=============================================== Brownman's 75+ Essential Jazz Albums =============================================== Paquito D'Rivera: Manhattan Burn (Columbia) Egberto Gismonti:- Sonho 70 (Polydor) Lennie Tristano: Tristano (Atlantic) Dizzy Gillespie: Sonny Side Up (Verve) Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (CTI) Brecker Brothers: Heavy Metal Bebop (Arista) Michael Brecker: Michael Brecker (Impulse) Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius (Epic/Legacy) Andrew Hill: Point of Departure (Blue Note) Brad Mehldau: Art Of The Trio, Vol. 3 (Nonesuch) Art Pepper: Meets The Rhythm Section (Contemporary) Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1 (ESP-Disk) Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency! (Polydor) Django Reinhardt: The Complete Early Recordings (JSP) McCoy Tyner: The Real McCoy (Blue Note) Jimmy Smith: A New Sound, A New Star (Blue Note) Elvin Jones: Live At The Lighthouse (Blue Note) John Coltrane: Impressions (Impulse!) Chet Baker: Sings & Plays (Pacific) George Russell: The Jazz Workshop (RCA Victor) Albert Ayler Trio: Spiritual Unity (ESP-Disk) Charles Mingus: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse!) Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie: Jazz At Massey Hall (Debut) Miles Davis: Sketches Of Spain (Columbia) Miles Davis: Live At The Plugged Nickel (Columbia) Stan Getz: Focus (Verve) Stan Getz: Getz/Gilberto (Verve) Chick Corea: Return To Forever (ECM) Billie Holiday: Lady Sings The Blues (Verve) Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan (with Clifford Brown (EmArcy) Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The Cole Porter Songbook (Verve) Woody Herman: The Thundering Herds (Columbia) Count Basie Orchestra: Atomic Mr. Basie (Roulette) Clifford Brown: A Study in Brown (EmArcy) Clifford Brown: Clifford Brown & Max Roach (EmArcy) Pat Metheny: Bright Size Life (ECM) Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto (Verve) Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles (Blue Note) Art Blakey: Moanin’ (Blue Note) Cecil Taylor: At The Café Montmartre (Debut) Bud Powell: The Genius of Bud Powell (Clef/Verve) Modern Jazz Quartet: Fontessa (Atlantic) Jelly Roll Morton: Volume 1 (JSP) Wes Montgomery: Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (Riverside) Frank Sinatra: Songs For Swingin’ Lovers (Capitol) Frank Sinatra: At the Sands w/ Basie Orchestra (Reprise) Ahmad Jamal: But Not For Me - At The Pershing (Argo) Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band (RCA Bluebird) Chick Corea: Return to Forever (ECM) Chick Corea: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Solid State) Erroll Garner: Concert By The Sea (Columbia) Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz (Atlantic) Dave Brubeck: Time Out (Columbia) Dexter Gordon: Go (Blue Note) Hank Mobley: Soul Station (Blue Note) Joe Henderson: Page One (Blue Note) Horace Silver: Song For My Father (Blue Note) Oliver Nelson: The Blues And The Abstract Truth (Impulse!) Sonny Rollins: The Bridge (RCA Victor) John Coltrane: Blue Trane (Blue Note) Miles Davis: Round About Midnight (Blue Note) ---- 20 Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters (Columbia) 19 Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia) 18 Weather Report: Heavy Weather (Columbia) 17 Louis Armstrong: Complete Hot Fives and Sevens (Columbia) 16 Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert (ECM) 15 Cannonball Adderley: Somethin’ Else (Blue Note) 14 Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil (Blue Note) 13 Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (Columbia) 12 Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (Riverside) 11 Charlie Parker: Bird: Complete Original Savoy Master Takes (Savoy) 10 Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch (Blue Note) 09 Duke Ellington: Ellington At Newport (Columbia) 08 Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Columbia) 07 Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (Blue Note) 06 Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz To Come (Atlantic) 05 John Coltrane: Giant Steps (Atlantic) 04 Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus (Prestige) 03 Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Riverside) 02 John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (Impulse!) 01 Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (Columbia)