# Jazz albums: what are your ten favories? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887 "2014-10-20T02:26:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887/21 "2014-10-23T20:27:09Z")
Just re-read the thread. I seem to be stumping for Grant Green. He’s _good_, dammit! ;)😃 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887/22 "2014-10-23T20:44:11Z")
I’m not that deep into jazz, but I know what I like. I had a phase where I was fascinated with jazz guitar and wanted to learn it but I just didn’t have it in me. I love Charlie Byrd. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - _Moanin’_ Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - _Great Guitars_ Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - _Great Guitars at Charlie’s Georgetown_ Charlie Byrd - _The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd_ Lenny Breau - _Live at Bourbon Street_ Joe Pass/Herb Ellis - _Joe’s Blues_ Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía - _Friday Night in San Francisco_ Ray Charles - _The Great Ray Charles_ Redneck Jazz Explosion (Danny Gatton) - _Live at the Cellar Door_ Charlie Christian - _Genius of the Electric Guitar_ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887/23 "2014-10-23T21:48:22Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’m not that deep into jazz, but I know what I like. I had a phase where I was fascinated with jazz guitar and wanted to learn it but I just didn’t have it in me. I love Charlie Byrd. > > Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - _Moanin’_ > Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - _Great Guitars_ > Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - _Great Guitars at Charlie’s Georgetown_ > Charlie Byrd - _The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd_ > Lenny Breau - _Live at Bourbon Street_ > Joe Pass/Herb Ellis - _Joe’s Blues_ > Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía - _Friday Night in San Francisco_ > Ray Charles - _The Great Ray Charles_ > Redneck Jazz Explosion (Danny Gatton) - _Live at the Cellar Door_ > Charlie Christian - _Genius of the Electric Guitar_ Some good stuff. I used to listen to Charlie Byrd a lot some years ago, then tired of him. I don’t think Di Meola, McLaughlin and de Lucia are really jazz musicians in the traditional sense. They tend to do more fusion stuff (at least McLaughlin and Di Meola certainly do), with a definite Spanish classical influence (especially de Lucia, who is a _nuevo flamenco_ player). I would put them in the same category with Ottmar Liebert as guitar overachievers and all are virtuoso players. I’ve been lucky enough to see Di Meola and de Lucia in concert; they’re unbelievably good. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887/24 "2014-10-23T23:20:04Z")
[ul] [li]_Kind of Blue_ - Miles Davis[/li][li]_Hot House_ - Arturo Sandoval[/li][li]_The Gershwin Connection_ - Dave Grusin[/li][li]_Go_ - Dexter Gordon[/li][li]_Time Out_ - Dave Brubeck[/li][li]_Sidewinder_ - Lee Morgan[/li][li]_Getz/Gilberto_ - Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887/25 "2014-10-24T11:20:47Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’m not that deep into jazz, but I know what I like. I had a phase where I was fascinated with jazz guitar and wanted to learn it but I just didn’t have it in me. I love Charlie Byrd. > > Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - _Moanin’_ > Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - _Great Guitars_ > Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis - _Great Guitars at Charlie’s Georgetown_ > Charlie Byrd - _The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd_ > Lenny Breau - _Live at Bourbon Street_ > Joe Pass/Herb Ellis - _Joe’s Blues_ > Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía - _Friday Night in San Francisco_ > Ray Charles - _The Great Ray Charles_ > Redneck Jazz Explosion (Danny Gatton) - _Live at the Cellar Door_ > Charlie Christian - _Genius of the Electric Guitar_ Enjoying the guitar focus. I love Charlie Christian’s work as part of Bennie Goodman’s sextet. If you guys are interested in the earliest jazz guitar innovations - try a CD called Pioneers of Jazz Guitar, featuring **Eddie Lang, Carl Kress and Dick McDonough**. It is scratchy and some of the songs are old-fashioned with glimpses of jazz chording and harmony, but by the time you get to _Picking My Way_ and _Danzon_ you hear some really great, innovative stuff. I have a gorgeous old Gibson archtop - I am beyond unworthy, but I love pulling it out and faking a few jazz chords and lead fills on it… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887/26 "2014-10-25T18:07:03Z")
Don’t even want to try to pick, but do want to mention Wynton Marsalis’s _In This House, On This Morning_. Recently listened to it for the first time in years, and day-um. Currently enjoying the heck out of [an Oscar Peterson-Stephane Grappelli collaboration](http://www.amazon.com/Skol-Peterson/dp/B000000YRP) – not sure it belongs in top ten ever, but it’s been in the CD player (yeah, I’m old school) for about six months. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887/27 "2014-10-25T20:41:18Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Don’t even want to try to pick, but do want to mention Wynton Marsalis’s _In This House, On This Morning_. Recently listened to it for the first time in years, and day-um. > > Currently enjoying the heck out of [an Oscar Peterson-Stephane Grappelli collaboration](http://www.amazon.com/Skol-Peterson/dp/B000000YRP) – not sure it belongs in top ten ever, but it’s been in the CD player (yeah, I’m old school) for about six months. I don’t know what it is about Marsalis that is often off-putting for me. I certainly acknowledge his brilliance and technical skill, but something about his playing just misses the mark. I know he’s been slammed as not having any blues soul and that his music is more of a recitation than it is heartfelt. Perhaps that’s it, or maybe something else. I play his album _In Gabriel’s Garden_, which is classical baroque music, during Christmas season, but the other albums I have of his don’t get much play. But like all music, it’s all personal opinion. Oscar Peterson, of course, was a genius. Glad I got to hear him in person. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887/28 "2014-10-25T20:47:58Z")
Oscar Peterson’s "Night Train ", is like the soundtrack to my life! (Also I saw Stephane Grappelli live once, it was awesome!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jazz-albums-what-are-your-ten-favories/701887.md?page=1)