#jazz records

[stone-cold-groove]

Mood Indigo | Duke Ellington Selections | Ted Steele and His Novatones - 1950.

[youarehereiamthere]

At this point all I wanna do is open up a Japanese kissa, make coffee and spin vinyl all day long. I don't think that's too much to ask.

[therecordchanger62279]

DIGGING DEEPER

Great Jazz Records No One Ever Talks About

These days you see a lot of websites, and YouTube videos where people discuss their favorite records, and it seems to me everyone talks about the same records by the same artists. When I was building my Jazz collection, I often picked up things based on the musicians playing on the album, or maybe the label the record was on, and sometimes I just liked the look of the cover. Because of that, I own a lot of Jazz titles that are "one-offs" in my collection, or are lesser known titles by artists with huge catalogs. I'd like to do this as a regular feature with all genres. I have no idea how easy these might be to find. I'll leave that to you. But I can vouch for all of them. They're all in my collection, and they're going to stay. I wanted to call attention to them. Check them out. You might hear something you love.

The Spice of Life - Marlena Shaw

West Coast 1945-47 - Howard McGhee

Nonet + Octet - Oscar Pettiford

Contemporary Jazz - Branford Marsalis

Ornette Coleman Anthology - Aki Takase and Silke Eberhard

Broken Shadows - Tim Berne

Light Blue - Arthur Blythe

Children of Forever - Stan Clarke

Groovin' High - Booker Ervin

Milestone Jazzstars in Concert - Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter & McCoy Tyner

Back To The Tracks - Tina Brooks

Sweet Rain - Stan Getz

Step Lightly - Blue Mitchell

It's Not Up To Us - Byard Lancaster

Very Cool + Tranquility - Lee Konitz

[gottahavesoul]

A few of my favorite albums by Wayne Shorter or albums featuring him. One of my favorite musicians and composers of all time.

Rest in peace, legend!

[themodfiles]

[vinyl-connection]

One last Miles Davis album from the Vinyl Connection post.

CBS Compilation from 1973 focussing on early Miles. Never released on CD, to the best of my knowledge. Wonderful cover photo.

[thirtytwoelvismovies]

Pre-dinner tunes.

[mosaicrecords]

Great Jazz Records of the 1970s

The ‘70s is either characterized by the victory march of fusion or the expansion of the avant garde on the loft jazz scene. But straight-ahead jazz in the hard bop and beyond mold was doing just fine. Ethan Iverson canvasses some of the great recordings of the ’70s, covering pioneers like Sonny Stitt and Dexter Gordon and younger masters like Woody Shaw and Kenny Wheeler. This essay will have you revisiting albums you probably haven’t played in years.

-Michael Cuscuna

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