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Poll Question: Pick your favourite
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    Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 10:03pm
It is well known that 1959 may well be the best year of jazz, sort of like 1969 is in rock (or 1967). I chose a handful of album from 1959, pick one. 


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Ahh...ummm...well, Ah Um, followed by Coleman, Brubeck and Sketches. 
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I still have so much to listen, even from this list.

Kind of Blue is excellent, but I never talked about it as a masterpiece from a personal level. I don't remember Sketches of Spain too well. Too much Davis to focus on.

Time Out is need, and you gotta listen to its hits at least once, but as a whole it didn't impress me.
I'd go for a different Bill Evans Trio (like Village Vanguard).

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I'll be boring and choose Kind of Blue. It's a magical album
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My top three, masterpieces:
1. Kind of Blue
2. Giant Steps
3. Time Out

The others, some I have others I don't, but are not necessarily faves of mine, especially Sketches of Spain which I'm not really fond, I used to listen to it frequently while Don Quixote haha.
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Have you heard the Mingus album yet, Pablo?  
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Out of the ones I've heard, inclined to say Time Out.  I need that Mingus album, though, as well as the Coleman and Ellington albums, so no vote for me.
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Have you heard the Mingus album yet, Pablo?  

Yes, indeed.

I love Goodbye Pork Pie Hat and Better Git In Your Soul, yeah not very original hehe. I still need to get into most of the rest.
Undoubtedly a great album, but needs more time.
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I think the Ella Fitzgerald album is the only one I've never heard. These are all great albums!
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Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

I'll be boring and choose Kind of Blue. It's a magical album

This, though I've only heard five of them. Giant Steps I love as well, and Sketches has some magical moments.
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Miles Davis is still hard to digest for me, so I went for something easier-Time Out, it was one of the first albums that made me want to listen to jazz.
Mingus is very good too.
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Sketches of Spain.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Sketches of Spain.

OH NO!! SKETCHES OF PAINNN!!! ooohohoohohhh.... 
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I love Sketches of Spain, but it's nowhere near Mingus for me. 
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

I love Sketches of Spain, but it's nowhere near Mingus for me. 

Haha, that was a joke. But it's true that I don't really appreciate it, yet. 

And yes, Mingus Ah Um is miles ahead of Sketches of Spain. Wink
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Originally posted by Abraxas Abraxas wrote:

Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

I love Sketches of Spain, but it's nowhere near Mingus for me. 

Haha, that was a joke. But it's true that I don't really appreciate it, yet. 

And yes, Mingus Ah Um is miles ahead of Sketches of Spain. Wink


Give Sketches of Spain a chance. It's a grower

Mingus Ah Um is great, though I remember it took a few spins to enjoy as well
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^I have listened to Sketches various times, more than 20 for sure. It's not really my thing, right now.
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I get it, Miles Ahead.  Tongue

...that's from 1957, though. Wink
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Originally posted by Abraxas Abraxas wrote:

^I have listened to Sketches various times, more than 20 for sure. It's not really my thing, right now.


It's not the usual Miles album. I had it for years before I could appreciate it. There's a lot of classical influence on that album
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Huh, I loved Sketches from first listen LOL
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