The New Yorker magazine has published a list of the Top 100 Jazz Albums.
Two notable quotes:
We have also tried to strike a balance between healthy samplings of the innovative giants (Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Davis, Coltrane, etc.) and the greater range of talents and performances.and
Since the nineteen-seventies, jazz has been branching out in so many directions that you would need to list at least another hundred recordings, by the likes of Steve Coleman, Stanley Jordan, Joe Lovano, Jacky Terrasson, John Zorn, David Murray, Avishai Cohen, Béla Fleck, Eliane Elias, Roy Hargrove, Dave Douglas, Matthew Shipp, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Fat Kid Wednesdays, and many, many others.
All in all a nice list, and most I agree with. One of my abolsute favorites -- Louis Armstrong, The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings is number 3.
Posted on 05/13/2008
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