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Jazz Standards - Recommended Recordings
Cannonball Adderley
Somethin' Else Know What I Mean
Curtis Amy Katanga
Chet Baker Chet Groovin' with the Chet Baker Quintet Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet Chet Baker in New York
Art Blakey Buhana's Delight
Dave Brubeck Take 5
Donald Byrd Bird in Hand
John Coltrane Crescent Self Titled on Prestiege Blue Trane Soultrane John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - vocal
Sonny Criss I'll Catch the Sun
Miles Davis Kind of Blue* (see note below) Sketches of Spain Seven Steps to Heaven Round Midnight
Kenny Dorham Quiet Kenny
Duke Ellington The Far East Suite
Bill Evans You Must Believe in Spring Sunday at the Village Vangaurd
Art Farmer Modern Art
Benny Golson Free
Dexter Gordon One Flight Up Doin Alright
Charlie Haden/Kenny Barron Night and the City
Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage
Hampton Hawes The Green Leaves of Summer
Joe Henderson Page One Double Rainbow
Bobby Hutcherson Crusin the Bird The Kicker
Keith Jarrett Koln Concerts Standards Vol. 1, Vol. 2
Milt Jackson Bags Opus
Ahmad Jamal Rossiter Road The Awakening
Jackie Maclean 4, 5 & 6
Les McCann Compared to What
Charles Mingus Ah Aum
Thelonius Monk Monk
Hank Mobley Soul Station
Modern Jazz Quartet Fontessa
Lee Morgan Cornbread Sidewinder
Oliver Nelson Straight Ahead Nocturne
Ike Quebeck Heavy Soul It Might as Well be Spring
Dizzy Reese Comin On
Sonny Rollins Saxaphone Colossus Tenor Madness Alfie
Charlie Rouse Unsung Hero
Gonzalo Rubalcaba Suite 4x20
Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil
Stanley Turrentine Blue Hour
Lem Winchester Lem's Beat With Feeling
Curtis Amy Katanga
Chet Baker Chet Groovin' with the Chet Baker Quintet Smokin' with the Chet Baker Quintet Chet Baker in New York
Art Blakey Buhana's Delight
Dave Brubeck Take 5
Donald Byrd Bird in Hand
John Coltrane Crescent Self Titled on Prestiege Blue Trane Soultrane John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - vocal
Sonny Criss I'll Catch the Sun
Miles Davis Kind of Blue* (see note below) Sketches of Spain Seven Steps to Heaven Round Midnight
Kenny Dorham Quiet Kenny
Duke Ellington The Far East Suite
Bill Evans You Must Believe in Spring Sunday at the Village Vangaurd
Art Farmer Modern Art
Benny Golson Free
Dexter Gordon One Flight Up Doin Alright
Charlie Haden/Kenny Barron Night and the City
Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage
Hampton Hawes The Green Leaves of Summer
Joe Henderson Page One Double Rainbow
Bobby Hutcherson Crusin the Bird The Kicker
Keith Jarrett Koln Concerts Standards Vol. 1, Vol. 2
Milt Jackson Bags Opus
Ahmad Jamal Rossiter Road The Awakening
Jackie Maclean 4, 5 & 6
Les McCann Compared to What
Charles Mingus Ah Aum
Thelonius Monk Monk
Hank Mobley Soul Station
Modern Jazz Quartet Fontessa
Lee Morgan Cornbread Sidewinder
Oliver Nelson Straight Ahead Nocturne
Ike Quebeck Heavy Soul It Might as Well be Spring
Dizzy Reese Comin On
Sonny Rollins Saxaphone Colossus Tenor Madness Alfie
Charlie Rouse Unsung Hero
Gonzalo Rubalcaba Suite 4x20
Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil
Stanley Turrentine Blue Hour
Lem Winchester Lem's Beat With Feeling
*A Note on Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Over the years, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis has attained absolute #1 iconic status and is the the most successful album in history of Jazz.
You might be interested to know that Columbia discovered that side A of this legendary title had always been issued a quarter tone too sharp as a result of a faulty tape machine that was running 1.25% slow at the sessions. A few years ago Columbia reissued "Kind of Blue" with the tunes originally on side A at the correct speed. There have been many reissues both in digital domain as well as on vinyl. Many people feel that either the best vinyl pressings
Released in 1960, there was also a commerically available reel-to-reel, 7 ½ ips, ¼", 2-track stereo tape, on 7" Cine Reel. Some who've heard it consider this US Columbia catalog# GCB 60 release to be the ultimate "attainable" version. Though these are pretty hard to find these days.
One of countless record reviews sums up this album thusly:
"This painterly masterpiece is one of the most important, influential and popular albums in jazz. At the time it was made, Kind of Blue was also a revolution all its own. Turning his back on standard chord progressions, trumpeter Miles Davis used modal scales as a starting point for composition and improvisation breaking new ground with warmth, subtlety and understatement in the thick of hard bop." - www.rollingstone.com
You might be interested to know that Columbia discovered that side A of this legendary title had always been issued a quarter tone too sharp as a result of a faulty tape machine that was running 1.25% slow at the sessions. A few years ago Columbia reissued "Kind of Blue" with the tunes originally on side A at the correct speed. There have been many reissues both in digital domain as well as on vinyl. Many people feel that either the best vinyl pressings
Released in 1960, there was also a commerically available reel-to-reel, 7 ½ ips, ¼", 2-track stereo tape, on 7" Cine Reel. Some who've heard it consider this US Columbia catalog# GCB 60 release to be the ultimate "attainable" version. Though these are pretty hard to find these days.
One of countless record reviews sums up this album thusly:
"This painterly masterpiece is one of the most important, influential and popular albums in jazz. At the time it was made, Kind of Blue was also a revolution all its own. Turning his back on standard chord progressions, trumpeter Miles Davis used modal scales as a starting point for composition and improvisation breaking new ground with warmth, subtlety and understatement in the thick of hard bop." - www.rollingstone.com