For my jazz students, here is a list of much loved, mainstream, historically important recordings to listen to in your first few years of learning.
Miles Davis
Round About Midnight – Philly Joe Jones
The New Miles Davis Quintet – Philly Joe Jones
Workin’ / Steamin’ /Cookin’ / Relaxin’ – Philly Joe Jones
Milestones – Philly Joe Jones
Kind of Blue – Jimmy Cobb
Bags’ Groove – Kenny Clarke
Walkin’ – Kenny Clarke
Thelonious Monk
Trio – Max Roach, Art Blakey
Monk’s Dream – Frankie Dunlop
It’s Monk’s Time – Ben Riley
Criss Cross – Frankie Dunlop
Misterioso – Roy Haynes
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus – Max Roach
Freedom Suite – Max Roach
Newk’s Time – Philly Joe Jones
More after the break!
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
The Big Beat
A Night At Birdland
At The Café Bohemia
A Night In Tunisia
Moanin’
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
At Basin Street
Oliver Nelson
Blues And The Abstract Truth – Roy Haynes
Dexter Gordon
Go! – Billy Higgins
Gettin’ Around – Billy Higgins
Red Garland
Red Garland’s Piano – Art Taylor
A Garland of Red – Art Taylor
Red’s Good Groove – Philly Joe Jones
John Coltrane
Blue Train – Philly Joe Jones
Coltrane’s Sound – Elvin Jones
Coltrane Plays The Blues – Elvin Jones
Ahmad Jamal
Live at the Pershing – Vernel Fournier
Bill Evans
Everybody Digs… – Philly Joe Jones
Cannonball Adderly
Somethin’ Else – Art Blakey
Cannonball And Coltrane – Jimmy Cobb
Them Dirty Blues – Louis Hayes
Don Cherry
Art Deco – Billy Higgins
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Don Cherry’s Art Deco is fantastic! Thanks for posting that one. I had not even heard of that one. It’s a little hard to find too. Maybe out of print.
One of the best pure modern bebop drumming records.