Jazz Fans: What are your favorite albums right now (or of all time)?

Also Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
and
Take Five – Dave Brubeck

I’m not a super jazz fan but those two I love.

A Love Supreme- John Coltrane

@janbb: It took me a long time to get into jazz. My uncle introduced it to me when I was around ten (he played piano and was a heroin addict, so classic jazz ~), but it took me until my 20s to even care a little and my 30s to really start liking it.

I still feel like my knowledge of jazz is tiny compared to say, my knowledge of rock.

@SergeantQueen: I’ve yet to get into Coltrane. I’ll check that out.

I like @janbb‘s 2 picks, plus the Charlie Brown Christmas album by Vince Guaraldi.

I mostly don’t like jazz, but I’m always surprised when I hear something, that is obviously jazz, that I like.

Coltrane is a very influential person not just in Jazz/saxophone. He has his own church where he is considered a saint. and “A Love Supreme” is their anthem.

That Kind of Blue album is often thought the greatest jazz album of all time. Here are some of my jazz favorites (tunes) from my playlist. They’re all on youtube:

Say it over and over again- John Coltrane

Basin street blues —Brubeck

I remember Bird—Sonny Stitt

Wavy Gravy—Kenny Burrell

Lisa—Bill Sharlap

Goin to Memphis—Charles Lloyd

The Last Time I saw Paris—Sonny Rollins

Mumbles—Oscar Peterson/Clark Terry

The Cape Verdean Blues—Horace Silver

Close Your Eyes—Gene Ammons

Sweethearts on Parade—Pete Fountain

Big Noise from Winetka—the Bobcats

Polkadots and Moonbeams— Roy Hargrove

It Ain’t Necessarily So—Miles Davis

The list goes on for another 80 titles.

I implore those of you who don’t like coltrane to listen to the tune at the top of my list PLEASE.

If you ask me tomorrow I will give you a different list, but anyway…

Some of these are compilations, not unified albums, but they are what I have on hand. The Youtube links are not necessarily the tracks from the named album, but I included links to tracks I like in case anyone is curious to hear samples.

Miles Davis – Birth Of The Cool

Anita O’Day – Pick Yourself Up

Nina Simone – Finest Hour

Thelonious Monk – Straight, No Chaser

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra – The Okeh Ellington

Art Tatum – Standards

Chet Baker – The Best Of Chet Baker Sings

Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan Verve Jazz Masters 18

Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook