Favorite jazz album (post the cover if you've got it)

[jpgray]

[MrScorpio]

1. Places and Spaces - Donald Byrd

[Blue-Jay]

2. One of my favorite albums.

Plus, I love the way Adderly is leering at Nancy Wilson:



(Seriously - if you've never listened to this album, go get it)

[jpgray]

8. "Can I Eat Her?"

I'm Soulseeking it at this moment. :D

[Blue-Jay]

9. Funny you should say that.

His nickname (jazz lore - possibly true) was original "cannibal" because of his eating habits.

[enigmatic]

3. The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra

[swag]

4. I like this one pretty good:

[Blue-Jay]

5. In remembrance of an old dear friend....

[enigmatic]

6. you've got to have this, then

Still the best film soundtrack album ever made, IMO...

[jpgray]

7. Yes! The cheesy cameo was soooo fantastic

:D

[enigmatic]

10. I love that film

The opening is still magic; my mother's side of the family is from the area it was made and a few friends of her were extras in it (the courtroom scene). Joesph Welch was great in it, too. And Lee Remick; zowza!

[JVS]

11. I can't believe you own an album with "tanned South American Hitler" on it

I knew he got away at the end of the war!

[Burma Jones]

12. Right Here

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. This one, of course:

[seemunkee]

14. Birth of the Cool

[asthmaticeog]

15. Kinda sick, but I like it:

Early Ken Vandermark? Can I get a "fuck yeah?"

[Richardo]

16. Don Ellis - Tears of Joy

I discovered Don Ellis when I was playing 4th trumpet in our high school stage band. His style included some amazingly complex time signatures, as well as a band with orchestration that included cello, oboe, french horns etc.

I still like this album even though the arrangements have that 70s 'big band' sound to them, which to my ear hasn't aged too well.

Oh well - I still like it on the strength of personal nostalgia alone. That, plus 'Bulgarian Bulge', which has a time signature of 33/8. :)

[Richardo]

17. ....and, more recently: 'Traveling Miles' by Cassandra Wilson

:thumbsup:

[regularguy]

18. Had to choose Oliver Nelson.

I have such reverence for this album that I only listen to it on occasions when I can really give it the attention it deserves:

[LanternWaste]

19. Spryo Gyra - Morning Dance

Spryo Gyra - Morning Dance

(Although I do realize I'll get called an apostate of music and a jazz-heathen)

[Pierre.Suave]

20. Just one?

Impossible.

Here are a few of my favorites...

Alice Babs and Duke Ellington Serenade to Sweden, recorded in Paris in 1963.



And all albums from this lovely lady, Diana Krall:



and then this one, Jane Monheit who I saw in concert at the end of August:



Then, there is this one, Lavay Smith And Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers:



I could keep going.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. easy - Blue Train

[Dr. Strange]

22. Herbie Hancock, Headhunters