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- rhythmchanges, on 05/13/2008, -2/+30This list is too hard to read... they should have put each album on a separate page and made a slideshow with ads.
- ehalasey, on 05/13/2008, -0/+31This is definitely a good list, but clearly only for the uninitiated. They completely stepped over some of the greats, like Herbie Hancock and Glenn MIller, and barely touched on some of the more influential acts like the Modern Jazz Quartet, Horace Silver, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. I'd like to see the New Yorker take another shot at this one with a more, "If you liked the first list, here's some more." I'm just glad they were smart enough not to make this a "Top 100 Essential Jazz Albums" list.
- sodade, on 05/13/2008, -2/+20Bitches Brew? Check! Dugg.
- karimg, on 05/13/2008, -2/+20Great list, I'm a big jazz fan, and this will allow me to dive even deeper into this genre.
- Enderplayer1, on 05/13/2008, -2/+18Very classy digg I approve.
- Eslamicolt3, on 05/13/2008, -1/+16Yah whatever, torrent please :)
- Nysul, on 05/13/2008, -3/+19320kbps torrent please :)
- juniorb, on 05/13/2008, -0/+14That's every Best Of Jazz list ever.
- manutd8611, on 05/13/2008, -0/+17Dugg for Django Reinhardt making the list... mmm gypsy jazz
- lmhiatt, on 05/13/2008, -0/+14where's coltrane's giant steps?
- gavin422, on 05/13/2008, -1/+13Does it bother anyone else that "The Complete Recordings" and other huge compilations qualify as albums? You might as well just say, "listen to this guy". I prefer the proper albums, like Ascension, Kind of Blue, etc.
- petebot, on 05/13/2008, -1/+13Q: What’s the difference between rock musicians and jazz musicians?
A: Rock musicians play three chords to thousands of people while jazz musicians play thousands of chords to three people. - inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+10I'm new to jazz,so i needed an article like this.
- grendelboogie, on 05/13/2008, -0/+13Any list without a McCoy Tyner album is incomplete.
- jpb0104, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8This is great http://www.michalevy.com/giantsteps_download
I can't believe Giant Steps isn't on that list. Neither is Monk's "Straight No Chaser". - henrymiller, on 05/13/2008, -1/+12A list of important jazz records without Herbie Hancock is no list at all.
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -1/+10Only if you are musically and intellectually challenged would you say something so incredibly retarded.
- Sroek, on 05/13/2008, -0/+10Almost every musician today is influenced by Jazz. Congratulations on being a prime *****-head.
- DiscoLando, on 05/13/2008, -0/+10It looks like they selected everything during and before the bebop era... not much post-bop or fusion is on the list. Weather Report and Jaco's solo albums would be high up on the list if it were up to me!
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Ok thats a good one.
Q: Whats the difference between the trombone player and the chicken crossing the road?
A: The chicken is on his way to a gig. - gavin422, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6It's chronological.
- spect3r, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Playing Rock music as well as some blues
- joebaloney, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Dizzy Gillespie! Buried for not having read the list.
- nesagwa, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Been trying to get into jazz a bit more and this list will certainly help. Good stuff.
- johnkyoungoh, on 05/13/2008, -3/+9where the ***** is 'giant steps'.
- funk13, on 05/13/2008, -1/+8dugg for Dave Brubeck's "Time Out". Odd time signatures for the win.
- juniorb, on 05/13/2008, -1/+8Great list, but some sorely missed discs:
Somethin' Else – Cannonball Adderley
Thelonius Monk – Brilliant Corners
George Russell – Ezz-thetics - diggerphelps, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6What are you, three?
Have fun with your Wiggles and Barney albums. - Emmo213, on 05/13/2008, -1/+7I was definitely pleased to see Brubeck was on the list. Since this is just "100 jazz albums" and not a supposed ranking of the albums, it deserves a digg.
- IndiShukla, on 05/13/2008, -1/+7*starts up utorrent*
- pakruse, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Was that a question? #35 and #36 on the list.
- drexl, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Love Jazz, especially Count Basie and Charlie Parker! If you want to listen to some good stuff that streams don't forget NPR's newly updated site.....the Jazz is wonderful.
- JudasConstant, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5So you don't like Jazz, you don't like modern music, you don't like music old people listen to, which precludes enjoying anything recorded before the advent of jazz. What exactly do you listen to?
- philwalsh, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6No Oscar Peterson? His "We Get Requests" is one of the best jazz trio albums ever as far as I'm concerned. No Donald Byrd? No Herbie Hancock? Also, it would have been nice to see Moacir Santos on that list.
I also noticed they give Duke Ellington sole credit for "Money Jungle" when the album is clearly listed as Duke with Charles Mingus and Max Roach.
Great list though, even if a little incomplete... - TrevorBelmont, on 05/13/2008, -2/+6This list is so long and so vague that it is useless. A shorter list with examples/back stories/descriptions would be infinitely more useful for my purposes.
- Coffeedemon, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5"Oh, oh: you see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about!"
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Well if you had to choose one, I think Kind of Blue is the one.
- IAmTheGuy, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4I, too, was disappointed but was satisfied when I saw Chick Corea's "Return to Forever" even though it was actually Return to Forever's "Return to Forever." Return to Forever with Al di Meola is touring this June FYI.
- bugsy187, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5How is Jazz a fringe genre? It has decades of material, massive influence, and worldwide popularity.
- charlietuna, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Why a picture of a boat? Is there some sort of nautical Jazz link I am unaware of?
- papastout, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Torrent tip = Verve Jazz Masters (60 CD collection)
- bryantee, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4And only one Wes Montgomery album.
- Fullvinyl, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5I'm a little disappointed not to see anything from Antonio Carlos Jobim on that list, and as far as Sonny Rollins goes, the "Alfie" soundtrack HAS to be on there. It's only six tracks, but it's six tracks of pure gold.
Good list, though. But Verve:Remixed and Verve:Unmixed should definitely be there as well. Excellent remixes and originals respectively. - Bowski, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5This is an outrage! Only one Bill Evans album???
- 10ofDiamonds, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6For really odd time signatures listen to some Zappa jazz.
- ChromaVita, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Personally I think a pretty good start is Ken Burns Jazz series. 23 artists. Good stuff.
- MasterGrief, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3I found those at the Barnes and Noble a few months ago. Fantastic stuff! If you like Cuban music, you should really give those two albums a try.
- EpicSelekta, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Django was a legend... who else could play like that without use of several fingers?
I dugg for the abundance of Thelonius Monk. - notcraig99, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3For anybody looking at this list who doesn't know where to begin building their collection, most decent metropolitan public libraries will have most of these in their collections--just grab a few and figure out what you like because believe me you're not going to like all of it. Or you could easily spend a year just checking out everything Blue Note or Prestige released in, say, 1954 or, if you're like me, everything Mingus ever touched. To the gripers: complete collections like the Bill Evans Vanguard sessions are sometimes necessary to hear the entire run at the venue or a specific studio to "get" what that player was into at one specific time. Sometimes, they recorded 8 discs worth of sessions in just a few days and the ***** can be as good as the released tracks. There are some legitimate gripes about favorite albums/players not on here, but dig a little and you may find Herbie Hancock or Metheny or whomever on one of these sides since every great jazzman started off as a sideman in somebody's band. And yeah, check out Brad Mehldau and everybody else listed as missing from this list.
- loupanic, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Like FZ says in the BeBop Tango "Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny."
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