The New Yorker has one of those hopelessly hip lists of the 100 Essential Jazz Albums. I have most of the music, but not necessarily from the albums they suggest (lots of Best Of’s). Forget the albums, here are the artists from that list.
- Fats Waller
- King Oliver
- Louis Armstrong
- Fletcher Henderson
- Bessie Smith
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Django Reinhardt
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Sidney Bechet
- Duke Ellington
- Coleman Hawkins
- Billie Holiday
- Teddy Wilson
- Lester Young
- Count Basie
- Benny Goodman
- John Kirby
- Chick Webb
- Benny Carter
- Charlie Christian
- James P. Johnson
- Nat King Cole
- Charlie Parker
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Thelonious Monk
- Lennie Tristan and Warne Marsh
- Miles Davis
- Bud Powell
- Gerry Mulligan
- Modern Jazz Quartet
- Art Tatum
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach
- Charles Mingus
- Sarah Vaughn
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Sonny Rollins
- Tito Puente
- Sun Ra
- Abbey Lincoln
- Art Blakey
- Ahmad Jamal
- Dave Brubeck
- Jimmy Witherspoon
- Ornette Coleman
- Freddie Hubbard
- Jimmy Smith
- Dinah Washington
- John Coltrane
- Eric Dolphy
- Bill Evans
- Jackie McLean
- Stan Getz and João Gilberto
- Dexter Gordon
- Andrew Hill
- Lee Morgan
- Albert Ayler
- Archie Shepp
- Horace Silver
- Wes Montgomery
- Cecil Taylor
- Betty Carter
- Frank Sinatra
- Nina Simone
- Pharoah Sanders
- Chick Corea
- Keith Jarrett
- World Saxophone Quartet
- Charlie Haden and Hank Jones
- Joshua Redman
- Cassandra Wilson
- Wynton Marsalis
- Bill Charlap Trio
That’s it. No Art Ensemble of Chicago, Cannonball Adderly, Chico Hamilton, Don Cherry, Ike Quebec, Frank Zappa, Joe Henderson, Lee Morgan, Alice Coltrane, Roland Kirk, Sonny Stitt, Tomasz Stanko, Jan Garbarek, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Zoot Sims, Wayne Shorter, John Zorn, Anatole Gerasimov, Archie Shepp, Hugh Masakela, Manu Dibango, Bill Bruford, Clutchy Hopkins, Erik Truffaz, Don Byron, Gabor Szabo, Getatchew Mekuria, Jack McDuff, Kammerflimmer Kollectief, John Lurie, John Medeski, McCoy Tyner, Roswell Rudd, Tortoise, or Yusef Lateef.
To each their own, I guess. Otoh, it takes a lot of arrogance to pass judgment on a musical genre so broad and complex. Eurojazz apparently wasn’t on their radar at all, which is odd since many of their artists were, at times, expatriates, performing in Europe to avoid the racist peckerwoods here at home.
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Fuck. Shows I’ve never watched are now celebrating their 21st season on air.
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Via Rex, the new X-Files trailer is out. I want to believe . . . that this movie will be better than that last stinker.
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More on Mississippi and the last throes of the Republican-Dixiecrat Party.
And more politics:
NARAL stabs HRC in back, endorses Obama
Greenwald with more on the sorry state of our media
African American woman new Speaker of the CA State Assembly
Revisiting the bowling brouhaha
NPR reviewing that Prozac informercial they ran as news
Burmese generals for Michele Bachmann
Pawlenty vetos carcinogenic flame retardant ban
Burmese generals for Norman Bruce Coleman
American money taints Israeli elections
Einstein on religion: god and atheists both get trashed
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One last brilliant video: A Mac parody involving a Christian and a Christ follower.
Apparently, many Christians are abandoning that term as a burned out brand dragged down by far too many negative connotations. The new movement looks very positive, and not nearly as obsessive or hateful as what’s passed for Christianity in this country the past few decades.
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Joe Sample, Bob James, Herbie Hancock, Larry Carlton, Elvin Jones, Billy Cobham, Jeff Tain Watts, Wes Montgomery, Chet Baker, John Scofield….
I know there’s always a WTF? factor to these lists and there are probably millions of people who know more about jazz than I do. Still…
Norm Coleman’s middle name isn’t Bruce, is it.
Norman Bruce Coleman’s middle name is indeed Bruce. You can look it up (just not on his website).
Thanx for including Roswell Rudd in your “missed from the list” list. He’s the original Bone Dog.