FantasyJazz favorites

[ghost of miles]

I'm getting ready to place a large order, given that everything may change in 60 days... I already have quite a few Fantasy titles, but just out of curiosity, what are some Organissimo board members' favorites?

[catesta]

Could you make it any more difficult?

I'll throw a few out.

Booker Ervin - Groovin' High

Carmell Jones - Jay Hawk Talk

Harold Land - The Fox

Hampton Hawes - For Real

Budd Johnson - Let's Swing

Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny

Joe Gordon - Lookin' Good

Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee - Together Again

Blue Mitchell - Blue Soul

Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz

Barry Harris - Bull's Eye

[jazzbo]

The Mingus Debut box set.

[vibes]

Prince Lasha/Sonny Simmons - Firebirds

All the Walt Dickersons

[Jim R]

Boxed sets:

Wes - Riverside

Monk - Riverside

Bill Evans - Riverside

Tatum - Pablo solo & group masterpieces

Coltrane - Prestige (even though I don't own it... already had individual discs) same for Miles, Sonny Rollins...

OJC's:

Portrait of Cannonball

Kenny Burrell - Quintet With John Coltrane

Kenny Drew - This Is New

Gil Evans & Ten

Portrait of Art Farmer

Tommy Flanagan Trio (Moodsville)

Red Garland - Manteca (or any number of others)

Benny Golson's New York Scene; The Modern Touch; The Other Side of B.G.

Dexter - The Jumpin' Blues; The Tower Of Power; At Montreux with Junior Mance

Hampton Hawes - The Green Leaves Of Summer; I'm All Smiles

Wynton Kelly - Piano

Kessel Plays Standards

Harold In The Land Of Jazz

Blue Mitchell - Blue Soul

Lee Morgan - Take Twelve

Oliver Nelson - Nocturne

Rene Thomas - Guitar Groove

Cedar Walton - Cedar!

Lem Winchester - With Feeling

Others:

Davis / Griffin - Live at Minton's

Sonny Red - Red, Blue & Green (The Mode / Images)

Clifford Jordan - Mosaic (A Story Tale / Starting Time)

Frank Strozier - Long Night (Long Night / March Of The Siamese Children)

That's just the TIP of the iceberg...

[vibes]

Barney Kessel - Feeling Free

Kenny Burrell/John Coltrane

[LAL]

The Mingus Debut box set.

My local Tower store is having a big moving out sale this month. They're going to slash 50-70% off items that have been sitting in the store for ages. There's a Mingus Debut box in the store that qualifies - hope that goes in the discount bin. There's also that Yerba Buena box set.

A list of some favourites:

John Coltrane - Soul Trane

Tadd Dameron - The Magic Touch

Booker Ervin - Space Book & Freedom Book

Bill Evans - Sunday at Village Vanguard & Explorations

Coleman Hawkins - Hawk Flies High

Lennie Niehaus (All five volumes - Quintet, Octet, Quartet etc)

Clark Terry - In Orbit

Box sets: Sonny Rollins (Riverside & Prestige), Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy and Thelonious Monk.

[wolff]

No Gene Ammons yet? I'd get "Blue Gene" just for Hip Tip.

Also, Adderly's "Know What I Mean?".

Bole Sete's Tour de Force would be another I'd recommend.

[Spontooneous]

Elmo Hope Trio (the one originally on Contemporary)

Thad Jones (the one originally on Debut)

Art Pepper -- Smack Up

Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet

Mal Waldron -- Mal 1

Dizzy Reece -- Asia Minor

Benny Carter -- Jazz Giant

Art Farmer -- Portrait of Art

The Jaki Byard Experience

(plus everything everybody else has mentioned)

[Philip]

What is the significance of sixty days?

I'd also prioritize the four Walt Dickerson Prestige dates; their "limited edition" status might finally start to count for something, unfortunately. The Jaki Byard sequence is a must too in my view.

Edited June 16, 2004 by Philip

[jazzbo]

I think he's referring to the possible completion of the deal to sell Fantasy to Concord.

[Bill Nelson]

I thought it was Concord that was on the skids -- slashing prices and dumping catalog. Most of their 'new' releases are slight repackages assembled around hokey themes and pretenses. Carl Jefferson must be spinning -- and I don't mean records.