Suggest Additions, Jazz

[musichal]

As will be clear, I'm neither completest nor purist. I do try to make my selections count. A list of what I own follows. What must-haves would you add? Vocalists such as Mel Torme, Sinatra, Vaughn, Ella, Krall, Gardot and others go in a different list (genre), and are not intended a part of this discussion.

Oh, and this isn't just a drill - I am actually spending money. Reg type id's what I already had.
Bold Titles in List Indicate New Purchases Based on Your Recs - Putting My Money Where Your Mouth Is (List Updated)

Al Dimeola – Elegant Gypsy
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin', Complete Blue Note Collection 1960-1962
Barry Manilow – 2:00 A.M. Paradise Cafe
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Rattle Them Bones
Bill Evans - The Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961
Bob James – Heads, Touchdown, Double Vision (with Sanborn)
Charles Mingus – Ah Um, Town Hall Concert 1964
Charlie Parker – Jazz at Massey Hall, 20th Century Masters Best Of Collection
Chick Corea Elektric Band – Inside Out
Clifford Brown - Study in Brown, With Strings
Count Basie - The Complete Atomic Basie
Curtis Fuller Quintet - Blues-Ette
Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond – 1975: The Duets
Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
Dexter Gordon - 12 Classic Albums 1947-1962 (6 discs)
Dizzy Gillespie (with Stitt and Rollins) - Sonny Side Up
Django Reinhardt – Best of
Duke Ellington - Uptown Ellington, 8 Classic Albums
Earl Klugh – Heart String
Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
Erroll Garner – Concert by the Sea
Flim & the BBs – Tricycle
George Benson – Breezin'
Getz/Gilberto - Ipanema
Glenn Miller Orchestra – In the Digital Mood
Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles, Maiden Voyage, Head Hunters
Ike Quebec - Soul Samba
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Jarrett/Garbarek – Belonging
Joe Sample – Rainbow Seeker
Joe Satriani – Flying in a Blue Dream
John Coltrane – Blue Train, A Love Supreme, Giant Steps
John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess – An Evening with...
Keith Jarrett – Koln Concert
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Lee Morgan - Complete Recordings 1956-1962 (6 discs)
Lester Young – with the Oscar Peterson Trio
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire
McCoy Tyner Trio - Inception
Michael Franks – Dragonfly Summer
Miles Davis - Essential Albums (Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', Steamin') [4 CD Box Set]
.....Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew
Miles Davis & John Coltrane – 1955-1961
The Modern Jazz Quartet – The Complete Last Concert
Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Things to Come
Oscar Peterson Trio – Exclusively for My Friends: The Way I Really Play (Vol III), Trio Plus One
Pat Metheny – Bright Size Life
Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan - Blues in Time
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Return of the 5000 lb. Man
Return to Forever – The Mothership Returns
Rippingtons – Life in the Tropics
Sonny Rollins Quartet – Saxophone Colossus
Spyro Gyro – Best of
Stanley Turrentine - Up at Minton's Vols 1 & 2
Thelonious Monk – Monk's Dream
Vangelis – The Bounty, Spiral, China
Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
Weather Report – Heavy Weather, Mysterious Traveler
Wes Montgomery – Incredible Jazz Guitar
Yellowjackets – Yellowjackets, Greenhouse

 

[notime2read]

I'd suggest among others:

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Joe Pass - Meditation
Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz

 

[notime2read]

Charlie Byrd/Stan Getz - Jazz Samba
Martin Denny - The Best of Martin Denny's Exotica

John Abercrombie - 39 Steps

 

[noisefreq]

Here's short list:
Pharoah Sanders "Karma"
Archie Shepp "Four for Trane"
Art Pepper "Smack Up"
Cannonball Adderly "Something Else"
Cecil Taylor "Looking Ahead"

 

[hi*ball]

Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Miles Davis - Relaxin'
Bill Evans & Chet Baker - Alone Together
Coleman Hawkins - Night Hawk
Hank Mobley - Workout
Horace Parlan - Speakin' My Piece

...and if you like organ at all, some Jimmy Smith or Jack McDuff!

 

[r_deming]

Clifford Brown- With Strings, Study in Brown
Rahsaan Roland Kirk- Bright Moments(live)
Sonny Rollins with the modern jazz quintet
Chick Corea my Spanish Heart.
Stanley Clarke Return to Love
Wynton Marsalis Hot House Flowers
I could go on forever...

I would buy anything by Clifford Brown, I have nearly every thing he has recorded and have yet to be disappointed.The same goes for Sonny Rollins.
It looks like you have a proper collection of jazz, but you could always use more right.

 

[onwardjames]

Anything by zoot sims.
The man could swing.

 

[captouch]

Coltrane - Giant Steps and My Favorite Things (or just get the Heavyweight Champion Collection)

Miles Davis - Round About Midnight, Someday My Prince Will Come

Bill Evans - Village Vanguard, Waltz for Debby

 

[Erik Tracy]

Great suggestions.

A few more
Hank Mobley: Dippin', A Caddy for Daddy
Dexter Gordon: Go
Tommy Turrentine: S/T
McCyoy Tyner: Illuminations

If you like/included Flim and the BB's, then you should check out Acoustic Alchemy - Arcanum

 

[johnebravo]

Clifford Brown- With Strings, Study in Brown

[snip]
I would buy anything by Clifford Brown, I have nearly every thing he has recorded and have yet to be disappointed.

I would second that, especially since you don't list any of his albums already. Study in Brown, Brown and Roach Inc. or anything by the Clifford Brown-Max Roach band would do.

Another possibility would be Dizzy Gillespie; the sessions on Verve with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt maybe.

 

[KrisM]

Wow, this could get expensive!

I'll offer a few suggestions.
-If you like Mingus Ah Um, Mings Dynasty is a good choice.
-I always say any fans of Time Out Should check out some Paul Desmond. Take Ten, Two Of A Mind, and Blues In Time Are all great.
-If you haven't checked out Miles' "apostrophe" albums(Relaxin', Cookin', etc) they fit your list.
-What are your thoughts on the trombone player on Blue Train? If you like him, consider going down that path. Any of Curtis Fullers' Blue Note stuff is great, same for Savoy. Bluesette is a straight up must have, IMO. Fuller+Benny Golson=Gold.
-Oscar Peterson's Night Train is a classic. The version I have is a 2-fer along with The Soul Jazz Of Oscar Peterson. It gets a lot of play around here.
-Blakey is a tough one. He has a TON of albums.
-I really like that era Colossus era of Rollins. What jazz fan doesn't? Plus 4, Way Out West, and Tenor Madness are great. Can't really go wrong with his Blue Note stuff, either. And it's a bit later, but consider The Bridge as well.
-I'm a big fan of the MJQ's Blues At Carnegie Hall, and At Music Inn, Volume 2. At Music Inn gets you some more Rollins, too.

 

[KrisM]

Wow, this could get expensive!

I'll offer a few suggestions.
-If you like Mingus Ah Um, Mings Dynasty is a good choice.
-I always say any fans of Time Out Should check out some Paul Desmond. Take Ten, Two Of A Mind, and Blues In Time Are all great.
-If you haven't checked out Miles' "apostrophe" albums(Relaxin', Cookin', etc) they fit your list.
-What are your thoughts on the trombone player on Blue Train? If you like him, consider going down that path. Any of Curtis Fullers' Blue Note stuff is great, same for Savoy. Bluesette is a straight up must have, IMO. Fuller+Benny Golson=Gold.
-Oscar Peterson's Night Train is a classic. The version I have is a 2-fer along with The Soul Jazz Of Oscar Peterson. It gets a lot of play around here.
-Blakey is a tough one. He has a TON of albums.
-I really like that era Colossus era of Rollins. What jazz fan doesn't? Plus 4, Way Out West, and Tenor Madness are great. Can't really go wrong with his Blue Note stuff, either. And it's a bit later, but consider The Bridge as well.
-I'm a big fan of the MJQ's Blues At Carnegie Hall, and At Music Inn, Volume 2. At Music Inn gets you some more Rollins, too.

Edit:
Talking about Roach and Brown, the Plus 4 suggestion above gets you some of that action.

 

[Mc_Man]

Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
Art Pepper - Meets the Rhythm Section

 

[hi*ball]

While this might begin to look overwhelming, start checking some of these albums out on YouTube. Make yourself a list of the ones you really like, then start keeping an eye out for some deals.

Happy hunting!

 

[poppachubby]

You have a nice core of albums so far. I will use your list to suggest some other artists/albums. This is just a starting point, not a definitive summary.

Dizzy Gillespie - EVERYTHING!!! The Cool World, The Champ, Have Trumpet Will Excite,
Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay, any Blue Note from 1960 - 1964
Teddy Edwards - any Contemporary sides
Howard McGhee - Dusty Blue
Curtis Fuller - Bluesette
Ted Curson - Tears For Dolphy, Plenty Of Horn
Bill Barron - Hot Line, Modern Windows
Tina Brooks - Back To The Tracks
Art Farmer - anything from the 50's or 80's
Ahmad Jamal - Live at the Pershing, The Awakening
Benny Golson - Gone With Golson, Groovin With Golson
Ben Webster - Soulville
Blue Mitchell - Blue Soul
Booker Little - Booker Little and Friend, Out Front
Horace Silver - anything on Blue Note pre 70's
The Jazztet - anything
Woody Shaw - anything
Booker Ervin - anything from his Prestige 'BOOK' series
Chet Baker - Chet
Larry Young - Unity
Lee Morgan - Vol. 3, Search for the New Land, Sidewinder
Max Roach - Parisian Sketches, Max Roach + 4, Deeds-Not Words, Members, Don't Git Weary
Charlie Parker - Now's The Time~The Genius of Charlie Parker #3, Bird & Diz
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Curtis Amy - Katanga
Hank Mobley - No Room for Squares, Workout
Harold Land - Harold in the Land of Jazz, The Peacemaker
Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At, Up At Minton's Vol. 1 & 2,
Clark Terry - Serenade To A Bus Seat
Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet – Daahoud
Clifford Brown - Study in Brown
Sonny Criss - Jazz U.S.A, Plays Cole Porter, Go Man!
Gigi Gryce - When Farmer Met Gryce, Nica's Tempo
Gigi Gryce & Donald Byrd - Jazz Lab (Columbia)
Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk
Frank Strozier - The Fantastic Frank Strozier
Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Cookbook, Vol. 1 - 3
Ike Quebec - anything on Blue Note
Miles Davis - everything with his 1st & 2nd quintets
Roy Eldridge - The Nifty Cat, Little Jazz
Shelly Manne & His Men - At The Black Hawk Vol. 1 - 5
Dexter Gordon - Doin' Alright, Live At Carnegie Hall

You have no Duke or Basie!!!!!! The more the merrier - there are too many "must haves" to list...

Count Basie - Basie At Birdland, Atomic Basie, April In Paris
Count Basie and Joe Williams - Just The Blues

Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown, Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown, Blues In Orbit, At Newport 1956

 

[yohalfprice]

I saw a recommendation recently for this list, which I found interesting:
http://jazz100.sffjazz.com/top100.html
Its just a list but I have about half of the 100 on it and it gave me some new ideas.

Out of the top 20, I have and would recommend these:

Miles Davis Kind of Blue 1959
John Coltrane A Love Supreme 1964
Charles MingusMingus Ah Um 1959
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out 1959
Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else 1958
Miles Davis Bitches Brew 1970
John Coltrane Giant Steps 1959
Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus 1956
Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! 1964
Charles Mingus Black Saint & the Sinner Lady 1963
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Moanin' 1958
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto 1963
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come 1959
John Coltrane Blue Train 1957
Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners 1956
Bill Evans Trio Waltz for Debby 1961
Miles Davis In a Silent Way 1969

A couple that I've been really enjoying lately:

Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond Blues in Time
Louis Armstrong/Duke Ellington Recording Together Again for the First Time

 

[KrisM]

Another edit:

I forgot to address Monk.
I'm the worst guy to ask, I'd just say get to get all of them. So many of albums are classics.
And then add a little Herbie Nichols into the mix for good measure. His Blue Note material, and then Love, Gloom, Cash, Love.

 

[r_deming]

Herbie Mann-Push Push...if you aren't familiar with this album cover, just google it. Its worth a chuckle.

 

[hi*ball]

Also, stop by the "Today's Jazz Playlist" page and check out what is being posted there.

From there you can sample what might look good. It's like window shopping.

 

[musichal]

Because of disability/restricted mobility I can't hit yard sales, thrift shops, etc. Most of my orders are Amazon. I plan to spend a bit and have begun, based on recommendations here. So far I've ordered:

Clifford Brown - Study in Brown
Ike Quebec - Soul Samba (w/Kenny Burrell)
Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown

I'm sure I'll be ordering more today. Feel free to continue to recommend. hi'ball suggested watching the Today's Jazz Playlist, and I did, but felt that posting a list of what I have and asking you to suggest must-haves might work better. Keep in mind that I pointed out that I'm not a completist. I'm trying to collect one or two albums per artist for the most part, so I want my choices to be at or near the best for each artist I choose, which is subjective - I realize - however, their is some consensus in numbers.

I thank you all for responding, and I'll continue updating my acquisitions for awhile. Decided to indicate my choices by adding them in bold in the first post so you can see how you help me improve my jazz collections. Right now I'm listening to Study in Brown.. soo good. Also, I like this kind of info from KrisM:

"Talking about Roach and Brown, the Plus 4 suggestion above gets you some of that action."