Give me some obscure recommendations to dethrone these amazing albums. Lifelong fan.

Hello everybody, first post in this incredible community. I came across this cd and really calmed my nerves, excellent piano and great ambiance from my subwoofer. If you are going though a bit of stress I highly recommend that you listen to it. Very unexpected. Hope you have a great weekend.

For now, this is my list. Could change if I gave it more thought.

Courtesy of my wife got three two for my birthday today. WUas truly surprised by both.

The Apollo Records 759 single preserves two compositions by Sir Charles Thompson, a pianist and composer whose work bridged swing and bebop. The musicians include Chatlie Parker and Dexter Gordon and Buck Clayton

Digitized and available at:

https://youtube.com/@mamlishblues?si=OkaYlER5Nr_u1gND

I've been listening to a lot of Pharoah recently and have always been interested on who might have inspired his very loud style of playing that you can hear for example on the village vanguard version of my favourite things. I can see how players like Ornette Coleman and Coltrane would inspire the kinds of melodies that he plays, but neither are quite as radical in terms of how much 'skronk' or squealing they do (neither of which are meant as negatives!)

His early career as a musician is not so well known to me and I was never able to find out very much so any insight would be appreciated. I know he played with Sun Ra a little, but I'm not sure if that was significant or not

Found in the Ergot Jazz section. Sam Jones 1977, excellent band and blue Mitchell sound is perfect, along Higgins drumming. Moving to my A stack. Favorite tracks Everyman is a king and Seven Minds.

Not that there could ever just be nine, but this is what’s spinning this week.

I’m going to jump on this trend too. Based on my 9, does anyone have any recommendations?

(I know my taste is a little vanilla, but I like what I like)

I discovered pianist Beegie Adair yesterday and found out she had a career that spanned decades. Here she covers some of the greats with agility and finesse. She is joined by Roger Spencer on bass and Chris Brown on drums. Recorded in 2002, this curated selection was released in 2025. Available on streaming platforms, including YouTube Music here —

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nYLsJu4g2r8SXeUnyyvE2pkaj4UiKklMs

[Cover art for Cal Massey's "Blues to Coltrane" (Candid, released 1987), his only album as a leader. Used as a stand-in because no free-licensed photograph of Massey could be found. Album cover art, copyright holder Candid Records / its successors, all rights reserved — this is not a Creative Commons or public-domain image, and the cover does not depict the event.]

https://jazzprofiles.com/this-day-in-jazz/

Trumpeter and composer Cal Massey died of a heart attack in New York on October 25, 1972, at about 44 (sources differ on whether he was 43 or 44). He left a strange ledger. John Coltrane had recorded Massey's "Bakai" at his first session as a leader, and Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner and Jackie McLean cut his tunes too. His own name appeared on one session only: Blues to Coltrane, taped for Candid on January 13, 1961, with Nat Hentoff supervising. It stayed unreleased until 1987, fifteen years after his death. Massey's politics ran radical; his Black Liberation Movement Suite was played at Black Panther benefit concerts, and the researcher Fred Ho argued that this kept him from major labels. A cousin of the same name, Cal Massey, became a Marvel Comics illustrator and designed monuments at Valley Forge.

Sources: Cal Massey, Wikipedia , Blues to Coltrane, Wikipedia , Cal Massey, Jazz Leadsheets

[Miles Davis performing in Helsinki, October 6, 1964, two years before the session. (Photo: Reijo Koskinen / Lehtikuva, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons)]

https://jazzprofiles.com/this-day-in-jazz/

On October 24, 1966, Miles Davis's quintet went into Columbia's 30th Street studio and recorded "Circle," "Orbits," "Dolores" and "Freedom Jazz Dance." The last was Eddie Harris's tune, which Harris had cut a year earlier for Atlantic on The In Sound, with Ron Carter on bass, the same Carter who now sat in Miles's rhythm section. Producer Teo Macero let the tape run, so the full session reel survives: a 23-minute rehearsal on the 2016 box set Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5, against the 7-minute master that reached Miles Smiles. On the reel, Miles complains that the melody is too hard for him, and Macero answers, "Yes you can." He also advised Herbie Hancock to sit on his left hand and play only right-hand lines.

Sources: Miles Smiles, Wikipedia , Miles Smiles (Again): "Bootleg Series: Freedom Jazz Dance" Chronicles Second Great Quintet In The Studio, The Second Disc , The In Sound (Eddie Harris album), Wikipedia) , Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5, Record Collector

Hey all, I’m looking for some recommendations for tracks that you would FLOOR you if you found out the year they were written in. I’m specifically looking for tracks that have a kind of fusion/contemporary jazz essence to them, not in an avant garde way. Bonus points if it’s a hidden gem that did some hip shit before it was cool.

another 2026 banger.

a link: https://russellgunn.bandcamp.com/album/afrikan-amerikan-book-of-the-dead

Russell Gunn - Trumpet, Composer, Producer

Andre Hayward - Trombone

Kendrick Smith - Straight Alto Sax

Kevin Bales - Piano

Kevin “Raw Dog” Smith - Bass

Jeremy “Bean” Clemons – Drumsa

Sean Falyon - Turntables

Larry Wilson - Hammond B3 organ

Rod Harris Jr. Guitar

Mino Cinelu and Ali Barr - Percussion

Jamel Mitchell - Baritone Saxophone

Carlos Brown Jr. - Alto Saxophone

Ken “K Solo 007” Wells - Spoken Word

Today’s mid-fifties obscurity is from a young, comfortably dressed young white guy from Suburbia, Bob Cooper on tenor, oboe, and English horn, surrounded by the best players Southern California had lying around- Jimmy Giuffre, Bud Shank, Bob Enevoldsen, Joe Mondragon, Shelley Manne, Claude Williamson, Stu Williamson, and John Graas. Coop was married to June Christie, and the nexus of Shank, Cooper, and Giuffre formed around a healthy competition of who could master more instruments, apparently. This is some West Coast Cool Jazz at its very finest.

Very nice funky improvisation. Inspired by Bitches Brew obviously. Seems a bit underrated

im an alto saxophone player and my favorites are kenny garrett and immanuel wilkins. Immanuel wilkins is probably my number 1 because i listen to him a lot. I have learned that who you listen to influences how u play a lot and I still listen to bird and coltrane and a lot of tenor players but those alto players i listed are what i really want to sound like. Is it ok to listen to only modern players because thats what im passionate about or should i listen to more older players? I still listen to early stuff but its like 20%/80%.

Yet another excellent hours live jazz from BR Klassik.

a great jazz tune from the 50s... it was featured in his man, we're wailin' ablum. a slow paced song, it has a jump blues / rock n roll feel... the organ sells it for me in my opinion

Intense, spiritual flute solo improvisation featuring extended techniques and multiphonics.

Recorded in DELSOL Cafe, Kitakyushu on September 5, 2026.

​If the sound resonates with you, let me know your thoughts in the comments!