pryso, re your “challenge” and to use some of your examples:
Bill Evans. Instead of “Waltz For Debby’ which, although deserving it, gained increased popularity from the relatively new wave of audiophile reissues, my choice for an introduction to Bill Evans would be “Everybody Digs Bill Evans”. A little less “moody” and itrospective than WFD with an overall more upbeat feeling and still with that beautiful suave sophistication.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRh9kGdYB9I
Cannonball Adderley. We discussed “Somethin’ Else” here quite a while ago mostly in comparison to KOB for overall merit. For me there is no contest with KOB being the most important of the two. O-10 and Rok disagreed, feeling that KOB was too much of an “audiophile darling” (?). However, I also argued that I felt that “Somethin’ Else” was really, more than anything, a Miles Davis date. Not to go there again, but for an introduction to Cannonball I would pick his album with a most fitting name, “Presenting Cannonball Adderley”; and not because of the title:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SN7ajvau50E
Miles Davis and speaking of KOB. You’re right, it would be difficult to argue against KOB being the choice, but I’ll play Devil’s Advocate and suggest that a better choice for an introduction would be “Round About Midnight”. Miles’ overall scope of styles is huge and amazing as we know. KOB, with all its greatness is a record that clearly defines a dramatic move to a style (modal) that would help shape just about everything he did afterwards. In some ways what came before might get lost a bit to someone new to Miles.. I would pick the record that hints at the more modern style of KOB and beyond, but is still more obviously rooted in the pre-modal tradition.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6FD0274FA2A10567
Interesting topic.
Bill Evans. Instead of “Waltz For Debby’ which, although deserving it, gained increased popularity from the relatively new wave of audiophile reissues, my choice for an introduction to Bill Evans would be “Everybody Digs Bill Evans”. A little less “moody” and itrospective than WFD with an overall more upbeat feeling and still with that beautiful suave sophistication.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRh9kGdYB9I
Cannonball Adderley. We discussed “Somethin’ Else” here quite a while ago mostly in comparison to KOB for overall merit. For me there is no contest with KOB being the most important of the two. O-10 and Rok disagreed, feeling that KOB was too much of an “audiophile darling” (?). However, I also argued that I felt that “Somethin’ Else” was really, more than anything, a Miles Davis date. Not to go there again, but for an introduction to Cannonball I would pick his album with a most fitting name, “Presenting Cannonball Adderley”; and not because of the title:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SN7ajvau50E
Miles Davis and speaking of KOB. You’re right, it would be difficult to argue against KOB being the choice, but I’ll play Devil’s Advocate and suggest that a better choice for an introduction would be “Round About Midnight”. Miles’ overall scope of styles is huge and amazing as we know. KOB, with all its greatness is a record that clearly defines a dramatic move to a style (modal) that would help shape just about everything he did afterwards. In some ways what came before might get lost a bit to someone new to Miles.. I would pick the record that hints at the more modern style of KOB and beyond, but is still more obviously rooted in the pre-modal tradition.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6FD0274FA2A10567
Interesting topic.