"Night Hawks at the Diner" by Tom Waits

?!?!? How is that a live Jazz record?

How is it not?

I've always thought Tom Waits to be Singer/Songwriter material...hardly Jazz...maybe I'm wrong, but...

It's live and it's jazz IMHO..oh yeah.Very "beat" in the spirit of Kerouac & those guys

My fav live jazz recording is:

The Crusaders - Scratch

Prolly the live stuff from Cannonball Adderley's Capitol Sessions. How can one man have so much soul!?!?!

My favorite is basin street blues by al hirt and pete fountain, pure insanity

Nighthawks does feature a stand-up bass.

Hmmm...I guess a lot of Tom Waits' music is Jazz influenced. I always think of him as blues-rock/songwriter (like, the best) and sort of disregard his jazz sensibilities. But they are there. More on his later stuff, though...like Swordfishtrombone, Rain Dogs. The whole New Orleans vibe.

Can Blue Valentine be considered a vocal-jazz album? Why not?

Even better, why not Meshuggah or just include any musician/group that has any form of Jazz influence.