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

drubin Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,265 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.
sdcampbell Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,136 posts 06-13-2001 at 08:42pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I'll probably make a more extensive here later this evening, after I get home from work, but the first album that jumped to mind that fits the "best unknown jazz recording" is a duet by Bill Evans and Jim Hall titled "Undercurrent". One of my all-time faves that got a 5-star rating from Downbeat in the early 1960's. More suggestions later.......