[JediMa70]

I recently fell in love for Jazz so I was wondering which are the "must have" albums performance-sound quality wise to have? To have a nice list here could be just amazing to improve my collection

 

[Toni Vallejo]

Some very well recorded albums that I've enjoyed for a long time (no particular order):

Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

 

[serman005]

Keith Jarrett Standards Volumes 1 & 2.

 

[Whazzzup]

There is too much jazz, styles of jazz, types of jazz, vocalists, etc... like the genre electronic, it’s just so wide, I love jazz and electronic but prefer some styles more than others. EST, or estabjorn Svenson trio is a foundation of danish/ Swedish jazz scene, but so are trio elf, and bridge to funk jazz nils landgren. This is one region of one style done differently for each.

 

[JediMa70]

There is too much jazz, styles of jazz, types of jazz, vocalists, etc... like the genre electronic, it’s just so wide, I love jazz and electronic but prefer some styles more than others. EST, or estabjorn Svenson trio is a foundation of danish/ Swedish jazz scene, but so are trio elf, and bridge to funk jazz nils landgren. This is one region of one style done differently for each.

Yes that's what i'm learning, so I will start from classics and collect and listen :
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Keith Jarrett Standards Volumes 1 & 2.

thank you guys

 

[dhc0329]

Some very well recorded albums that I've enjoyed for a long time (no particular order):

Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Man, great choice!

 

[blackdragon87]

 

[serman005]

Yes that's what i'm learning, so I will start from classics and collect and listen :
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Keith Jarrett Standards Volumes 1 & 2.

thank you guys

Let us know how you like them, please!!

 

[JediMa70]

I do! they are exactly what I was searching, I like them all and this means something ! My favourite are Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck Quartet (probably my favourite style). Then I added few recordings of Diana Krall, although is a bit different.
So if you have more to share please fell free to spam here

Slightly OT, the cans I own which are better for Jazz are to my ears HifiMan He-560, Meze 99C and HD600 it's amazing how good music sounds good with the right headphones!

 

[AlfaBeO]

Yes that's what i'm learning, so I will start from classics and collect and listen :
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Keith Jarrett Standards Volumes 1 & 2.

thank you guys

One album I just seem to never get tired of is "Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section", it would fit nicely in your list. Sound quality, have no idea if there are better and not so good recordings I always listen to the music first, no use chasing the perfect recording if I don't like the album

A small edit: If you enjoy Walz for Debby, there's another nice album with Monica Zetterlund (the singer on Walz for Debby) called "The Lost Tapes". Recorded in New York around 1960 if I remember correctly, but released in 1996 when someone found the original unreleased recordings
Zoot Sims and Thad Jones among others in the band.