soulpope

Classic ....

Thnx for the info - looks tasty ....

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Just stumbled over it and was too tired to recheck the countless posts of this thread .... my bad ....

Interesting choice of titles though ....

(IMO) Kenny Garrett didn't get caught in the "Young Lions" trap .... still he was - in his early leader dates - searching for a own style btw structure .... which made listening to these sometimes a sort of mixed experience - but not resultwise, he just missed some(one's) expectations .... which was not necessarily a bad thing ....

Title Tracks "Long Dream" (Ernest Jenning) 2016

Rabih Abou-Khalil "The Cactus Of Knowledge" (Enja) 2001 .... as just mentioned by forummember "optatio" via the "Listening ...." Thread ....

Broker "Quixota" (Smalltown America) 2016

No top 5 jazz albums - but 5+ of the jazz albums I'm returning to recurringly over the last decades : John Coltrane "Ole" (Atlantic) Charlie Haden + Hampton Hawes "As Long As There`s Music" (AH) Pete La Roca "Basra" (Blue Note) Milcho Leviev + Art Pepper Quartet "Blues For The Fisherman"/"True Blues" (Mole) Mal Waldron "Plays The Blues" (Polydor Japan) Booker Ervín "Freedom + Space Book(s)" (Prestige) Randy Weston + Vishnu Wood "Perspective" (Denon) Andrew Hill "Black Fire" (Blue Note) Miles Davis "Miles Smiles" (Columbia) Steve Lacy Four "Morning Joy" (hat ART) .... Failed miserably to limit myself even in the "most listened to" category .... nuff said ....

(IMO) never bettered performance .... closest effort most likely by Alban Berg Quartett + Heinrich Schiff ....

Thnx for the indepth feedback - also do own "Spanish Bitch" but living in Europe it took a little more effort to acquiere it .... being a dedicated Mal Waldron follower - and the fact that he was very prolific in the early to mid 70`s - it proves nearly impossible to award top albums from that era .... but a t a first glance my clever money would go to "Tokyo Bound" (rightly so nominated by "homefromtheforest") and "Plays The Blues: Live At The Domicile" - both released in Japan and only the latermentioned seeing a rather unsympathetic German relase more then a decade later .... but looking at the forementioned it leaves me wondering how I could leave out "Free At Last" or "Number 19" or (again japanese only) Mal Waldron/Terumasa Hino "Reminiscent Suite" .... the consistency of Mal Waldron`s work within this timeframe is astonishing indeed ....