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| Poll: Which is the best 1959 jazz album? |
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| Miles Davis - Kind of Blue |
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42% |
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| Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come |
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28% |
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| Dave Brubeck - Time Out |
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14% |
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| Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um |
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14% |
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| Total Votes : 21 |
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Error Finn
Gender: Male
Age: 54
Location: Finland 
- #11
- Posted: 06/18/2012 10:59
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1959Jazz, was significant. I would add (more) one excellent album that year:The Cannonball Adderley Quintet In San Francisco by Cannonball Adderley Quintet. I voted for Miles.
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- #12
- Posted: 06/18/2012 16:01
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Ornette, then Mingus, then Miles, then Brubeck. First two are masterpieces, I tend to like Kind of Blue a little less than I used to - but I'll certainly give it a re-listen to freshen things up, I'm not the greatest fan of Brubeck. |
I've got the same order, and almost the same opinions. I like all four though.
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RFNAPLES
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Gender: Male
Age: 75
Location: Durham, NC, USA 
- #13
- Posted: 06/18/2012 21:18
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1. Kind of Blue-Miles Davis
2. Time Out-The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3. The Shape Of Jazz To Come-Ornette Coleman
4. Mingus Ah Um-Charles Mingus
5. Moanin'-Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
6. The Hottest New Group In Jazz-Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
7. Looking Ahead!-Cecil Taylor
8. Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet-Miles Davis
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Captain_Dude
Gender: Male
Age: 54
- #14
- Posted: 06/19/2012 15:36
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1959 really WAS a magical year for jazz. Here are a few of my personal favorites from that year:
Anatomy of a Murder by Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
Blowin' the Blues Away by Horace Silver
Chet Baker in Milan
The Easy Way by Jimmy Giuffre
5 By Monk By 5 by Thelonius Monk
Even though Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is my favorite in the poll, I'd have to say that Brubeck was possibly the most adventurous. It's been said that the album broke all three rules of jazz at that time: it had all original material (and no standards), you coudn't dance to it, and it featured a painting on the cover.
Anyway, thanks for bringing up this subject of jazz in '59. Jazz seems to be overlooked on this site.
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- #15
- Posted: 06/20/2012 03:46
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Time Out just sounds so inferior to the rest. The musicians on it sound nowhere near as professional/high standard as on the other albums you mentioned. "Take Five" is the 'best', and even then it's brilliance is diminished by a lousy drum solo.
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RFNAPLES
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Gender: Male
Age: 75
Location: Durham, NC, USA
- #16
- Posted: 06/20/2012 04:11
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| Xavygravy wrote: | | Time Out just sounds so inferior to the rest. The musicians on it sound nowhere near as professional/high standard as on the other albums you mentioned. "Take Five" is the 'best', and even then it's brilliance is diminished by a lousy drum solo. |
Joe Morello was one of the greatest drummers, clinicians, teachers and authors. That solo was trend setting, in 5/4!
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- #17
- Posted: 06/20/2012 04:20
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Mingus Ah Um
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France 
- #18
- Posted: 06/20/2012 14:11
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| Captain_Dude wrote: | | I'd have to say that Brubeck was possibly the most adventurous. |
Have you ever listened to The Shape of Jazz To Come ?
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- Posted: 06/20/2012 14:20
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Have you ever listened to The Shape of Jazz To Come ? |
This. The suggestion that Take Five is the most inventive of the four is ludicrous.
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Captain_Dude
Gender: Male
Age: 54
- #20
- Posted: 06/20/2012 16:11
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Have you ever listened to The Shape of Jazz To Come ? |
Yep. I like it. Although, the fact that there's very little structure to it keeps me from loving it.
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