Jazz Mount Rushmore


1. Kind of Blue

2. Chet Baker Sings

3. Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown

4. Billie Holiday Love Songs

And You?

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These opinions are mostly biased toward bebop and later. After jazz mostly lost its way.  No one even mentioned Armstrong or Goodman. 

I don't listen to much Jazz but Bill Frissels discography, plus albums with collaborators, offers almost everything in Jazz and possibly everything in the musical universe. 😆

I'm a sucker for Coltrane's "Ballads." That's a large club of listeners.

Still stuck on Larry Coryell's "Barefoot Boy," but that is because there are many life associations and memories agglomerated around it, and it was a breakthrough of sorts when it first came out. And look who was playing with him and who produced it and recorded it.