Great, Peter!! You STILL da man!!! Incidentally, RB told me that Blanton was the reason he played bass. And it wasn't his solos that lured him as much as his big fat groove. I think he first heard it on a juke box somewhere (vaguely recall him saying that). I remember when he made the duo album with Duke. he came back to LA and told me what a dream it was to make that album. He was on cloud nine when he came home from Vegas. Excellent choice, my man. All great choices. Dianne is my fav, as you know!!!
John!! Thanks for watching and for those RB recollections - priceless. I got to rehearse and play with him for one day, and it was one of my fondest and most enlightening musical encounters to date.
Great call with the Roy Hargrove album.... Some Great modern recordings IMO include Kenny Garrett "Songbook"....Joshua Redman "River Wide".....nic Payton "Payton's Place"...and my favorite jazz a l bum that seems to be always overlooked is Freddie Hubbard "Red Clay"....just some opinions.
My teacher in the early 1970's was the late, John Neves. He was so taken by the duo album "This one's for Blanton that He bought all the copies he could at the nearby used record store, Looney Tunes in Boston. He gifted them to some lucky students. I was one of the lucky ones. What a gem!
Peter! I feel honoured to be part of your REAL 10 Greatest list! Recording that session in 2002 with Roy & touring in the RH Factor Band was a serious boundary breaking musical movement! It's funny. All we were doing was having some fun sharing the music to the World & giving it ALL for the music ... as Roy did his entire life on this Earth! May his music & legacy live forever! Holla... Rh Factor Family
Hey man, you certainly gave the world a true work of art, which touches us deeply. Here in Brazil, we are big fans of you. I listen to Roy every day, it keeps me alive in music, it keeps me going with such difficulty. Thank you for breaking the barriers and transforming this world for the better!
Great comment! By the way, I was living and working in Dallas in 1988 (it must have been) and one night wandered into a small jazz club on a Sunday or Monday night only to find this young kid playing trumpet with some friends, and as a long time jazz fan I immediately knew he was an incredible talent. I chatted with him and Roy told me he was about to go to Berklee. So that must have been late summer 88. I remember it well. He was just a kid, but obviously hugely talented.
Dude .... picking the top ten jazz albums of all time is a damn stupid thing to do, but if you're still going to do it, at least do it right (because there are a lot of innocent people hanging around the net who tend to believe every damn thing fools like you say, and I don't think is a healthy contribution at all. By the way, have you thought about wearing a wig? It would be more real than your top ten albums, that's for sure.
Old guy here, stuck in the jazz classics. Love your list. Jazz needs to be fresh and new, and most of these are new to me. I used to have the Ellington/Brown album until somebody liked it more than I did. I remember trying to play the bass parts.
Man. I'm SO glad you put Coltrane's "Crescent" on this list.
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With so much music out there to listen to, I now only listen to Coltrane once in a long while, and I used to own and listen to most of his discography on CD when I was younger. And when I feel like having some Coltrane, my first thought is alway "Crescent" (the title tune). The first few choruses have to be some of the best improvised lines in the history of music.
if pressed, I might say Crescent is the greatest jazz album ever for lovers of jazz. Not sure it's the #1 entry point to recommend, but if you're already a kool-aid drinker.....then yeah
I was skeptical during the introduction when you were dismissing the usual selections for top 10 jazz albums of all time, but I have to say you really knocked the ball out of the park with your selections! This is a great reminder that there is so much great music out there beyond the tried and true selections, and that it is worth venturing off the usual path to explore the roads less travelled in the world of jazz. Thank you.
I had the same reaction, I can't stand top 10s but I do agree that Crescent is essential listening. I have made a point of listening to it end to end every year for nearly 30 years. So go ahead then with your list...
A beautiful list. Could easily be replaced with 10 different albums. The great thing about it is that even that list could be replaced with another list with completely different artists and still we could not argue. I love this.
Dude .... picking the top ten jazz albums of all time is a damn stupid thing to do, but if you're still going to do it, at least do it right (because there are a lot of innocent people hanging around the net who tend to believe every damn thing fools like you say, and I don't think is a healthy contribution at all. By the way, have you thought about wearing a wig? It would be more real than your top ten albums, that's for sure.
@@pianopeterPeter, can you make a top 10 video on your favourite Ray Brown records. I love "Way Out West" and "The Gifted Ones", apart from the Duke duo, what else should I check out?
I'm a Zappaphite so I like shining the spotlight on some corners that makes me excited. Our library system in Pensacola has a Jazz Room stocked by the Pensacola Jazz Society. I drive Uber and check out different CDs all week long. I'm going to check this out.
Focus(Stan Getz).By Myself Alone(Ann Burton).Monk(Brilliant Corners).Art Pepper(Meets the Rhythmn Section).Oliver Nelson(Blues n the Abstract Truth).Jackie McClean(Bluesnik).Ike Quebec(Blue n Sentimental).Herbie Hancock(Maiden Voyage). Duke n Johnny Hodges(Back to Back).Ben Webster(Soulville). No particular order, just LPs that stir my soul.
Dude .... picking the top ten jazz albums of all time is a damn stupid thing to do, but if you're still going to do it, at least do it right (because there are a lot of innocent people hanging around the net who tend to believe every damn thing fools like you say, and I don't think is a healthy contribution at all. By the way, have you thought about wearing a wig? It would be more real than your top ten albums, that's for sure.
So happy to see some love for Roy Hargrove; as you mentioned, 'Earfood' is probably one of my favorite jazz albums of the 21st century, and he is sorely missed
I'm a 58 year old Classic Rocker who still knows very little about jazz. That said, Roy Hargrove's "With the Tenors of Our Time" is the first jazz CD I ever bought. I subsequently bought two or three more of his CDs. For me he was the perfect bridge into jazz, as his music was more accessible to my untrained ear than so much other jazz I had heard.
THAT Roy album is awesome. I got a chance to play all that music with Roy's quintet while touring with his quintet in 1994. I was young and ig-nant, but that experience shaped my musical life. Very weird to see this from that summer 1994--> ruclips.net/video/GgELdy4rmLc/видео.html
Thanks for this list. Great pick that "Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud" it reminds me the time when I was digging in our public music's library. Greetings from Belgium.
I'm a musician, but not a jazzer (although with a huge admiration for jazz musicianship and improv). I'm just starting to try to get a feel for the "canon". Thank you SO MUCH for this list!! Every selection is fantastic and outside the 'usual suspects" friends and RUclips have recommended for me. But a special thanks for "This One's for Blanton". It immediately goes on my favorite albums of all time! Gorgeous recording, juicy lucid playing, so melodic, playful and fun. Maybe hardcore guys might say it's too simple, but man it hits a certain spot for me! I would love to see you do an extended list. Your insight and taste provide invaluable guidance for relative noobs like me. Sincere thanks again.
I totally agree with you, Peter, about the Robert Flack album, especially Tryin' Times. Not only is it musically brilliant, but it is also an historical document that does capture the domestic strife of the 60's. When I was a science teacher at East Orange (NJ) high school during that period, I used this track at an after-school class to introduce kids to the blues, and to demonstrate how such a fundamental progression can be crafted into such sophisticated, soulful & meaningful art. So, thanks for highlighting it!
And Peter's pick is superb. Shirley didn't make bad albums, but "I Love You Paris" and "Close Enough for Love" really define the core of her art. To me they are the platonic ideal Shirley Horn albums.
The live RUclips stuff of Shirley is so great to have - I saw her live quite a few times throughout the 90's, and to have these video documents is priceless.
Speaking of lesser known jazz artists: I had never heard of Gil Scott Heron before I heard his song, “The Prisoner,” on Sirius XM radio one day. I haven’t listened to the entire album that that song is from yet, but I fully intend on doing just that….there were/are so many GREAT jazz artists, that it is mind boggling sometimes, to even think about listening to all of their work! (It probably can’t be done.)
I was once walking through the city at night. It was drizzling, the lights in the apartment blocks along the harbor were providing some background lighting and Miles' Ascenseur pour L'échafaud was playing through my headphones. I couldn't have picked a better setting for this soundtrack. Goosebumps.
I bet that was a classic noir experience. I have done a similar thing sitting in my jeep with the window open just enough to allow the fresh air and hear the rain. I played a few tracks from the Round midnight sound track, Miles' Kind of Blue and Dexter Gordon's Ballads.
I love to put on those restoration vids of cities from back in the day and just mute it while I listen to music. The other night I was watching a video of a car driving down Los Angeles streets at night in the late-1950's while listening to Miles "Birth of the Cool". It seriously heightens the experience.
The legend says that Miles recorded the soundtrack directly while watching the movie, it's probably not true but i always thought it was a great story 🙂
I wanted to hate your list! But I love it! As a piano plodder (what I do could never be mistaken for playing) I am a huge Shirley Horn fan. The Miles & Bill Evans LPs you featured are simply brilliant. Great job!
I think Crescent always gets overlooked because A Love Supreme came out so soon after, but it's certainly no less an album. Thanks for highlighting it.
I usually hate top 10 lists, but you made a great case for these magnificent albums. The fact that they are lesser known is probably why I hate such lists in the first place. Thank you.
Wonderful list. My top LPs " Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing" .... June Christy "Something Cool". .....Miles Davis "Relaxing" .... Brubeck "Jazz Impressions of USA" ... Coltrane and Johnny Hartman ....Pat Metheny "Bright Size Life" ..... Bill Evans "I will say Goodbye" ... Stan Getz in Stockholm .... Sinatra "Only The Lonely" ...... Dakota Staton "The Late late Show " So many from which to choose.
Hard Groove is utterly fantastic. I bought it not long after it was originally released. I was just thumbing through the CDs in my local music store and I saw the cover and thought: "Interesting". I'd never heard of Roy Hargrove at that point. When I got home and played it, it blew my socks off. A fantastic mix of soul/blues/rap/hip-hop inflected jazz. Simply superb.
Very interesting list; I like where you go with it. I have to toss into the mix "The Music" by the Clayton Brothers: John Clayton (bass), Jeff Clayton (reeds), Jeff Hamilton (drums), and Bill Cunliffe (piano). The touch and emotion on that album from all four players is simply superb, and the programming of the record (a dying art) is masterful. If the album is unfamiliar, I would start with the song "I Concentrate on You".
Totally agree. It’s a great list of overlooked albums. But based on the title, it seems the greatest jazz record of all time is by … Roberta Flack?! Doesn’t work.
Jimmy Giuffre deserves some recognition. His approach to jazz composition is quite unique. Western suite or The easy way are incredible albums that changed my way of understanding jazz. Another album that I really love is Paul Desmond - Glad tu be unhappy, with the unique Jim Hall at guitar.
My top 10 list: -Phil Woods; Live At The Showboat -Dexter Gordon; Go! 'Bill Evans: Alone -Ella Fitzgerald: Mack The Knife: Live In Berlin -Billie Holiday: Lady In Datin -Erroll Garner: Concert By The Sea -Crusaders At The Lighthouse -Oscar Peterson: We Get Requests -Ahmad Jamal: Live At The Pershing -Robert Glasper: Black Radio
Great list! The Roberta Flack choice is terrific, I was not aware of it. I did recently learn that she was the first person to record "Compared to What", which of course was made famous by Les McCann and Eddie Harris at Montreux.
Well...that was excellent! Too many things to say, so I'll say this. I am always on the look out for new music. My tastes range wide and far, and yet I am also picky. There are at least five albums on this list that I'll now go and track down. Thank you so much!!
Love this. This One’s for Blanton, Crescent, Interplay, Ascenseur Pour L’echafaud, Alone in San Francisco, First Take, all amazing. I’ll have to check out the others (I love Shirley Horn) Would be great to see a series of lists like this. Here’s ten of my lesser-known favorites: 10. Larry Young - Of Love and Peace 9. Gil Mellé Quartet - Quadrama 8. Pete La Roca - Turkish Women at the Bath 7. Sam Rivers - Waves 6. Randy Weston Trio with Cecil Payne - Jazz à la Bohemia 5. Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Thesis 4. Carmen McRae - Bittersweet 3. John Coltrane - First Meditations (for quartet) 2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Rahsaan 1. Art Farmer Quartet - Sing Me Softly of the Blues Honorable Mention - Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef), Walt Dickerson Plays Unity, Herbie Mann & the Bill Evans Trio - Nirvana, Honi Gordon - Honi Gordon Sings, Ornette Coleman - Body Meta That order and list could change on a daily basis as I know I’m forgetting many more I’d like to include.
@@DavidRamsey1 thanks! Highlight track of Rahsaan Rahsaan has to be the Dvorak-Sentimental Journey-Rogers and Hart medley. Amazing what he does with the different melodies on his horns!
One of my faves is Estate from that Shirley Horn album you noted before sharing your #10, so I decided to stick around and am glad I did. You just gained another subscriber who's eager to see what you generously share in '24. Thank you!
Interesting list you have there Peter. Definitely some new things to look at and listen to for me on your list. I have two albums that are in my top ten that you didn't mention on your list or on the overstated list of albums you mentioned, and they are Ugetsu - Art NBlakey and the Jazz Messengers, and Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley.
Crescent and Hardgroove! Woo so glad they made the list. Stoked to check the rest of these records out. Thank you for your channel and all the work you do to educate and inspire!
I kinda miss Chick Corea on this list cause I feel like out of all the greats he is the one getting the least attention or at least to little attention which is sad cause he was such a genius.
Yeah, if you've heard one of his most recent albums, hot house with Gary on the vibes. With chicks arrangements and the interplay between the two, it all together mashes up to be a superb album in my opinion - but as Peter said, this kind of is more an introduction to lesser known albums without disregarding other great ones, such as the one I mentioned.
The man may have a point! Peter, thanks for this list. The joy is in always getting new lists to listen to. I love the later albums by artists. It shows they have still grown. That is why Jazz is so great
I am blown away. I need to your process of reconsideration not only on my listening but also my reading and cooking. Your choices are gems. I have maybe 3 of them. Will have to dig up the rest.
I pivoted into jazz because I’m a drummer. While these all sound very nice and relaxing (granted, I love the last two), my place in the jazz journey has recently landed me at 1) Buddy Rich’s “Big Swing Face” album, and 2) Bill Evans “At the Montreux Jazz Festival”. (likely neither of these are ‘under the radar’ picks; I’m a novice listener.) These are two recent finds I’ve had where I had to replay the album immediately because I was so thoroughly floored by the amazing talent and energy of the group. I’ll have to circle back to your list, when I’ve developed my ear a bit better. Cheers! P.S. Not sure about anyone else, but I’d love to see a list of “top ten jazz drumming albums” for folks who have already thoroughly sifted through the usual top 10 miles/coltrane/the usual picks.
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Here's my "not that obvious" top ten jazz albums of all time: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges - Back to back Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan - Two of a mind Gerry Mulligan - What is there to say Chet Baker - Peace Charles Lloyd - Voice in the night Ginger Baker - Coward of the county Rabih Abou-Khalil - The sultan's picnic Jacinta - A tribute to Bessie Smith Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Jasmine Bernardo Sassetti Trio - Motion
Excited that Miles Davis' Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud gets some attention. Well deserved to be mentioned. I think, it is one of his masterpieces. Stunning record!
1st time meeting you. My Big Bro was a Jazz fan from the 50s - 70's. So I heard it a lot and I remember. He would have loved your list! You nailed it. Thank you.
There’s no doubt that these are 10 albums that should bring great pleasure to anyone who already appreciates jazz and could serve as an intro to jazz too. L’Ascenceur Pour L’Echafaud is a really good pick- going to have to listen to that again soon. My personal top 10 list would likely always include something by Tubby Hayes not because he’s necessarily one of the best purveyors of bebop but he’s the one who got me to appreciate it when I came to his music somewhat late in life.
Sadly, even Tubby admitted that he couldn't pull a melody out of all those fast changes, voice-leading, which makes his playing rather tedious after a while. I saw him several times at the Marquee, as a quartet. The atmosphere made it OK, but he was playing second fiddle to the brilliant Joe Harriott Quintet on a Saturday night c.1961, who could genuinely challenge for a place in the top ten.
Thank you, brother! Great list and indeed, not all of them would have been on my list! Will give them a good listen-to. I am a big sucker for scandinavian jazz. LOVE Esbjörn Svensson Trio - and here perhaps the most "Good Morning Susie Soho". Feelings, man! As well, one of my most listened to albums is from a Swedish saxophone player, Per "Texas" Johansson and here perhaps the album "Alla Mina Kompisar" ("all my friends"). This is where I fell in love with pedal steel guitar in jazz. Listen to "miljarder stjärnor" ("millions of stars"). FEELINGS, man!!!
Happy to see in the list Ascenseur pour l'echefaud by Miles. A great album and a remarkable landmark in my life (I discovered it in 1990, when I was young and still free to discover things). Thanks for the list, I did one similar for a blog in Italy, but it was meant to consider the 11 album which cannot be missed, so it is more classical. Hugs
Thank you for sharing this top 10, love it! I like the fact it was a bit outside the obvious ones, i love to discover new stuff. Here in Montreal, we're pleased to have the Jazz Festival: It's another chance to enjoy / discover music. I was lucky to get tickets in 2022 when the Brubeck Brothers came: It was in Gesù theater, inside a Church, great show! I'll try to get the albums of your top 10 i don't have (hope they are good recordings). As i am an audiophile too, i'm in heaven when i hear great jazz musicians on a well recorded / mixed / mastered all digital media! Great recording is a big plus. I'd say that in my record collection, Patricia Barber's albums are probably the best sounding ones i have. With my new DAC, it's simply MARVELOUS!
Great list, Peter, and encouraging to hear fresh and perhaps under appreciated works featured here, thank you. For me I would add: The Concert Jazz Band, Gerry Mulligan (outstanding ensemble work and arranging, & no piano to boot!); Word of Mouth -Jaco Pastorius; Water Babies - Miles Davis; Marsalis Standard Time mainly because of the masterclass that is the arrangement of “Caravan” feat Jeff “Tain” Watts and astonishing piano work by Marcus Roberts. And then I’d have to include Bitches Brew for it being so ahead and influential in so many ways.
Thanks for opening my eyes and ears to this selection. What a great selection of albums. A favorite of mine is Something Else by Cannonball Adderley. Miles' playing on this album is sublime
Something Else is very aptly named - a favourite of mine as well. Blues In Orbit, for me, is very much a companion album despite them not being connected. I'm sure you've heard it, but Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue is up there with the other "Blue" album as far as I'm concerned - at least in terms of listenability.
Nice video. I love the Roberta Flack album and Miles is my favorite. What do think of Mose Allison’s music? The guy was the definition of cool ( 2nd to Miles )!
I am very happy that you featured Roy Hargrove & The RH Factor album "Hardgroove." I instinctively bought the album back in 2007 because I thought the cover art was so unique. I didn't even know RH back then, but I'm hooked on him ever since. There are other hits in that album: Poetry, The Joint, Liquid Streets, Juicy, and The Stroke. RIP the best melancholic trumpeter. Roy Hargrove, you'll be missed. ❤
Fun list! The one I'm especially on board with is that Monk album. It's always been an important & much loved album for me. The whole video reminds me of one of my favorite Norm McDonald jokes: I got stuck on a deserted island once, and I gotta say, those 10 CDs I brought with me didn't help a damn thing! XD
Hello Peter, this is Harry from NW Greece!!! I've always been a jazz fan, particularly at the age of 32, and for a couple of years thereon, I had listened to a lot, I wanted to absorb and let it grow in me.... thank so much for those suggestions, most of the names are well known, but the albums, I was missing them really... last but not least, the Miles Davis proposition nails it, it's a masterpiece!!! I advise all you cinema lovers to watch the film....
So good to see Dianne Reeves appreciated (haven't seen anyone react to that selection as I scrolled thru comments). Got a chance to see her live early after her first LP and loved her ever since. I urge others to check out her catalog.
I first (unknowingly) listened to her because of her collaboration with Calder in "Ancient Source" (killer song, give it a chance if you feel like to) I recognized her almost immediately when I heard her in this list, I'll definitely check out for some of her catalogue later :)
Spot On - John Coltrane’s Crescent and Lonnie’s Lament 🙌. All of the Roy Hargrove’s RH Factor output is killin ! You also named some others that I need to definitely pickup…. My Top Ten Acoustic Jazz - No Particular Order - There are so many…. Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine John Coltrane - Crescent Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner Wayne Shorter - Adam’s Apple Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time Vol. 3 Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Joshua Redman - Moodswing Carmen McRae - Sings Monk Lee Morgan - Search For Thé New Land Art Blakey - Indestructible
Thanks for turning us on to such a great selection of albums and songs. I listen to a lot of jazz, but am really happy to have found such a great collection that I wasn‘t aware of. 😀🎹🎸🎷
I wasn’t sure at first, but you stole my heart. Well done. It is always a beautiful thing to be taking on such a wonderful journey. Cheers Danny PS I’m a bari sax player…….may have to find one to add😂😂😂😂
Great list Peter. I would add, if possible -- Anthony Braxton's Five Pieces 1975, Steve Swallow's Home, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble's Dance With the Ancestors, Larry Goldings' As One, and Lee Konitz/Albert Mangelsdorf's Art of the Duo.
@@nakim55 There's room for everybody and everything! I'm a big fan of Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Bobby Blue Bland but also Ornette Coleman, Andrew Hill and Sam Rivers as well : why not? It all flows from the same source.
The Ornette Coleman Trio, Live at The Golden Circle vol.1 Smack Up, Art Pepper Mingus at Antibes, Charles Mingus Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane at The Five Spot Decoy, Miles Davis Out to Lunch, Eric Dolphy Moanin', Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Midnight Blue, Kenny Burrell The Bridge, Sonny Rollins Blues and the Abstract Truth, Oliver Nelson
Thanks for the reminders on these, Peter. Here's a Top 10 More: The Audience With Betty Carter (1980) The Hub of Hubbard (1969) In All Languages - Ornette Coleman (1987) Gettin' Together - Art Pepper (1960) Four For Trane - Archie Shepp (1964) The Peacocks - Stan Getz presents Jimmy Rowles (1975) Monk's Dream (1962) Alfie - Sonny Rollins (1966) Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Ellington (1957) Crescent - John Coltrane (1964) and one more for good measure - Eventuality:The Charlie Kohlhase Quintet Plays the Music of Roswell Rudd - Roswell Rudd/Charlie Kohlhase (2001)
Yes -- Crescent! My favorite Coltrane album, and one of my very favorite jazz albums ever. And Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud is so great. But Roberta Flack's First Take is an inspired and unexpected choice.
Great video🥃 I’m going to stream theses tonight..and make a playlist that’ll help me get a better understanding of the essence of jazz and in essence music . Thank you. Have a great Christmas 🎄
This was very interesting. I added your list of songs to my spotify playlist and from there it was easy enough to click through and add the albums they're on. Everyone has his favorites (I certainly do and I have most of my collection burned to an SD card that I can play in my car), but a list like this is a gentle tap on the shoulder and a whisper...."Pssst! Take a look over here real quick." Nicely done.
A very creative and interesting list including some obscure pieces... Roberta is great. I saw her in DC in a Stanley Turrentine sit-in back in the day before she was even known, and she was fabulous then, even before the world heard of her.
I gotta say Sam Rivers' "Contours" is an absolute bomb of an album. I hardly ever see it listed, don't know why. It's personal, surprising and fresh still today, imo.
I came upon this video by chance. I can't thank you enough cause now I'm a fan of Jazz forever. Your choice of favorite jazz recordings is personal but that's what probably made me think that it came from the very depth of your heart and that's what definitely bought me. Now I have 20 jazz recordings and won't stop on that. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I enjoyed that! I would kind of like a more track-focussed top 10, as album contents obviously vary widely in quality. I'm a dedicated bebopper, but nothing speaks to me more than that ephemeral explosion of art that started in a taxi cab and ended in a recording called 'The Minor Drag', For me, that recording stands as the preserved scintilla of a frantic, youthful, intoxicated and brilliant exposition of joyful young jazz!
I have almost never heard or gravitated towards jazz. For some reason your video came up in the YT feed. And for some reason I watched it too. And for some reason I saved all the choices. Slowly going through them and liking them (too soon and early for me to love jazz). As I write listening to the full album of Hard Groove. Will subscribe. thank you.
Interplay and Crescent I definitely agree they never got enough attention and deserve their spot. Roberta Flack I never really thought of as a jazz record, but I support it!!
Loved the Shirley Horn and Bill Evans picks, but I would definitely have gone with the Roy Hargrove/Mulgrew Miller "In Harmony" recent release as my pick for any Hargrove related album. Those two create some magic that is rarely heard on any recording and as a duo they compliment each other perfectly.
I clicked because I saw the Hargrove album cover. It’s one of my favs and how I started listening to him… but his Havana album became my fav fav, lol. Great list! Saw him play once… fantastic.
Etcetra by Wayne Shorter. What a masterpiece! Most would not put it onto Shorters top 5 or top 10 albums but believe me. If you havent listened to it yet - DO IT. You’re welcome! 😊
I’m a metal head! Death metal, grindcore, dark hardcore and all things heavy dark and dirty; that’s my happy place. I have watched a million of these types of videos for those genres. But I saw this one pop up, gave it a watch and have a created a RUclips playlist of all of these albums. Roberta Flack and Thelonius Monk have made their mark on me previously. I’m going to give the whole list a good crack!
Very cool list, thank you! I especially like your picks for Monk & Bill Evans. For me, most noticeably absent is Eric Dolphy: “Out To Lunch.” Check it out y’all! ✌🏻
Great, Peter!! You STILL da man!!! Incidentally, RB told me that Blanton was the reason he played bass. And it wasn't his solos that lured him as much as his big fat groove. I think he first heard it on a juke box somewhere (vaguely recall him saying that). I remember when he made the duo album with Duke. he came back to LA and told me what a dream it was to make that album. He was on cloud nine when he came home from Vegas. Excellent choice, my man. All great choices. Dianne is my fav, as you know!!!
John!! Thanks for watching and for those RB recollections - priceless. I got to rehearse and play with him for one day, and it was one of my fondest and most enlightening musical encounters to date.
Nice, Peter!
Great call with the Roy Hargrove album....
Some Great modern recordings IMO include Kenny Garrett "Songbook"....Joshua Redman "River Wide".....nic Payton "Payton's Place"...and my favorite jazz a l bum that seems to be always overlooked is Freddie Hubbard "Red Clay"....just some opinions.
Wonderful community that gathers around these videos!
My teacher in the early 1970's was the late, John Neves. He was so taken by the duo album "This one's for Blanton that He bought all the copies he could at the nearby used record store, Looney Tunes in Boston. He gifted them to some lucky students. I was one of the lucky ones. What a gem!
Peter! I feel honoured to be part of your REAL 10 Greatest list! Recording that session in 2002 with Roy & touring in the RH Factor Band was a serious boundary breaking musical movement! It's funny. All we were doing was having some fun sharing the music to the World & giving it ALL for the music ... as Roy did his entire life on this Earth! May his music & legacy live forever! Holla... Rh Factor Family
Reggie! Thanks for checking out the vid, honored! 🙏🏼
Hey man, you certainly gave the world a true work of art, which touches us deeply. Here in Brazil, we are big fans of you. I listen to Roy every day, it keeps me alive in music, it keeps me going with such difficulty. Thank you for breaking the barriers and transforming this world for the better!
Great comment! By the way, I was living and working in Dallas in 1988 (it must have been) and one night wandered into a small jazz club on a Sunday or Monday night only to find this young kid playing trumpet with some friends, and as a long time jazz fan I immediately knew he was an incredible talent. I chatted with him and Roy told me he was about to go to Berklee. So that must have been late summer 88. I remember it well. He was just a kid, but obviously hugely talented.
não conhecia nada sobre esse canal ou seu apresentador mas a chamada ser esse album, fez eu correr aqui rapido. amem pelas indicações.
Oh yes shure, the most influential album in jazz for the last 25 years.
shaking your head at Take Five should be criminal. I don’t care how many times you’ve heard it it’s crazy good.
Plus, it's a fabulous recording to boot.
Exactly. I saw that and closed the video. This dickhead has nothing worth saying.
Why do we even care what Stanley Tucci thinks about jazz? It has gone too far!
Highly overrated.
It’s been overplayed to death
Out of the 10 albums on this list, 7 were new to me and I cannot thank you enough. Discovering "new" music is a joy of life
you're welcome, and I wholeheartedly agree - I'm amazed & inspired by the breadth of great music still to be discovered 💯
Dude .... picking the top ten jazz albums of all time is a damn stupid thing to do, but if you're still going to do it, at least do it right (because there are a lot of innocent people hanging around the net who tend to believe every damn thing fools like you say, and I don't think is a healthy contribution at all. By the way, have you thought about wearing a wig? It would be more real than your top ten albums, that's for sure.
Ffs. You’re welcome, not your welcome.
Thanks for sharing your good attitude.
@@judeirwin2222 Lookie here. We have a grammar school English teacher with nothing better to do, You can't even spell GED
Old guy here, stuck in the jazz classics. Love your list. Jazz needs to be fresh and new, and most of these are new to me. I used to have the Ellington/Brown album until somebody liked it more than I did. I remember trying to play the bass parts.
Man. I'm SO glad you put Coltrane's "Crescent" on this list.
With so much music out there to listen to, I now only listen to Coltrane once in a long while, and I used to own and listen to most of his discography on CD when I was younger. And when I feel like having some Coltrane, my first thought is alway "Crescent" (the title tune). The first few choruses have to be some of the best improvised lines in the history of music.
Ole Coltrane
Coltrane Jazz ❤
if pressed, I might say Crescent is the greatest jazz album ever for lovers of jazz. Not sure it's the #1 entry point to recommend, but if you're already a kool-aid drinker.....then yeah
I was skeptical during the introduction when you were dismissing the usual selections for top 10 jazz albums of all time, but I have to say you really knocked the ball out of the park with your selections! This is a great reminder that there is so much great music out there beyond the tried and true selections, and that it is worth venturing off the usual path to explore the roads less travelled in the world of jazz. Thank you.
Agreed, and thank you for your words.
I’d vote CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
CRAZY LITTLE THING 🌴😎❤️✌️👍
I had the same reaction, I can't stand top 10s but I do agree that Crescent is essential listening. I have made a point of listening to it end to end every year for nearly 30 years. So go ahead then with your list...
A beautiful list. Could easily be replaced with 10 different albums. The great thing about it is that even that list could be replaced with another list with completely different artists and still we could not argue. I love this.
thanks! exactly the spirit I was hoping to convey 🙏🏼
@@pianopeter Which begs the question: When is list B coming out? 😁
Dude .... picking the top ten jazz albums of all time is a damn stupid thing to do, but if you're still going to do it, at least do it right (because there are a lot of innocent people hanging around the net who tend to believe every damn thing fools like you say, and I don't think is a healthy contribution at all. By the way, have you thought about wearing a wig? It would be more real than your top ten albums, that's for sure.
@@teebeecurl From funny!!! 💖
If easily then something is not...
Oh man that Duke and Ray Brown record is absolutely killer. Thank you! I may have never otherwise found it. I adore this album.
you're welcome. I don't remember who hipped me to it many years ago, but I remember how revelatory it felt when I first heard it
@@pianopeterPeter, can you make a top 10 video on your favourite Ray Brown records. I love "Way Out West" and "The Gifted Ones", apart from the Duke duo, what else should I check out?
I'm a Zappaphite so I like shining the spotlight on some corners that makes me excited. Our library system in Pensacola has a Jazz Room stocked by the Pensacola Jazz Society. I drive Uber and check out different CDs all week long. I'm going to check this out.
Focus(Stan Getz).By Myself Alone(Ann Burton).Monk(Brilliant Corners).Art Pepper(Meets the Rhythmn Section).Oliver Nelson(Blues n the Abstract Truth).Jackie McClean(Bluesnik).Ike Quebec(Blue n Sentimental).Herbie Hancock(Maiden Voyage).
Duke n Johnny Hodges(Back to Back).Ben Webster(Soulville).
No particular order, just LPs that stir my soul.
I find the album Crescent and specifically the tune Lonnie's Lament so unbelievably beautiful and touching, thank you for mentioning it
Dude .... picking the top ten jazz albums of all time is a damn stupid thing to do, but if you're still going to do it, at least do it right (because there are a lot of innocent people hanging around the net who tend to believe every damn thing fools like you say, and I don't think is a healthy contribution at all. By the way, have you thought about wearing a wig? It would be more real than your top ten albums, that's for sure.
Wise One blew me away. That entire album is killer!
perhaps the most gratifying response to this video is the overwhelming outpouring of affection for Crescent
So happy to see some love for Roy Hargrove; as you mentioned, 'Earfood' is probably one of my favorite jazz albums of the 21st century, and he is sorely missed
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His cuban album (“Habana”) is fantastic, too.
Oh! And “The Vibe”...
@@DarkeningSkies1 The VIBE! You're going back........a great place to go!
Crescent an atf for sure and well record! Some good stuff for me to dig into! Thanks!
Amazing! Lovely and Beautiful listening experience!!! Tha's my sh** 2!!
I'm a 58 year old Classic Rocker who still knows very little about jazz. That said, Roy Hargrove's "With the Tenors of Our Time" is the first jazz CD I ever bought. I subsequently bought two or three more of his CDs. For me he was the perfect bridge into jazz, as his music was more accessible to my untrained ear than so much other jazz I had heard.
What a great first album, one of my favorites!
THAT Roy album is awesome. I got a chance to play all that music with Roy's quintet while touring with his quintet in 1994. I was young and ig-nant, but that experience shaped my musical life. Very weird to see this from that summer 1994--> ruclips.net/video/GgELdy4rmLc/видео.html
@@pianopeter Thanks so much for the link! Who's that young dude on piano? ;) Wow, you're the REAL DEAL, man! Too bad Roy is no longer with us.
The first track of that album, "Soppin' the Biscuit," is _killin'!_
@@terrellholmes2726 I couldn't agree more. I still love the entire lp. So much legendary talent and is ultra swinging, soulful, and funky!!👍👍👍
Thanks for this list. Great pick that "Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud" it reminds me the time when I was digging in our public music's library.
Greetings from Belgium.
You’re the first jazz channel that I can honestly say that I agree with every one of these incredible recordings. Keep up the great work.
I'm a musician, but not a jazzer (although with a huge admiration for jazz musicianship and improv). I'm just starting to try to get a feel for the "canon". Thank you SO MUCH for this list!! Every selection is fantastic and outside the 'usual suspects" friends and RUclips have recommended for me. But a special thanks for "This One's for Blanton". It immediately goes on my favorite albums of all time! Gorgeous recording, juicy lucid playing, so melodic, playful and fun. Maybe hardcore guys might say it's too simple, but man it hits a certain spot for me! I would love to see you do an extended list. Your insight and taste provide invaluable guidance for relative noobs like me. Sincere thanks again.
You're welcome, and thanks for your kind words. I agree - "This One's for Blanton" is a revelation. Happy listening!
I totally agree with you, Peter, about the Robert Flack album, especially Tryin' Times. Not only is it musically brilliant, but it is also an historical document that does capture the domestic strife of the 60's. When I was a science teacher at East Orange (NJ) high school during that period, I used this track at an after-school class to introduce kids to the blues, and to demonstrate how such a fundamental progression can be crafted into such sophisticated, soulful & meaningful art. So, thanks for highlighting it!
thanks for sharing this, so well said 🙏🏼
Thanks for helping to introduce kids to our most wonderful American export
Is Ms. Roberta doing the vocals on it too?
@@sheltonterry6589 Absolutely!! She's the best!
Glad to see Shirley Horn , she’s so underrated, I’ve been going through a rabbit hole of her live performances on RUclips just brilliance.
And Peter's pick is superb. Shirley didn't make bad albums, but "I Love You Paris" and "Close Enough for Love" really define the core of her art. To me they are the platonic ideal Shirley Horn albums.
Don't forget The Main Ingredient; one of my favorites!
The Miles album is a real gem. Listening now! Awesome as ever Peter.
The live RUclips stuff of Shirley is so great to have - I saw her live quite a few times throughout the 90's, and to have these video documents is priceless.
Speaking of lesser known jazz artists: I had never heard of Gil Scott Heron before I heard his song, “The Prisoner,” on Sirius XM radio one day. I haven’t listened to the entire album that that song is from yet, but I fully intend on doing just that….there were/are so many GREAT jazz artists, that it is mind boggling sometimes, to even think about listening to all of their work! (It probably can’t be done.)
Great post. Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions! Can't wait to listen.
Thanks for talking about these less often mentioned jazz gems! Introduced me to some GREAT albums I'd never heard of! Love the videos!
I was once walking through the city at night. It was drizzling, the lights in the apartment blocks along the harbor were providing some background lighting and Miles' Ascenseur pour L'échafaud was playing through my headphones. I couldn't have picked a better setting for this soundtrack. Goosebumps.
agreed
I bet that was a classic noir experience. I have done a similar thing sitting in my jeep with the window open just enough to allow the fresh air and hear the rain. I played a few tracks from the Round midnight sound track, Miles' Kind of Blue and Dexter Gordon's Ballads.
I love to put on those restoration vids of cities from back in the day and just mute it while I listen to music. The other night I was watching a video of a car driving down Los Angeles streets at night in the late-1950's while listening to Miles "Birth of the Cool". It seriously heightens the experience.
The legend says that Miles recorded the soundtrack directly while watching the movie, it's probably not true but i always thought it was a great story 🙂
I wanted to hate your list! But I love it! As a piano plodder (what I do could never be mistaken for playing) I am a huge Shirley Horn fan. The Miles & Bill Evans LPs you featured are simply brilliant. Great job!
thanks for your words, appreciate them
I think Crescent always gets overlooked because A Love Supreme came out so soon after, but it's certainly no less an album. Thanks for highlighting it.
your welcome - and it's such stunningly different album from Love Supreme!
Yes, true. It's a great counterpoint to ALS - quietly introspective. In many ways I prefer it.
Both Crescent and Olé Coltrane deserve their flowers
I usually hate top 10 lists, but you made a great case for these magnificent albums. The fact that they are lesser known is probably why I hate such lists in the first place. Thank you.
You're welcome. Yeah, the lists for art is weird, so I tried to mix it up a little.
Wonderful list. My top LPs " Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing" .... June Christy "Something Cool". .....Miles Davis "Relaxing" .... Brubeck "Jazz Impressions of USA" ... Coltrane and Johnny Hartman ....Pat Metheny "Bright Size Life" ..... Bill Evans "I will say Goodbye" ... Stan Getz in Stockholm .... Sinatra "Only The Lonely" ...... Dakota Staton "The Late late Show " So many from which to choose.
Yes! Shout out to Coltrane and the great Johnny Hartman - amazing album
I’m going to listen to your recommendations. Thanks!
Hard Groove is utterly fantastic. I bought it not long after it was originally released. I was just thumbing through the CDs in my local music store and I saw the cover and thought: "Interesting". I'd never heard of Roy Hargrove at that point. When I got home and played it, it blew my socks off. A fantastic mix of soul/blues/rap/hip-hop inflected jazz. Simply superb.
ah the days of flipping thru CD's at a local music store, and buying based on an interesting cover - I miss that! Thanks for sharing
Billie Holiday of the 1930s, before "Stange Fruit", doesn't get enough attention. Some of the greatest jazz ever recorded.
Very interesting list; I like where you go with it. I have to toss into the mix "The Music" by the Clayton Brothers: John Clayton (bass), Jeff Clayton (reeds), Jeff Hamilton (drums), and Bill Cunliffe (piano). The touch and emotion on that album from all four players is simply superb, and the programming of the record (a dying art) is masterful. If the album is unfamiliar, I would start with the song "I Concentrate on You".
the correct title for this video is 10 great jazz albums you may have overlooked.
Agreed it's a very interesting list but a poor title, it will probably get more traction on youtube though because of it
@@fredericxicluna2036 exactly, but then the channel isnt taken seriously.
Totally agree. It’s a great list of overlooked albums. But based on the title, it seems the greatest jazz record of all time is by … Roberta Flack?! Doesn’t work.
@@robertpietrusko4545 yeah. for sure.
There are so many different styles of jazz, impossible to narrow all that down to just 10 albums…..
HUGE props for starting with Shirley Horn and featuring an album with her beautiful piano playing !
Only problem - @ 10th, everything else seems downhill
I love Duke Ellington's Afro-Eurasian Eclipse. It's totally underrated and needs to be heard more! What fantastic music.
Agreed. Late Duke is kinda overlooked...but killing!
a great one!
I agree
"Such Sweet Thunder" by Duke
Jimmy Giuffre deserves some recognition. His approach to jazz composition is quite unique. Western suite or The easy way are incredible albums that changed my way of understanding jazz.
Another album that I really love is Paul Desmond - Glad tu be unhappy, with the unique Jim Hall at guitar.
Thanks for being bold enough to do this. A fine public service.
your welcome 🙏🏼
My top 10 list:
-Phil Woods; Live At The Showboat
-Dexter Gordon; Go!
'Bill Evans: Alone
-Ella Fitzgerald: Mack The Knife: Live In Berlin
-Billie Holiday: Lady In Datin
-Erroll Garner: Concert By The Sea
-Crusaders At The Lighthouse
-Oscar Peterson: We Get Requests
-Ahmad Jamal: Live At The Pershing
-Robert Glasper: Black Radio
Yes to Phil Woods at the Showboat
Thanks. I’m going to give them a listen.
I can’t appreciate you enough for putting Dexter Gordon GO on this !! absolute fire album
killer list sir, Ella Live in Berlin is a thriller
Great list! The Roberta Flack choice is terrific, I was not aware of it. I did recently learn that she was the first person to record "Compared to What", which of course was made famous by Les McCann and Eddie Harris at Montreux.
Well...that was excellent! Too many things to say, so I'll say this. I am always on the look out for new music. My tastes range wide and far, and yet I am also picky. There are at least five albums on this list that I'll now go and track down. Thank you so much!!
your welcome 🙏🏼
Love this. This One’s for Blanton, Crescent, Interplay, Ascenseur Pour L’echafaud, Alone in San Francisco, First Take, all amazing. I’ll have to check out the others (I love Shirley Horn) Would be great to see a series of lists like this. Here’s ten of my lesser-known favorites:
10. Larry Young - Of Love and Peace
9. Gil Mellé Quartet - Quadrama
8. Pete La Roca - Turkish Women at the Bath
7. Sam Rivers - Waves
6. Randy Weston Trio with Cecil Payne - Jazz à la Bohemia
5. Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Thesis
4. Carmen McRae - Bittersweet
3. John Coltrane - First Meditations (for quartet)
2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Rahsaan
1. Art Farmer Quartet - Sing Me Softly of the Blues
Honorable Mention - Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef), Walt Dickerson Plays Unity, Herbie Mann & the Bill Evans Trio - Nirvana, Honi Gordon - Honi Gordon Sings, Ornette Coleman - Body Meta
That order and list could change on a daily basis as I know I’m forgetting many more I’d like to include.
fantastic list, thanks for sharing. Carmen McRae!! What an artist...🙏🏼
Great additional list. Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Haven't listened to him in a while, but now I have to go do it. Unique talent!
@@pianopeter anytime. Carmen McRae, my favorite singer! And really enjoying the Joni Letters today. Thank you.
@@DavidRamsey1 thanks! Highlight track of Rahsaan Rahsaan has to be the Dvorak-Sentimental Journey-Rogers and Hart medley. Amazing what he does with the different melodies on his horns!
deep list there. Thanks for the reminders and new recommendations! I've never listened to 7 of these, but will remedy that ASAP!
This is what jazz is all about: listening to music with fresh ears. This list is true "tour de force". Thanks a lot!
You're welcome, and I wholeheartedly agree on 'fresh ears'. 🙏🏼👂🏼
One of my faves is Estate from that Shirley Horn album you noted before sharing your #10, so I decided to stick around and am glad I did. You just gained another subscriber who's eager to see what you generously share in '24. Thank you!
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Interesting list you have there Peter. Definitely some new things to look at and listen to for me on your list. I have two albums that are in my top ten that you didn't mention on your list or on the overstated list of albums you mentioned, and they are Ugetsu - Art NBlakey and the Jazz Messengers, and Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley.
Crescent and Hardgroove! Woo so glad they made the list. Stoked to check the rest of these records out. Thank you for your channel and all the work you do to educate and inspire!
Your welcome 🙏🏼
I kinda miss Chick Corea on this list cause I feel like out of all the greats he is the one getting the least attention or at least to little attention which is sad cause he was such a genius.
agreed - genius as a player and human. Miss CC. 🙏🏼
Agreed! Try 'Tones For Joan's Bones'. Fantastic album!
Agreed, musicmagic is a criminally underated album, such beautiful arrangements
Yeah, if you've heard one of his most recent albums, hot house with Gary on the vibes. With chicks arrangements and the interplay between the two, it all together mashes up to be a superb album in my opinion - but as Peter said, this kind of is more an introduction to lesser known albums without disregarding other great ones, such as the one I mentioned.
Totally agree
The man may have a point! Peter, thanks for this list. The joy is in always getting new lists to listen to. I love the later albums by artists. It shows they have still grown. That is why Jazz is so great
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I am blown away. I need to your process of reconsideration not only on my listening but also my reading and cooking. Your choices are gems. I have maybe 3 of them. Will have to dig up the rest.
I pivoted into jazz because I’m a drummer. While these all sound very nice and relaxing (granted, I love the last two), my place in the jazz journey has recently landed me at 1) Buddy Rich’s “Big Swing Face” album, and 2) Bill Evans “At the Montreux Jazz Festival”. (likely neither of these are ‘under the radar’ picks; I’m a novice listener.) These are two recent finds I’ve had where I had to replay the album immediately because I was so thoroughly floored by the amazing talent and energy of the group. I’ll have to circle back to your list, when I’ve developed my ear a bit better. Cheers!
P.S. Not sure about anyone else, but I’d love to see a list of “top ten jazz drumming albums” for folks who have already thoroughly sifted through the usual top 10 miles/coltrane/the usual picks.
All drummers..navigate to other yt channels
Im.a drummer ..
I find the cripple drummer yt channel complete for us rhythmatists ..as does Barnard Castiglionis channel
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Here's my "not that obvious" top ten jazz albums of all time:
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges - Back to back
Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan - Two of a mind
Gerry Mulligan - What is there to say
Chet Baker - Peace
Charles Lloyd - Voice in the night
Ginger Baker - Coward of the county
Rabih Abou-Khalil - The sultan's picnic
Jacinta - A tribute to Bessie Smith
Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Jasmine
Bernardo Sassetti Trio - Motion
Lament for Thelonious, from Chet Baker's Peace is a hidden gem
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Excited that Miles Davis' Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud gets some attention. Well deserved to be mentioned. I think, it is one of his masterpieces. Stunning record!
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It’s my favorite album
Thank you for spelling that out, so I can find it! I don't understand french.
Yes, but he should have also recommended seeing (Elevator to the Gallows) the movie, itself. A must see film, IMO. --Mind twisting.
@@histubeness - true!
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady would def be on my top 10
incredible album from top to bottom 🙏🏼
I agree !! So much
That and his solo piano record.
Charlie Mariano is unreal on that cut.
@@djtrendsetta5766Charlie Mariano is fucking awesome everytime. Give him a listen on "Dear John C.", a magnificent album by Elvin Jones.
1st time meeting you. My Big Bro was a Jazz fan from the 50s - 70's. So I heard it a lot and I remember. He would have loved your list! You nailed it. Thank you.
I love most of these too, especially Interplay and Trying Times! Well done Sir!
There’s no doubt that these are 10 albums that should bring great pleasure to anyone who already appreciates jazz and could serve as an intro to jazz too. L’Ascenceur Pour L’Echafaud is a really good pick- going to have to listen to that again soon. My personal top 10 list would likely always include something by Tubby Hayes not because he’s necessarily one of the best purveyors of bebop but he’s the one who got me to appreciate it when I came to his music somewhat late in life.
Sadly, even Tubby admitted that he couldn't pull a melody out of all those fast changes, voice-leading, which makes his playing rather tedious after a while. I saw him several times at the Marquee, as a quartet. The atmosphere made it OK, but he was playing second fiddle to the brilliant Joe Harriott Quintet on a Saturday night c.1961, who could genuinely challenge for a place in the top ten.
Thank you, brother! Great list and indeed, not all of them would have been on my list! Will give them a good listen-to. I am a big sucker for scandinavian jazz. LOVE Esbjörn Svensson Trio - and here perhaps the most "Good Morning Susie Soho". Feelings, man! As well, one of my most listened to albums is from a Swedish saxophone player, Per "Texas" Johansson and here perhaps the album "Alla Mina Kompisar" ("all my friends"). This is where I fell in love with pedal steel guitar in jazz. Listen to "miljarder stjärnor" ("millions of stars"). FEELINGS, man!!!
Happy to see in the list Ascenseur pour l'echefaud by Miles. A great album and a remarkable landmark in my life (I discovered it in 1990, when I was young and still free to discover things). Thanks for the list, I did one similar for a blog in Italy, but it was meant to consider the 11 album which cannot be missed, so it is more classical.
Hugs
grazie mille! 🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing this top 10, love it! I like the fact it was a bit outside the obvious ones, i love to discover new stuff.
Here in Montreal, we're pleased to have the Jazz Festival: It's another chance to enjoy / discover music. I was lucky to get tickets in 2022 when the Brubeck Brothers came: It was in Gesù theater, inside a Church, great show!
I'll try to get the albums of your top 10 i don't have (hope they are good recordings). As i am an audiophile too, i'm in heaven when i hear great jazz musicians on a well recorded / mixed / mastered all digital media! Great recording is a big plus. I'd say that in my record collection, Patricia Barber's albums are probably the best sounding ones i have. With my new DAC, it's simply MARVELOUS!
Montreal Jazz Fest is indeed a great event, and a fantastic city - cheers!
Great list, Peter, and encouraging to hear fresh and perhaps under appreciated works featured here, thank you. For me I would add: The Concert Jazz Band, Gerry Mulligan (outstanding ensemble work and arranging, & no piano to boot!); Word of Mouth -Jaco Pastorius; Water Babies - Miles Davis; Marsalis Standard Time mainly because of the masterclass that is the arrangement of “Caravan” feat Jeff “Tain” Watts and astonishing piano work by Marcus Roberts. And then I’d have to include Bitches Brew for it being so ahead and influential in so many ways.
Thanks for opening my eyes and ears to this selection. What a great selection of albums.
A favorite of mine is Something Else by Cannonball Adderley. Miles' playing on this album is sublime
Something Else is very aptly named - a favourite of mine as well. Blues In Orbit, for me, is very much a companion album despite them not being connected.
I'm sure you've heard it, but Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue is up there with the other "Blue" album as far as I'm concerned - at least in terms of listenability.
Nice video. I love the Roberta Flack album and Miles is my favorite. What do think of Mose Allison’s music? The guy was the definition of cool ( 2nd to Miles )!
@al201103 thanks for the suggestion...I'll check out Blues in Orbit. The Kenny Burrell album is fantastic
I am very happy that you featured Roy Hargrove & The RH Factor album "Hardgroove." I instinctively bought the album back in 2007 because I thought the cover art was so unique. I didn't even know RH back then, but I'm hooked on him ever since. There are other hits in that album: Poetry, The Joint, Liquid Streets, Juicy, and The Stroke.
RIP the best melancholic trumpeter. Roy Hargrove, you'll be missed. ❤
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Fun list! The one I'm especially on board with is that Monk album. It's always been an important & much loved album for me.
The whole video reminds me of one of my favorite Norm McDonald jokes: I got stuck on a deserted island once, and I gotta say, those 10 CDs I brought with me didn't help a damn thing! XD
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Norm! 😆
Hello Peter, this is Harry from NW Greece!!! I've always been a jazz fan, particularly at the age of 32, and for a couple of years thereon, I had listened to a lot, I wanted to absorb and let it grow in me.... thank so much for those suggestions, most of the names are well known, but the albums, I was missing them really... last but not least, the Miles Davis proposition nails it, it's a masterpiece!!! I advise all you cinema lovers to watch the film....
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The Roberta Flack track blew me away. Thanks for introducing me to this!
This is great. I’d love to see more album recommendation videos like these.
Edit: like more of these lesser know “inside picks”
more to come for sure
So good to see Dianne Reeves appreciated (haven't seen anyone react to that selection as I scrolled thru comments). Got a chance to see her live early after her first LP and loved her ever since. I urge others to check out her catalog.
Yes, I am with you. Dianne Reeves never gets a mention, even when people discuss female vocalists
I agree.
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I first (unknowingly) listened to her because of her collaboration with Calder in "Ancient Source" (killer song, give it a chance if you feel like to)
I recognized her almost immediately when I heard her in this list, I'll definitely check out for some of her catalogue later :)
Spot On - John Coltrane’s Crescent and Lonnie’s Lament 🙌. All of the Roy Hargrove’s RH Factor output is killin ! You also named some others that I need to definitely pickup….
My Top Ten Acoustic Jazz - No Particular Order - There are so many….
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
John Coltrane - Crescent
Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner
Wayne Shorter - Adam’s Apple
Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time Vol. 3
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Joshua Redman - Moodswing
Carmen McRae - Sings Monk
Lee Morgan - Search For Thé New Land
Art Blakey - Indestructible
tbh "My Funny Valentine" is the Miles album I would take to an actual desert island if I can only take 1 😂....and Prisoner - YEAH!
@@pianopeter Totally Agree !!!
Ridiculous ! You don't know your business!
Great picks. You opened me up to some music that I wasn’t aware of, thank you!
Great list hopefully I can find good pressings.
Thanks for turning us on to such a great selection of albums and songs. I listen to a lot of jazz, but am really happy to have found such a great collection that I wasn‘t aware of. 😀🎹🎸🎷
your welcome! happy listening
I wasn’t sure at first, but you stole my heart. Well done. It is always a beautiful thing to be taking on such a wonderful journey.
Cheers
Danny
PS I’m a bari sax player…….may have to find one to add😂😂😂😂
Great list Peter. I would add, if possible -- Anthony Braxton's Five Pieces 1975, Steve Swallow's Home, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble's Dance With the Ancestors, Larry Goldings' As One, and Lee Konitz/Albert Mangelsdorf's Art of the Duo.
To avant garde for these people
@@nakim55 There's room for everybody and everything! I'm a big fan of Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Bobby Blue Bland but also Ornette Coleman, Andrew Hill and Sam Rivers as well : why not? It all flows from the same source.
Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud by Miles is one of the most beautiful records I've ever owned. Gives me chills every time I listen to it.
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The most incredible thing is that Miles improvised on the film by running in front of him for the recording, just playing what he felt about the film.
Muy interesante Top, gracias por compartirlo 🙌🏽
gracias 😀
The Ornette Coleman Trio, Live at The Golden Circle vol.1
Smack Up, Art Pepper
Mingus at Antibes, Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane at The Five Spot
Decoy, Miles Davis
Out to Lunch, Eric Dolphy
Moanin', Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
Midnight Blue, Kenny Burrell
The Bridge, Sonny Rollins
Blues and the Abstract Truth, Oliver Nelson
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! Finally some love for Ornette and Eric!
YES!
My Dad was a huge Ornette Coleman Fan. I remember the Golden Circle recordings very well.
I need more music medicine thanks Doc😂 16:26
Thanks for the reminders on these, Peter. Here's a Top 10 More:
The Audience With Betty Carter (1980)
The Hub of Hubbard (1969)
In All Languages - Ornette Coleman (1987)
Gettin' Together - Art Pepper (1960)
Four For Trane - Archie Shepp (1964)
The Peacocks - Stan Getz presents Jimmy Rowles (1975)
Monk's Dream (1962)
Alfie - Sonny Rollins (1966)
Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Ellington (1957)
Crescent - John Coltrane (1964)
and one more for good measure -
Eventuality:The Charlie Kohlhase Quintet Plays the Music of Roswell Rudd - Roswell Rudd/Charlie Kohlhase (2001)
Yes -- Crescent! My favorite Coltrane album, and one of my very favorite jazz albums ever. And Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud is so great. But Roberta Flack's First Take is an inspired and unexpected choice.
appreciate your words 🙏🏼
Many thank. Listening to Jazz for ages but did not know most of your suggested albums. What a great experience!
Great video🥃
I’m going to stream theses tonight..and make a playlist that’ll help me get a better understanding of the essence of jazz and in essence music .
Thank you.
Have a great Christmas 🎄
Alone in San Francisco one of my favorites along with bad Powell records
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@pianopeter i mean bud Powell. The autocorrector of Google xdd
Bill Evens is a jazz god. He deserves so much more appreciation.
I love the 2 Paris concert recordings
@@gregarmada701 Thanks for the tip.
The Bill Eavans Tony Bennett albums are a singular phenomenon. Standards elevated to great art. Nothing else like it.
This was very interesting. I added your list of songs to my spotify playlist and from there it was easy enough to click through and add the albums they're on. Everyone has his favorites (I certainly do and I have most of my collection burned to an SD card that I can play in my car), but a list like this is a gentle tap on the shoulder and a whisper...."Pssst! Take a look over here real quick."
Nicely done.
A couple of these gems I have NEVER even heard. What a gift! Thank you!!
A very creative and interesting list including some obscure pieces... Roberta is great. I saw her in DC in a Stanley Turrentine sit-in back in the day before she was even known, and she was fabulous then, even before the world heard of her.
I gotta say Sam Rivers' "Contours" is an absolute bomb of an album. I hardly ever see it listed, don't know why. It's personal, surprising and fresh still today, imo.
I've overlooked it in my personal listening...thanks for the reminder.
great one!
When it comes to Sam, I'll take "Fuchsia Swing Song."
Feel proud that two of these albums are on my “can’t live without” list. Crescent, and River: Joni Mitchell letters
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I came upon this video by chance. I can't thank you enough cause now I'm a fan of Jazz forever. Your choice of favorite jazz recordings is personal but that's what probably made me think that it came from the very depth of your heart and that's what definitely bought me. Now I have 20 jazz recordings and won't stop on that. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you very much for such wonderful tips! Greetings from Brazil!
Thank you, Peter! I always love and appreciate all the music content you share with us so generously!🎹🎶
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I enjoyed that! I would kind of like a more track-focussed top 10, as album contents obviously vary widely in quality. I'm a dedicated bebopper, but nothing speaks to me more than that ephemeral explosion of art that started in a taxi cab and ended in a recording called 'The Minor Drag', For me, that recording stands as the preserved scintilla of a frantic, youthful, intoxicated and brilliant exposition of joyful young jazz!
thanks for sharing that story- a track oriented list makes sense, I’ll throw it in the mix 🙏
Interplay is actually one of my top five favorite jazz albums, glad to see it in number 2. Undercurrent is also a masterpiece.
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I have almost never heard or gravitated towards jazz. For some reason your video came up in the YT feed. And for some reason I watched it too. And for some reason I saved all the choices. Slowly going through them and liking them (too soon and early for me to love jazz). As I write listening to the full album of Hard Groove. Will subscribe. thank you.
My friend. Judging by the songs.This is a whole new World to me. Great to find this list. Let’s listen to it.
Wonderful.
Interplay and Crescent I definitely agree they never got enough attention and deserve their spot. Roberta Flack I never really thought of as a jazz record, but I support it!!
Would not call this list the top 10 albums of all time, but rather 10 good jazz albums you probably haven’t listened to
Loved the Shirley Horn and Bill Evans picks, but I would definitely have gone with the Roy Hargrove/Mulgrew Miller "In Harmony" recent release as my pick for any Hargrove related album. Those two create some magic that is rarely heard on any recording and as a duo they compliment each other perfectly.
I clicked because I saw the Hargrove album cover. It’s one of my favs and how I started listening to him… but his Havana album became my fav fav, lol. Great list! Saw him play once… fantastic.
This is a brilliant list - thanks!
Etcetra by Wayne Shorter. What a masterpiece! Most would not put it onto Shorters top 5 or top 10 albums but believe me. If you havent listened to it yet - DO IT. You’re welcome! 😊
I agree! Cecil McBee & Joe Chambers really complete it
@@arikayemusicyeah. Rhythm section is amazing. Soundscapes.
There would definitely be a Wayne 60s Blue Note album on my list if I made a list like this, possibly Adam’s Apple
no doubt. A def some Newk! @@jazzfan7491
I’m a metal head! Death metal, grindcore, dark hardcore and all things heavy dark and dirty; that’s my happy place. I have watched a million of these types of videos for those genres. But I saw this one pop up, gave it a watch and have a created a RUclips playlist of all of these albums. Roberta Flack and Thelonius Monk have made their mark on me previously. I’m going to give the whole list a good crack!
Very cool list, thank you! I especially like your picks for Monk & Bill Evans. For me, most noticeably absent is Eric Dolphy: “Out To Lunch.” Check it out y’all! ✌🏻
Nice list....I know a couple but the rest are new to me so thanks for that!!!
My fav of all time? Bill at the Village Vanguard!! Masterful trio !!!
Cool list. A lot I am unfamiliar with. Will enjoy exploring these albums.