The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 Ha ha! I did it! Not essential - we are dealing with luxury items, y'know - but kinda representative. Ray Charles/Milt Jackson - Soul Brothers - Atlantic - 9/1957 Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Cookbooks - Prestige - 6,9&12/1958 Jimmy Smith - Home Cookin' - Blue Note - 7/1958,5&6/1959 David Newman/Ray Charles - Fathead - Atlantic - 11/1958 Teddy Edwards/Les McCann - It's About Time - Pacific Jazz - 8/1959 Cannonball Adderley - Live In San Francisco - Riverside - 10/1959 John Wright - South Side Soul - Prestige - 8/1960 Baby Face Willette - Face To Face - Blue Note - 1/1961 Gene Ammons/Groove Holmes - Groovin' With Jug - Pacific Jazz - 8/1961 Grant Green - Remembering - Blue Note - 8/1961 Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul - Blue Note - 11/1961 Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At - Blue Note - 1/1962 Fred Jackson - Hootin' 'N Tootin' - Blue Note - 2/1962 Larry Young - Groove Street - Prestige - 2/1962 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don - Blue Note - 5/1962 Gene Ammons - Bad Bossa Nova - Prestige - 9/1962 Jack McDuff - Screamin’ - Prestige - 10/1962 Johnny 'Hammond' Smith - Black Coffee - Riverside - 11/1962 Paul Bryant – Something’s Happening - Fantasy - 1963 Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue - Blue Note - 1/1963 Clifford Scott/Les McCann - Out Front - Pacific Jazz - 2/1963 Curtis Amy - Katanga! - Pacific Jazz - 2/1963 Baby Face Willette - Mo' Rock - Argo - 2&4/1964 Eddie Chamblee - The Rockin' Tenor Sax - Prestige - 2/1964 James Brown - Grits & Soul - Smash - 5&8/1964 Don Patterson - Hip Cake Walk - Prestige - 5&7/1964 John Patton - The Way I Feel - Blue Note - 6/1964 Freddie Roach - All That's Good - Blue Note - 10/1964 Billy Larkin & The Delegates - Blue Lights - Aura - 1965 Freddie Mccoy - Lonely Avenue - Prestige - 1&2/1965 Jackie Ivory - Soul Discovery - Atco - 8/1965 Jazz Crusaders - Live At The Lighthouse '66 - Pacific Jazz - 1/1966 Illinois Jacquet - Go Power - Cadet - 3/1966 Groove Holmes - On Basie’s Bandstand - Prestige - 4/1966 Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo - Blue Note - 4/1967 Odell Brown & the Organizers - Mellow Yellow - Cadet - 4/1967 Willis Jackson - Star Bag - Prestige - 3/1968 Charles Kynard - Soul Brotherhood - Prestige - 3/1969 Illinois Jacquet - The Soul Explosion - Prestige - 3/1969 Les Mccann/Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement - Atlantic - 6/1969 Reuben Wilson - Blue Mode - Blue Note - 12/1969 Lonnie Smith - Live At Club Mozambique - Blue Note - 5/1970 Grant Green - Alive! - Blue Note - 8/1970 Charles Earland - Livin' Black - Prestige - 9/1970 Stanley Turrentine - Sugar - CTI - 11/1970 Sonny Stitt - Just The Way It Was: Live at the Left Bank - Label M - 3/1971 Blue Mitchell - Blue Mitchell - Mainstream - 3/1971 Charles Williams - Trees And Grass And Things - Mainstream - c1971/72 Jimmy McGriff - Black Pearl - Blue Note - 1971 Dakota Staton - Madame Foo Foo - Groove Merchant - 1972? Leon Spencer - Where I'm Comin' From - Prestige - 2/1972&1/1973 Johnny Lytle - People & Love - Milestone - 8/1972 Boogaloo Joe Jones - Snake Rhythm Rock - Prestige - 11/1972 Funk Inc - Hangin' Out - Prestige - 12/1972 Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet - Prestige - 12/1973 Rhoda Scott - Live At The Club Saint-Germain - Barclay - 5/1974 Shirley Scott - One For Me - Strata East - 11/1974 Idris Muhammad - The House Of The Rising Sun - Kudu - 6,9&10/1975 George Freeman - Frantic Diagnosis - Bam-Boo - c1976 Junior Mance - Holy Mama - East Wind - 5/1976 Houston Person - The Nearness Of You - Muse - 11/1977 Willis Jackson - Bar Wars - Muse - 12/1977 Al Grey/Jimmy Forrest - OD (Out 'Dere) - Greyforrest - 7/1980 Melvin Sparks - Sparkling - Muse - 2/1981 John Patton - Soul Connection - Nilva - 6/1983 Alvin Queen/Lonnie Smith - Lenox And Seventh - Black & Blue - 5/1985 Jimmy Ponder - To Reach A Dream - Muse - 7/1988&6/1989 Maceo Parker - Life On Planet Groove - Minor Music - 3/1992 Nat Adderley - Workin' - Timeless - 3/1992 Fred Wesley - Swing & Be Funky - Minor Music - 5/1992 Cornell Dupree - Bop'n'blues - Kokopelli - 11&12/1994 Calvin Newborn - Up City - Omnifarious - Mid 1996 & 1/1998 Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers - Groovin' High - Cannonball - c1997 Irene Reid - Million Dollar Secret - Savant - 2/1997 Etta Jones - My Buddy - HighNote - 12/1997 Hank Crawford - The World Of Hank Crawford - Milestone - 2/2000 David Newman - Keep The Spirits Singing - HighNote - 3/2000 Lonnie Smith & Crash - The Doctor Is In - Cellar Live - 9/2003 Rhoda Scott/Ricky Ford/Houston Person - Very Saxy - Ahead - 1&2/2004 I tell you what - it was bloody hard to cut it down to only 100! MG Quote
Big Al Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 Ha ha! I did it! Not essential - we are dealing with luxury items, y'know - but kinda representative. Ray Charles/Milt Jackson - Soul Brothers - Atlantic - 9/1957 Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Cookbooks - Prestige - 6,9&12/1958 Jimmy Smith - Home Cookin' - Blue Note - 7/1958,5&6/1959 David Newman/Ray Charles - Fathead - Atlantic - 11/1958 Teddy Edwards/Les McCann - It's About Time - Pacific Jazz - 8/1959 Cannonball Adderley - Live In San Francisco - Riverside - 10/1959 John Wright - South Side Soul - Prestige - 8/1960 Baby Face Willette - Face To Face - Blue Note - 1/1961 Gene Ammons/Groove Holmes - Groovin' With Jug - Pacific Jazz - 8/1961 Grant Green - Remembering - Blue Note - 8/1961 Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul - Blue Note - 11/1961 Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At - Blue Note - 1/1962 Fred Jackson - Hootin' 'N Tootin' - Blue Note - 2/1962 Larry Young - Groove Street - Prestige - 2/1962 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don - Blue Note - 5/1962 Gene Ammons - Bad Bossa Nova - Prestige - 9/1962 Jack McDuffRay Charles/Milt Jackson - Soul Brothers - Atlantic - 9/1957 Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Cookbooks - Prestige - 6,9&12/1958 Jimmy Smith - Home Cookin' - Blue Note - 7/1958,5&6/1959 David Newman/Ray Charles - Fathead - Atlantic - 11/1958 Teddy Edwards/Les McCann - It's About Time - Pacific Jazz - 8/1959 Cannonball Adderley - Live In San Francisco - Riverside - 10/1959 John Wright - South Side Soul - Prestige - 8/1960 Baby Face Willette - Face To Face - Blue Note - 1/1961 Gene Ammons/Groove Holmes - Groovin' With Jug - Pacific Jazz - 8/1961 Grant Green - Remembering - Blue Note - 8/1961 Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul - Blue Note - 11/1961 Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At - Blue Note - 1/1962 Fred Jackson - Hootin' 'N Tootin' - Blue Note - 2/1962 Larry Young - Groove Street - Prestige - 2/1962 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don - Blue Note - 5/1962 Gene Ammons - Bad Bossa Nova - Prestige - 9/1962 Jack McDuff I tell you what - it was bloody hard to cut it down to only 100! MG Especially since you duplicated the first sixteen! Quote
Big Al Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 What about Keep That Groove Goin'? What about Earland's Intensity? What about Power of Soul? What about Mogie's Cornbread? What about..... Quote
Big Al Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 Reuben Wilson - Blue Mode - Blue Note - 12/1969 NOT inessential! NOT a luxury item! You MUST own a copy of this album! TWO, in case you lose one! Because I said so, that's why! Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 15, 2008 Author Report Posted May 15, 2008 Especially since you duplicated the first sixteen! I knew I pressed a wrong key while I was posting, but I thought I'd got rid of all the duplicates MG Quote
Dan Gould Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 I think there are other Curtis Amy PJs that fit into the "Soul Jazz" bag better than Katanga does. Unless I'm thinking of a different one, that always struck me as a little more modernist, a bit less "soul". Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 15, 2008 Author Report Posted May 15, 2008 Oh, and I ditched nine compilations of material from the pre-LP era - kind of a pity, so here those are Ike Quebec - Complete Forties Recordings Of Ike Quebec & John Hardee -Mosaic - 7&9/1944,4&7/1945,1,5,8&9/1946 Illinois Jacquet - JATP: The First Concert - Clef - 7/1944 Illinois Jacquet - Illinois Jacquet & His Tenor Sax - Aladdin - 7/1945,1,4,9&11/1947 Arnett Cobb - Arnett Blows For 1300 - Delmark - 5&8/1947 Gene Ammons - Jug Sessions - Emarcy - 6,8,10&12/1947,2&10/1949 Gene Ammons - Early Visions - Cadet - 6&10/1948,1949,1950&1951 Willis Jackson - Call Of The Gators - Delmark - 12/1949,1&5/1950 Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Goodies From Eddie Davis - Roost - 1951 Wild Bill Davis - Here's Wild Bill Davis - Epic - 11/1951,4/1952&1/1953 MG Quote
Hot Ptah Posted May 15, 2008 Report Posted May 15, 2008 Thanks for the lists, MG! I will bring them with me to the Half Price Books stores when I go shopping. Quote
paul secor Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 How 'bout a thread with just smilies - no words? Quote
aparxa Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 why do there need to be so many smilies in this thread? can't this thread just be words and not smilies? Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 (edited) Just as many inessential, but very good, free jazz records. 1. Ric Colbeck – The Sun Is Coming Up – (Fontana) 2. Ray Russell – Secret Asylum – (Black Lion) 3. Willem Breuker – Litany for the 14th of June 1966 – (Relax/Wergo) 4. Marzette Watts – Marzette Watts Ensemble – (Savoy) 5. Marion Brown – Porto Novo – (Polydor) 6. Kalaparusha – Forces & Feelings – (Delmark) 7. Andrew Cyrille – Junction – (IPS) 8. Arthur Doyle – Alabama Feeling – (Ak-Ba) 9. Alfred Harth – 4 Januar. 1970 – (no label) 10. Huseyin Ertunc – Musiki – (Intex) 11. The Jazz Composers Orchestra – Communication – (Fontana) 12. Byron Allen – Trio – (ESP) 13. James Zitro – Zitro – (ESP) 14. Smiley Winters – Memorial Quartet – (FMO) 15. Wolfgang Dauner – Output – (ECM) 16. Paul Flaherty & Randall Colbourne – Endangered Species – (Cadence) 17. Muhal Richard Abrams – Afrisong – (Whynot) 18. Steve Lacy – Esthilacos – (Sassetti) 19. Francois Tusques – Intercommunal Music – (Shandar) 20. Joe Giardullo – Gravity – (Breeze) 21. Friedmann Graef – Daily New Paradox – (FMP) 22. Kenny Wheeler – Song For Someone – (Incus) 23. The Tony Oxley/Alan Davie Duo (ADMW) 24. The People Band (Transatlantic) 25. Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Challenge – (Eyemark) 26. Instant Composers’ Pool – Groupcomposing – (ICP) 27. Alan Braufman – Valley of Search – (India Navigation) 28. Richard Landry – Solos – (Chatham Square) 29. William Hooker – Brighter Lights – (Reality Unit Concepts) 30. The Sea Ensemble – Manzara – (Red Record) 31. Sam Rivers – Paragon – (Fluid) 32. Joe McPhee – Underground Railroad – (CJR) 33. Michel Portal – Splendid Yzlment – (CBS/AKT) 34. Alan Shorter – Tes Esat – (America) 35. Michel Pilz – Carpathes – (FMP) 36. Howard Riley – Facets – (Impetus) 37. Wilber Morris – Wilber Force – (DIW) 38. Wally Shoup – The Levitation Shuffle – (Clean Feed) 39. Doppelmoppel – Outside This Area – (Intakt) 40. Bengt Nordstrom – Now’s The Frippe Time – (Dragon) 41. Ascension – LP – (Fusetron) 42. The Music Ensemble – (Roaratorio) 43. Dewey Redman – Look For The Black Star – (Fontana) 44. John Tchicai – Real Tchicai – (Steeplechase) 45. Adam Lane – New Magical Kingdom – (Clean Feed) 46. Vinny Golia – Openhearted – (Nine Winds) 47. Horace Tapscott – The Dark Tree – (Hat Art) 48. Derek Bailey – Aida – (Incus) 49. Kazutoki Umezu – Seikatsu Kojyo Iinkai – (SKI) 50. Mototeru Takagi – Mosura Freight – (Interval) 51. Universal Jazz Symphonette – Sound Craft 75 – (Anima) 52. Khan Jamal – Drumdance to the Motherland – (Dogtown) 53. Sabu Toyozumi – Message to Chicago – (Nadja) 54. Burton Greene/Daoud Amin – Trees – (Button Nose) 55. Marco Eneidi – Vermont Spring 1986 – (Botticelli) 56. Alan Silva – Inner Song – (Center of the World) 57. Frank Wright – Church Number Nine – (Calumet) 58. Bob Feldman – Triplicity – (One Way) 59. Graham Collier – Songs For My Father – (Fontana) 60. In Order To Survive – Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy – (Homestead) 61. Rob Brown – Breath Rhyme – (Silkheart) 62. Mongezi Feza – Free Jam – (Ayler) 63. Selwyn Lissack – Friendship Next of Kin – (Goody) 64. Bobby Few – Lights and Shadows – (Boxholder) 65. Charles Tyler – Live in Europe – (Ak-Ba) 66. New Life Trio – Visions of the Third Eye – (Mustevic) 67. The Thing/School Days – The Music of Norman Howard – (Anagram) 68. The Vandermark Five – The Color of Memory – (Atavistic) 69. G.L. Unit – Orangutang! – (EMI Odeon) 70. Sunny Murray – Charred Earth – (Kharma) 71. Jerome Cooper – The Unpredictability of Predictability – (About Time) 72. Marc Edwards – The Black Queen – (Alpha Phonics) 73. Joel Futterman – Inneraction – (JDF) 74. Bruce Eisenbeil – Carnival Skin – (Nemu) 75. Jason Adasiewicz – Roll Down – (482 Music) 76. Jemeel Moondoc – Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys – (Eremite) 77. Ted Daniel – Sextet – (Ujamaa) 78. Mario Pavone – Shodo – (Alacra) 79. Michael Gregory Jackson – Clarity – (Bija) 80. Antithesis – Antithesis – (Arise) 81. Irene Schweizer – Ramifications – (Ogun) 82. Jimmy Lyons – The Boxed Set – (Ayler) 83. Julius Hemphill/Abdul Wadud – Live In New York – (Red) 84. Jacques Coursil – The Black Suite – (America) 85. Acting Trio – (BYG Actuel) 86. Frank Lowe – The Other Side – (Palm) 87. Baikaida Carroll – Orange Fish Tears – (Palm) 88. Manuel Villaroel – Terremoto – (Futura) 89. Giorgio Gaslini – Nuovi Sentimenti – (Voce del Padrone) 90. Don Cherry – Togetherness – (Durium) 91. Gato Barbieri/Dollar Brand – Hamba Khale – (Togetherness) 92. Hamiet Bluiett – Birthright – (India Navigation) 93. Jack Wright – Free Life, Singing – (Spring Garden) 94. Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones – (America) 95. Now Creative Arts Jazz Ensemble – Now! – (Arhoolie) 96. Dizzy Reece – From In To Out – (Futura) 97. Hans Dulfer – Jazz In Paradiso – (Heavy Soul) 98. Han Bennink – Tempo Comodo – (Data) 99. Mike Osborne – Outback – (Turtle) 100. Cohelmec Ensemble – Hippotigris Zebra-Zebra – (Saravah) Edited May 16, 2008 by clifford_thornton Quote
JSngry Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 Music is essential. Records? Hmmm.... Maybe. But maybe not. Quote
vibes Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 Ha ha! I did it! Not essential - we are dealing with luxury items, y'know - but kinda representative. Larry Young - Groove Street - Prestige - 2/1962 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don - Blue Note - 5/1962 Gene Ammons - Bad Bossa Nova - Prestige - 9/1962 Larry Young - Groove Street - Prestige - 2/1962 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don - Blue Note - 5/1962 Gene Ammons - Bad Bossa Nova - Prestige - 9/1962 I tell you what - it was bloody hard to cut it down to only 100! MG A little padding going on there, I see? Quote
mjzee Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 Thank you, TMG. This is an essential reference. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 16, 2008 Author Report Posted May 16, 2008 Ha ha! I did it! Not essential - we are dealing with luxury items, y'know - but kinda representative. Larry Young - Groove Street - Prestige - 2/1962 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don - Blue Note - 5/1962 Gene Ammons - Bad Bossa Nova - Prestige - 9/1962 Larry Young - Groove Street - Prestige - 2/1962 Don Wilkerson - Elder Don - Blue Note - 5/1962 Gene Ammons - Bad Bossa Nova - Prestige - 9/1962 I tell you what - it was bloody hard to cut it down to only 100! MG A little padding going on there, I see? Yeah - I've edited out the duplicates now, so there are only 100. MH Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 16, 2008 Author Report Posted May 16, 2008 Just as many inessential, but very good, free jazz records. Thanks for that. A few people there surprised me. Mongezi Feza, whom I only know from his recordings with Dudu Puwana. Dizzy Reece is another. Did they change their style or have I been missing something? MG Quote
Big Al Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 why do there need to be so many smilies in this thread? can't this thread just be words and not smilies? What fun is that? Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 Just as many inessential, but very good, free jazz records. Thanks for that. A few people there surprised me. Mongezi Feza, whom I only know from his recordings with Dudu Puwana. Dizzy Reece is another. Did they change their style or have I been missing something? MG The Feza is a pretty loose session, or pair of sessions, cut in Sweden during the early '70s. The Reece is driving North African-inspired music with some very heavy soloing by Reece & John Gilmore over the top of it all. A fantastic expat date with Art Taylor really pushing things along. Quote
Niko Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 just out of curiosity (if MG says it, it will be true...) would Horace Silver make the 200 inessential but rather enjoyable soul jazz albums list? Quote
BruceH Posted May 16, 2008 Report Posted May 16, 2008 I think there are other Curtis Amy PJs that fit into the "Soul Jazz" bag better than Katanga does. Unless I'm thinking of a different one, that always struck me as a little more modernist, a bit less "soul". Yes, I'd call it West Coast bop/hard bop, with an edge at times. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Posted May 17, 2008 just out of curiosity (if MG says it, it will be true...) would Horace Silver make the 200 inessential but rather enjoyable soul jazz albums list? Certainly. I cut out "6 pieces", "Song for my father" and "Serenade to a soul sister" pretty late in the process. And every cut, of course, early or late, was made with regret , because I LURVE that stuff. MG Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 17, 2008 Author Report Posted May 17, 2008 I think there are other Curtis Amy PJs that fit into the "Soul Jazz" bag better than Katanga does. Unless I'm thinking of a different one, that always struck me as a little more modernist, a bit less "soul". Yes, I'd call it West Coast bop/hard bop, with an edge at times. Well, I think all Amy's fit. In general, there are some records that straddle the boundary - if there really IS a boundary - and a few of those lean a bit one way or another. You could say the same for a lot of Horace Silver albums as well as Blakey's "moanin'", couldn't you? I wasn't terribly concerned with using the list to DEFINE the music, because I wouldn't want to do that. MG Quote
Hot Ptah Posted May 19, 2008 Report Posted May 19, 2008 MG, Just for fun, I started to compile my own list of "Inessential But Enjoyable Jazz Albums in All Genres", but gave up. I am highly impressed by your achievement in putting together your list of 100 Soul Jazz albums. It's difficult to make up one of these lists! My head hurts from trying to do it. Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 19, 2008 Author Report Posted May 19, 2008 MG, Just for fun, I started to compile my own list of "Inessential But Enjoyable Jazz Albums in All Genres", but gave up. I am highly impressed by your achievement in putting together your list of 100 Soul Jazz albums. It's difficult to make up one of these lists! My head hurts from trying to do it. Yes, it's hard. You agonise over each one you have to ditch. And for what? It's only a list MG Quote
papsrus Posted May 19, 2008 Report Posted May 19, 2008 Great lists MG and clifford thornton! ... I'm not a fraction of the free jazz fan I figured myself to be. I don't believe I have a single title on that list. Now, if each of you fellas could point to which 10 from your lists you would focus on for starters, if that's even possible, I'd be much obliged. (Just for curiosity sake, you understand). (string of many smiley things here) Quote
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