300! That means I'm 29.97% of the way through, just because somebody decided 1000 wasn't a round enough number and went for 1001.
Here's a list of the albums I've listened to since the last Jazz Guide Update.
Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis – Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis 1927-1939
Joe Marsala – Joe Marsala 1936-1942
Lee Konitz – Subconscious-Lee
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – Sing A Song Of Basie
Ken Colyer – Club Session With Colyer
Mongo Santamaria – Watermelon Man
Karin Krog & Dexter Gordon – Some Other Spring
Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert
Johnny Mbizo Dyani – Witchdoctor’s Son
Craig Harris Quintet – Black Bone
Daniel Humair – 9-11p.m. Town Hall
Benny Green – Testifyin! Live At The Village Vanguard
James Carter – Conversin’ With The Elders
Bill Frisell – Have A Little Faith
Brad Mehldau – The Art Of The Trio Volume 2: Live At The Village Vanguard
James Emery – Transformations
Dickie Wells – Dickie Wells 1927 – 1943
Earl Hines – Earl Hines Collection: Piano Solos 1928-1940
Sing A Song Of Basie by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross is an interesting collection of Count Basie songs, into which words have been put in place of the horn parts and solos. It’s impressive how well the written words replace the themes of the songs, but what really impressed me were the words in place of the instrumental solos, which fit incredibly well, and were able to be witty in a context that was originally improvised and not at all intended for the human voice. This album could be written off as a novelty if it wasn’t so good.
James Carter’s album Conversin’ With The Elders is essentially a swing album, but it’s also so much more. It’s a collection of very different songs which almost doesn’t fit together, yet it just does. Standout songs for me are FreeReggaeHiBop; a Bebop tune in a reggae style and Composition #40Q which is something like a New Orleans Second Line style march with a dark twist, reminding me a little of Pink Elephants On Parade from Disney’s Dumbo.
Anyway, here's the full and updated list of all 300 albums I've listened to so far from The Penguin Jazz Guide. Feel free to count them yourself to see if there definitely is 300. I've been counting as I've been going so there could be a mistake but we'll know for definite when I get to 1001.
Beginnings
Eubie Blake – Memories Of You
Original Dixieland Jazz Band – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1917-1921
James P. Johnson – Carolina Shout
Eureka Brass Band – New Orleans Funeral And Parade
Jelly Roll Morton – The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings
Baby Dodds – Baby Dodds
George ‘Pops’ Foster – George ‘Pops’ Foster
The 20’s
Jelly Roll Morton – The Piano Rolls
Ladd’s Black Aces/Original Memphis Five – The Complete Ladd’s Black Aces 1921-1924
Ladd’s Black Aces/Original Memphis Five – Original Memphis Five: Columbias 1923-1931
New Orleans Rhythm Kings - New Orleans Rhythm Kings 1922-1925: The Complete Set
Kid Ory – Ory’s Creole Trombone
The Georgians – The Georgians 1922-1923 / 1923-1924
Perry Bradford – Perry Bradford And The Blues Singers In Chronological Order
Armand Piron – Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra
Joe ‘King’ Oliver – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set
Freddie Keppard – The Complete Set – 1923-1926
Jimmy Blythe – Messin’ Around Blues
Georgia Melodians – Georgia Melodians 1924-1926
Five Birmingham Babies – Heart Breakin’ Baby
Lovie Austin – Lovie Austin 1924-1926
Red Nichols – The Red Heads Complete Set 1925 – 1927
Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith – Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith 1925-1937
Fletcher Henderson – The Harmony & Vocalion Sessions: Volumes 1 & 2
Louis Armstrong – Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings: Volumes 1-3
Oscar ‘Papa’ Celestin/Sam Morgan - Papa Celestin & Sam Morgan
Eddie Lang – The Quintessential Eddie Lang 1925-1932
Johnny Dodds – Johnny Dodds 1926
Jelly Roll Morton – Jelly Roll Morton 1926-1929
Tiny Parham – Tiny Parham 1926-1929
Bix Beiderbecke – At The Jazz Band Ball
Frankie Trumbauer – Frankie Trumbauer 1927-1928
Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington 1927-1929
Miff Mole – Slippin’ Around
Eddie Condon – Eddie Condon 1927-1938
Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis – Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis 1927-1939
Dickie Wells – Dickie Wells 1927 - 1943
Mckinney’s Cotton Pickers – Put It There/Cotton Picker’s Scat
Earl Hines – Earl Hines Collection: Piano Solos 1928-1940
Jimmie Noone – Jimmie Noone 1928-1929
The 30’s
Jimmie Lunceford – Jimmie Lunceford 1930-1934
Joe Venuti – Complete Jazz Series 1930-1933
Casa Loma Orchestra – Casa Loma Stomp/Maniac’s Ball
Chick Webb – Rhythm Man/Strictly Jive
The Spirits Of Rhythm – The Spirits Of Rhythm 1933-1945
Wingy Manone – Wingy Manone 1934-1935
Tiny Bradshaw – Breakin’ Up The House
Django Reinhardt – Django Reinhardt 1935-1936
Benny Goodman – The Complete Small Group Sessions
Tommy Dorsey – The Best Of Tommy Dorsey And His Clambake Seven
Joe Marsala – Joe Marsala 1936-1942
Jimmy Dorsey – Amapola
Count Basie - The Original American Decca Recordings
Benny Goodman - At Carnegie Hall 1938: Complete
Dizzy Gillespie – The Complete RCA Victor Recordings
Muggsy Spanier - Muggsy Spanier 1939-1942
The 40’s
Lester Young – The Complete Aladdin Sessions
Lucky Millinder – Lucky Millinder 1943-1947
Art Hodes – The Jazz Record Story
Duke Ellington – Black, Brown and Beige
Jazz at the Philharmonic – The Best Of The 1940s Concerts
Tiny Grimes – Tiny Grimes 1944-1949
Charlie Parker – The Complete Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings/Newly Discovered Sides
Mary Lou Williams – The Zodiac Suite
Woody Herman – Blowin’ Up A Storm!
Wooden Joe Nicholas - Wooden Joe Nicholas
Kenny Clarke – Klook’s The Man
Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker With Strings
Dave Brubeck – The Dave Brubeck Octet
Illinois Jacquet - Illinois Jacquet 1945-1946
Thelonius Monk – Genius Of Modern Music: Volumes 1 & 2
Charlie Ventura – The Complete Pasadena Concerts 1949
Lee Konitz – Subconscious-Lee
Miles Davis – The Complete Birth Of The Cool
The 50’s – 1951-1955
Stan Getz – The Complete Roost Recordings
Louis Armstrong – California Concerts
Jimmy Forrest – Night Train
Billie Holiday – Lady In Autumn
Lester Young – The President Plays
Red Rodney – Red Rodney Quintets
Charlie Parker – The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall
Ben Webster – King Of The Tenors
J. J. Johnson – The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson: Volumes 1 & 2
Vic Dickenson – The Essential Vic Dickenson
Mel Powell – Borderline – Thigamajig
Jimmy Raney - A
Johnny St Cyr – Johnny St Cyr
Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan
Chico Hamilton – Live At The Strollers
Erroll Garner – Concert By The Sea
Ruby Braff – 2x2: Ruby Braff And Ellis Larkins Play Rodgers And Hart
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – Sing A Song Of Basie
The 50’s – 1956-1960
Helen Merrill – Helen Merrill With Clifford Brown And Gil Evans
Jo Jones – The Essential Jo Jones
J. R. Monterose - J. R. Monterose
Teddy Charles – The Teddy Charles Tentet
Charles Mingus – Pithecanthropus Erectus
Tal Farlow – The Swinging Guitar Of Tal Farlow
Chet Baker – Chet Baker And Crew
Charlie Shavers – Horn O’Plenty
Ella Fitzgerald – Sings The Cole Porter Songbook
Serge Chaloff – Blue Serge
Kenny Dorham – ‘Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia
Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
Duke Elington – Ellington At Newport 1956 (Complete)
Maynard Ferguson – The Birdland Dreamband
Phineas Newborn Jr – Here Is Phineas
Quincy Jones – This Is How I Feel About Jazz
Ken Colyer – Club Session With Colyer
Thelonius Monk – Brilliant Corners
Kai Winding – Trombone Panorama
Art Pepper – Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section
Art Blakey - Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonius Monk
Miles Davis – Miles Ahead
Count Basie – The Complete Atomic Mr Basie
Cannonball Adderly – Somethin’ Else
Sun Ra – Jazz In Silhouette
Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
Dave Brubeck – Time Out
Ornette Coleman – The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Charles Mingus – Mingus Dynasty
John Coltrane – Giant Steps
Wes Montgomery – Incredible Jazz Guitar
Gil Evans – Out Of The Cool
The 60’s – 1961-1965
Oliver Nelson – Blues And The Abstract Truth
George Russel – Ezz-thetics
Howard McGhee – Maggie’s Back In Town!!
Bill Evans – The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961
Stan Getz – Focus
Lee Konitz – Motion
Bobby Timmons – In Person
Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds
Milt Jackson – Bags Meets Wes
Perry Robinson – Funk Dumpling
Sheila Jordan – Portrait Of Sheila
Cecil Taylor – Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come
Oscar Peterson – Night Train
Mongo Santamaria – Watermelon Man
Charles Mingus – The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Bill Evans – Conversations With Myself
Sathima Bea Benjamin – A Morning In Paris
Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder
Tony Williams – Life Time
Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
Pete La Roca - Basra
John Coltrane – Ascension
Miles Davis – The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel
The 60’s – 1966-1970
Albert Ayler – Live In Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings
The Jazz Crusaders – Live At The Lighthouse ‘66
Charles Lloyd Quartet – Dream Weaver
Duke Ellington – The Far East Suite
Stanley Turrentine – The Spoiler
Buddy Rich – Swingin’ New Big Band
Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones
McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy
The Don Ellis Orchestra – Electric Bath
Thelonius Monk – Underground
Tony Oxley – The Baptised Traveller
Miles Davis – In A Silent Way
The Tony Williams Lifetime/Lifetime – (Turn It Over)
Thad Jones – Consummation
Karin Krog & Dexter Gordon – Some Other Spring
Joe Zawinul – Zawinul
The 70’s – 1971-1975
Gerry Mulligan – The Age Of Steam
Slam Stewart – Slam Bam
Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame
Ornette Coleman – The Complete Science Fiction Sessions
Revolutionary Ensemble – Revolutionary Ensemble
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
Donald Byrd – Black Byrd
Chick Corea – Light As A Feather
Fred Van Hove – The Complete Vogel Recordings
Julian Priester – Love, Love
Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
Oregon – Music Of Another Present Era
Weather Report – Mysterious Traveller
Bennie Maupin – The Jewel In The Lotus
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella In London
John Abercrombie – Timeless
Gil Evans – Plays The Music Of Jimi Hendrix
Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert
Miles Davis – Agharta
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Don Cherry – Brown Rice
Mary Lou Williams – Free Spirits
The 70’s – 1976-1980
George Benson – Breezin’
Albert Mangelsdorff – Tromboneliness
Anthony Braxton – Creative Orchestra Music 1976
Milt Jackson – At The Kosei Nenkin
Barre Phillips – Mountainscapes
Charles Tyler – Saga Of The Outlaws
Jan Garbarek – Dis
Jay McShann – Last Of The Blue Devils
Paul Bley – Axis
Hamiet Bluiett – Birthright
Air – Air Time
Johnny Mbizo Dyani – Witchdoctor’s Son
Raymond Burke – Raymond Burke And Cie Frazier With Butch Thompson In New Orleans
Steve Swallow – Home
George Lewis – Homage To Charles Parker
Arthur Blythe – Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Archie Shepp – Looking At Bird
Ganelin Trio – Ancora Da Capo
The 80’s – 1981-1985
Billy Bang – Rainbow Gladiator
Lester Bowie – The Great Pretender
James Newton – Axum
Bill Dixon – November 1981
Sarah Vaughan – Crazy And Mixed Up
George Russell – Live In An American Time Spiral
Miroslav Vitous – Journey’s End
Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The Navigator
Craig Harris Quintet – Black Bone
Vienna Art Orchestra – The Minimalism Of Erik Satie
Lee Konitz – Star Eyes
String Trio Of New York – Rebirth Of A Feeling
Ray Brown – Soular Energy
Jimmy Lyons Quintet – Give It Up
Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman – Song X
The 80’s – 1986-1990
Bobby Watson – Love Remains
Dennis Gonzalez – Stefan
Palle Mikkelborg – Heart To Heart
Edward Vesala – Lumi
Joe Zawinul – Di-a-lects
Courtney Pine – Journey To The Urge Within
Clifford Jordan – Royal Ballads
Charlie Haden – Quartet West
Irene Schweizer - Irene Schweizer/Gunter Sommer
Marilyn Crispell – For Coltrane
Frank Morgan - Reflections
Art Farmer – Blame It On My Youth
Toots Thielemans – Only Trust Your Heart
UMO Jazz Orchestra – UMO Plays The Music Of Muhal Richard Abrams
Daniel Humair – 9-11p.m. Town Hall
Louis Hayes – Una Max
Kenny Wheeler – Music For Large And Small Ensembles
Either/Orchestra – The Calculus Of Pleasure
Sun Ra – Mayan Temples
The 90’s – 1991-1995
McCoy Tyner – Soliloquy
Donald Harrison – Indian Blues
Italian Instabile Orchestra – Live In Noci And Rive De Gier
Don Byron – Tuskegee Experiments
Sonny Sharrock – Ask The Ages
Jane Bunnett – Spirits Of Havana
Joe Wilder – Alone With Just My Dreams
Charles Gayle – Touchin’ On Trane
Benny Green – Testifyin! Live At The Village Vanguard
Joe Lovano – From The Soul
Larry Coryell – Twelve Frets To One Octave
Tom Varner – The Mystery Of Compassion
Hilton Ruiz – Manhattan Mambo
Tommy Smith - Paris
Gianluigi Trovesi – From G to G
Joshua Redman – Joshua Redman
John Lindberg – Dodging Bullets
Bill Frisell – Have A Little Faith
Don Pullen – Ode To Life
John Gill’s Dixieland Serenaders – Looking For A Little Bluebird
Abdullah Ibrahim - Yarona
Kenny Garrett – Triology
The 90’s – 1996-2000
Tomasz Stanko – Leosia
Ruby Braff – Being With You: Ruby Braff Remembers Louis Armstrong
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny – Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories)
John Scofield – Quiet
Joe McPhee – As Serious As Your Life
James Carter – Conversin’ With The Elders
Kurt Rosenwinkel – East Coast Love Affair
Rova – Bingo
Terell Stafford – Centripetal Force
Alan Broadbent – Personal Standards
Arild Anderson – Hyperborean
Gerry Hemingway Quintet – Waltzes, Two-Steps & Other Matters Of The Heart
Brad Mehldau – The Art Of The Trio Volume 2: Live At The Village Vanguard
T. S. Monk – Monk On Monk
Marilyn Mazur’s Future Song – Small Labyrinths
Bob Brookmeyer – New Works: Celebration
Elton Dean’s Newsense – Elton Dean’s Newsense
Dave Douglas – Convergence
Greg Osby – Banned In New York
Paul Bley – Not Two, Not One
Spike Robinson – The CTS Sessions
Ryan Kisor – Power Source
The Recent Scene – 2001-2010
Dick Hyman – Forgotten Dreams
Alex Cline – The Constant Flame
Jason Moran – Black Stars
Keith Jarrett – Always Let Me Go
Enrico Pieranunzi – Live In Paris
David Sanchez – Travesia
Charlie Hunter – Songs From The Analog Playground
James Emery – Transformations
Conrad Bauer – Between Heaven And Earth
Adam Lane – New Magical Kingdom
John Taylor - Rosslyn
The Bad Plus – Give
Steve Harris/Zaum – Above Our Heads The Sky Splits Open
Robert Glasper – Canvas
Ran Blake – All That Is Tied
Ralph Towner – Time Line
Quest – Redemption: Quest Live In Europe
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