I'm listing the top 5 jazz saxophonists and pianists in here with their best work

[masonanddixon]

Alto
Charlie Parker-Bird-The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve
Phil Woods-Rights of Swing
Paul Desmond-Desmond and Jim Hall complete recordings
Cannonball Adderley-Something else
Art Pepper-Meets the rhythm section

Tenor
John Coltrane-A Love Supreme
Lester Young-Pres and Teddy
Stan Getz-The Steamer
Ben Webster-Soulville
Wayne Shorter-Speak no Evil

Piano
Bill Evans-Waltz for Debby
Dave Brubeck-Time Out
Keith Jarrett-Koln Concert
Art Tatum-Group Masterpieces
Oscar Peterson-plays the Cole Porter Songbook

[nathanjizzle]

thanks

[masonanddixon]

thanks

Have you listened to these works?

[nathanjizzle]

Have you listened to these works?

no but i am going to

[masonanddixon]

no but i am going to

It's seriously the most beautiful expression of the soul.

[LJJ]

Let me have a crack at it.


Saxophone
Eric Dolphy - Iron Man
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
Stanley Turrentine - The Spoiler
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century

Piano
Sun Ra - Sound of Joy
Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk
Herbie Hancock - Empyrian Isles
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
Bill Evans - Live at the Village Vanguard

Trumpet
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Donald Byrd - Byrd in Hand
Dizzy Gillespie - An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm

[masonanddixon]

Let me have a crack at it.


Saxophone
Eric Dolphy - Iron Man
John Coltrane - Live at Birdland
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
Stanley Turrentine - The Spoiler
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century

Piano
Sun Ra - Sound of Joy
Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk
Herbie Hancock - Empyrian Isles
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
Bill Evans - Live at the Village Vanguard

Trumpet
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Donald Byrd - Byrd in Hand
Dizzy Gillespie - An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm


Gillespie's embouchere is INSANE

[32jazz]

I'll give it a crack. Many are compilations instead of studio albums :


Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosuss
Coltrane- Giant Steps
Rashaan Roland Kirk - Rip Pig Panic/ Edith or Inflated Tear ( with reservations poor sidemen)

Charlie Parker - Complete Dial/ Savoy Master takes

Eric Dolphy- Out to Lunch ( oddly stimulating/ interesting)





Bud Powell-Scene Changes
Duke Ellington - 1926-1949 Masterpieces ( box set/ overview)

Art Taum- Solo Masterpieces

Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
Horace Silver - Jody Grind ( basic harbop but I love that Album).

Thelonius Monk - Complete Blue Note

[J Shuttlesworth]

Hard to leave Thelonius Monk off the top 5 jazz pianists just because of how innovative he was.

Bill Evans is my #1 on piano though :cheers:
Fav Coltrane album is Blue Train for me, but I understand why some people have Love Supreme as #1.

My #2 tenor player is Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris being my fav album.

Also, the Sonny Stitt/Dexter Gordon album w/ Tenor Madness is ****ing insane.

Really like this thread though. Please list more albums you guys recommend checking out from any artists your listing in this thread.

[J Shuttlesworth]

It's seriously the most beautiful expression of the soul.
If you like Jim Hall/Bill Evans, definitely check out Interplay if you haven't yet. Such a solid album

[L.Kizzle]

I'd take off the various compilations in place of studio albums.

[masonanddixon]

Hard to leave Thelonius Monk off the top 5 jazz pianists just because of how innovative he was.

Bill Evans is my #1 on piano though :cheers:
Fav Coltrane album is Blue Train for me, but I understand why some people have Love Supreme as #1.

My #2 tenor player is Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris being my fav album.

Also, the Sonny Stitt/Dexter Gordon album w/ Tenor Madness is ****ing insane.

Really like this thread though. Please list more albums you guys recommend checking out from any artists your listing in this thread.

GO! by Dexter Gordon is excellent as well.

I need to give a shout out to Charles Mingus who I couldn't really place since he was mostly a composer and bandleader and Pithecanthropus Erectus is one of my favorite albums of all time. Check out JR Monterose who played tenor on that album.

Still I think Phil Woods is the absolute GOAT. He inherited the sound of Parker and improved and refined it to the likes of perfection.

[masonanddixon]

I'll give it a crack. Many are compilations instead of studio albums :


Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosuss
Coltrane- Giant Steps
Rashaan Roland Kirk - Rip Pig Panic/ Edith or Inflated Tear ( with reservations poor sidemen)

Charlie Parker - Complete Dial/ Savoy Master takes

Eric Dolphy- Out to Lunch ( oddly stimulating/ interesting)





Bud Powell-Scene Changes
Duke Ellington - 1926-1949 Masterpieces ( box set/ overview)

Art Taum- Solo Masterpieces

Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
Horace Silver - Jody Grind ( basic harbop but I love that Album).

Thelonius Monk - Complete Blue Note

I need that Bud Bowell Amazing Bud Powell Volume 2, can never seem to find it anywhere.

Wondering what people here think of John Zorn---lots of jazz aficionados have him GOAT-level status whereas others despise his sound.