The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World

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    Barely a month goes by without magazines, newspapers or TV programmes
pushing yet another poll of the 100 greatest whatever. Jazz, of course,
rarely gets a look-in. So, we thought that to celebrate the hundredth
issue of your favourite magazine we’d take that perilous step to
announce what we think are the 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World. Not
just another “greatest jazz albums” list of favourite recordings and
biggest sellers but a fully annotated look at the albums that actually
changed jazz, changed lives and brought the music kicking and screaming
into the new millennium. Just to give you some idea of how we drew up the criteria for this
list: long-playing vinyl records began to appear in the US at the tail
end of the 1940s, first in a 10” format, then by the mid-1950s in what
became the standard 12” format that still persists today alongside CDs,
which first appeared in the mid-1980s. Albums became an increasingly
important way for musicians to communicate with the wider world beyond
the smoke and limitations of the night club circuit. With an active
critical fraternity already analysing the music’s every move, by the
time records such as Saxophone Colossus turned up in 1956, the ability of a record to influence the entire direction of the music came centre stage.
By the 1960s and 70s, things had only intensified on this front, with
albums by leading players and breakthrough artists becoming major
events, not only for the media feasting on them but for the fans, many
who had come to the music from a flourishing progressive rock scene that
thrived on such things. After jazz and marketing embraced one another
in the 1980s and 90s, this became even more pivotal and inter-related.
New waves of scorchingly impressive musicians arrived at the gates to
deliver their own challenges as the music moved inexorably beyond its
American roots to go truly global.
The 100 jazz albums that shook the world was conceived and compiled by Jon Newey and Keith Shadwick with contributions from Stuart Nicholson, Brian Priestley, Duncan Heining, Kevin Le Gendre, Charles Alexander, and Tom Barlow. 

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Edited by snobb - 31 Oct 2019 at 2:43pm

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	Barely a month goes by without magazines, newspapers or TV programmes pushing yet another poll of the 100 greatest whatever. Jazz, of course, rarely gets a look-in. So, we thought that to celebrate the hundredth issue of your favourite magazine we’d take that perilous step to announce what we think are the 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World. Not just another “greatest jazz albums” list of favourite recordings and biggest sellers but a fully annotated look at the albums that actually changed jazz, changed lives and brought the music kicking and screaming into the new millennium. Just to give you some idea of how we drew up the criteria for this list: long-playing vinyl records began to appear in the US at the tail end of the 1940s, first in a 10” format, then by the mid-1950s in what became the standard 12” format that still persists today alongside CDs, which first appeared in the mid-1980s. Albums became an increasingly important way for musicians to communicate with the wider world beyond the smoke and limitations of the night club circuit. With an active critical fraternity already analysing the music’s every move, by the time records such as Saxophone Colossus turned up in 1956, the ability of a record to influence the entire direction of the music came centre stage. By the 1960s and 70s, things had only intensified on this front, with albums by leading players and breakthrough artists becoming major events, not only for the media feasting on them but for the fans, many who had come to the music from a flourishing progressive rock scene that thrived on such things. After jazz and marketing embraced one another in the 1980s and 90s, this became even more pivotal and inter-related. New waves of scorchingly impressive musicians arrived at the gates to deliver their own challenges as the music moved inexorably beyond its American roots to go truly global. The 100 jazz albums that shook the world was conceived and compiled by Jon Newey and Keith Shadwick with contributions from Stuart Nicholson, Brian Priestley, Duncan Heining, Kevin Le Gendre, Charles Alexander, and Tom Barlow. http://www.jazzwise.com/features/article/the-100-jazz-albums-that-shook-the-world from www.jazzwise.com Edited by snobb - 31 Oct 2019 at 2:43pm

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35038	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 Oct 2019 at 5:01pm
	The main problem with a list like that is that the people who shook up jazz the most were active before the album format existed: Louie Armstrong Jelly Roll Morton Fletcher Henderson Duke Ellington Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie Art Tatum They do list some of those artists, but its for albums that came way after those artists initial impact had long passed. Edited by js - 31 Oct 2019 at 7:17pm