The List: Albums That Everyone Should Own

[Tres Bien]

All the Doors albums, plus the Led Zepplin's..also...Eric Satie's music...Gymnopedie and Gnossienne (piano work). Khachaturians music recordings as well. -Is a must have.

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

I recently got the Coldplay album "politik" and i must say they are realllllllllllly good band
and whoever doesnt like them who cares, i do!

[ardenik]

Miles Davis: "Birth of the Cool" (1949)

Get the tune "Boplicity"

Funny thing is, this album really WAS the birth of the cool jazz movement of the early 50's. I dont know how Miles did it... in the last year of every decade, he would release an album that would define the music of the following decade. Examples:

1949 - Birth of the Cool - defined the "cool jazz" movement of the 50's. Influenced artists such as the Dave Brubeck Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet (M.J.Q.), etc.

1959 - Kind of Blue - defined the "modal jazz" movement of the 60's. Influenced artists such as Herbie Hanc0ck, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, etc.

also 1959! - Sketches of Spain - was an extremely important contribution to the Third Stream style, fusing classical compositional techniques & instrumentation with jazz rhythm section & improvisation.

1969 - B!tches Brew AND In a Silent Way - both these albums defined the "jazz-rock-fusion" movement of the 70's which is still to this day enjoying a very strong presence. A great witness to the significance of these albums is the lineup of SO MANY up-and-coming and some already established stars who between them would develop the shape of jazz-rock-fusion in the 70's: Herbie Hanc0ck (el.pno), Chick Corea (el.pno), Joe Zawinul (organ/el.pno), Dave Holland (dbl.bass), John McLaughlin (el.gtr), Wayne Shorter (sop.sax), Tony Williams (dr), Jack DeJohnette (dr), Bennie Maupin (bs.clar), Larry Young (el.pno), Lenny White (dr), Don Alias (perc), Airto Moreira (perc), Harvey Brooks (el.bass), Jimmy Riley(perc), Jumma Santos (perc).

[Anonymouse]

Bad Religion is godawful. They should have just stayed as the whiney little garage punk band that they rightfully are. "Oh look at me I can sing about politically charged stuff and act like I'm unique and 'using my haead and not thinking like the masses'. Aren't we so damn zany?"

[Ducati]

Bad Religion - No Control
Depeche Mode - ( they have way to many to name )

[ardenik]

oops! that harout pamboukjian one must have slipped in by accident....

not such a bad album tho..

[ardenik]

well the list isnt mine.. i believe its jamey aebersold's 100 historically significant jazz recordings. there are a lot of albums i would add myself, actually...

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

Miles Davis - Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, which i dont know why they didnt have in the list, since the other 3 albums from the prestige marathon sessions are in there & Workin' is one that i particularly like (it's one of the few albums i have on cassette & my old car only played tapes, so i must have listened to that album literally in the thousands of times!!! hahaha i came to know it note for note. every solo, every comping rhythm, every melody paraphrase )

Herbie Hanxxxx - Takin' Off
Herbie Hanxxxx - Empyrean Isles
Count Basie - Straight Ahead
Bill Evans - You Must Believe in Spring
Harout Pamboukjian - 20 Dance Hits
Chick Corea - Light as a Feather
Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart
Oscar Peterson - Night Train
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (Thats the Bossa Nova one)
Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington - Ella & Duke at the Côte d'Azur

& others i cant think of right now...

[dusken]

King Crimson!

In the Court of the Crimson King

In the Wake of Poseidon

Lizards

Larks' Tongue in Aspic

Starless and Bible Black

Red

Discipline

Beat

Three of a Perfect Pair

THRAK

B'BOOM Official Bootleg - Live in Argentina

The Night Watch

Absent Lovers

ProjeKct Two

Live at Cap D'Agde

ConstruKction of Light

Live in Mainz, Germany

Ladies of the Road

The Power to Believe

[ardenik]

LOL well theres one blame i wouldnt mind taking.... & trust me, im used to taking the blame!! in my family, its ALWAYS me!! having an older brother, 24 (who never does anything wrong) and a much younger cousin, 8 (whos just too young to be at fault... lol)
the chair's broken? my fault... the floor is cracked? my fault.... the toilet's clogged!!! my fault... hahaha both world wars? both my doing... that crack in the liberty bell in philly? that was cuz of me too..... see what i mean? hehehe

[anileve]

Re: 100 Historically Significant Jazz Recordings

Originally posted by ardenik [B]i am sooo gonna get roasted for this post... hahahaha

No actually you are going to get a firm handshake for this post, ahh forget it, I am simply going to suffocate you with hugs. These albums are absolutely incredible!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ardenik [B]

Cannonball Adderley (alto sax)
-Cannonball & Coltrane

Miles Davis (trumpet)
-Kind of Blue
-Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

-------By the way I don't really care for the "xxxxxes Brew"


John Coltrane (tenor/soprano sax)
-A Love Supreme

--- I would add "The Gentle Side of John Coltrane"


Sonny Rollins (tenor sax)
-Sonny Rollins Plus Four

Dave Brubeck (piano)
-Time Out

Stan Getz (tenor sax)
-For Musicians Only
-Stan Getz & Bill Evans

---------- great musician with a bossa nova as a bonus

Thelonious Monk (piano)
-with John Coltrane

Charlie Parker (alto sax)
-Now's the Time

Oscar Peterson (piano)
-Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie

-------This is the greatest one of his albums

Ella Fitzgerald (vocal)
-At the Opera House

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Those are my favorite must have albums and musicians! Awesome choice ardenik, I am so terribly excited here and you are to blame for this adrenaline rush.