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My personal 5 BNs:

Hank Mobley, Slice of the Top

Don Wilkerson, Preach Brother

John Patton, Blue John

Gachan Moncur, Evolution

Bobby Hutcherson, Dialog

But for newbies:

Blue 'Trane

Something Else

Sidewinder

Song For My Father

Alligator Boogaloo

and that still leaves out anything early, and anything post-revival, any Wayne Shorter, etc.  No live and not much organ.  This is hard.

 

 

 

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I had been buying jazz records for five years before Blue Note records became available in this country - in 1962 IIRC. They were first issued, with some publicity, in a small bunch which included these:

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I don't recall what was my first BN purchase, but very soon I was buying early sixties key Jazz Messengers albums.

A friend ran up a huge debt with a store that let him have Jimmy Smith BNs on credit.:lol:

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2 hours ago, nighthawk68 said:

I see a number of folks picking John Patton albums. I'm aware of the Mosaic Select which collects his first three Blue Notes. I wonder why Mosaic never did a complete box on him?

The Mosaic select goes deeper than that doesn't it? I seem to remember that's where I first heard the tracks from the exceptional That Certain Feeling session. 

 

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1 hour ago, robertoart said:

The Mosaic select goes deeper than that doesn't it? I seem to remember that's where I first heard the tracks from the exceptional That Certain Feeling session. 

 

Yes, five albums on that set.

#1-1 to 1-6
Recorded on April 5, 1963.
Originally issued as John Patton - Along Came John (Blue Note BST 84130)

#1-7 to 1-11
Recorded on June 19, 1964.
Originally issued as John Patton - 'The Way I Feel' (Blue Note BST 84174)

#2-1 to 2-6
Recorded on March 8, 1965.
Originally issued as John Patton - Oh Baby! (Blue Note BST 84192)

#2-7 to 3-3
Recorded March 8, 1968.
Originally issued as John Patton - That Certain Feeling (Blue Note BST 84281)

#3-4 to 3-9
Recorded October 25, 1968.
Originally issued as John Patton - Understanding (Blue Note BST 84306)

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
All selections are stereo.
 

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1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

#2-7 to 3-3
Recorded March 8, 1968.
Originally issued as John Patton - That Certain Feeling (Blue Note BST 84281)

This’d probably be my favorite Patton leader-date — with Junior Cook, Jimmy Ponder(!), and Clifford Jarvis on drums.

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