Must Have Recordings!!!!

If you are looking for a start in listening to jazz, and starting your jazz record collection, here is a list of 100 historically significant recordings for you to start with, in no particular order. (I did not come up with this list, but I have well over half of the recordings, so tough to argue with them) I put a few notes here and there to help you, including 10 “Schoenbach top 10″‘s.

Cannonball Adderley (alto sax) – “Somethin’ Else”…also features Miles Davis on trumpet, a Schoenbach top 10!!!
Herbie Hancock (piano) – “Maiden Voyage”
Clifford Brown (trumpet) – “Study In Brown”…Clifford is a trumpet virtuoso, a Schoenbach top 10!!!!
John Coltrane (tenor sax) – “Blue Train”…features Lee Morgan on trumpet and Curtis Fuller on bone, a Schoenbach top 10!!!!
Cannonball Adderley (alto sax) – “& Coltrane” (tenor sax)
Wayne Shorter (saxes) – “Speak No Evil” …a little out there for novices, but a great recording
Horace Silver (piano) – “Song For My Father”
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) – “Sonny Side Up” …features Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt on tenor sax
Miles Davis (trumpet) – “Kind Of Blue” …features Cannonball Adderley (alto sax), John Coltrane (tenor sax) and a great rhythem section. Start here!!!!! A Schoenbach top 10!!!!
John Coltrane (tenor sax) – “Giant Steps” …This will blow your mind!
J. J. Johnson (trombone) – “The Eminent Volume 1″ …the first great bebop trombonist.
Eric Dolphy (bass clarinet, wwds) – “Out To Lunch” …yes, that says bass clarinet
Oliver Nelson (alto sax) – “Blues & The Abstract Truth”
Lee Morgan (trumpet) – “The Sidewinder” …Nobody plays the blues like Lee.
Hank Mobley (tenor sax) – “Soul Station”
Miles Davis (trumpet) – “Milestones”
Wes Montgomery (guitar) – “Smokin At The Half Note” …all done without a pick!
Lee Morgan (trumpet) – “Cornbread”
Larry Young (organ) – “Unity”
Sonny Rollins (tenor sax) – “Saxophone Collossus” …a Schoenbach top 10!!
John Coltrane (tenor sax) – “Mainstream 1958″
Mccoy Tyner (piano) – “The Real Mccoy”
John Coltrane (tenor sax) – “A Love Supreme”…not for everyone..start with other stuff first.
Johnny Smith (guitar) – “Moonlight In Vermont”…cool jazz guitar
Paul Chambers (upright bass) – “Chambers Music”
June Christy (vocalist) – “Something Cool”
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) – “Jazz At Massey Hall”…hard to believe anyone could do this, let alone live!
Art Blakey (drummer) – “A Night At Birdland Vol. 1″
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) – “Duets”
Bill Evans (piano) – “Undercurrent”
Gene Ammons (tenor sax) – “Boss Tenors”…with Sonny Stitt, very bluesy
Kenny Burrell (guitar) – “& John Coltrane” (tenor sax)
Miles Davis – ‘Round About Midnight”
Erroll Garner (piano) – “Concert By The Sea”
Miles Davis (trumpet) – “Relaxin’ With Miles” …very cool, good for a candlelight meal.
Wes Montgomery (guitar) – “Incredible Jazz Guitar”
Joe Henderson (saxophone) – “Page One”…a little out there.
Frank Rosolino Trombone) – “Free For All”…no trombone player has ever done it better.
Wes Montgomery (guitar) – “Full House”
Art Farmer (trumpet) – “Modern Art”
Carl Fontana (trombone) – “5 Star Ed”
Sonny Rollins (tenor sax) – “Tenor Madness”…only recording with John Coltrane (tenor sax)
Art Blakey (drums) – “Moanin’”…a Schoenbach top 10!!!
Thelonious Monk (piano) – “With John Coltrane (tenor sax)”
Chick Corea (pinao) – “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs”…great latin influence
Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) – “Open Sesame”
Bill Evans (piano) – “Sunday At Village Vanguard”
Charlie Parker (alto sax) – “Now’s The Time”…unbelieveable bebop sax player!!!
Stan Getz (saxophone) – “For Musician’s Only”
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) – “Groovin’ High”
Dexter Gordon (tenor sax) – “Ballads”…a Schoenbach top 10!!!
Charlie Parker (alto sax) – “Bird & Diz”…with Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), really fast stuff!
Joe Henderson (saxophones) – “Lush Life”
Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) – “Red Clay” …a Schoenbach top 10!!!!!
Bill Evans (piano) – “Waltz For Debby”
Kenny Dorham (trumpet) – “Una Mas”
Lester Young (tenor sax) – “The President Plays W/The Oscar Peterson (piano) Trio”…the standard to which all tenor sax players are held against.
Joe Henderson (saxophones) – “In ‘N Out”
John Coltrane (tenor sax) – “& Johnny Hartman (vocals)”…A Schoenbach top 10!!!
Grant Green “guitar) – “Feelin’ The Spirit”
Nancy Wilson (vocals) – “With Cannonball Adderley (alto sax)”
Miles Davis (trumpet) – “Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”…you can’t go wrong with any of the recordings ending in “in’”
Red Garland (piano) – “Groovy”
Miles Davis (trumpet) – Steamin’ With Miles Davis
Johnny Griffin (tenor sax) – “A Blowin’ Session”…great recording!
Grant Green (guitar) – “Born To Be Blue”
John Coltrane (tenor sax) – “Ballads”
Johnny Hartman (vocals) – “I Just Dropped By To Say Hello”…super warm voice
Carl Fontana (trombone) – “The Great Fontana”
Grant Green (guitar) – “Idle Moments”
Art Blakey (drums) – “Ugetsu”
Stanley Turrentine (saxophone) – “Sugar”…master of the bluesy sound
Bill Evans (piano) – “Intermodulation”
Art Blakey (drums) – “A Night At Birdland Vol. 2″…always has great combos
Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) – “Hub Tones”…very edgy sound!!!
Hank Mobley (tenor sax) – “The Turnaround!”
Bud Powell (piano) – “The Genius Of”
Lee Konitz (alto sax) – “Subconscious-Lee”
Stan Getz (saxophones) – “Stan Getz & Bill Evans (piano)”
Milt Jackson (vibes) – “Bags Meets Wes” …with Wes Montgomery, guitar
Jimmy Smith (organ) – “Back At The Chicken Shack”…a Schoenbach top 10!!!
Sonny Rollins (tenor sax) – “Plus Four”
June Christy (vocals) – “The Misty Miss Christy”
Joe Henderson (saxophones) – “Inner Urge”
Duke Ellington (big band) – “Money Jungle”…amazing big band with great soloists
Woody Herman (big band) – “Keeper Of The Flame”
Chet Baker (trumpet/vocals) – “Playboys”
Bud Powell (piano) – “The Amazing – Vol 1″
Oscar Peterson (piano) – “Plays Count Basie”…wow!
Clifford Brown (trumpet) – “Brown/Roach Inc.”…with Max Roach, drums.
Stan Kenton (piano) – “Duet”
Joe Henderson (saxophones) – “Mode For Joe” …with Curtis Fuller, trombone
Horace Silver (piano) – “Blowin’ The Blues Away”
Clifford Brown (trumpet) – “More Study In Brown”
Sonny Clark (piano) – “Leapin’ And Lopin’”
Blue Mitchell (trumpet)- “The Thing To Do”
Johnny Griffin (tenor sax) – “Introducing”
Sonny Stitt (tenor sax) – “Constellation”
Slide Hampton (trombone) – “World Of Trombones”
Keith Jarrett (piano) – “Standards Vol. 1″