Rahsaan Roland Kirk has been glossed over in favor of some rather DUBIOUS choices.

Oh, it's minus two points now? Should I sit in the spider corner, too?

I'm no expert list maker or anything.

i have never sent anyone to the corner. but grasshoppa....mentioning wm is like beating a dead horse. no effort is needed for that....you could be in a coma and break that off....the more i thought about it the more it screamed medulla oblongata.

thats something i would expect from the comatose board. i expect more from you grasshoppas.


of all grasshoppas, i expected some sort of mingus rant from you. a hint there might there be.

I was going to say that I see no Black Saint and Sinner Lady up there but I don't think it's necesary anymore.
I'm not really sure on this one but, isn't Jimmy Witherspoon's music more like blues?

If it's an all time thing why list 2-3 albums by the same artist in a row?

Course I would also have to dispute the no Monk until 37?

The Mingus selections are just...yeah...kind of WTF? I don't want to knock any Mingus recordings, but there are better places to start, IMO.

Pithecanthropus Erectus

Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Tijuana Moods

Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus

Tho' Mingus Ah Um & Mingus Dynasty are usually what I try to hip people to first.

I don't think its in an exact order. It's just 100 essential albums (according to the author).

10 points for the grasshoppa who barely listens to jazz anymore. it would have been 20 points if not for that not listening to jazz monkey he is caring on his back....which has him at -30 points to begin with. mentioning da monk and fellow cardinal gets major points.


p.s. how many of you knew the cardinal is the official bird of north carolina? the show me state 'as in, missouri's offical bird is the bluebird'.

ok, another hint. the clueless one doesnt bother to mention its in a chronological order.

It's pretty weird chronological order, though...instead of just putting all the recordings chronologically, when it gets to the first included album by an artist, it then lists all of that artists' included albums chronologically, before going on to the next chronological album after the first one.

It's kind of a gimme after bringing up chronology, but there are a grand total of 8 albums from beyond 1970. I know he said something about specializing in classic jazz, but come on...

With the exception of the Clifford Brown & Max Roach album (not to discredit the quality of that album, of course), there are no Max Roach albums (Abbey Lincoln's "That's Him" (which I'll admit I'm unfamiliar with) over Freedom Now! Suite?), and like Roivas said, no Rahsaan. Other than the Miles Plugged Nickel Highlights disc, Wayne Shorter does not appear on any of these albums, that I can tell (he may be a sideman on some that I just don't know). The Jackie McLean choice is kinda random.

There's a general lack of male vocalists, with the exception of Louis Armstrong and the scattered tracks you'll find on the big band box sets, as well as Nat King Cole, who may or may not be included more for his pop career, I dunno.