An introduction to Jazz in 5 albums
@SVG__Collection Blue Train was the first jazz album I bought when I was a kid. I’ll continue revisiting it for as long as I live.
@SVG__Collection None of those make my list, but perhaps I'm a bit jaded. Charlie Parker - Complete Verve Master Takes Milt Jackson - Wizard Of The Vibes Tadd Dameron - A Study in Dameronia Gigi Gryce - Nica's Tempo Joe Pass - For Django
@SVG__Collection Yup. Those are the ones that go the hooked. I'd add Vince Guaraldi in there. Whatever doubts I had because Blue Train was more challenging to my teenaged ears was erased when I heard the first two tracks on A Charlie Brown Christmas.
@SVG__Collection Time Out is so tasteful. All the albums listed are fantastic, but Brubeck delivered something timeless
@SVG__Collection Take Five was the first jazz song i learned to play on the piano 🎹 ❤️
@SVG__Collection 1959 is the best year in Jazz (4 of 5 are 1959 albums and one's 1958)
@SVG__Collection Here are my 5 albums plus 10
@SVG__Collection Great essential collection! Would you include "Money Jungle" (Duke, Mingus and Roach) in your top 10?
@SVG__Collection 100% agree wouldn’t change a thing. Its nice to see Blakey on one of these lists. Time out was my first album ❤️
@SVG__Collection Moanin & Blue Train are 'Hard Bop'. Time Out is 'Cool' and/or 'West Coast' Jazz. Kind Of Blue is 'Modal' Jazz. (2/3)
@SVG__Collection All except the Coltrane released in 1959. What a year for the music.
@SVG__Collection All of these are within a few years. You miss out Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong. Miles Davis once said: "all you need to know about jazz is: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker."
@SVG__Collection No argument here. Bosche, the cop show, introduced me to Art Pepper. Go figure.
@SVG__Collection What label is that pressing of Time Out? Obviously not Columbia. Anyone?
@SVG__Collection Oh my– No Cab Calloway? If you can’t jump to a jive, what’s the point 😉
@SVG__Collection I do love Dave Brubeck Take Five
@SVG__Collection Yeah, all nice, but where is Oscar Peterson, the greatest jazz pianist that has ever lived on this planet?
@SVG__Collection Yesterday i just was listening to time out. Masterpiece.
@SVG__Collection Three are exactly what I would choose. What about My Favorite Things instead of Blue Train? MFT broke through to non-Jazz listeners and gets into the Coltrane era with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones. And what about a Monk album instead of Brubeck? Monk's Music maybe.
@SVG__Collection I like all that, but I’m a huge Sarah Vaughan fan! I like her when she was young and when she was old. Unmatched!
@SVG__Collection Listened to all those listening to WRVR in the NY Metro area in the '70's. All that and much more. Friends were listening to Black Sabath and ZEP. Fusion was the Heavy Metal of Jazz back in those days. Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Return To Forever, Jean Luc Ponti, Mahavishnu
@SVG__Collection Got it; got it; need it; need it; got it.
@SVG__Collection Time Out was my first experience with: “Mind-Blown”
@SVG__Collection Should be required listening in middle school.
@SVG__Collection The Brubeck Quartet was the initiation to jazz for a lot of white guys like me. Led us to Miles , ‘Trane ,MJQ, Chet Baler etc
@SVG__Collection The Brubeck and Mingus album covers were both designed by S. Neil Fujita. That same year (1959) he did this one for Glenn Gould:
