That's awesome! Enjoy the ride...its a whole lot of fun!

If you are looking for a book to accompany you on your journey, The Penguin Guide to Jazz - Seventh Edition (published 2004 - the one with Art Blakey on the cover) by Richard Cook and Brian Morton is the best there is. Its 1,725 pages long and is a gold mine of information and insight into the world of jazz recordings. Sadly, the annual guide stopped being published in 2009 shortly after Richard Cook's death in 2007, but I still refer to my copies weekly for the keen insights and history of the recordings and I am always finding something new to listen to.

Thanks! I will definitely check them out!

you ought to listen to john zorn‘s naked city😛

He's one of our greatest contemporary musical composers.

My go to has always been, Houston Person's, "To Etta with Love." The album is a love letter to Person's long-time musical partner, Etta Jones. Released shortly after her passing, Person plays his saxophone with his signature gorgeous tone and breathy attack, that has all the dusky ambience of the dimly-lit establishments Person and Jones spent a lifetime performing in. If you're looking for something piano-based, the best all time for me is Keith Jarrett's, "The Melody At Night With You." Recorded in December of 1997 as a Christmas present for his wife, Jarret had just had his Hamburg Steinway overhauled and wanted to try it out at his home studio. He clicked on the tape recorder and played for a few minutes and was amazed at how softly he could play. The end result was quite magnificent. The usual flourish associated with Jarrett, is not on this recording, the playing is earnest, passionate, focused and simple - as the musical language of love truly is, at its core.

And that my friend, is the secret sauce...

Thanks for stopping by! Great to see Bird and Cannonball in your library!

Thanks. You too! "As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time." - Bill Evans

Here's a few I would suggest if you haven't heard them before - Introducing Paul Bley with Paul Bley, Art Blakey and Charles Mingus, Chick Corea - Tones for Joan's Bones, Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point, Keith Jarrett - Facing You, Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Coobook, Vol. 2 - Hope you find something you haven't heard before and like!

thanks! I honestly don't remember what I listened to but I'll check them out :)

Happy New Year to you too! Great to see Charlie Parker in your scrobbles. Horace Silver once said, " You can sum up jazz history with four words: Louis Armstrong Charlie Parker." - Without Bird, we wouldn't have much of the music we have today.

I hope 2026 is a great year for you!

Thanks! And a very happy new year to you too! Hope you find lots of new music in 2026.

Thank you and the same to you! I hope 2026 is filled with lots of new musical discoveries!

And a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!

These aren't all ECM label artists, but you might enjoy them as they are similar to Tord - Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Bobo Stenson, Joe Lovano, Ketil Bjørnstad, Avishai Cohen, The Bad Plus, Bokani Dyer Trio, Gogo Penguin, Foehn Trio, Mammal hands, Omer klein, Vijay Iyer, Emil Brandqvist Trio, Manu Katche, Paul Motian. Hope that helps!

Guilherme - hope everything is good in Brasil - if you enjoy Bill Evans (he is one of the all time greats) here are some other pianists and albums you might enjoy: Keith Jarrett - The Melody At Night With You - also any of Keith Jarret's Trio albums - especially Standard in Norway and Still Live. You might also like - Charles Mingus - Mingus Play Piano, Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk and Thelonious Alone in San Francisco, Chick Corea - Triology 1, 2 and 3 with Brian Blade and Christian McBride, John Lewis, The John Lewis Piano, Sir Roland Hanna - Colors from a Giant's Kit, Paul Bley - Solo and Alone Again: Solo Piano, Barry Harris - Listen to Barry Harris...Solo Piano, Kenny Drew - Kenny Drew and His Progessive Piano, Kenny Barron with Charlie Haden - Night And the City, McCoy Tyner - Plays John Coltrane: Live at The Village Vanguard, Jan Johansson - Blues, Tord Gustavsen - Changing Places, Brad Mehldau - Songs: The Art of the Trio, Red Garland - Red Garland's Piano

I do. Music is going 24/7 in my home. For some, coffee is the best part of waking up. For me, its putting on another jazz record. Hope you find some music that continues to speak to you.

Such a great musician! RIP

Here's a few to check out - Paul Bley, Jaki Bird, Sir Roland Hanna, Gene Harris, Cedar Walton, Steve Kuhn, Andrew Hill, Roy Meriwether, Lennie Tristano, McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) and Horace Tapscott - The Tapscott Sessions Vol 1 - 11. There's so many but hopefully there something interesting among them for you.

Thanks! Can't wait to dive in.

Nice! When Manfred Eicher started ECM in 1969, he not only created one of the greatest record labels of all time, he created a musical genre unlike any other. Happy listening my soon to be very highly compatable listener!

Keith Jarrett, The Koln Concert. Changed my life forever.

Here are some lesser known gems you might check out: Paul Bley - Introducing Paul Bley (Charles Mingus discovered Paul Bley at a jazz workshop in 1953 and convinced him to record. So impressed with his ability he was able to recruit Art Blakey to join him on the record) - Chick Corea - Tones for Jones Bones (Released in 1968, this is vintage Corea at his finest and the track Litha may be his best work) - Hank Crawford - More Sould (Crawford was the music director in Ray Charles' group and in 1961 he released his first album as band leader on saxaphone) - Jack DeJohnette - Jackie Board (Most people don't know drummer Jack Dejohnette started his career as a pianist and this EP is Jack at his finest) -additionally you may like, Johnny Griffin - Night Lady, Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones, Joe Gordon - Introducing Joe Gordon, Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing, Stanley Turrentine - Joyride and everyone knows Miles, but not everyone knows his album Nefrtiti which is an absolute masterpiece.

Paul Winter and Carlos Lyra released in album in 1964 called "The Sound of Ipanema," that is also a jazz/bossa nova type album. Also, Ike Quebec's, "Bossa Nova Soul Samba," might fit what you're looking for. And if all else fails, Getz has another album with Charlie Bird that was released in 1962 called, "Desafinado," that is very similar. Hope that helps and happy listening!

"There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records you want, but at the end of the day, you have to play with musicians that are better than you." - Stan Getz

Thanks!

Thanks - you too! Great to see Art Blakey in your recent plays!

I'm looking into Jazz and your profile will definitely guide me!

Thanks. Hope the jazz speaks to you!

Its the lineup from Kind of Blue - hands down, the greatest jazz group ever assembled - Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. There will never be a more talented group of jazz musicians playing together ever again. In terms of his Quintets, I am partial to the First Great Quintet from 1955 - 1958 which featured John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and my man, Philly Joe Jones on drums - another remarkable Hall of Fame lineup. A lesser known group that Miles put together, but also one of my favorites, was the group he put together for Live Evil - Gary Bartz on saxaphone, John McLughlin on guitar, Michael Henderson on bass and two of my favorite players, Keith Jarrett on keys and Jack DeJohnette on drums round out the ensemble. Miles was a master at pairing the best with the best for the sound he was trying to achieve at that point in his career. What about you? What is your favorite Miles group?

The second great quintet with Wayne Shorter for me. I think on their studio stuff they’re on the same level as the kind of blue group but their stint at plugged nickel makes them one of the greatest jazz groups imo

For me its a tie between Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton - what about you?

valid picks. it's a tie for me as well between yosuke yamashita trio, charles tyler, and alan silva

Its not just you - its been a steady decline since the beginning of the year. Its a shame, because the music info on the site is fantastic - but I keep wondering if today will be the day we get the email that they are shutting down for good.

Thanks so much for stopping by - your charts reflect everything that is great about jazz and what it means to the world. Inspiring to see Chick Corea's Piano Improvisations in your recent listens - have you heard his duo piano improvisation album with legendary classical pianist Friedrich Gulda - it is quite the exercise in excellence. Solo piano improvsation is hard enough - but to attempt and succeed with four hands is remarkable and the end result doesn't disapoint. Hope the music is speaking to you today.

Thanks - here's another one for you, "“Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face – and I never did – then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.” - Miles Davis on Thelonious Monk

Thanks for sharing!

That is awesome! So glad you got to read it. That short story changed my life..."And even then, on the rare occassions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours..." - James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

CeeLo's live acoustic of Robin Williams (2015) - the soundtrack of gratefulness.

Thanks and LOL. I spend most of my time listening to the 60s and 70s but have come across a couple really good modern free jazz artists recently and am looking for more. Let me know if you think of anyone and hope the brain fog clears very soon!

Thanks! I've always been a Dominic Miller fan since his early days with Sting and have enjoyed his solo albums. I think I missed this one and will definitely check it out!

Thanks so much for the rec - Vagabound is really one of those albums that stirs the sould and time seems to slow down while listening to it. In addition to Miller's dream-like playing, I thought Jacob Karlzon was amazing on the keys.