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Your Favorite Jazz Records of the 1980s?


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For me, the 80's was junior high through the start of grad school, split roughly equally between Cleveland and Chicago. Started with appreciation for Kind of Blue, Time Out, Weather Report, Cannonball's Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (cassette dub in about 10th grade), high school stage band. Then the very deep CD dive into (among other things) the greatness of Blue Note (Rose Records!). Here are some of my favorites, focusing primarily on items that I discovered around the time of their release.

Joanne Brackeen - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume 1

Bobby McFerrin - Spontaneous Inventions  [Don't worry, being happy wasn't a requirement until the next BN release.]

Carmen McRae - Carmen Sings Monk

Pat Metheny - Still Life (Talking)   [Works very well played on a loop, especially when stuck inside with nasty winter weather outside.]

Roscoe Mitchell - Snurdy McGurdy & Her Dancin' Shoes

Frank Morgan - Mood Indigo

Steps Ahead - Modern Times   [Perhaps my first jazz show in a club was SA at Peabody's Down Under in the Flats.]

Randy Weston - Portraits of Thelonious Monk

No mention yet of John Carter's Roots and Folklore series?

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Recorded in 1980:

  • Fred Anderson Quartet - The Milwaukee Tapes Vol.1 (Atavistic)
  • The John Carter Quintet - Night Fire (Black Saint)

  • Cecil Taylor - Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! (MPS)

  • Fred Anderson; Steve McCall - Vintage Duets: Chicago 1-11-80 (Okka Disk)

  • Archie Shepp; Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Looking At Bird (SteepleChase)

  • Julius Hemphill Quartet - Flat-Out Jump Suite (Black Saint)

  • Bill Dixon - In Italy - Volume One (Black Saint)

  • Idris Muhammad - Kabsha (Theresa)

  • Stéphane Grappelli; Martial Solal - Happy Reunion (Owl)

  • Bernd Konrad - Hans Koller Unit with Didier Lockwood - Traumtänzer (Hat Hut). Reissued on CD together with 1994 Konrad / Koller sessions as "Phonolith" on hatOLOGY / Hat Hut.  

  • Tom Van Der Geld - Out Patients (JAPO / ECM)

  • Contact Trio - Musik (JAPO / ECM)

  • Arild Andersen - Lifeline (ECM)

  • Old and New Dreams - Playing (ECM)

And that's just one year. 

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On 19/02/2021 at 10:26 AM, Gheorghe said:

This one since I witnessed the exitement of Miles´ comeback and here it is still in a really jazz context, without all those synthisizers and the more boring stuff that came later. 

I really like it, maybe it´s a bit rough but it´s live and it´s still "jazz"

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Yes, good call. Nice production by Teo Macero and like you I witnessed that tour where much of this material was featured. I think Al Foster’s drums were particularly well captured on the LPs.

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