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Mar 25, 2024 · 31. Alice Coltrane: Universal Consciousness. This 1971 recording was Alice Coltrane’s fifth solo album, with the bandleader playing harp, organ and contributing string arrangements. The mystical and highly spiritual jazz combines elements of modal, free improvisation and more structured composition.
Oct 14, 2024 · Jazz has had a key role in some of the 21st-century’s best albums, like Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. The last winner of the Mercury Prize was a jazz group, Ezra Collective.
- Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (Columbia) Topping our list of the 50 best jazz albums ever is this timeless, transcendent classic from the great Miles Davis.
- John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (Impulse!) Released in 1965, jazz mystic and saxophonist/composer John Coltrane’s four-part hymn to God remains deeply influential and is regarded as the album that birthed what became known as spiritual jazz.
- Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (Columbia) Released in 1959 – the year that Ornette Coleman produced his game-changing free jazz manifesto, The Shape Of Jazz To Come – California pianist Dave Brubeck proved that jazz didn’t have to be wild and way out to be revolutionary and innovative.
- Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Columbia) One of jazz’s most colorful characters, renowned for his volcanic temper, Charles Mingus – a bass player and composer originally from Arizona but raised in Los Angeles – created a unique style that melded driving hard bop with plaintive blues cries and sanctified gospel cadences.
- Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis. While it is one of the top-selling jazz albums of all time, many consider this to be THE best jazz album of all time. This may be because this unrehearsed recording session from 1959 marks a great turning point in jazz history as well as showcasing the top form of some legendary musicians.
- Time Out - Dave Brubeck. Dave Brubeck created a masterpiece that became the first instrumental jazz album to sell over a million copies. The single, "Take Five" was a #1 hit on music charts which is outstanding for a jazz song, especially a song with a 5/4 time signature.
- Ellington At Newport - Duke Ellington. This historic concert was a triumphant moment for Ellington's band... It was 1956 and many big bands were struggling due to the rise of bebop and modern small group format.
- Jazz At Massey Hall - The Quintet. This album appears reissued under the name "The Greatest Concert Ever". It is an all-star lineup of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach; all whom were prominent in the development of bebop about 15 years beforehand (1953) and thus were all seasoned veterans by the time of the concert.
- Somethin’ Else – Cannonball Adderley. Autumn Leaves. Saxophonist Cannonball Adderley was everywhere during the mid-century as a sideman for Miles Davis and other leaders; but the 1958 album Somethin’ Else is the rare opportunity to hear Adderley as a frontman.
- Getz/Gilberto – Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto. Desafinado. Brazilian bossa nova meets American jazz in 1963’s Getz/Gilberto. Bossa nova was becoming increasingly popular at the time, but a collaboration like this had never been attempted.
- Mingus Ah Um – Charles Mingus. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. 1959 was a great year for jazz, as evidenced partly by Charles Mingus’ legendary album. It showcased Mingus’ classic desire for concept; he often chose themes for his works as a tribute to a certain person, place, or even emotion.
- Afro – Dizzy Gillespie. Caravan. Dizzy Gillespie played a major role in popularizing Afro-Cuban music in the wider genre of jazz. His 1954 album Afro went down in history as one of Gillespie’s most influential albums.
Jan 1, 2024 · 97. Tomasz Stanko: Soul Of Things (ECM) Tomasz Stanko (t), Marcin Wasilewski (p), Slawomir Kurkiewicz (b) and Michal Miskiewicz (d). Rec. 20I01. It could have been Stanko masterpieces Litania or Leosia that made this list, but Soul of Things, with a trio of young Polish musicians he mentored since their early teens, is his best selling album for ECM and more than any other brought him to the ...
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So read on and discover some of the best jazz albums of all time recorded by icons, the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis and more!! 1. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (1959) Stream: Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal. Buy: Kind of Blue Vinyl.
