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    Posted: April 01 2022 at 11:28
pretty good year for prog, all things considered

1. Miles Davis - Quintet/Sextet
2. Miles Davis - Miles Davis (Volume 2)
3. Miles Davis - Collectors' Items
4. Miles Davis - Miles Davis And Horns
5. Miles Davis - Blue Haze
6. Miles Davis - Dig
7. Miles Davis - Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet
8. Miles Davis - Conception
9. Miles Davis - Air Miles
10. Miles Davis - Miles Davis Vs. Geena Davis
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Grumpyprogfan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2022 at 11:39
^

And in the prog related category, there's Elvis.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SuperMetro Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2022 at 11:42
This looks like a joke poll. Johnny B Goode was not even around during this time. Geena Davis was born in '56, so she was a baby then and did not know Miles. Jazz music is also not progressive rock because it jazzes out and not rocks out(unless if its fusion), and also because a lot of it is filled with improvised jamming. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Saperlipopette! Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2022 at 11:58
Gotta give it to Miles. He almost singlehandedly kept the prog flame alive during the 1950's. These may not all be prog...

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa
Chico Hamilton Quintet - Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi Fi
Hal McKusick Octet - In a Twentieth-Century Drawing Room
The Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Ahmad Jamal Trio
Bob Romeo, His Flute and the Jungle Sextet - Music to Play in the Dark
Eartha Kitt - Thursday's Child
Buddy Collette - Tanganyika
Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea
Les Baxter - Tamboo!
John Jacob Niles - Sings American Folk Songs



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote chopper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2022 at 12:07
I prefer 1957 myself.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Nogbad_The_Bad Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2022 at 12:36
I see one non-Miles 'prog' album on the site from that year

Alain Goraguer - Go-Go-Goraguer

I guess he's on here for his 1973 album La Planete Sauvage


Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - April 01 2022 at 12:37
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world, it looks like I just stepped into Jazz Club. Smile

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Lots of great albums that year, mostly jazz

Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis
Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues
Ravi Shankar - Music of India: Three Classical Ragas
Sonny Rollins - Plus 4
The Jazz Messengers - s/t
Johnny Burnette and the Rock n Roll Trio - s/t
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gospel Train
Stan Getz - Plays
Art Tatum - Tatum Group Masterpieces Vol 7

all those Miles Davis albums as well



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2022 at 13:48
Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

^

And in the prog related category, there's Elvis.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cactus Choir Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2022 at 14:02
I wish this was about favourite prog albums of 1955, then I could have suggested In The Wee Small Hours by Frank Sinatra which is touted as one of the first concept albums.
"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"

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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

pretty good year for prog, all things considered

1. Miles Davis - Quintet/Sextet
2. Miles Davis - Miles Davis (Volume 2)
3. Miles Davis - Collectors' Items
4. Miles Davis - Miles Davis And Horns
5. Miles Davis - Blue Haze
6. Miles Davis - Dig
7. Miles Davis - Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet
8. Miles Davis - Conception
9. Miles Davis - Air Miles
10. Miles Davis - Miles Davis Vs. Geena Davis

lol

i was going to make a similar joke 
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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1. Ravi Shankar's Music of India (Three Classical Ragas) 
2. Ali Akbar Khan & Pandit Chatur Lal Music of India (Morning and Evening Ragas)
3. Thelonius Monk The Unique Thelonius Monk
4. Charlie Parker Night & Day
5. Bill Haley and His Comets Rock 'n' Roll Stage Show
6. The Platters The Platters
7. Oscar Peterson Pastel Moods
8. Don Cherry with Ray Coniff and His Orchestra Swingin' for Two
9. Frankie Laine and the Four Lads Frankie Laine and the Four Lads
10. G-Clef and the Three Sophomores Gentle Mass Touching


Honorable mention: 
Elvis Presley Rock 'n Roll
(holdover from the previous year:) Frank Sinatra In the Wee Small Hours

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote BrufordFreak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2022 at 16:41
Or, from an alternate univers:

Bill Evans with Gil Evans Gil and Bill Together Again at Last
Oscar Peterson Trio Oscar Plays Emerson
Sun Ra and His Orchestra Remembering the Future
Karlheinz Stockhausen Studie A/Studie B/Gesang der Alte Leute
Ornette Coleman Who The Hell Took My Charts?
Django Rheinhardt and the Hot Club of France I.O.U.
Pat Boone Pat Boone Sings the Songs of David Robert Jones
Wes Montgomery Noodling by My Self
Bill Haley and His Comets Seven Chords to Uranus
Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan Greatest Hits
John Cage Sonata for Chaos and Theramin

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