Professor Bop's Suggested Jazz CDs
Contact: Craig S. O'Connell
First here's a top ten list of entry level jazz CDs:
| Kind of Blue - Miles Davis | Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock |
| Song For My Father - Horace Silver | Best of the Songbooks - Ella Fitzgerald |
| Getz / Gilberto - Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim | John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman |
| The Complete Last Concert - The Modern Jazz Quartet | Time Out - Dave Brubeck |
| The Blues And The Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson | Charlie Parker With Strings |
A more expanded list of jazz CDs:
Jazz Round
Midnight - Charlie Parker |
Giant Steps - John Coltrane |
The Genius Of Charlie
Parker |
The Essential Charlie
Parker |
| Thelonious Monk -
Thelonious Monk |
Criss Cross - Thelonious
Monk |
Thelonious Monk Quartet
With John Coltrane - Thelonious Monk |
Straight No Chaser
- Thelonious Monk |
Solo Monk - Thelonious
Monk |
Someday My Prince
Will Come - Miles Davis |
Sketches Of Spain
- Miles Davis |
Porgy And Bess - Miles
Davis |
'Round About Midnight
- Miles Davis |
Birth Of The Cool
- Miles Davis |
Blue Train - John
Coltrane |
A Love Supreme - John
Coltrane |
The Gentle Side of
John Coltrane - John Coltrane |
Hot House Flowers
- Wynton Marsalis |
Giant Steps - John
Coltrane |
Jeru - Gerry Mulligan |
The Sidewinder - Lee
Morgan |
Poinciana - Ahmad
Jamal |
Somethin' Else - Cannonball
Adderley |
Bohemia After Dark
- Cannonball Adderley |
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
- Cannonball Adderley |
Destination Out! - Jackie McLean |
Mack The Knife: The Complete Ella
In Berlin (Live) - Ella Fitzgerald |
Mingus Ah Um - Charles
Mingus |
Centerpiece- Giacomo Gates |
Indestructible - Art
Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
Clifford Brown and
Max Roach - Clifford Brown and Max Roach |
Moanin - Art Blakey
& The Jazz Messengers |
A
New Pespective - Donald Byrd |
Free
Form - Donald Byrd |
The
Jazz Singer - Eddie Jefferson |
Red
Clay - Freddie Hubbard |
Soul
Station - Hank Mobley |
McLean's
Scene - Jackie McLean |
Forest
Flower - Charles Lloyd |
Moody's
Mood For Love - King Pleasure |
Everybody's
Boppin - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross |
Leon
Thomas Anthology - Leon Thomas |
Swiss
Movement - Les McCann and Eddie Harris |
Left
Alone - Mal Waldron |
Lady
Day - Billie Holiday |
Bad
Habits - Nina Simone |
Sin
& Soul, And Then Some - Oscar Brown, Jr. |
Bright
Moments - Rahsaan Roland Kirk |
The
Silver Collection - Billie Holiday |
The
Best Of Chet Baker Sings - Chet Baker |
Changes
Two - Charles Mingus |
My
Funny Valentine- Chet Baker |
Sugar
- Stanley Turrentine |
Saxophone
Colossus - Sonny Rollins |
Paganini:
After A Dream - Regina Carter |
Go
- Dexter Gordon |
The
Shape Of Jazz To Come - Ornette Coleman |
Speak
No Evil - Wayne Shorter |
Sunday At The Village Vanguard - Bill Evans |
Trio
65 - Bill Evans |
Jazz
At Massey Hall - The Quintet - Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Max
Roach... |
Monk's
Dream - Thelonious Monk |
Ellington
At Newport - Duke Ellington |
Louis
Armstrong & Duke Ellington - Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington |
Concierto
- Jim Hall |
Classic Tenors - Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young |
Concert
By The Sea - Erroll Garner |
Time
Further Out - Dave Brubeck |
Sonny
Side Up - Sonny Stitt |
Sweet
Rain - Stan Getz |
Best
of the Songbooks - Ella Fitzgerald |
Ella
& Louis - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong |
Body
and Soul - Coleman Hawkins |
Dinah
Jams - Dinah Washington |
First
Time! The Count Meets The Duke - Count Basie & Duke Ellington |
Ray
CHarles and Betty Carter - Ray Charles & Betty Carter |
Live
At Carnegie Hall - Benny Goodman |
Flying
Home - Lionel Hampton |
Wynton
Marsalis - Wynton Marsalis |
Clifford
Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street - Clifford Brown & Max Roach |
But
Beautiful - Jimmy Scott |
The
Late Late Show - Dakota Staton |
Abbey
Is Blue - Abbey Lincoln |
Duets
- Frank Sinatra |
Sinatra
At The Sands - Frank Sinatra |
Trumpet
Evolution - Arturo Sandoval |
Crescent
With Love - Pharoah Sanders |
The
Complete Town Hall Concert - Charles Mingus |
The
Bridge - Sonny Rollins |
Sarah
Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown - Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown |
Night
Train - Oscar Peterson |
The
Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett |
A
Standing Eight - Rahsaan Roland Kirk |
Waltz
For Debby - Bill Evans |
Out
of The Afternoon - Roy Haynes |
A
Blowin' Session - Johnny Griffin |
Groovin'
High - Dizzy Gillespie |
School
Days - Dizzy Gillespie & Joe Carroll |
Best
Of the Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Sessions - Charlie Parker |
The
Definitive Bud Powell - Bud Powell |
| The Real McCoy - McCoy Tyner | Soulville - Ben Webster |
| Fire Music - Archie Shepp | The Creator Has A Master Plan - Pharoah Sanders with Leon Thomas |