Van Basten II Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 (edited) Found an old issue of Jazz Magazine , july 2006 at home. The idea behind the selection is not to create the usual 100 best it's just a compilation of music that for the most part deserves to be checked out or being rediscovered. Of course those choices are highly subjective. In the spirit of this section, i thought it would be appropriate to post this list. Here's the first batch , i'll write the remaining ones later New grass- Albert Ayler, Impulse 1968 Lace- Derek Bailey, Emanem 1989 Live at Maybeck Recital Hall- Kenny Barron, Concord 1990 Satch and Josh- Count Basie and Oscar Peterson, Pablo 1974 Song of the sun- Jim Beard, CTI 1991 Expiriments with pop- Gordon Beck, Arts of Life 1967 Short stories- Bob Berg, Denon 1987 Diminutive mysteries (Mostly Hemphill)- Tim Berne, Winter & Winter 1992 Earthtones- Peter Bernstein, Criss Cross 1998 Ballad, blues and Bey- Andy Bey, Evidence 1996 Perceptual- Brian Blade Fellowship, Blue note 2000 Free for all- Art Blakey and the Messengers, Blue Note 1964 Are you real- Art Blakey, Moon Records 1959 The best of Earl Bostic- Earl Bostic, King 1951 Michael Brecker- Michael Brecker- Imoulse 1987 Kollektief à Paris, summer music-Willem Breuker, Marge 1978 Tales out of time-Peter Brötzmann, Hatology 2002 Live in Paris- Circle, ECM 1971 Leapin, and Lopin'- Sonny Clark, Blue Note 1961 Soapsuds, soapsuds- Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden, Verve 1977 Trash talkin'- Albert Collins, Imperial records Liberty 1970 Love energy- Connie Crothers and Lenny Popkin, New Artists 1988 Miles Davis featuring BarneyWilen Amsterdam Concert- Miles Davis, Lone Hill 1957 Once upon a summertime- Blossom Dearie, Verve 1958 Matt Dennis plays and sings Matt Dennis- Matt Dennis, Fresh Sounds 1955 Blame it on my youth- Art Farmer, Contemporary 1988 The arrival of Victor Feldman- Victor Feldman- Contemporary 1958 Nashville- Bill Frisell, Nonesuch 1998 Luis Gasca- Luis Gasca, Blue Thumb 1971 Stan Getz & Bill Evans- Stan Getz and Bill Evans, Verve 1964 Dynasty- Stan getz, Verve 1971 Poetry- Stan Getz and Albert Dailey, Blue Note 1983 Fly away little bird- Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley and Steve Swallow, Owl 1992 Soft Talk- Michel Grailler and Riccardo Del Fra, Sketch 2000 Memorial volume 1 and 2- Wardell Gray, OJC 1949-52 Tiny in Swingville- Tiny Grimes, OJC 1959 Hearts and numbers- Don Grolnick, Intuition 1986 Silence- Charlie Haden, Blue Note 1987 Dream keeper, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Polydor 1990 The fat man and the hard blues, Soul Note 1991 Songs without words- Fred hersh, Nonesuch 2001 Songs for distingué lovers, Billie Holiday, Verve 1957 The survivors suite, Keith jarrett, ECM 1977 Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett- Keith jarrett and Gary Burton, Atlantic 1969 Consummation- Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Blue note 1970 Kenny Kirkland- Kenny Kirkland, Grp 1991 Another shade of blue- Lee Konitz, Blue Note 1997 When the sun is out you don't see the stars- Peter Kowald, Werner Ludi, Butch Morris and Sainkho Namtchylak, FMP 1991 Turkish woman at the bath- Pete La Roca, Douglas/Fresh Sounds Records 1967 10 of Dukes + 6 originals- Steve Lacy, Senators 2000 Sugar and spice- Guy Lafitte, RCA Victor 1972 Echoes from my room- Philippe Le Baraillec, Owl 1996 Today i fell in love- Eric Le Lann, www.ericlelan.com 1989 Travellin' in soul- Jeanne Lee, Mal Waldron and Toru Tenda, Japanese import 1995 Afternoon in Paris- John Lewis and Sacha Distel, Atlantic Japanese Import 1956 The world is falling down- Abbey Lincoln, Verve 1990 Live- Magma, Charly 1976 Albert Mangelsdorff and his friends- Albert Mangeldorff, MPS 1967-69 Something there- Michael Mantler, Watt 1983 Final interplay- Wayne Marsh and Larry Koonse, Why not jazzbank 1987 We'll be together again- Pat Martino, Savoy 1976 Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of breath, RCA 1971 Survival unit with Clifford Thornton- Joe McPhee, Hatology 1971 Duets- Carmen McRae and Betty Carter, Verve 1987 Start here- Vince Mendoza, Capitol 1990 Bright size life- ¨Pat Metheny, ECM 1975 Mobley's message- Hank Mobley, Victor Entertainment 1956 Sings- Mark Murphy, Muse 1975 A world of piano !- Phineas Newborn Jr, Fantasy 1962 New dance- Anthony Ortega, Hatology 1966-1967 Belief- Leon¨Parker, Columbia 1996 Art Pepper meets the rythm section- Art Pepper, Contemporary 1957 Comin' and Goin'- Jim Pepper, Antilles 1984 Michel Perez and Marc Bertaux, Oranger laser production 1991 Solo live in Germany- Michel Petrucciani, Dreyfus 1997 Arrividerci le Chouartse- Michel Portal, Léon Francioni and Pierre Favre, Hatology 1980 Dejarme solo !- Michel Portal, Dreyfus 1979 Rootless Cosmopolitans- Marc Ribot, Antilles 1990 Mercy, mercy- Buddy Rich, Blue Note 1968 The cutting edge- Sonny Rollins, Milestone 1975 Oh, what a thrill, Barbara Sfraga, Naxos 1998 Blacktone legacy- Woody Shaw, Contemporary 1970 The cat and the hat- Ben Sidran, A&M 1980 Goin' home- Archie Shepp, Steeplechase 1977 Stuff Smithe, Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson, Verve 1957 Balade du 10 mars- Martial Solal, Soul Note 1998 The complete Vogue recordings volume 3- Martial Solal, Vogue 1956 Live- Spring Heel Jack, Thirsty Ear 2003 Think before you think- Bill Stewart, Evidence 1989 The dark tree 1 & 2 - Horace Tapscott, Hatology 1989 In private- Art Tatum, Fresh Sounds New Talents 1950 The Complete Vogue recrdings- Lucky Thompson, Vogue 1956-57 Jazzman- René Urtreger, Emarcy 1986 Song for my mother- Walt Weiskopf, Criss Cross 1997 Mama Chicago- Mike Westbrook, Decca 1979 Song for someone- Kenny Wheeler, PSI 1973 Beleive it- The new Tony Williams Lifetime, Columbia 1975 Different garden- Gabor Winand, BFC 2004 Unity- Larry Young, Blue Note 1965 Le cercle- Camel Zekri, La nuit transfigurée 2004 Edited June 20, 2008 by Van Basten II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 I think I have about six of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 I think I have about six of them. I think I have 15, but I don't really feel compelled to search the others down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Well, I've only four, but I'm pleased The Arrival of Victor Feldman is included! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 I believe I have 17, and I count another five that I have had at one time or another but have sent on to new homes. The Getz Dynasty session is great, and I'm really glad to see it on there. Rene Thomas, Eddie Louiss, a drummer named Bernard Lubat, wonderful stuff and totally unlike anything else in his catalog. This set, I think from a Woolworth's cutout bin when I was in college, was my introduction to Louiss and Thomas, and the first Getz I ever actually owned. Louiss is the star of the show in many ways, though Getz and Thomas both shine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 I've got 23, and it's refreshing, if ultimately as meaninless as any other of these type lists, to see a perspective that's post-1965 and predominantly, for lack of a better term, "European". Just goes to show you how much great music this continuum has produced over its evolutionary lifespan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Three. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 I wouldn't take New Grass to a desert island, but I would certainly leave it behind there. p.s. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcy62 Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 I've got only five, but I'll never head to a desert island so who cares? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Looks like a list made up by someone whose tastes - for the most part - are very dissimilar to mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeBop Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Luis Gasca? I've got at least one Gasca album*, but I remember him most for his participation in the Richie Cole Alto Madness shenanigans. He was called, I believe, Johnny Spain. But how he got on someone's RADAR screen and, thereafter, onto this list...? * I haven't seen it in years, but I think it's got a composite picture of his face, made up of thousands of nubile women. How many albums has he got? Allmusic shows four; I guess mine's called "Collage". None seem to have been reviewed. And there's no bio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeBop Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Luis Gasca website: http://www.luisgasca.net/ I guess the album referred to on the list is this one: Álbum: “For Those Who Chant” Luis Gasca - trumpet, flugelhorn Joe Henderson - tenor sax Carlos Santana - guitar Neal Schon - guitar Mark Levine - piano Stanley Clarke - bass Lenny White - drums Victor Pantoja - conga Michael Carabello - conga Coke Escovedo – timbales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aparxa Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 D'oh ! (2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 15 - as subjective a list as can be ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted June 19, 2008 Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Miles Davis featuring BarneyWilen Amsterdam Concert- Miles Davis, Lone Hill 1957 Is this available in the U?. I know Wilen referse to it in his interview on the Criterion Ascenseur pour l'échafaud DVD. I can't believe that it's better than any of the concerts from the 1960 tour with Trane that are available on cd. Still, I'm sure worth having for us Miles completists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Miles Davis featuring BarneyWilen Amsterdam Concert- Miles Davis, Lone Hill 1957 Is this available in the U?. I know Wilen referse to it in his interview on the Criterion Ascenseur pour l'échafaud DVD. I can't believe that it's better than any of the concerts from the 1960 tour with Trane that are available on cd. Still, I'm sure worth having for us Miles completists. It's been on a few "budget" labels (cassette & CD) over the years & was (is?) on Celluloid. Good, solid, about what you would expect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ep1str0phy Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Soapsuds, Soapsuds. F**k yes. And call me perverse, but I have a soft spot for New Grass. It's a little creatively underwhelming when taken against essentially all of his prior work--though I find most of his earliest European sides to be interesting from only a historical perspective--and really confounding when even his final Impulse sides reverted to a more rhythmically flexible, harmonically open sound, but taken as a weird curiosity album--and not even necessarily an Ayler or free jazz album--it's unique enough to be worthwhile. You could make the same argument for the Shags, but whereas it's easy to find elevated, kitschy crap I really can't think of anything more hyper-anachronistic than the saxophone work on New Grass. (Then again, I think there's something to be had in all of Ayler's recordings--I think Last Recording is unduly slagged upon, for example, though I'll admit that the vocal emphasis on Music Is the Healing Force... makes it probably the least interesting part of the Ayler catalog for me.) And some of the stuff on this list might actually make it onto a regular desert island call sheet--the Circle recording, for example. I gave that one a run again recently and found a lot to love, although I realized at last why I hadn't returned to it for so long (mostly the uneasy co-dominance between Corea and Braxton--too much of Chick's personality for Braxton to really sally forth at full-throttle--compare this to John Gilmore's role on Turkish Women..., which is pivotal to the group sound but not as present as it could be.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 10 & 1 I'd like to have (Soapsuds, Soapsuds). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted June 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Just completed the list, for those who have read my original posting i let a space to distinguish those who were added. Glad to see it discussed, was afraid to type it all down for naught. The reason i wanted to post this is notwithstanding personal taste, you gotta give credit to the people compiling it to go beyond clichés and for those who are still looking to discover new things, felt it was a cool starting point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Well that brings my total to 11. Kooky list. Magma? A lot of artists represented by some of their more obscure titles. But a lot of enjoyable music there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted June 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 With all of them written down, i think i own 16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 (edited) oooh...now eight. edit - here they are: Michael Brecker- Michael Brecker- Impulse 1987 Live in Paris- Circle, ECM 1971 Soapsuds, soapsuds- Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden, Verve 1977 Nashville- Bill Frisell, Nonesuch 1998 Stan Getz & Bill Evans- Stan Getz and Bill Evans, Verve 1964 Bright size life- ¨Pat Metheny, ECM 1975 Believe it- The new Tony Williams Lifetime, Columbia 1975 Unity- Larry Young, Blue Note 1965 Edited June 20, 2008 by 7/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Ptah Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 I like The Magnificent Goldberg's list better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 That bumps me up to 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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