From: austin@decisv.ucs.dec.com (Cathy Austin)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: July 1992 Desert Island Jazz Recordings (revised list)
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:41:25 GMT
Reply-To: austin@decisv.ucs.dec.com (Cathy Austin)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

FWIW I cleaned up the responses from rec.music.bluenote's Desert Island 
Jazz Recordings request from June-July 1992.
 
This is a list of your top ten, all time favorite, right off the top of your 
head, Jazz recordings. Thanks to everyone who responded.   If anyone wants to 
be included feel free to send me your favorites and I'll post it periodically.  

-Cathy Austin
austin@decisv.ucs.dec.com (Cathy Austin)

From: RARDIN@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU
From: rstump@geog.albany.edu (Roger Stump)
From: mcgonig@ee.UManitoba.CA
From: Paul Homchick <paul@cgh.cgh.com>
From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk
From: Marc Sabatella <mjs@hpfcso.fc.hp.com>
From: gt8963a@prism.gatech.edu (MCCARTNEY,JEFFREY ELWOOD)
From: baldwin@cogsci.UCSD.EDU (Ken Baldwin)
From: Adrian C Penisson <acp@rice.edu>
From: Andy Gallo <gallo@asel.udel.edu>
From: ewing@npg-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM ()
From: exubma@exu.ericsson.se (Bassam Madi)
From: Andy Jack <cczanj@vax.nott.ac.uk>
From: ujwb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Beer)
From: stuart@nynexst.com (Rory Stuart)
From: vek@spacsun.rice.edu (Vincent E. Kargatis)
From: The Man Who Invented Himself <stewarte@sco.COM>
From: GUILFORD@otago.ac.nz
From: tzeken@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tze Ken SOH)
From: doucet@laas.laas.fr (Jean-Etienne Doucet,149,6323)
From: AXIOM@cup.portal.com
From: Jeff Helgesen <jmh@guinevere.pubserv.com>
From: austin@decisv.ucs.dec.com (Cathy Austin)



From: RARDIN@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU

Dear Cathy,

Boy it was hard!  I could easily come up with 30 DIDs.  Narrowing it down to 
10 was very difficult.  But here goes...

1.  Miles Davis         KIND OF BLUE
2.  Thelonious Monk     BRILLIANT CORNERS
3.  John Coltrane       BLUE TRAIN
4.  Clifford Brown      STUDY IN BROWN
5.  Steps Ahead         PARADOX LIVE AT SEVENTH AVENUE SOUTH
6.  Keith Jarrett       MY SONG
7.  Ornette Coleman     CHANGE OF THE CENTURY
8.  Parker & Gillespie  BIRD & DIZ
9.  Steve Lacy          REFLECTIONS:  LACY PLAYS THELONIOUS MONK
10. Sonny Rollins       TENOR MADNESS


From: rstump@geog.albany.edu (Roger Stump)

Here's a stab at a top 10 list, in alphabetical order:

1. Ornette Coleman, Shape of Jazz to Come
2. John Coltrane, Afro-Blue Impressions (an old Pablo Live double LP)
3. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
4. Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine/Four & More (now a 2 CD set)
5. Miles Davis, Nefertiti
6. Miles Davis, Pangaea (also 2 CDs -- I hope these can count as 1!)
7. Miles Davis, Tribute to Jack Johnson
8. Dave Holland, The Razor's Edge
9. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Antibes
10. David Murray, Murray's Steps

Rules for constructing list:  1) must be things I currently own; 2) either
LPs or CDs are okay (I'm assuming a whole bunch of good audio equipment
will wash up on the island with me :-); 3) half of the selections must
be by Miles (I know, it makes for a boring list, but what can I do?).

If I were to make the list tomorrow it would probably be a little different,
and different from that on the next day.  The above is a pretty good
summary of my tastes, though.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with; it should be interesting.
I have found this group to be a very good source of recommendations for
new things to listen to (or old things to listen to again), and so your
results should also be useful.  Thanks for the public service.

Roger

From: mcgonig@ee.UManitoba.CA

ok, here are *my favorite* 10 jazz recordings, i.e. albums that have sustained
me over the years:

1. DON ELLIS -- Tears of Joy
2. MILES DAVIS -- Kind of Blue
3. JOHN COLTRANE -- Ballads
4. STAN GETZ -- Dynasty
5. BUDDY RICH -- Keep the Customer Satisfied
6. KEITH JARRETT -- Koln Concert
7. VIENNA ART ORCHESTRA -- Nightride of a Lonely Saxophoneplayer
8. PASSPORT -- Sky Blue
9. BURTON & COREA -- Crystal Silence
10.DON THOMPSON -- Country Place

Gord.
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                                   * * *
From: Paul Homchick <paul@cgh.cgh.com>

In no particular order:

"Potato-Head Blues"	- Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
"Red Hot Dan"		- Thomas Morris and his Hot Babies
"Rhythm-a-ning"		- Thelonious Monk
"Brilliant Corners"	- Thelonious Monk
"Minor Swing"		- Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli
"The Seventh Son"	- Mose Allsion
"Minamata"		- Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabakin Big Band
"Someday My Prince Will Come" - Miles Davis
"Watermelon Man"	- Herbie Hancock

-- 
Paul Homchick                    :UUCP     {rutgers | uunet} !cbmvax!cgh!paul
From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk

Here is my desert island list. It is in no particular order except that
the first 5 would always appear on it; the second five might vary according
to my mood! Some of them might not even be classified as jazz but so what.

The Inner Mounting Flame                   The Mahavishnu Orchestra
The Henry Cow Legend                       Henry Cow
Staircase                                  Keith Jarrett
The Survivors' Suite                       Keith Jarrett
Implosions                                 Stephan Micus
Tale spinnin'                              Weather Report
Matching Mole                              Matching Mole
M                                          John Abercrombie Quartet
Witchi-Tai-To                              Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson Quartet
Destiny's Song and the Image of Pursuance  Courtney Pine

-- 
_____________________________________________________________
Mark Whidby, Distributed Systems, Manchester Computing Centre

From: Marc Sabatella <mjs@hpfcso.fc.hp.com>

"Domination Switch Is On"?  Hmmm, would I win Brownie points for listing
_Jumpworld_?

My personal top ten list would change with the wind, I'm sure.  Today, it was
blowing from the northwest, which made for a pleasant bike ride in, but which I
will regret tonight.  Anyhow, the northwest wind brought with it, in no
particular order:

Miles Davis, _Complete Concert 1964_ (My Funny Valentine + Four & More)
John Coltrane, _A Love Supreme_
Thelonious Monk, _Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane_
Ornette Coleman, _The Shape Of Jazz To Come_
Charles Mingus, _Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus_
Steve Coleman, _Motherland Pulse_
Charlie Parker, _Now's The Time_
Cecil Taylor, _For Olim_
Adams/Pullen, _Breakthrough_
Bill Evans, _Waltz For Debby_

From: gt8963a@prism.gatech.edu (MCCARTNEY,JEFFREY ELWOOD)

There's a radio show in England that's been running for 30 years
doing this.  Well done show, too.

My ten desert island discs:

Robert Farnon: Goes to the Movies
Mel Torme Sings Fred Astaire
The Special Magic of Blossom Dearie
Two Jims and a Zoot: Zoot Sims, Jim Hall, Jimmy Raney
Walter Norris and George Mraz: Drifting
Don Pullen: Random Thoughts
Art Tautm: Decca Years
Murray MacEachren: Lazy Afternoon
Ray Anderson: Wishbone
Herbie Hancock: Best of Bluenote

Maybe four of these will get other votes.  Two of the artists no one has heard
of.  Concerning Robert Farnon: Andre Previn says he's the world's greatest
string arranger. 

---

From: baldwin@cogsci.UCSD.EDU (Ken Baldwin)

10 Desert Island Disks:

John Coltrane, GIANT STEPS
Miles Davis, BIRTH OF THE COOL
Dexter Gordon, BEST OF (Blue Note)
Thelonious Monk, COMPLETE BLUE NOTE (Mosaic)
Charlie Parker, SAVOY MASTER TAKES
Charlie Parker, COMPLETE DIAL RECORDINGS
Art Pepper, GOIN' HOME
Bud Powell, COMPLETE BLUE NOTE (Mosaic)
Archie Shepp, GOIN' HOME
Archie Shepp, TROUBLE IN MIND

Ken Baldwin

From: Adrian C Penisson <acp@rice.edu>

Well, here goes my list:
 1) Charles Mingus --> At Antibes
 2) Miles Davis --> Sketches of Spain
 3) Dirty Dozen Brass Band --> New Orleans Album (not exactly jazz,
    but I'd take it anyway)
 4) Duke Ellington --> Blanton-Webster Recordings (easiest way to fit
    three discs of Duke into one slot)
 5) Wynton Marsalis --> Standard Time Vol. 3
 6) Charles Mingus --> Tijuana Moods
 7) Thelonious Monk --> The Composer
 8) Danny Barker --> Save the Bones
 9) Louis Armstrong --> Plays W. C. Handy
10) Bluesiana Triangle --> Bluesiana Triangle (see comment on #3)

Adrian Penisson

From: Andy Gallo <gallo@asel.udel.edu>


	Wow, this would be hard!  My desert island disks would include
rock and classical as well as jazz.
	Here are a few of my jazz fav's:

	Miles Davis "Round About Midnight" - a very tasty "Bye Bye Blackbird",
		but just about anything by Mr. Davis could be included, 
		"Bitch's Brew", "Birth of the Cool", "Pangaea", "Sketches of 
		Spain", etc...
	Charles Mingus "Oh Yeah" - great, vibrant, recording
	Manhattan Transfer - probably the greatest hits album, sans 
		"Boy From NYC" and the Twilight Zone crap
	Wynton Marsalis "Think of One" 
	Stanley Jordan "Magic Touch" - "Elenor Rigby" like you've never
		heard it before
	Maynard Ferguson "A Message From Newport", or something with lots of
		screaming high notes 8-)
	Bobby McFerrin "Spontaneous Inventi


From: ewing@npg-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM ()
Organization: NCR Corporation, Network Products Group - San Diego

Off the top of my head --

Miles Davis -- "Kind of Blue" (me and everybody else, right?)
John Coltrane -- "A Love Supreme"
Charles Mingus -- "Mingus Ah Um"
Thelonious Monk -- "Brillian Corners"
Charlie Parker -- "The Savoy Recordings"
John Coltrane -- "Giant Steps"
Charles Mingus -- "Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus"
Duke Ellington -- "The Blanton-Webster Band"
Miles Davis -- "Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet"
Ornette Coleman -- "The Shape of Jazz To Come"

Dave Ewing
David.Ewing@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM

From: exubma@exu.ericsson.se (Bassam Madi)


Hi Cathy,

Here we go:

1. M. Davis : Kind of Blue
2. Donald Fagen : NightFly
3. Pat Metheny : OffRamp
4. Bob Marley & Wailers : Legend
5. Stan Getz : Au GoGo (With Astrud Gilberto)
6. John Coltrane : Blue Train
7. Rick Stone Quartet : Far East.
8. Pat Metheny : Still Life (Talking)
9. Bill Evans : Empathy + A Simple Matter of Conviction
10.M. Davis : Someday my prince will come.
                              ^
                              ss

These are not in order of preference, but Kind of Blue would be the 
most crucial. The list came of the top of my head ( I guess that's the 
point :-)
Take care,
Bassam-------------

From: Andy Jack <cczanj@vax.nott.ac.uk>

No Parker? Ellington? Armstrong? Bechet? I must be getting old.

Of course the really old stuff wasn't done for an LP/CD format. Anyway here are
a few of my favourite swings.

1. Jazz at Massey Hall - Parker/Gillespie/Powell/Mingus/Roach
2. Back to Back & Side by Side - Ellington/Hodges
3. A Love Supreme - Coltrane
4. Armstrong Hot Fives - I've got an old album that's just about worn out.
5. Bechet/Muggsy Spannier Big 4
6. Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
7. Bill Evans/Jim Hall "Undercurrent"
8. OK, I give in - Kind of Blue.

Ye gods, I haven't got Monk in there, or Ben Webster, or 'proper' Mingus or
Ornette, or Gil Evans, or ... No, it's impossible

Happy listening!

	Cheers,
	Andy

From: ujwb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Beer)
Subject: Re: Keep those "Desert Island Recordings" coming.

1.	Bird / Prestige 2 LP set (includ Bird @ St. Nicks, 1 other)

Bird sounds real "outside" on this, a bit like Ornette and Dolphy.

2.	Coltrane / Interstellar Space

The duets between Trane and Rashied Ali.  Has always been one of my
favorite.

3.	Coltrane / Dark Tape (boot)

Much like the album In Transition.  McCoy takes care of a lot of the
business that Elvin normally did, so Elvin sees that, and raises it
more!

4.	Miles Complete Plugged Nickel

7 CDs, can pick any at random, and be blown away.

5.	Duke Ellington / The Great Ellington Units

Small group with Blanton, Hodges, Rex, and Duke.  This is my favorite
Blanton, because you can really hear how strong he lays it down.  He is
the one that is making it, and of course, nobody else is a slouch.

6.	Ornette In All Languages

Has both Prime Time and acoustic under one roof.  Actually, for Prime
Time, my favorite is Body Meta.  For acoustic, is is Ornette On Tenor or
CBS' Broken Shadows.

7.	Duke/Louis Armstrong Complete Reunion

Duke and Louis together.  Enough said.

8.	Cecil Taylor / Michael Mantler JCOA project

Big Band stuff with soloists (also Cherry, Gato, Sanders, Coryell on
other compositions)  Cecil at his hotest.

9.  	Charlie Haden / Dream Keeper	

Great big band by free players, a bit more postmodern than #8.

10.	Dave Holland / Conference of the Birds 

The classic New Music album of the 70s with Braxton, Rivers, and
Altschul.

for classical, some of my favorites:

1.	Bach Picollo Cello / Bylsma
2.	Stavinksy/ Le Sacre / Boulez-Cleveland
3.	Messian Chromotr./ L'Ascension	
4.	Ives Concord
5.	Xenakis by IEC (Erato)
7.	Bach Flute / Bruggen
8.	Berg LuLu Suite


Jeff


From: stuart@nynexst.com (Rory Stuart)
Message-Id: <9206251822.AA09653@texas.nynexst.com>
To: austin@decisv.ucs.dec.com
Subject: desert island recordings

Coltrane Quartet "Coltrane" on Impulse
Miles Davis Quintet "Live at the Plugged Nickel"
Steve Lacy "Raps"
Wes Montgomery "While We're Young"
Cedar Walton/George Coleman "Eastern Rebellion"
Weather Report "I Sing the Body Electric"
Billy Harper "Soran-Bushi"
Sonny Rollins -french RCA double-lp set w/ Now's the Time (title?)
Thelonius Monk - "Live in Italy"
Rory Stuart Quartet "Hurricane" (ok, I admit I'm biased ;-))

This is off-the-top-of-the-head, would probably change some with
more thought.
-Rory

From: vek@spacsun.rice.edu (Vincent E. Kargatis)
Oh, and here's my desert island disc list:

In alphabetical order:

 1) The Beatles:  _Revolver_  (Parlophone)
 2) Tim Berne:  _Fractured Fairy Tales_ (JMT)
 3) Brave Combo:  _Musical Varieties_  (Rounder)
 4) John Carter:  _Castles of Ghana_  (Gramavision)
 5) John Coltrane:  _A Love Supreme_  (MCA/Impulse!)
 6) Marc Johnson:  _Bass Desires_  (ECM)
 7) Perez Prado:  _Voodoo Suite_  (Bear Family)
 8) Prince:  _Sign o' the Times_  (Paisley Park/Warner Bros.)
 9) Rova Saxophone Quartet:  _Long On Logic_  (Sound Aspects)
10) Talking Heads:  _Remain In Light_  (Sire)

Oh, and if it's an all jazz island, replace the pop with Ornette, Lacy,
Monk, and Taylor. Which ones? Err, ask me later.
-- 
| Vincent Kargatis                      |    "...it was more really like,     |
| Dept. of Space Physics and Astronomy  |  here are some Ginsu knives - how   |
| Rice University, Houston, TX          |   many can you hold in your bum?"   |
| [vek@spacsun.rice.edu]                |     -- Nigel Tufnel, Spinal Tap     |

From: The Man Who Invented Himself <stewarte@sco.COM>

Here's my picks, some unquestioned classics plus some idiosyncratic
personal favorites:

Thelonious Monk, Complete Riverside Recordings (but I'll settle for 
just Brilliant Corners in a pinch)
Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Blacknuss
John Coltrane, My Favorite Things
Herbie Nichols, Complete Blue Note Recordings
Duke Ellington, At Newport
Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Brown & Roach Inc.
Ray Anderson, What Because
David Murray Big Band, At Sweet Basil's vol. 1
Sonny Rollins, Volume 2 (Blue Note)

That's today's, anyway, tomorrow my list might be different...

From: GUILFORD@otago.ac.nz

I'm not the hugest of jazz fans (not that into it yet) but I do
like DID lists:


A Love Supreme
Full Force (AEC)
Feels Good to Me (Bruford -- jazz to me)
Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition
The Rotter's Club (Hatfield and the North -- closer to jazz than
 the jazz fusion people ever got, really -- I went to a Spirogyra
 concert once so I know)
Vini Reilly (The Durutti Column)
The Big Gundown (Zorn)
Mysterious Traveler (Weather Report)
The Hapless Child (Gorey/Mantler)
anything by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers -- the titles are kind
 of amorphous -- how about "A Night in Birdland?"  Volume something, 
 I think.

Some real white boy jazz here.  Actually this is a "ten favorite
jazz records list," since to be honest I would take a lot of things
not on this list, and not even dishonestly commendable as jazz, to 
the desert island.  Also I've only heard about one one-hundredth of
what I need to've to be able to send this top ten....

Bill Guilford

From: tzeken@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tze Ken SOH)

My all-time favourites are:
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Serenity - Stan Getz
Alone with Three Giants - Marcus Roberts
Alone - Bill Evans

Current listenings include:
Proper Angle - Charles Fambourgh
People Time - Stan Getz/Kenny Barron

Tzeken



From: doucet@laas.laas.fr (Jean-Etienne Doucet,149,6323)

Hi Cathy, 
I hope I'm not too much late...
Here's my list, with no special order:

Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue
Sonny Rollins: Our Man In Jazz (reissued as On The Outside)
Ornette Coleman: Chappaqua Suite
Duke Ellington: 1927-1931 Recordings (RCA)
Cecil Taylor: The World Of Cecil Taylor (also called Air)
Pat Metheny: Offramp
(various artists): That's The Way I Feel Now - A Tribute To Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers: Au Club St Germain, 1959
John Coltrane: Ole!
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um


It's hard to just take 10...

Cheers.
From: AXIOM@cup.portal.com

I don't know why I like these list gimmicks, but I get to blather.
Top 10:

10."Blue Train": John Coltrane
9.  "Rhythm and Blues" World Saxophone Quartet
8.  "In All Languages": Ornette Coleman
7.  "Ming": David Murray
6.  "Jack Johnson": Miles Davis
5.  "Tenor Madness": Sonny Rollins (w/John Coltrane on the title cut..Wow)
4.  "Spirituals": David Murray
3.  "Revue": World Saxophone Quartet
2.  "Kind of Blue": Miles Davis
1.  "A Love Supreme" Coltrane 

Hey. What can I say.  I have my faves and play 'em alot (Murray,Davis,Trane)


Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 11:44:56 -0500
From: Jeff Helgesen <jmh@guinevere.pubserv.com>


Favorite recording: Search For The New Land (Lee Morgan)
Favorite artist: Woody Shaw (Clifford Brown a close second!)

					...Jeff


From: austin@decisv.ucs.dec.com (Cathy Austin)
Here's my list (Cathy A.)

Andrew Hill - Point of Depature
Andrew Hill - But Not Farewell
Greg Osby - Man Talk for Moderns Vol X
Geri Allen - Twilight
John Coltrane - Africa Brass Sessions Vol 2
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Bobby Watson - Post Motown Bop
Charles Fambrough - The Proper Angle
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Cassandra Wilson - Jumpworld



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