Hardbopjazz Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Now would you have added a few different tunes to this album? 1 Song For My Father (Horace Silver) 2 Blue Train (John Coltrane) 3 Moanin' (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers) 4 Blues Walk (Lou Donaldson) 5 Autumn Leaves (Cannonball Adderley feat. Miles Davis) 6 Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell) 7 Back at the Chicken Shack (Jimmy Smith feat. Stanley Turrentine) 8 The Sidewinder (Lee Morgan) 9 Watermelon Man (Herbie Hancock) Quote
Guy Berger Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 I would have dropped all those tracks and put on Out to Lunch Quote
7/4 Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 I would have dropped all those tracks and put on Out to Lunch ← Quote
jazzbo Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 I'd add "Summertime" by Bechet. And something by the Three Sounds should be on there. Quote
sal Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 I'd remove "Moanin' "and put "Free For All" in its place. Quote
wesbed Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Grant Green's Idle Moments is a top pick for me. Quote
Alfred Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Grant Green's Idle Moments is a top pick for me. ← Yes. I second that. Another one: Tanya, One flight up Quote
sidewinder Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 I would have included 'Zoltan' from 'Unity' Quote
Guest Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Drop "Sidewinder" and put in any of these: -Anything from Maiden Voyage -Anything from Empyrean Isles -Anything from Speak No Evil -"Passion Dance" or "Blues on the Corner" from the Real McCoy -"Inner Urge" or "Isotope" from Inner Urge Quote
jlhoots Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Search For The New Land instead of Sidewinder Quote
Kalo Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 (edited) Grant Green's Idle Moments is a top pick for me. ← I second or third that. What, no Dexter? And NO MONK! Where's Jackie Mac? Where's Sonny Clark? Wayne Shorter, anyone? You could make an utterly credible BN "Best Of" without ANY of the included tracks. Now if they'd titled it "Blue Note's Greatest Hits" they'd have been all right. Though you'd still need to include Bechet's "Summertime." How about "Blue Note's Greatest Cliches"? Edited June 28, 2005 by Kalo Quote
Kalo Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Search For The New Land instead of Sidewinder ← Yeah, that one, too. My favorite Morgan BN. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Yeah, it's too easy - most of those tracks are so Starbucks at this point it's not even worth it. Plus I think Blue Train kinda sucks, maybe moreso than some of the others. "Unit Structures" from Cecil Unit Structures "Refuge" from Andrew Hill's Point of Departure "Action" from Jackie Mc's Action "Hat and Beard" from Out to Lunch "Mephistopheles" from Wayne's All Seeing Eye "The Twins" from Some Other Stuff "Blues in Trinity" from Dizzy Reece Blues in Trinity (pretty sure that's the opener - that's the one I'm thinking of, anyway) and we've gotta get "The Rain" from Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music in there somehow. It's a start, anyway. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Speaking of Sonny Clark, what's the "Voodoo" tune from Leapin' and Lopin'? That should be on there, too.. what a great tune. Quote
Rosco Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 A double CD set with the same name was released in the UK in 1999... Here's the full track listing. See what Blue Note added as the extra tracks! Disc 1 Song For My Father (7.18) - Horace Silver Blue Train (10.42) - John Coltrane Moanin' (9.35) - Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers Blues Walk (6.44) - Lou Donaldson Autumn Leaves (11.00) - Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis Midnight Blue (4.01) - Kenny Burrell The Sidewinder (10.15) - Lee Morgan Watermelon Man (7.10) - Herbie Hancock Amen (4.49) - Donald Byrd Born To Be Blue (4.52) - Grant Green, Ike Quebec Disc 2 Cantaloop (4.39) - US3 The Turnaround (6.47) - John Patton Greasy Granny (4.56) - Charlie Hunter Back At The Chicken Shack (8.03) - Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine Soy Califa (6.27) - Dexter Gordon Girl From Ipanema (3.53) - Eliane Elias Thinkin' About Your Body (3.15) - Bobby McFerrin Tupelo Honey (5.39) - Cassandra Wilson At Last (3.40) - Lou Rawls, Diane Reeves Because I Love You (3.55) - Richard Elliot Quote
.:.impossible Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 I would have dropped all those tracks and put on Out to Lunch ← I swear that is what I was going to say! And what about ANYTHING from THE PROCRASTINATOR? Quote
Kalo Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Yeah, it's too easy - most of those tracks are so Starbucks at this point it's not even worth it. Plus I think Blue Train kinda sucks, maybe moreso than some of the others. "Unit Structures" from Cecil Unit Structures "Refuge" from Andrew Hill's Point of Departure "Action" from Jackie Mc's Action "Hat and Beard" from Out to Lunch "Mephistopheles" from Wayne's All Seeing Eye "The Twins" from Some Other Stuff "Blues in Trinity" from Dizzy Reece Blues in Trinity (pretty sure that's the opener - that's the one I'm thinking of, anyway) and we've gotta get "The Rain" from Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music in there somehow. It's a start, anyway. ← Speaking of Sonny Clark, what's the "Voodoo" tune from Leapin' and Lopin'? That should be on there, too.. what a great tune. ← You guys should work for Blue Note. Great choices. "Blues in Trinity" is indeed the first track on the album of the same title. An amazing tune. When I first heard it a few years ago it immediately leaped into my personal top 20. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Patton's version of "The Turnaround" slays the Mobley original, IMO. Great, great cut. Quote
Kalo Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 And what about ANYTHING from THE PROCRASTINATOR? ← Well, they were thinking about it... Quote
Guest Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 The Real McCoy is being neglected. -_- No one thinks that any Joe Henderson or Freddie Hubbard should be up there? I'd put a Freddie album before a Lee Morgan one any day. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Henderson as a soloist, sure, but his dates don't always get me... even "Inner Urge" and "In 'N Out" I find a little underwhelming. But hey, that's what lists are for: everybody's got one, nobody really needs one. Quote
jazzbo Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Nobody really needs one. . . Nobody really needs this "Best Blue Note Album in the World!" And if you did, in my opinion to make it "real" and valid, it would need to have some of the stuff from the first 15 years! Quote
Kalo Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 Nobody really needs one. . . Nobody really needs this "Best Blue Note Album in the World!" And if you did, in my opinion to make it "real" and valid, it would need to have some of the stuff from the first 15 years! ← Agreed. And the early BN is arguably the most important era for the label. Quote
Kalo Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 (edited) I wonder if there's someone out there, maybe SEVERAL of them, who have bought this and then thought to themselves "OK, I've got the best, now I can move on to something else." Edited June 28, 2005 by Kalo Quote
Kalo Posted June 28, 2005 Report Posted June 28, 2005 (edited) And where's Norah Jones? The most important BN artist to current management. Edited June 28, 2005 by Kalo Quote
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