colinmce

Yes, this seems more like it. I daresay I've never related to the notion of "albums that changed your life!" I wouldn't describe any of my very favorite albums that way. That said, one of the first jazz albums I listened to in a committed way was Out To Lunch! and it completely rearranged my thinking about music and sound and the way it's organized. It totally flossed my brain and opened it up for all the listening that's come since. I can listen to that album a hundred different ways, for a hundred different things. See also: Anthony Williams - Life Time and Dolphy's "God Bless the Child" from In Europe Vol. 1 A few other ones I'd say had that special effect on me: Anthony Braxton - Solo (London) 1988 & Quartet (Coventry) 1985 Joe McPhee - Topology, Old Eyes & Mysteries, Oleo, Linear B Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, At the Golden Circle Vol. 2 Ran Blake - Realization of a Dream Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures Duke Ellington Orchestra - The Complete Standard Transcriptions Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard Tim Berne - The Shell Game Andrew Hill - Smokestack Mal Waldron w/ Eric Dolphy & Booker Ervin - The Quest Miles Davis - In Europe & Nefertiti Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall Gil Melle - The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions John Surman - :rarum Clusone 3 - I Am an Indian Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker WCC 2xCD Peter Brotzmann & Han Bennink - Schwarzwaldfahrt Joe Maneri - Dahazenbapple Surely more, these are just off the top of my head.

Some truly wonderful Charlie Haden on these sides.

Lots of reminiscence on here today! One of the first jazz albums I heard was the Mulligan/Baker 2xCD thing from the BN West Coast Series and it blew me away... it's still some of my favorite music. I followed the trail in the usual directions, but ultimately don't have loads of West Coast style music in my collection. I'm most partial to the Mosaic Selects-- Curtis Amy, Carmell Jones, Shank/Cooper, PJ Piano Trios, Art Pepper, Gerry Mulligan. I also really like the Jack Sheldon WCC CD.

I kid ... I actually like Keith Jarrett ('s music) and would give this album an honest shake. I just couldn't resist!

Good timing on the bump of this thread as I've been running through these albums the last couple weeks (though I don't own the last 4, the electric ones. No bias, just haven't gotten around to them). If you had asked me 3 weeks ago I'dve said Speak No Evil or Etc but now I think I'd say The Soothsayer. Honestly I've never really warmed to Adam's Apple or The All-Seeing Eye. I find the latter too cluttered and the former a little dry-- I really don't like "502 Blues" or "El Gaucho" and much prefer "Footprints" on Miles Smiles ... I dunno, the record feels slight to me. Obviously many others disagree.

When I was pretty young, my mom had a few jazz albums around. She preferred Kenny G, David Sanborn, John Klemmer, et al at the time, but I stole away a few others: Blossom Dearie on Verve and a Miles Best Of with material from BOTC and Blue Note. My grandparents came of age in the swing era and loved Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller, so I heard a good deal of that as a kid, too (and liked it). Later on I picked up a few things here and there that I mentioned in another thread: some Coltrane, Ornette, Mingus, Ayler, Don Cherry. At that point I felt like rock-based music was getting to be a dead-end, that I'd heard all I wanted to hear. I spent several months only listening to instrumental music before committing to jazz. That was 7 years ago and it's consumed every day since!

Before I "listened to jazz" I owned a few LPs: A Love Supreme, Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, Ornette!, Where is Brooklyn?, New Grass, Mingus^5, This is Our Music, etc. When I made a concerted decision to really listen to jazz, I bought Brilliant Corners and then these all at once: Out To Lunch!, Unit Structures, Ascension. Jumped off the deep end, I suppose.

I'm assuming the title refers to his bullshit.

May already be too late (always is), but there's a $54.99 Don Pullen Select at DG. This is a seriously good box set. http://www.dustygroove.com/item/678287 There's also a Dexter Gordon at the same price. I know someone from JazzLoft posts here from time to time. I am seriously considering this, but am wondering if the promos are CDs only, or if there's art. Makes or breaks the deal for me.

Randy Weston/Billy Harper - The a Roots of the Blues is out on Universal Jazz France. Hopefully they'll put out Ran Blake's Chris Connor album as their next jazz release. Only 1 at a time, heaven forbid...

Sounds cool. I love Angelica Sanchez.

I listened to A Round Goal. It's fun.

Looks worth it for the Bradford disc alone.

By and large (...) a trustworthy panel. Makes me think, though, of an anecdote Steve Lehman shared on the 5049 podcast. He was a freshman at Wesleyan and was talking to Braxton about his future plans. He said he'd like to play like Jackie McLean and cut an album with a few standards, a few free originals, etc. Braxton said "Great! Then what?"

That's a Threadgill I can get behind.

As far as my .002 goes, the Threadgill is very nice, but not necessarily essential. I dunno ... between the availability of the other About Times, the Mosaic, the Black Saint box, etc. I don't see this fitting your niche of one-of-a-kind, long-lost albums.

I like these ones. I, for one, have never seen one that wasn't a promo.

There is a Joe McPhee/Evan Parker duo LP upcoming Rune Grammaphone.

I was so enjoying reading accounts of his late resurgence. I'm glad he got his flowers while he was here. RIP.

Dusty Groove is listing a CD reissue of the ESP date. Not sure if it's from ESP themselves or what.

Into Somethin' is a great record, don't sleep on it.

I mentioned it upthread: Ingrid Laubrock, Ralph Alessi, Tom Rainey, Kris Davis http://www.skirlrecords.com

If it's been re-pressed by Emanem, then it should show up elsewhere.

It'd be nice to see downloads though I admit I would have no interest in them. But it seems thorny, rightswise, and it furthermore seems preferable to make the entire catalogue available from 1976 on, which would be a massive undertaking for such a small operation.

JD Allen's Matador & The Bull was recorded in Feb. 2012 and came out in June or July. I did a double take on that one.