2006年 Jul 29日 Saturday, 19:32

ok…this was scary for me to attempt, but I'm giving it a shot. Thats right, my 50 essential jazz albums, now i know this is HIGHLY subjective so please comment and place your own…or say why one of mine shouldnt be on here. Ok now first the rules for how i decided.
1) I must own the album/cd (this way I've heard it MORE than enough to be sure)
2) No more than 5 albums per artist…this one got a little sketchy because of some live box sets, but i did my best to assign a number
3) NO BOX SETS…at least not counting as just one album…UNLESS live box sets not avialible any other form
Some sidenotes before the list…these are not neccessarily my FAVORITE albums, for example i only have one roscoe mitchell album on the list even though hes one of my top five favorites, and i TRIED to get a good mix of styles and somewhat time…although i failed MISERABLELY with putting newer albums on…so please help with that(falling under the not owning them)
ok…here is the list in no particular order (mainly alphabetic by artist)

1. Spiritual Unity
2. For Alto
3. Urban Bushmen
4. Fanfare for the Warriors
5. Bap-Tizum
6. Mingus Ah Um
7. The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
8. Ellington at Newport
9. Headhunters
10. Maiden Voyage
11. Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes
12. Jazz at Massey Hall
13. A Love Supreme
14. Ascension
15. Giant Steps
16 & 17. The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
18. Song For
19 & 20. The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
21. The Great Summit - The Master Takes
22. Kind of Blue
23. A Tribute to Jack Johnson
24. Bitches Brew
25 & 26. The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965
27. Free Jazz
28. The Shape of Jazz to Come
29. Sound
30. Tenor Madness
31. Saxophone Colossus
32. The Bridge
33. Underground
34. Genius of Modern Music, vol. 1
35. Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2
36. Time Out
37. Lady in Satin
38-42. The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
43. Django
44. Piano Starts Here
45. Out to Lunch
46. Air Time
47. The Great Concert of Charles Mingus
48. Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins
49. Song for my Father
50. Ahmad Jamal At the Pershing: But not for me

ok there it is…for now i am not going to write explainations because this took way longer than i was expecting but let the second guessing and HUGE disareements begin..let me know what you think