My top 5 Blue Notes

[danasgoodstuff]

My personal 5 BNs:

Hank Mobley, Slice of the Top

Don Wilkerson, Preach Brother

John Patton, Blue John

Gachan Moncur, Evolution

Bobby Hutcherson, Dialog

But for newbies:

Blue 'Trane

Something Else

Sidewinder

Song For My Father

Alligator Boogaloo

and that still leaves out anything early, and anything post-revival, any Wayne Shorter, etc.  No live and not much organ.  This is hard.

 

 

 

[JSngry]

Is it hard because it's unnecessary? 

[danasgoodstuff]

4 hours ago, JSngry said:

Is it hard because it's unnecessary? 

Or insufficient?

[colinmce]

17 hours ago, jlhoots said:

The first Blue Note I owned was Duke Jordan: Flight To Jordan. Think I'll play it today.

 

My first were Out To Lunch! and Unit Structures, both purchased at the same time. I think Smokestack was the third. 

[BillF]

I had been buying jazz records for five years before Blue Note records became available in this country - in 1962 IIRC. They were first issued, with some publicity, in a small bunch which included these:

I don't recall what was my first BN purchase, but very soon I was buying early sixties key Jazz Messengers albums.

A friend ran up a huge debt with a store that let him have Jimmy Smith BNs on credit.

[nighthawk68]

I see a number of folks picking John Patton albums. I'm aware of the Mosaic Select which collects his first three Blue Notes. I wonder why Mosaic never did a complete box on him?

[robertoart]

2 hours ago, nighthawk68 said:

I see a number of folks picking John Patton albums. I'm aware of the Mosaic Select which collects his first three Blue Notes. I wonder why Mosaic never did a complete box on him?

The Mosaic select goes deeper than that doesn't it? I seem to remember that's where I first heard the tracks from the exceptional That Certain Feeling session. 

 

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, robertoart said:

The Mosaic select goes deeper than that doesn't it? I seem to remember that's where I first heard the tracks from the exceptional That Certain Feeling session. 

 

Yes, five albums on that set.

#1-1 to 1-6
Recorded on April 5, 1963.
Originally issued as John Patton - Along Came John (Blue Note BST 84130)

#1-7 to 1-11
Recorded on June 19, 1964.
Originally issued as John Patton - 'The Way I Feel' (Blue Note BST 84174)

#2-1 to 2-6
Recorded on March 8, 1965.
Originally issued as John Patton - Oh Baby! (Blue Note BST 84192)

#2-7 to 3-3
Recorded March 8, 1968.
Originally issued as John Patton - That Certain Feeling (Blue Note BST 84281)

#3-4 to 3-9
Recorded October 25, 1968.
Originally issued as John Patton - Understanding (Blue Note BST 84306)

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
All selections are stereo.
 

[Rooster_Ties]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

#2-7 to 3-3
Recorded March 8, 1968.
Originally issued as John Patton - That Certain Feeling (Blue Note BST 84281)

This’d probably be my favorite Patton leader-date — with Junior Cook, Jimmy Ponder(!), and Clifford Jarvis on drums.

Edited August 18, 2022 by Rooster_Ties

[nighthawk68]

2 hours ago, robertoart said:

The Mosaic select goes deeper than that doesn't it? I seem to remember that's where I first heard the tracks from the exceptional That Certain Feeling session. 

 

You're right. I shorted by two albums.