Your Top 10 Blue Notes:

Skip Drinkwater

Go!

The_Hook_Up

my ten faves:



1. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "Free for All"

2. Eric dolphy "Out to Lunch"

3. Jack McDuff "Moon Rappin"

4. Jackie McLean "Destination Out!"

5. Horace Silver "Doin the thing at the Village Gate

6. Lee Morgan "Search for the new land"

7. Thelonius Monk "Genius of Modern Music vol 1 and 2"

8. Lonnie Smith "Move Your Hand"

9. Grant Green "Solid"

10. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messenger "withdoctor"

monty

Skip Drinkwater

In no particular order:



























tough to say what my "all time" favorites are, but these are some.

bassie

the first blue note record i bought. first few bars of autumn leaves still gives me shivers.

The_Hook_Up

the first blue note record i bought. first few bars of autumn leaves still gives me shivers.

the first one I bought also(my first jazz record also)! I was 18 and didnt know anything about blue note or jazz for that matter, but I had just seen a PBS thing that had Art Blakey, saw that Miles Davis(had heard good things about him) was on it and figured it would be a good record to introduce me to Jazz...I was right! I suppose I should put it in my top ten, need to dig it out and rediscover it.

Guzzo

first one to comr to miind:

Thad Jones[/b] "Vol. 3" *Blue Note)

dollar_bin

but here's a few off the top of my head, in no particular order... (prepare to bask in my incredibly mainstream tastes)

1. Lee Morgan The Sidewinder[/b] this is the album which introduced me to hard bop. Totem Pole is my #2 favorite song off the catalog
2. Lonnie Smith Move Your Hand[/b] This one is my wife's favorite, but I like it too
3. Cannonball Adderley Something Else[/b]
4. Horace Silver Song for my Father[/b]
5. Hank Mobley Dippin'[/b] it's all about Recado Bossa Nova
6. Bobbi Humphrey Blacks and Blues[/b]
7-13. Lou Donaldson 1967 to 1970 Alligator Boogaloo; Mr. Shing-A-Ling; The Midnight Creeper; Say It Loud!; Hot Dog; Everything I Play is Funky; Pretty Things[/b] One of my favorite periods for an artist.

Strider79it

I'm more of a soul jazz kind of guy

Aser

really though, it changes all the time. Too much great material to cover.

high_c

did you photoshop this to make it a bluenote?

Skip Drinkwater

did you photoshop this to make it a bluenote?

yeah i was about to say. maybe blue note reissued it? my copies are on solid state.

The_Hook_Up

did you photoshop this to make it a bluenote?

yeah i was about to say. maybe blue note reissued it? my copies are on solid state.

yeah Blue Note re-ished it a few years back...not originally on Blue Note

neil_something

a top 10...? there are too many to mention (most of wayne shorter's lps are essential for starters...)

but here are a couple of lps that would be somewhere in my top 10:

TheMack

few of my favs

hcrink

In no particular order...

1. Jimmy Mcgriff "Electric Funk"
2. Eric Dolphy "Out to Lunch"
3. Jack McDuff "Moon Rappin"
4. Jackie McLean "Destination Out!"
5. Grachan Moncur "Evolution"
6. Reuben Wilson "Blue Mode"
7. Tony Williams "Lifetime"
8. Duke Pearson "the Phantom"
9. Ornette "Empty foxhole"
10. Bobby Hutcherson "Now"

TheMack

6. Reuben Wilson "Blue Mode"

i heard Reynaldo likes that one. And add "The Phantom" to my list, too. that record rules.

the3rdstream

iam gonna have to think about this one

the3rdstream

6. Reuben Wilson "Blue Mode"

i heard Reynaldo

likes paid out the ass for that one. And add "The Phantom" to my list, too. that record rules.

SoulOnIce

Impossible to single out ten "best" but here are 10 I own (the Morgan and Mobley on CD, rest on vinyl) and love:

holmes

Here are 6 I have on vinyl, Blue Note is pretty hard to find (let alone for cheap) down here on vinyl. I have shitloads on CD & love the label. It's virtually impossible for me to choose 10, it's more like 100.

Swayze

so many, for so many different reasons, but you said ten, so, in no order:

eric dolphy - out to lunch
Kenny Dorham - una mas
John Coltrane - blue trane (duh)
Kenny Burrell - midnight blue (afterparty vibes with ray barretto on conga)
Donald Byrd - a new perspective (voices are so kind)
Jackie McLean - one step beyond (along with Joe Henderson, some of the swingingist outside stuff)
Lee Morgan - Search for the new land
Joe Henderson - mode for Joe (caribbean fire dance!!!)
Wayne Shorter - JuJu (so good I named my cat after it)
Sam Rivers - Involution (a 70s collection of an unreleased Andrew Hill session with Rivers where Hill explores six elements of the human condition: violence, pain, illusion, hope, lust and desire)


so many others.

Reynaldo

John Coltrane - Blue Train

Dexter Gordon - GO

Donald Byrd - Free Form

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

Wayne Shorter - The Soothsayer

Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue

Horace Silver - Song For My Father

Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces

Lonnie Smith - Spinning Wheel

Reuben Wilson - Blue Mode

Reynaldo

6. Reuben Wilson "Blue Mode"

i heard Reynaldo

likes paid out the ass for that one. And add "The Phantom" to my list, too. that record rules.

It's only a lot of money if you are poor.

ilkka

Blue note LPs that I have liked the most during the past weeks:

Skip Drinkwater

6. Reuben Wilson "Blue Mode"

i heard Reynaldo

likes paid out the ass for that one. And add "The Phantom" to my list, too. that record rules.

It's only a lot of money if you are poor.

How much are we talking?

i hear this one is incredible, i've yet to hear it though

DJPrestige

in no particular order:

lee morgan- the sidewinder
grant green- green st.
reuben wilson- love bug
john patton- blue john
grant green- alive!
jimmy mcgriff- electric funk
brother jack mcduff- moon rappin
lonnie smith- live at club mozambique
hank mobley- soul station
brother jack mcduff- down home style

GNZ

I thought I knew most of the blue note titles, but there has already been many mentioned that I have never seen. I'm glad I will continue to discover these jewels for years to come.
Some of my favorites:

Sonny Clark--Cool Struttin
Eric Dolphy--Out To Lunch
Freddie Hubbard--Blue Spirits
Mccoy Tyner--The Real Mccoy (JOE HENDERSON IS EVERYWHERE AND FOR GOOD REASON)
(SERIOUSLY, THINK ABOUT IT--HE WAS A SESSION REGULAR FOR BLUE NOTE AND THEN CTI AND RECORDED SOME OF THE GREATEST HARDBOP, FREE JAZZ AND FUSION SAXOPHONE FULL FRONTAL ASSAULT):raw:
mccoy tyner--tender moments
Sonny Rollins--Newk's Time
Tony Williams--Spring
Thelonious Monk--Monk's Music
Herbie Hancock-Takin off
Herbie Hancock--Cantoloupe Island
Herbie Hancock--Inventions and Dimensions
Basically EVERYTHING wayne shorter recorded for blue note
ESPECIALLY super nova, juju, night dreamer and speak no evil.

Whats up w/that ornette coleman on blue note? I'm very curious...

Artifactor

Shit is . Crazy players on this one. The LP this one is off is pretty sure this 45 is too.

ilkka

i hear this one is incredible, i've yet to hear it though
It is a very good LP. I suggest that you would buy the CD (or some reissue if you can find one), because the original is almost impossible to find and one of the most expensive jazz records.

aleit

some of my favorites:

Joe Henderson - Page One
Andrew Hill - Smoke Stack
Pete La Roca - Basra
Jackie McClean - Jackie's Bag
Hank Mobley - Caddy for Daddy
John Patton - got a Good Thing Goin'
Ike Quebec - Blue & Sentimental
Lee Morgan - Candy
Larry Young - Contrasts
Tyrone Washington - Natural Essence
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue