Late Night Jazz Records

[Walt Richmond]

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue

Keith Jarrett, Arbor Zena or Mysteries

Any album by Remember Shakti

Chick Corea, Return to Forever

[Ron S]

Ron, you're a very discerning fellow -

I've discerned that.

[AllenLowe]

and a model for the community.

[A Lark Ascending]

Incidentally, to the uninitiated jazz in general is seen as late-night music.

The BBC have always known this.

[AllenLowe]

or is it really early morning?

[BillF]

Incidentally, to the uninitiated jazz in general is seen as late-night music.

The BBC have always known this.

[Brownian Motion]

[AndrewHill]

The second session on Miles' Collector's Items especially "In Your Own Sweet Way" which Tommy Flanagan makes so hauntingly beautiful.

[jmjk]

Jimmy Smith Plays Pretty Just For You

Chet Baker In New York

[Norm]

if i still have to work at 3 usually lighter fare such as Elliott Smith...

Nice choice His album XO is particularly well suited for late nights. Other non-jazz singles I like in the wee hours include Creedence Clearwater Revival's cover of "I Heard it through the Grapevine" and Big Head Todd and the Monsters' "Midnight Radio"

Edited September 24, 2009 by Norm

[Bright Moments]

lately its anything by the karel boehlee trio - i have to start a thread about this group.

[AndrewHill]

Bill Evans & Jim Hall's Intermodulation and Undercurrent as well as Bill's Explorations are good for late nights too.

[king ubu]

new one in my house - nice for late night listening (been tested twice now...):

Lorez Alexandria - Alexandria the Great

(the supporting cast features Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Horn and Ray Crawford, among others)

[BillF]

Bill Evans & Jim Hall's Intermodulation and Undercurrent as well as Bill's Explorations are good for late nights too.

Agreed! The Evans/Halls will do as well as the solo Evans I mentioned.

[AllenLowe]

Wednesday Morning 3 AM (Simon and Garfunkel)

not jazz, but produced by Tom Wilson, as I recall -

[Big Al]

actually, I'm always looking for "morning after" records -

Ornette's FREE JAZZ or anything from the Trane at the Village Vanguard usually does the trick for getting rid of hangovers, headaches, strange women, unwanted relatives, etc. Besides, after listening to those, the day can only get better.....

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Back to the topic at hand, without knowing it beforehand, Steve Lacy's Monk album with Don Cherry became a perfect late-night jazz record on first listen.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Incidentally, to the uninitiated jazz in general is seen as late-night music.

The BBC have always known this.

MG

[AllenLowe]

I think we have a time zone problem here - I mean, when it's my late night (let's say 11 PM) it's something like 2 PM in Tokyo, 5PM in Hawaii, and 1962 in South Wales -

Edited September 25, 2009 by AllenLowe

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

new one in my house - nice for late night listening (been tested twice now...):

Lorez Alexandria - Alexandria the Great

(the supporting cast features Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Horn and Ray Crawford, among others)

Not heard that one but I've always wondered about it.

I played Bette Roche's "Singin' and swingin'" the other night and her version of "Come rain or come shine", with a fabulous obligato from Jimmy Forrest running through the whole track, stopped me dead! Her other Prestige Album, "Lightly and politely" is another good 'un.

Etta Jones is another great late night singer. Anything by her.

Also, how could we forget the entire Black & Blue "Midnight slows" vols 1-10?

And some remarkable albums on Moodsville, after which the "Midnight slows" series was modelled? In particular:

Arnett Cobb - Ballads by Cobb

Gene Ammons - Soulful moods

Gene Ammons - Nice and' cool (these two are on the twofer "Gentle Jug")

Willis Jackson - In my solitude

Sam "The Man" Taylor - The bad and the beautiful

Coleperson Hawkins - At ease

Coleperson Hawkins - The Hawk relaxes

and the first Moodsville

Red Garland Trio + Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

MG

[Swinging Swede]

Sam "The Man" Taylor - The bad and the beautiful

Coleperson Hawkins - At ease

You mean Sam "The Person" Taylor?

[jeffcrom]

When my wife's out of town, I tend to stay up late, drink too much, and play Cecil Taylor really loud.

Is that what you meant?

[AllenLowe]

Cecil makes me drink, too -

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Sam "The Man" Taylor - The bad and the beautiful

Coleperson Hawkins - At ease

You mean Sam "The Person" Taylor?

Damn! You got me!

MG

[TedR]

John Lewis' Evolution and Evolution II sounded good last night.

[epistrophy007]

Ellis Larkins Manhattan at Midnight...

j.