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Great and well-recorded jazz on CD

I'm looking for recommendations for great CDs that are also great recordings. Let's keep it to jazz recorded between 1950 and 1980. Some CDs I've been listening to recently that fit the bill as posed in this post include Sarah Vaughan's first LP with Clifford Brown (Verve), or Bags Meets Wes (Riverside).

I listen to just about anything, including free jazz and fusion. Not looking for suggestions of awesome records per se, or for suggestions of audophile-quality recent jazz.

I listen to music for all sorts of reasons, and some of the albums I like are horribly recorded. I do appreciate a nice Sun Ra album for example that has bedroom-quality recording (hear the telephone ring just before the cut ends!) But that's not what I'm asking about here. On the other hand, I don't mind old recordings where you can really hear the hiss and the bacon frying---those can still be beautiful recordings with a sense of space, depth, etc.

Any ideas? Thanks.
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tmiddle
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Clifford Jordan "Live At Ethyll's"
Ellington "Blues In Orbit"
Charlie Haden "Nocturne"

These came to mind right off the bat.....
dayglow
1,925 posts
 
Jimmy Smith-The Cat
McCoy Tyner-Sahara
Bill Evans-Live in Tokyo
Dexter Gordon-Live at Carnegie Hall
Stan Getz-The Dolphin
tobias
1,534 posts
 
Second the Poll Winners recommendation, in fact the entire catalogue of the label by that name is worth exploring. Lots of sure bets, my fave at the moment being Red Garland's "Groovy".
mnmark
57 posts
 
Dexter Gordon "One Flight Up". The long opening cut "Tanya" is worth the price of admission.
price OP
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Great, thanks for these. Keep them coming.

I have some of them, and I'm looking into the others. It's helpful to list which release you're listening to. With Cool Struttin', for instance, is the Rudy Van Gelder remaster any good? I know some people like those and others hate them. Always a crapshoot. I got a Japanese import of Herbie Hancock's Sextant (mind blowing) in 1992, and then later picked up the remastered version (2000?) and was disappointed. Not that the earlier CD was any great shakes, but I hate to hear a 'remastered' CD and realize that it's basically been fed through compression software.
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