"Sonny Clark, Sonny's Crib"; "Somethin Else", Cannonball Adderly, and the most beautiful is "Charley Parker with Strings".
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.
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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Not sure why you would limit it to the 50-80's so I'm going to break your rule Charles Lloyd "Canto" Carla Bley "The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu" Dave Holland Big Band "What Goes Around" Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong "Ella and Louis" Ginger Baker "Coward Of The County" Lynne Arriale "with words unspoken" Viktor Krauss "far from enough" Talking Horns "For St. Caecilien" . |
Ella Fitzgerald - Porgy and Bess (stunning sonics even on plain CD. As for Cool Struttin I own the Japanese pressing on vinyl and it has stunning sonics. I believe this album has been released a few times and I think a JVC XRCD version is also available. If I were you I would pick the XRCD version, as I have never been disappointed with any XRCD issues. I would not be surprised if the plain aluminium CD is also very good sounding. I remember this album fetched US$ 497 on Ebay for the original vinyl issue from 1952 and that was a record high price for any vinyl. This was good five years ago if I remember it correctly. I hope this helps :) |
Please check out this thread which has great music selection. I had created this thread back in 2003 with very similar reasons that you created this thread. I keep going back to this thread and find gems every now and then. http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1070546159&openmine&Quadophile&4&5&st0 |
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