Classic US Jazz: 1961
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Topic: Classic US Jazz: 1961
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Classic US Jazz: 1961
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 06:40
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What a fabulous year for jazz! I could easily have filled this poll up twice over, so I've taken the liberty of selecting just one album by each major jazz artist, which will inevitably mean I've left out one of your favourite albums from the poll, again. Still, at least there are no 2-star albums in the poll this time around.   1961: Count Basie Orchestra - Basie at Birdland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBaNGIrbLO0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBaNGIrbLO0  1961: Les Baxter - Jewels of the Sea - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdl1y1w4PGIpdL_Pxvb61FuKaumTwTIaT" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdl1y1w4PGIpdL_Pxvb61FuKaumTwTIaT 1961: The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mxI8YIehXc0xNo69iKsdjTrgtufbSW-O0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mxI8YIehXc0xNo69iKsdjTrgtufbSW-O0 1961: Gary Burton - New Vibe Man in Town - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mL1Y_IsV4K5uYjuSytCj1XwIsNu2FY7vI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mL1Y_IsV4K5uYjuSytCj1XwIsNu2FY7vI 1961: Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams - Motor City Scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTi2kCM2Htw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTi2kCM2Htw 1961: John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL4VWw4HKU_H5PFBkuDOd3joWc9zzMYZW" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL4VWw4HKU_H5PFBkuDOd3joWc9zzMYZW 1961: Hank Crawford - More Soul - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtYe3cuH27cPqOwgoPjHw8sflAKEEZfze" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtYe3cuH27cPqOwgoPjHw8sflAKEEZfze 1961: King Curtis - Trouble in Mind - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kkHoBgYVZNMY-wlQSGd0wsstuK-J780Mw" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kkHoBgYVZNMY-wlQSGd0wsstuK-J780Mw 1961: Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lG3MEd5N6lgxC4unb_bxHj8HiXhDDta2g" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lG3MEd5N6lgxC4unb_bxHj8HiXhDDta2g" rel="nofollow - list=OLAK5uy_lG3MEd5N6lgxC4unb_bxHj8HiXhDDta2g 1961: Don Ellis - New Ideas - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxLqEmaBJ4zykFVqgCQ5-J87QNx1wuIlo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxLqEmaBJ4zykFVqgCQ5-J87QNx1wuIlo 1961: Stan Getz - Focus - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mBj6VWy5GRQK14H_OS3tHpVEc-yWOP8CU" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mBj6VWy5GRQK14H_OS3tHpVEc-yWOP8CU 1961: Eddie Harris - Exodus to Jazz - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9p74hFDlLR_J5QWHmwO1F24WnyMKgkhL" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9p74hFDlLR_J5QWHmwO1F24WnyMKgkhL 1961: The Jazz Crusaders - Freedom Sound - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n1JtKWFRvBb6ayLEu0wX--jV1sUxGPBR8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n1JtKWFRvBb6ayLEu0wX--jV1sUxGPBR8 1961: Quincy Jones - The Quintessence - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_keq0yzx7fRv7-aDwXL-Q3iwj4xmfQqwNM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_keq0yzx7fRv7-aDwXL-Q3iwj4xmfQqwNM 1961: Ramsey Lewis Trio - Never on Sunday - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqvU4htKvcEbaRmrrEAPTZa_3nx2C81bp" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqvU4htKvcEbaRmrrEAPTZa_3nx2C81bp 1961: Henry Mancini - Breakfast at Tiffany's - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_npX_aYZvAiXaZ44654beffslpSQhnTrE0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_npX_aYZvAiXaZ44654beffslpSQhnTrE0 1961: Herbie Mann - At the Village Gate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttnUGq5Pf-w" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttnUGq5Pf-w 1961: The Mar-Keys - Last Night - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzNjm5Aj_3uh-00KGur0FzLZB7aix1ZdS" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzNjm5Aj_3uh-00KGur0FzLZB7aix1ZdS 1961: Les McCann Ltd. - Pretty Lady - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mAu738ODzFjhcwMcv8mXbVAzyMvnBj0to" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mAu738ODzFjhcwMcv8mXbVAzyMvnBj0to 1961: Charles Mingus - Pre-Bird - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHh7rhT4--ZcCOiqzKMEKqc5dmtEfACBh" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHh7rhT4--ZcCOiqzKMEKqc5dmtEfACBh 1961: Anita O'Day - Trav'lin' Light - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZDqz2qknIY7mAh8WMbFmSKjbSBB99VjI" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZDqz2qknIY7mAh8WMbFmSKjbSBB99VjI 1961: Nina Simone - Forbidden Fruit - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lx3ObowCFfgUQ3NbT5oWJjsEYvXr_bpic" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lx3ObowCFfgUQ3NbT5oWJjsEYvXr_bpic 1961: Jimmy Smith - Straight Life - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nEkFQWw3DFCdDZKJ62nXeD2vo9CSSm7Q4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nEkFQWw3DFCdDZKJ62nXeD2vo9CSSm7Q4 1961: Johnny 'Hammond' Smith - Stimulation - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gaZcIDGc0qxBYeqOxly8pNVqCiJ_eRj" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gaZcIDGc0qxBYeqOxly8pNVqCiJ_eRj 1961: Phil Upchurch - You Can't Sit Down - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mkxo9qGCF9sA9mQlkBDm7CBJZtrwSdYCA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mkxo9qGCF9sA9mQlkBDm7CBJZtrwSdYCA |
Replies:
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 06:46
I haven't heard any of these. I guess the Jazz police need to revoke my membership. 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 06:54
You may have to wait until 1967 before we get into more familiar Jazz Fusion territory, although there's lots more jazz goodies still to come before then.
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Grumpyprogfan wrote:Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 07:10
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Henry Mancini - Breakfast at Tiffany's The only one I've heard from this list.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 09:31
Nice choice! I only own four albums in this list, but sadly, it doesn't include Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 11:26
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It's Jimmy Smith for me, muh man. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 11:28
| I have none of these. Had John Coltrane's Olé Coltrane been listed, then that would have got my vote. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 14:45
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Nina Simone ------------- "You must not talk to idiots, it instructs them" (Michel Audiard) " Je ne parle pas aux idiots , cela les instruit" |
Posted By: Moonshake
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 16:55
| John Coltrane |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 27 2024 at 18:38
John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane Eric Dolphy - Out There Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth The John Coltrane Quartet - Africa / Brass Cecil Taylor - The World of Cecil Taylor The Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool Bill Evans Trio - Explorations
Booker Little - Out Front |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 28 2024 at 02:06
Only one Coltrane on the year he exploded over the planet..   And it's not even the good one....  Coltrane, John Live At The Village Vanguard Coltrane, John Impressions Coltrane, John The Africa Brass Sessions Vol. 2 Coltrane, John Africa / Brass Coltrane, John Ole Coltrane Evans, Gil / Orchestra Out Of The Cool Brubeck, Dave /
Quartet Time Further Out And... Mingus, Charles Oh Yeah USA Blakey, Art / Jazz Messengers Mosaic .
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 28 2024 at 04:03
+yeah "Coltrane Jazz" is like my sixth or seventh favorite 1961 Coltrane album (as I much prefer "Lush Life" over it as well. If taht one counts as it was recorded in 1958) -I don't personally coun't The Africa Brass Sessions Vol. 2, as it's 2/3rds alternate takes - and wasn't released until 1974. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 28 2024 at 06:52
^ I'd love to have included them all - if I'd had fifty available poll slots to fill - but I had to somehow narrow it down to just one album per artist, and typical of me, I chose the wrong album by John Coltrane. 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 28 2024 at 07:08
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^Don't worry. We're just two Coltrane fans, and with a handful of genuine classic releases ("Coltrane Jazz" not being one of them), 1961 is a very special year in his (short) recording career. It's only natural that this poll - or these polls, starts conversations or comments like the ones you reply to. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 28 2024 at 07:18
That's absolutely fine. You can always rely on me to miss out someone's favourite album from a poll - especially if it happens to be jazz poll with an overwhelming quantity of classic albums to choose from for each individual year.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 06:29
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Posted By: SleepingFinger
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 09:16
| I have to go with Coltrane Jazz, myself. Another one that’s really good but not on the list is Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. |