joshuakennedy

Hahaha, exactly! That's the whole point of this.

This list is more of a starting point than a final list of all the great jazz albums ever made. That's why I'm posting it on this forum and sharing it with other people and asking for their opinion. I've never understood this kind of thinking. Who decides what's "great" and what's not? If it's one of your favorites, why can you not consider it great? Music is very subjective and I don't think anyone can definitively say anything is "great" or "not great." Such Sweet Thunder is on the list. I do need to add some Basie. Somehow I overlooked him.

It is a site on which users can vote on lists for various topics - music, sports, movies, etc. Each vote (like or dislike) can affect the list. So every list on there (including this one) reflects the overall opinion of the voters, not the person who made the list.

I saw that you added a few choices and I went ahead and added the information and pictures for them. Thanks for contributing!

When you add an album, there is a spot to enter an image URL. Just enter that (copied from Google images or wherever you can find the album art) and click the little blue box with the triangle in it, and that should do the trick. For some reason it doesn't accept images from AllMusic.com, though.

I've only heard a couple things from that list, so I'll have to check the rest of it out. Thanks for sharing. In the meantime, you're also welcome to add any of those albums to the Ranker list yourself. Anybody can add on.

Honestly, it's mostly just stuff that I'm more familiar with and is more my style, for the most part. I'm a big fan of the Blue Note stuff from the 50s-60s. Some of the stuff on list was recommended/added by other people. But the reason I'm sharing the list is to hopefully get more input on other stuff that might be good to add to the list too.

Hello! I recently discovered these forums and I'm excited to find more recommendations for great jazz albums to check out. I've browsed the forums already and read about a lot of great stuff. I've been working on a list of the greatest jazz albums of all time on Ranker. If you're not familiar with that site, it has lists of items which you can give a thumbs up or thumbs down, and it updates the list in real-time as you vote on the list. For example, if you give an album a thumbs up, it might bump up its ranking on the list. If you give it a thumbs down, it might bump it down. Feel free to check out the list below and vote on any albums you like/dislike. Also, you can add albums that aren't already on the list. Any suggestions for albums that are missing? http://www.ranker.com/list/the-greatest-jazz-albums-of-all-time/joshua-kennedy