Best Unknown Jazz Album

Yeah, everyone raves about Mile Davis' "Kinda Blue" and Coltrane's "Blue Train". But what is the best unknown jazz album in your collection?

jcidulka06-13-2001 4:28am

audis4slj Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1 posts 06-13-2001 at 04:39pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Check out a relative newcomer: Jane Monheit. She has an incredible voice. Her backup includes Kenny Barron and others. Her rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is breathtaking
drubin Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,274 posts 06-13-2001 at 06:09pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Anyone ever heard Dave Liebman's Lookout Farm album on ECM? The first cut is a marvel of mid-70s fusion, with touches of Santana and the Dead (and I'm not a fusion fan). Man, I wish I could find a clean copy of this.
cmjones Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 45 posts 06-13-2001 at 07:17pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Bug Music, by Don Byron. It's a recent release, so it qualifies more as not yet well known.
j_k Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 234 posts 06-13-2001 at 07:20pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Nino Tempo - The Best of Nino Tempo and April Stevens
jg47 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 24 posts 06-13-2001 at 08:39pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete This is on Blue Note.I've probably played this disc(lp+cd)more than any other in the last 6 months.