I want to use this as an avenue for expanding my horizons, tastes, etc. Post your lists, preferably with a short description. Anyone can say some album they really haven't listened to that much is the best because so says the others. It takes familiarity to name songs.

Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
A weeping song. Right on the edge of full-blown free jazz as it later became.

Charles Mingus - Hora Decubitus
Rock it.

John Coltrane - Alabama
Better get it in yo soul.

Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight
This is just a really good song. A perfect median of the traits I enjoy in jazz music.

Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come
Freakish nosferatu cat and mouse suspense.

I generally really dig most versions of 'Sack O' Woe.' It's just a happenin' song.

Art 'God' Tatum's 'Get Happy' is mind blowing.

'Five', Bill Evans.

'The Sidewinder', Lee Morgan.

'In a Little Spanish Town', Lester Young.

Miles' 'Freddie Freeloader'.

Nat Adderley's 'Pretty Memory'.

'Brilliant Corners', Monk.

'In & Out', Montgomery.

'St. Thomas', Sonny Rollins.

Getz's 'On Green Dolphin Street.'

Ornette Coleman, 'Chronology'.

'All Day & All Night Long', Abdullah Ibrahim.

'New Rumba', Ahmad Jamal Trio.

'Autumn Leaves', Cannonball Adderley.

'Duet', Count Basie.

'Savoy Blues', Satchmo.

'Ruby, My Dear', Monk & Coltrane.

'Don't Get Around Much Anymore', Ben Webster & Coleman Hawkins.

'Inception', McCoy Tyner.

That's all I can think of right now.

Isn't that a Mingus tune?

yeah, but Alabama isn't.

OIC. That was just a comment on the song, "Alabama". My bad.

I am not exactly sure what you're asking for?

personal favorite songs. nothing fancy, sir. the forum is stagnant anyway, so I was feeling desperate.

Favorite compositions? Favorite interpretation of said compositions? Favorite Faulkner? Favorite song, as in lyrics? A few etcs....and several yadas.

When I get to posting in this thread, I'm just treating it as favorite jazz tracks. For example,

John Coltrane - Afro Blue (Live at Birdland)

So I suppose I'm going by favorite performances.

Here's a few 'songs' that I dig:

Sun Ra - Nuclear War - Ra drops F bombs left and right (the call and response is hilarious) while railing about da Bomb.

Mose Allison - I Looked in the Mirror - Mose muses on a profound realization that we will all experience at some point (I've already been there). Poinient (sp), humorous, and bluesy,

Oscar Brown - Ladies Man - Another take on aging - with a carnal kick. If I only had my current brain in my 22 year old body. Did I mention that it's a funny tune?

Lester Bowie - For Louie - A tribute to the (the original) Satchmo. Great trumpet, of course, and a gorgeous vocal from Fontella Bass.

Amina Claudine Myers - Jail House Blues - ACM's version of a Bessie Smith song. A stunner.

Carla Bley - Musique Mechanique - A three part suite full of humor and cool changes (the music 'skips' like a scratched LP in places). Part II features a mad house vocal that is stuck inside of a M.C. Escher drawing. Funny stuff.

Pharoah Sanders - Hum Allah Hum Allah Hum Allah - Leon Thomas gives this tune its spiritual center (plus those awesome yodles) for the rest of the band to blast off from.