What did you listen to the most in 2005?

[GA Russell]

It's the time of year for best-of lists and other recollections of the year gone by.

Because we often buy or at least enjoy a CD the year after it comes out, I thought that I would ask for a survey that was not about 2005 releases per se, but rather about what you found yourself listening to the most - no matter when you got it or when it came out.

So...Looking back on the year 2005, what did you spin the most often?

My Top Ten were:

Wayne Shorter - JuJu

Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag

Bill Evans - The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 box

Sonny Rollins - Without a Song (The 9/11 Concert)

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Symphonic Jobim

Shelly Manne & His Men - Son of Gunn!!

Mose Allison - Ramblin' with Mose

The Four Freshmen - In Session

Red Garland Quintets - Prestige Profiles

Woody Shaw - Dark Journey, disc 1

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Most played albums, so far

Fantasy - Harold Mabern

Too Damn Hot - Lonnie Smith

Live at 3361*Black 1st & 2nd - Junior Mance

Speakerboxxx/The love below - Outkast

Jazz on a Sunday afternoon - George Benson

Organic Chemistry - Bobby Forrester

New directions in sound - Afro-blues Quintet + 1

In Private - Norman Simmons

Live at Birdland West - Gerald Albright

Welcome to Haiti Creole 101 - Wyclef Jean

Most played artists, so far

David Newman

Jazz Crusaders

Jimmy Smith

Lonnie Smith

Les McCann

Grant Green

Junior Mance

Sonny Stitt

Houston Person

Outkast

George Benson

Harold Mabern

Cannonball Adderley

Hank Crawford

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Willis Jackson

Jack McDuff

Jimmy McGriff

Ernie Andrews

Shirley Scott

MG

[Sundog]

Jazz

Thelonious Monk: Monk In Paris- Live At The Olympia

Thelonious Monk Quartet: Monk & Trane At Carnegie Hall

Deep Blue Organ Trio: Deep Blue Bruise

Roland Kirk: Volunteered Slavery

Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters

Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards Quartet (2003)

Charles Mingus: Mingus At Antibes

Bud Powell: Time Waits

Jimmy Smith: Root Down

Wes Montgomery: Full House

Ahmad Jamal Trio: Chamber Music Of The New Jazz

Wayne Shorter: Footprints Live & Alegria

Rock/R&B

Allman Brothers Band: Brothers & Sisters

Grateful Dead: Steppin' Out England '72

Aretha Franklin & King Curtis Live At The Fillmore West Box (Don't Fight The Feeling)

Ray Charles: Complete Atlantic 1952-1959

Classical

Gyorgy Ligeti: Piano Etudes Books I & II, Idil Biret (Naxos)

Issac Ibeniz: Suite Iberia, Trio Campanella (Naxos)

Special Categories

Most Listened To Mosaic Box Set...

Teddy Wilson or Byrd/Adams

Most Listened To "Miles" Album...

Seven Steps To Heaven

Most Listened To "Trane" Album...

Crescent

Most Listened To Album That I'm Not Sure I Even Like...

Maneri/Phillips/Maneri: Angels Of Repose

[Quincy]

Jack Teagarden - Father of Jazz Trombone (Avid compilation)

Sonny Rollins - On Impulse (Had it for years but love the opener.)

Don Byas - the 2 Jazz In Paris releases (I "discovered" him this year.)

Art Pepper - Mosaic Select (Reading Straight Life so he's getting played as the soundtrack.)

Coleman Hawkins - At Ease With Coleman Hawkins (Ahhhhhhhhh.)

Thelonious Monk - London Collection Vol. 1 (Finally got it this year.)

Monk/Coltrane - Carnegie Hall

Dexter Gordon - Body & Soul (I just keep pulling it out.)

Metheny/Coleman - Song X (Lots of Ornette played this year.)

King Crimson - Great Deceiver box

Some artists where I played a variety of albums but didn't fixate on one:

Duke Ellington - All sorts of things from the '20s to the '70s.

Hank Mobley - '50s Mosaic to the '60s. I think I played all 13 discs I have this year.

Jackie McLean - As leader or sideman.

And Mosaic sets that were dipped into often: Django, Gerald Wilson, & HRS. The Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions just arrived & is dominating currently!

In honor of Sundog's special listings:

Most listened to Miles album/set

Seven Steps box

Miles album most listened to that was not reissued this year

Walkin'

Coltrane album most listened too if I wasn't cheap & forgetful

The new Birdland release. Gotta replace (or compliment, add to) the boot!

Edited December 18, 2005 by Quincy

[mikeweil]

All I can say is that I listen to a lot of Cal Tjader this year ......

[LAL]

Music of New Orleans clarinetist George Lewis.

Recordings where Geri Allen is present either as leader or sideman.

[Chuck Nessa]

This year my listening has been all over the place as usual. Nothing dominates but the question reminded me I haven't listened to much Red Allen (a favorite) this year.

[ASNL77]

Top ten:

Tina Brooks : True Blue

McLean Mosaic

Oscar Peterson: Night train

Wes Montgomery: Full house

Shelly Manne at the Blackhawk vol 1 to 5

Andrew Hill: Black Fire

Grachan Moncur Mosaic Select

Pete la Roca: Basra

Herbie Hancock; the complete BN 60's sessions

Jimmy Smith Mosaic

Edited December 19, 2005 by ASNL77

[GregK]

lots of Art Ensemble and Anthony Braxton

[Larry Kart]

The one album I think I've played the most this year is tenor saxophonist Ted Brown's "Preservation" (Steeplechase), with Harold Danko, Dennis Irwin, and Jeff Hirschfield. Tremendously fresh, soulful, melodic, swinging improvisation -- not unrelated to Ted's one-time model and former colleague Warne Marsh, but Ted has been his own man for decades.

[Morganized]

Dexter Gordon...Body and Soul and the other Live stuff.

Sonny Rollins.....RCA stuff with Jim Hall

Paul Desmond....... with Jim Hall mostly

Thelonious Monk.......Live at the IT Club

Stan Getz..........a variety...Sweet Rain

[felser]

Listened to a lot (hundreds of CD's) of recent-vintage jazz recorded by artists located in and around Seattle - these came in a collection that I bought off a contact from ebay. A surprisingly large number of "keepers", showing me that jazz is alive and well in at least parts of the USA. As always, listened to a lot of vintage Blue Note stuff. Non-jazz, listened a good bit to the late-60's/early 70's British group Spooky Tooth, especially 'Spooky 2' and 'Witness'. Unlike jazz, I find very little current rock which impresses me enough to add to my grossly overcrowded CD shelves.

[Clunky]

problem with end of year lists is that I tend to remember what I've played recently rather than earlier in the year.

Discoveries

Luis Russell- Retrieval 2CD- plenty of excellent soloists and then there's Red Allen

King Oliver- Retrieval 2CD- can't believe how these excellent transfers really open up this wonderful music

Most played CDs

Diz/Bird- Townhall- Uptown

Han Bennink/Guus Janssen- Groet- Data

Warne Marsh- All Music - Nessa

Paul Towndrow- Out of town

Sal Mosca- Thing ah- majig- Zinnia

Frank Hewitt Smalls

Most Played LP

Trane/Monk- Carnegie Hall- Mosaic

Jabbo Smith- Decca comp.

Lee Konitz- Figure and Spirit Progressive

Edited December 19, 2005 by Clunky

[Soulstation1]

very little stuff purchased this year

shorter's speak no evil rvg

JOS' at the organ vol 3 and the sounds of JOS both rvgs

big john patton's the way i feel tocj

fred jackson's hootin' and tootin' conn

mcgriff's i've got a women

monk/trane at carnegie hall

cole's little johnnny c rvg

eddie davis trio feat shirley scott

silver and the jazz messenges rvg

organissimo's this is the place and waiting for ...

box sets

AOD, only mosaic set for the year...

Stax first set

Davis complete black hawk

Granz jam sessions

others

snoop's rhythm n gangsta

nas' street's disciple

kayne west's new one

fiddy's the massacre

ludacris red light district

plus some stuff over e-music

[sidewinder]

The following have been spun quite a bit this year:

Big John Patton Mosaic Select

Jazz Crusaders Mosaic

Rendell/Carr reissues ('Shades of Blue/Dusk Fire' and 'Phase III/Live') and 'Change Is' LP

Neil Ardley 'Symphony of Amaranths' and 'Will Power' LPs

Gordon Beck 'Gyroscope' LP

Harry Beckett 'Flare Up'

Jackie McLean 'Bluesnik', 'Capuchin Swing' and 'It's Time' LPs

Sam Rivers 'Contours' LP

Various Electric Miles LPs ('Decoy', 'We Want Miles', 'Dingo', 'Aura' etc)

All of the Blue Note Dexter Gordon LPs (these get better and better IMO as the years pass)

Of course there are loads more but these are the ones that initially come to mind.

Edited December 19, 2005 by sidewinder

[7/4]

This year my listening has been all over the place as usual. Nothing dominates but

Same here. It changes all the time. All over the map.

[tonym]

2005 brought me to Tina Brooks in a big way, his small but perfectly formed collection of Blue Notes is on heavy rotation in the house, on the iPod and in the car.

Early in the year I was bowled over by the remasters of Miles' Live In Antibes etc. These still enjoy lots of listening time mainly due to George Coleman's gorgeous sound.

At the time of writing I'm still devouring my recent acquisitions from Jackie Mac's and Bobby Hutcherson's BN backcatalogue; they'll keep me in meat and drink for a while to come. Lastly, but no less important this year was my introduction to a couple of BNs from Wayne Shorter that were missing from my collection, in particular Et Cetera.

Happy days indeed.

[ep1str0phy]

I go through periods of intense listening, but there are few albums that I return to year 'round. That being said, these got a lot of play:

Cannonball: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

Air: Air Mail and Air Lore

John Coltrane: Crescent

Coltrane/Ellington: " "

Eric Dolphy: Last Date

Andrew Hill: Dance with Death

Frank Lowe: Lowe-down and Blue

Jackie McLean: Right Now!

Oliver Nelson: Blues and the Abstract Truth

Ike Quebec: Soul Samba

World Saxophone Quartet: Dances and Ballads

Frank Wright: Uhuru Na Umoja

Lots of Art Ensemble (especially Nice Guys, Phase One, and Les Stances a Sophie)

Too many to remember, really. But these old standbys always get play:

Don Cherry: Brown Rice

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Grant Green: Street of Dreams

Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child

Andrew Hill: Judgment

Ornette Coleman: SOJTC

(Rahsaan) Roland Kirk: I Talk with the Spirits

" ": The Inflated Tear

Jackie McLean: Destination Out!

[GA Russell]

Considering all the discussion on this board about Dizzy/Bird and Monk/Trane, I'm surprised so few have mentioned them.

The Miles box I have played the most (by far) has been the 65-68 Quintet.

[.:.impossible]

Karl Berger Dave Holland Edward Blackwell | Crystal Fire

My brother gave this to me for Christmas last year. Fantastic set. Pay no mind to the cover art.

Roscoe Mitchell | Sound

I think I got this from Chuck around Christmas time last year as well. Time slipped away this year and I missed my annual order. Expect one in January!

Sonny Clark Trio | Sonny Clark Trio

Bud Powell | Time Waits

Bud Powell | The Scene Changes

Horace Silver Trio | Horace Silver Trio (more recently)

I think these were in response to the last two years of straight Herbie Nichols Trio. I eat this stuff up.

Dennis Gonzalez New Dallas Sextet | Namesake (more recently)

This was a nice find. Give me more Alvin Fielder.

Lee Morgan | The Procrastinator

I began to type "Wayne Shorter | The Procrastinator". This one is always nearby. I've never stopped listening to this on a regular basis.

Walt Dickerson | To My Son

Hellz yeah. Possibly my most prized possession, aside from the Deagan. No, its not rare. Bless Steeplechase.

Lots of organ stuff this year too. Not one recording over any though. Still waiting for THE PLACE to arrive!

Happy New Year!

[ep1str0phy]

Karl Berger Dave Holland Edward Blackwell | Crystal Fire

My brother gave this to me for Christmas last year. Fantastic set. Pay no mind to the cover art.

Roscoe Mitchell | Sound

I think I got this from Chuck around Christmas time last year as well. Time slipped away this year and I missed my annual order. Expect one in January!

Lee Morgan | The Procrastinator

I began to type "Wayne Shorter | The Procrastinator". This one is always nearby. I've never stopped listening to this on a regular basis.

All great albums. I just recently got into the Morgan, although I've had it for some time. There's a wonderful sort of "lyrical mystery" about that one--dark, intelligent, heavy.

[JohnS]

Not as much listening this year because of moving home, not setting my gear up and deciding not to buy quite so much. But I'd guess these have had rthe most spins this year

Frank Hewitt Trio (both cds)

Albet Ayler On The Fench Riviera

Ahmed Abdullah; Travelling The Spaceways and Song Of Time

Dennis Gonzalez; NY Midnight Suite

[paul secor]

Thinking about this thread made me realize that I probably haven't listened to anything in my collection more than twice over the past year. It also made me think back to when I was twenty and didn't own a lot of records. I listened to what I did have over and over, and knew my collection pretty well. That wasn't such a bad thing.

[Chuck Nessa]

It just dawned on me I was hung up, for a couple months, on solo Earl Hines recordings. I have around 25 of 'em and played them all at least once.

[gslade]

Easily, The Dizzy/Parker, The Monk/Coltrane, The Coltrane Live at the Halfnote.

A Very good year