La storia del jazz è fatta di album straordinari, vere e proprie opere geniali che hanno cambiato il jazz e e la musica nel suo insieme. Dischi che hanno ispirato altri artisti, che hanno spostato in avanti il confine dell’ispirazione e della sperimentazione.
Un’epopea, quella del jazz, fatta da musicisti geniali, capaci di partiture incendiarie e fulminanti.
Per questo simbolicamente, al primo posto abbiamo messo BITCHES BREW di Miles Davis.
Un album meravigliosamente visionario e dalla ricchezza sonora straripante (due bassi, due batterie, una chitarra elettrica, sax, percussioni e pianoforti elettrici), considerato il primo grande incontro tra jazz e rock (imperdibile Miles runs the voodoo down con la tromba di Davis che “insegue” Jimi Hendrix), ma soprattutto uno dei dischi più importanti e influenti di sempre.
LA NOSTRA TOP 100:
100) Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes From The Underground – Columbia
99) Charlie Haden – Liberation Music Orchestra
98) Steps Ahead – Steps Ahead – Elektra/Musician
97) Oscar Peterson – Night Train
96) Cecil Taylor – Conquistador!
95) Oliver Nelson – The Blues And The Abstract Truth
94) Gerry Mulligan – Gerry Mulligan Quartet
93) Max Roach – We insist!
92) Diana Krall – Love Scenes
91) Gil Evans – The Individualism of Gil Evans
90) John Coltrane – Ascension
89) Archie Shepp – Four For Trane
88) Pharoah Sanders – Karma
87) Errol Garner: Concert by the Sea
86) Benny Goodman: At Carnegie Hall 1938
85) Sarah Vaughan: Complete Recordings with Clifford Brown
84) Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) – African Marketplace
83) Brad Mehldau – Art Of The Trio Vol.3
82) Coleman Hawkins – Body And Soul
81) John McLaughlin – Extrapolation
80) Cecil Taylor – Conquistador!
79) Roland Kirk – Rip Rig & Panic
78) Frank Sinatra – In the wee small hour
77) Joe King Oliver – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set!
76) Billie Holiday – The quintessential Billie Holiday 1937-1938
75) Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan With Clifford Brown
74) Art Tatum – The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces
73) Lee Konitz – Subconscious-Lee
72) Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
71) Django Reinhardt – Rétrospective
70) Cassandra Wilson – Blue Light ‘Til Dawn
69) Billie Holiday – Lady in satin
68) Fletcher Henderson – Tidal Wave
67) Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy
66) Bix Beiderbecke – The Bix Beiderbecke Story
65) Fats Waller – Handful of Keys
64) Sun Ra – The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1
63) Thelonious Monk – The Genius Of – Modern Music – Vol 1
62) Ella Fitzgerald – Ella sings Gershwin
61) Count Basie – The Atomic Mr Basie
60) Herbie Hancock – The New Standard
59) Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool
58) Duke Ellington – Money Jungle
57) Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh – Intuition
56) Stan Getz – Focus
55) Wes Montgomery – The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
54) Jimmy Witherspoon – The Spoon Concerts
53) Modern Jazz Quartet – Fontessa
52) Art Blakey – Moanin’
51) Sonny Rollins – Night at the Village Vanguard
50) John Coltrane – Giant Steps
49) Charlie Christian – The Genius of the Electric Guitar
48) Sonny Clark – Cool Struttin’
47) Andrew Hill – Point of Departure
46) Charles Mingus – The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
45) Chat Baker – Playboys
44) Miles Davis – ‘Round about midnight
43) Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius
42) Jan Garbarek – Afric Pepperbird –
41) Pat Metheny – Bright Size Life
40) John Coltrane – Giant Steps
39 Tony Williams Lifetime – Emergency!
38) Lennie Tristano – Tristano
37) Jimmy Smith – A New Sound, A New Star
36) George Russell The Jazz – Workshop
35) Sun Ra – The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1
34) Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
33) Miles Davis – Ascenseur pour l’échafaud
32) Dizzy Gillespie – Shaw ‘Nuff
31) John Coltrane – My favorite things
30) Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
29) Charles Mingus – Tijuana Moods
28) Ella Fitzgerald – Sings The Cole Porter Songbook
27) Chick Corea – Return to Forever
26) Miles Davis – Sketches Of Spain
25) Thelonius Monk – Brilliant Corners
24) Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else
23) Bill Evans Trio – Waltz for Debby
22) Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
21) Ornette Coleman – Free Jazz
20) Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane: The Complete 1957 Riverside Recording
19) The Mahavishnu Orchestra With John McLaughlin – The Inner Mounting Flame
18) Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come
17) Sonny Rollins – The Bridge
16) Weather Report – Heavy weather
15) Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
14) Louis Armstrong – The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
13) Duke Ellington – Ellington at Newport 1956
12) Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker – Town Hall, New York City
11) Bill Evans Trio – Sunday At The Village Vanguard
10) John Coltrane – Blue Train
9) Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
8) Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert
7) Dave Brubeck – Time Out
6) Duke Ellington – Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
5) Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
4) Charlie Parker – Bird: the complete Charlie Parker on Verve
3) Miles Davis – A kind of Blue
2) John Coltrane – A love supreme
1) Miles Davis – Bitches Brew