A great album that came out the year you were born

Fischman wrote: I'm old enough that my birth year predates prog.  But that was still the golden age of jazz, especially hard bop.  But post bop was starting to emerge, and in a way, post bop is to Jazz what prog is to rock, so there is a bit of a proggy connection in some of my selections.  My top 10 from 1964: 1. Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder 2. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Free For All 3. Grant Green: The Matador 4. Blue Mitchell: The Thing to Do 5. Lee Morgan: Tom Cat 6. Kenny Burrell: Soul Call 7. Freddie Hubbard: Breaking Point 8. Joe Henderson: In n' Out 9. Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles 10. Andrew Hill: Point of Departure

100% Blue Note! Nice list, though mine for 1964 BNs would include Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch, Sam Rivers’ Fuchsia Swing Song, Grachan Moncur's Some Other Stuff and Jackie McLean's Action Action Action.

Possibly the label's greatest year?

EDIT: My mistake, the Burrell was on Prestige, wasn't it?

Edited by Mascodagama - July 22 2018 at 09:58

Nothing too great in that year:
Leonard Cohen: Ten New Songs
Radiohead: Amnesiac
Talk Talk: Missing Pieces
Tool: Lateralus (haven't heard it, but it's famous)

*spits beer on monitor*

1956

Elvis Presley's eponymous debut album, and another album "Elvis"
Three Ragas - Ravi Shankar
This is Sinatra! - Frank Sinatra
Two For Tonight - Bing Crosby
Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings – Bing Crosby
The Unique Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk
Ellington at Newport - Duke Ellington

Need more be said?

Also for a few hit singles:

"Roll Over Beethoven" - Chuck Berry
"Hound Dog", "Heartbreak Hotel", "Don't be Cruel" - Elvis Presley
"I Walk the Line" - Johnny Cash

I will say, I had the pleasure of seeing Elvis, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and more all play live during these times, while I was a young kid (even got to shake John Lennon's hand).

Just gotta be an old fart and brag lol.

BrufordFreak wrote: The film and soundtrack to the film of Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. Miles Davis' Milestones? Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk? Buddy Holly Buddy Holly? Sonny Rollins Freedom Suite? Tito Puente Dance Mania? Frank Sinatra Come Fly with Me? I don't know! I give up! What's the right answer???

Phish - Farmhouse

CPicard wrote: Born in 1978: no good album this year, prog died in 1977

Discipline - KC

Born in 1978: no good album this year, prog died in 1977

Mortte wrote: richardh wrote: Cristi wrote: wiz_d_kidd wrote: Do 78 RPMs count as albums? there was no good music in 1978? correct I only own one album from my year of birth and that is Time Further Out by Dave Brubeck. Really nice but no idea whether it's 'great'. Great albums from 1978: Rush: Hemispheres Pere Ubu: the Modern Dance & Dub Housing Van Halen: s/t Outlaws: Bring It Back Alive Lou Reed: Street Hassle Japan: Adolescent Sex & Obscure Alternatives Little Feat: Waiting For Columbus Dixie Dregs: What If the Band: Last Waltz Jethro Tull: Heavy Horses AC/DC: Powerage Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: You´re Gonna Get It! the Stranglers: Black & White Bruce Springsteen: Darkness On the Edge Of Town the Rolling Stones: Some Girls Magazine: Real Life Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food Can: Out Of Reach Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove Midnight Oil: s/t the Jam: All Mod Cons