U-Discover Mag Lists The 50 Greatest Jazz Albums


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U-Discover magazine just issued their list of the 50 greatest jazz albums of all time. Well, everbody's got an opinion, and I don't totally agree with their list..but at least they've got a list. I checked their list and I own 15 of the albums on the list.

How many albums on the list do you own?

What albums do you feel are glaring omissions from the list?
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Showing 2 responses by dayglow

IMO this list is derived from popularity(sales) and critics outdated reviews. When Bitches Brew/Headhunter and Heavy Weather are the 3 "token" fusion recordings and Kind of Blue at #1 tells me very little effort, time and thought was applied when compiling this list!
Being influential should not be a major criteria when critiquing the performance of a recording. It is irrelevant if "Head Hunters" influenced hip hop or that "Bitches Brew" helped create a genre know as fusion jazz. I think Miles is still laughing at the praise this incoherent recording receives. Freddie Hubbard-Joe Sample-Chuck Mangione-Earl Klugh and many others have all made better fusion jazz recordings. There is also a serious neglect of jazz vocalists, and finally omitting Black Codes(Wynton Marsalis)is almost as ridiculous as this list!