henry Grimes ?
I did not list all the musicians on the album during my video but Henry Grimes was on album.
No love for Pat Metheny? Arguably one of the best jazz guitarists of all time. Not the "classic" jazz sound in the traditional sense but I think that's what makes him special especially his Metheny Group projects.
Are you the guy on the bottle of cleaning solution?
😊😁😄 lol 😁
I don’t know if you’re in Portland, but if you are, we should be friends.
What happens to that epic size collection when you pass?
I have a son 😊
Great election but no Chic Corea???
Thank you....Chick Corea is mentioned in my top 10 jazz fusion video.
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews Which album, my good man?
No argument here sir.
Thank you very much for watching this video 😊
Man do you have your basketball messed up..... you put karem abdul Jabar first.... before Jorden.... and plus Bill Russel was far better than Karem and he played against Wilt while being height disadvantaged at 6ft 9. You haven't heard of Larry Byrd?
All of those opinions are totally subjective (yours, mine and eveyones)....I've seen all of them play and it's my opinion but I respect yours. I've seen Byrd play in college and I've seen him play in person and I do not think he is better than anyone in my top 5 and when you consider players outside of my top 5 like Shaq, Kobe, Tim Duncan, Hakeem...Byrd probably would not make my top ten but Byrd was a marvelous player.
Jarrett better composer than Monk😂 man you need to tell me what you are smoking.
My top ten will include Miles Davis, Monk, Dizzy, Mingus, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane,, Tony Williams, Christian Scott, Hamed Jamal….
I never stated in the video that Keith Jarrett is a better composer than Thelonious Monk.
@@kennysaudiophilerecordreviews I am sorry if I have misunderstood you I got a little ttoo emotional but elder come on to leave Monk out is a little outrageous I think, he is to me with Miles Davis V greatest, Monk is just on another level he is perfection. All the one you have mentioned except from Miles there are trying to get their shit together compared to these two in my opinion but hey what do I know?thank you for your video, I wish you health and wealth.