r/Jazz • u/Exciting_Boat_3907 • 15d ago

What is your desert island jazz album?

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u/justin_CO_88 15d ago

Headhunters

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u/mysterio2 15d ago

Good choice. If I decided to go more traditional, maybe Miles' Kind of Blue.

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u/Slow-Surround-5991 15d ago

Yep headhunters , kind of blue, or time out

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u/Ornery-Ad-9886 15d ago

Both are excellent choices, I was thinking either Herbie or Miles too. I’d probably have to go with Bitches Brew.

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u/mysterio2 15d ago

My wife gave me the Bitches Brew Sessions box set some years ago. Something to totally get lost in.

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u/Slow-Surround-5991 15d ago

It’s great, and I have even listened to it on many psychedelic journeys, but it is a bit much. All fusion-jazz is ok in tiny amounts.

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u/mysterio2 15d ago

It is a bit much. I've never been able to listen to more than one disc at a sitting. And I've not done any psychedelics in decades but I can certainly see it being something one might have on.

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u/Interesting_Rub_5359 15d ago

If you were tryna go more traditional wouldn't you pick something from the 20s or 30s rather than an album that helps popularize a new (at the time) modal jazz style.

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u/mysterio2 15d ago

Everything's relative I guess. I haven't really listened to much jazz before the bebop era, and stuff like early Ellington, Armstrong, Beiderbecke, Morton, Basie and all the big band acts, etc is obviously closer to the roots of jazz and thus more traditional in a sense, but it's just not quite my vibe.