Great/Amazing Debut Recordings

[HutchFan]

I was thinking jazz albums from the beginning of the LP era to the present. 

But if you would like to post a 78 RPM debut, go for it.  (Just list the song titles on both sides. )

I'll start the ball rolling with:

 

And, no surprise, I like this one too:

 

And one more. A more recent release:

[soulpope]

His first leader LP .... wonderful indeed ....

[mikeweil]

Edited April 18, 2021 by mikeweil

[HutchFan]

Two outstanding Latin Jazz debuts:

 

and

 

[Referentzhunter]

[JSngry]

nothing like the blue notes that followed.

[felser]

 

[soulpope]

35 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yesssss ....

[JSngry]

A debut band LP, a debut label (but not Debut label!) LP, jazz in content, pop in result (or is it the other way around?

[John L]

 

 

Edited April 17, 2021 by John L

[mjazzg]

A couple contemporary examples

Irreversible Entanglements - s/t 

Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die 

And the one, 

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks.  Anyone who doesn't consider it a Jazz album doesn't rate Richard Davis's central contribution. That's a hill I'll die on. 

 

[HutchFan]

6 minutes ago, John L said:

 

Ohhh!  Such a great record!!!  And I'd forgotten that it was Hemphill's debut !!!  

 

19 minutes ago, JSngry said:

A debut band LP, a debut label (but not Debut label!) LP, jazz in content, pop in result (or is it the other way around?

Never realized that LP was the PJ debut album.  A good start for sure -- both band and label.

 

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[Niko]

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This was Hill's actual debut...

Edited April 17, 2021 by Niko

[Chuck Nessa]

18 minutes ago, Niko said:

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This was Hill's actual debut...

and there were 2 singles (both on 78 and 45) prior to that.

 

[soulpope]

23 minutes ago, Niko said:

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This was Hill's actual debut...

Thnx, obviously - due to the current Blue Note listening thread in another forum - I was focused on this label .... my bad .... nevertheless ""Black Fire" was his first important leader date ....

[Milestones]

 

The debut records of Abercrombie and Metheny were released at almost the same time.

 

Edited April 17, 2021 by Milestones

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, Milestones said:

 

The debut records of Abercrombie and Metheny were released at almost the same time.

 

Yes!  Both tremendous.

 

[felser]

[Chuck Nessa]

[LWayne]

And a very current example from last year

Immanuel Wilkins "Omega"

 

 

And another enjoyable debut from last year

Micah Thomas "Tide"

[Joe]

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Yeah, I was just about to say something about between delmark and Nessa there's probably several handfuls of qualifiers.

[Larry Kart]

 

Also whichever of Herbie Nichols' Blue Note 10-inchers was the first.

Depending on how you feel about Steig, but I think this was also Denny Zeitlin's debut:

Not entirely sure if this was LaFaro's debut (he'd been a sideman with Buddy Morrow's band), but he was in sensational form on this one.

Speaking of bassists, Russell Thorne!! Not only Russell's' debut but also perhaps his only commercial recording.