Classic US Jazz: 1959

Reeling in the years with a profusion of Jazz Fusion in a new series of polls running from 1959 through to the year 2000. 🗣️ 🎉 🎵 🎶 💃 🎤 🎸 🎊 🕺 🥁

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 16 2024 at 02:57

Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Edited by someone_else - June 15 2024 at 04:45

Nice to see you, or anyone, make a poll of artists in the USA. Thanks Paul!

I wouldn't classify any of these as "fusion" but it's Kind of Blue for me.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Nice to see you, or anyone, make a poll of artists in the USA. Thanks Paul! I wouldn't classify any of these as "fusion" but it's Kind of Blue for me.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 15 2024 at 05:33

Miles Davis (Kind of Blue), Herbie Mann (Flautista), Charles Mingus.

Kind of Blue - the autobiography of MP Ken Clarke, who spent his days in parliament and his nights in Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. 

Grumpyprogfan wrote: ^Hmmm. It seems we are now at a club in the U.K?

I went with Mingus too, with Sun Ra and Coleman following. Miles Davis' Kind of Blue has received a lot of attention at PA, but I much prefer the following Sketches of Spain and then the 1965 to 1974 period is I think stellar.

My dad loved Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and made the mistake of buying the Davis album when I was a kid and complained vociferously (he had bought it at a Vancouver store that specialises in classical called The Magic Flute). I liked it, it was the first time I remembering hearing Miles Davis. I was rather sad when he he exchanged the record. I bet he wouldn't like Sketches of Spain as much as I do. That resonated with me in part because I played some of the same music as a trumpeter in youth orchestra.

Saperlipopette! wrote: I have no idea why you would label a selection of sixteen 1959 albums that you actually KNOW arent US jazz fusion* as "Classic US Jazz Fusion". But then again I will never understand you.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: I have no idea why you would label a selection of sixteen 1959 albums that you actually KNOW arent US jazz fusion* as "Classic US Jazz Fusion". But then again I will never understand you.  There's two main reasons why I began this series of polls from the year 1959:- 1. Because that was the year as I was born. and 2. I couldn't possibly consider leaving out Miles Davis' classic Kind of Blue album. And on the subject of Les Baxter, I have more albums by him than any other artist - 32 in total - so he was another "must" for inclusion.  Rest assured that when we finally reach the 1970's, ALL of the poll albums will be Jazz Fusion, although they won't necessarily be all American.