Do you have a single favorite jazz performance?

[AndrewHill]

If I had to choose, I'd pick Albert Ayler's "Holy Ghost" off of Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings; it still knocks me sideways everytime I hear it.

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

Elvin Jones 'Pretty Brown' would be one of 'em.

[Dave James]

Concierto De Aranjuez, the title track from Jim Hall's C.T.I. album Concierto. Featured on this track are Paul Desmond, Chet Baker and Roland Hanna. It may get as good as this but it doesn't get any better.

[Jazzmoose]

Monk: 'Round Midnight' in progress. 21' 55". I can hear Monk's thoughts.

Monk...oh, jeez; now you've given me doubts. Can I change my vote? Several hundred times, no doubt...

[papsrus]

Picking a favorite performance is too difficult for me. But I'll be revisiting some of the tracks mentioned here.

[A Lark Ascending]

Highly predictable but I think I'd go for 'Blue in Green' off Kind of Blue.

[save0904]

I'd go for 'Part 15' off Keith Jarrett's Radiance

[P.L.M]

INDIA from Coltrane at the Village Vanguard.

First thing I ever heard from him in the early seventies.

[paul secor]

Hard to choose, but Pres' solo on "I Must Have That Man" with Billie and Teddy Wilson in 1937 would be my choice.

[John L]

Hard to choose, but Pres' solo on "I Must Have That Man" with Billie and Teddy Wilson in 1937 would be my choice.

Just Pres' solo? Billie's vocals on that one are equally incredible.

[thelbc]

Art Pepper.......Village stuff

[John Tapscott]

Charlie Parker - Now's the Time (the Verve recording) - in my view, the ultimate jazz solo - spontaneous obviously, but a perfectly formed and logical story ending with a climactic phrase which Bird has already hinted at earlier in the solo - exciting, memorable and even singable, everything you could want in 3 blues choruses - the product of a brilliant musical mind.