Favorite Jazz Albums

But, I found out that I acutally am a jazz fan! I have always liked swing music, I found out that swing was "jazz", too.

I also like Take the A Train and Take Five. Those are the first that come to mind.

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metheny, holland, haynes----question and answer
pat metheny----80/81
pat metheny-----song x
pat metheny-----99/00
gateway-----gateway/gateway 2/homecoming/in the moment (4 albums)
miles davis--- miles smiles
miles davis--- kind of blue
miles davis--- birth of the cool
chick corea----now he sings, now he sobs
chick corea----trio music live in europe
chick corea---- trio improvisations/plays monk
chick corea---romantic warrior
chick corea---return to forever
chick corea---light as a feather
carla bley----big band theory
carla bley---- are we there yet?
john abercrombie----timeless
duke ellington---money jungle
eric dolphy---out there
gary burton---ring
john mclaughlin---extrapolation
urs leimgruber---ungleich
makoto ozone---treasure
makoto ozone---dear oscar
modern jazz quartet---pyramid
manhattan jazz quintet---autumn leaves
manhattan jazz quintet---manhattan jazz quintet
oscar peterson----hello herbie
oscar peteron--- and the bassists (pedersen, brown) live at jazz festival montreux '77
bill bruford---feels good to me
billy cobham---spectrum
thelonious monk in general (all of him)

some albums i recently listened to

Miles Davis - Black Beauty
anything by Cecil Taylor


What is the song that plays during the scene in the "Jazz" mini-series where Charlie "Bird" Parker dies? It's sort of a sad song...I need to know the title of it.

I like many of the above listed but some of my favourites that weren't mentioned:

Wayne Shorter - Alegria, Speak No Evil, Schizophrenia, Beyond the Sound Barrier, High Life
Miles Davis - Get Up With It, Live Evil, Miles Smiles,
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage, 1 + 1 (with Wayne Shorter)
Bill Evans - Live at Montreux 1968, Explorations, Trio 65, Conversations with Myself, New Conversations, Montreux Volume 3,
John McLauglin - The Heart of Things, Thieves and Poets, Devotion, The Inner Mounting Flame (with the Mahavishnu Orchestra)
John Coltrane - The Gentle Side of Coltrane, Sun Ship, A Love Supreme, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Ballads, Ascension
Weather Report - Heavy Weather, Mysterious Traveller, Mr. Gone
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Duke Ellington - Live at Newport 56, The Ellington Suites (particularly the queen's suite), The Far East Suite

Thanks for posting these incredible lists. I would vote for anything by Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Art Pepper, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, and John Coltrane. Happy listening everyone!

Miles Davis
The Birth of Cool (1949)
Walkin' (1954)
Bags' Groove (1954)
Blue Moods (1955)
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1956)
Cookin' (1956)
Relaxin' (1956)
Workin' (1956)
Steamin' (1956)
Round' About Midnight (1956)
Milestones (1958)
Kind of Blue (1959)
Sketches of Spain (1960)
In Person Friday and Saturday Night at the Blackhawk (1961)
Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)
Highlights from the Plugged Nickel (1965)
E.S.P. (1965)
Miles Smiles (1966)
Sorcerer (1967)
Nefertiti (1968)
Filles De Kilimanjaro (1968)
In a Silent Way (1969)
Bitches Brew (1969)
Live Evil (1970)
A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1970)
Big Fun (1972)
On the Corner (1972)
Dark Magus (1974)
Get Up with It (1975)
Agharta (1975)
Pangaea (1975)

John Coltrane
Lush Life (1957)
Blue Train (1957)
Soultrane (1958)
Giant Steps (1959)
My Favorite Things (1960)
Coltrane's Sound (1960)
Coltrane Plays the Blues (1960)
The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (1961)
Ole Coltrane (1961)
Coltrane (1962)
Ballads (1962)
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
Live at Birdland (1963)
Crescent (1964)
A Love Supreme (1964)
The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (1965)
Kulu Se Mama (1965)
Meditations (1965)
Interstellar Space (1967)

Jimmy Smith
The Sermon! (1958)
Six Views of the Blues (1958)
Crazy! Baby (1960)
Prayer Meetin' (1964)
The Cat (1964)
Organ Grinder Swing (1965)
Root Down (1972)

Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane (1957)
Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959)
Monk's Dream (1962)
Criss-Cross (1963)
Straight, No Chaser (1967)
Underground (1968)

The Bill Evans Trio
Portrait in Jazz (1959)
Explorations (1961)
Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961)
Waltz for Debbie (1961)
Moonbeams (1962)

Charles Mingus
Tijuana Moods (1957)
Ah Um (1959)
Blues and Roots (1960)
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963)

Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles (1964)
Maiden Voyage (1965)
Head Hunters (1973)
Thrust (1974)

Wayne Shorter
Night Dreamer (1964)
JuJu (1964)
Speak No Evil (1964)
Adam's Apple (1966)

Pharoah Sanders
Tauhid (1966)
Karma (1969)
Thembi (1970)

Lester Young
Lester Young: The Complete Aladdin Recordings (1942-1947)
Lester Young Trio (1946)
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1952)
Pres and Teddy (1956)

Ornette Coleman
The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
Free Jazz (1961)

Duke Ellington
Money Jungle (1962)
Far East Suite (1966)

Charlie Parker
A Studio Chronicle (1940-1948)
Diz n' Bird at Carnegie Hall (1947)
Bird on 52nd Street (1948)
Bird and Diz (1950)
Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes (1947-1952)
The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection (1945-1954)

Lonnie Smith
Move Your Hand (1969)
Live at Club Mozambique (1970)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Out (1959)

Eric Dolphy
Out to Lunch (1964)

Billie Holiday
Greatest Hits (1933-1942)

Milt Jackson
Bags and Trane (1959)

Trane's A Love Supreme is straight from the Gods themselves.

Why has no-one mentioned Chet Baker Sings (1956)? Surely one of the iconic voices in Jazz music and a stunning album.

I'm not a massive jazz head but certainly dig on Coltrane and Davis, all that cool school stuff.

And Herbie Hancock too. Fat Albert Rotunda (1969) is another great album. I suppose one might be inclined to class that one as funk but it's certainly a brilliant listen either way.