What jazz music are you listening to?

[Tranquil]

The Chet Baker Quintet ‎– Smokin' With The Chet Baker Quintet
Label: Prestige ‎– PR 7449, Prestige ‎– PRST 7449

[bart]

Miles Davis Quintet - Miles Smiles




Second of the 6 albums from Davis' second great quintet.
Desert island material all the way!

[bart]

Elle Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife - Ella in Berlin/1960
Qobuz 24/192



Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
Paul Smith – piano
Jim Hall – guitar
Wilfred Middlebrooks – double bass
Gus Johnson – drums

[bart]

Ella Fitzgerald - The Complete Decca Singles 1950-1955
via Qobuz




4 CD-box.
The stream sounds nice.

[Tranquil]

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers ‎– Hard Drive
Label: Bethlehem Records ‎– BCP 6037

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The Miles Davis Quintet ‎– Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
Label: Original Jazz Classics ‎– OJC-190, Prestige ‎– P-7129

Another Great Miles Quintet. This time on Prestige.

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Walter Davis Jr. ‎– Davis Cup
Label: Blue Note ‎– BN 4018, Blue Note ‎– BST 84018

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Dinah Washington ‎– The Jazz Sides
Label: Mercury ‎– EMS-2-401

Beautiful Album. The Rhythm section is perfect. Wynton Kelly complements every soloists yet never gets in the way. He perfected comping. dde0e

[asindc]

Originally Posted by ylee

Straddling the line between Classical and Jazz. A record I listened to in high school (especially in the summer of 1985) that contains many pieces of the Great American Songbook that Gershwin contributed. I played many of these pieces myself on the piano back then. I was never as good as Andre Watts though.

Thanks for the recommendation. Listening now. Love Rhapsody in Blue.

[asindc]

Originally Posted by bart

Sonny Rollins And the Contemporary Leaders
Qobuz 24/192




Rollins in '58, last album before his 3 year retirement.

Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
Hampton Hawes - piano
Barney Kessel - guitar
Leroy Vinnegar - bass
Shelly Manne - drums
Victor Feldman - vibes

I'm eagerly anticipating the arrival of Qobuz here in the U.S.