Welcome back to this special retrospective music-posting feature. The gimmick is simple — each week, you post a list (ranked or unranked) of your favourite 25 (or however many) albums of a given year. We are now moving backwards through the early days of the LP era.
Cannonball Adderley: Nippon Soul
John Barry: From Russia With Love
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers : Buhaina’s Delight
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers : Caravan
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers : Ugetsu
The Beatles: Please, Please Me; With The Beatles
Elmer Bernstein: The Great Escape *
Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue
Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane: Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane *
Clarke-Boland Big Band: Handle With Care
John Coltrane: Ballads *
John Coltrane: Impressions *
John Coltrane: Stardust *
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman: John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman *
Miles Davis: Miles & Monk at Newport;
Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven
Miles Davis & Gil Evans: Quiet Nights
Duke Ellington: My People
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane: Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach: Money Jungle
Booker Ervin: Exultation!
Bill Evans: At Shelly’s Manne-Hole
Bill Evans: Conversations with Myself
Curtis Fuller: Curtis Fuller with Red Garland *
Paul Gonsalves: Tell It The Way It Is
Joe Harriott: Movement
Andrew Hill: Black Fire
Sheila Jordan: Portrait of Sheila
Koerner, Ray & Glover: Blues, Rags and Hollers
Julie London: The End of the World
Jackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring
Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder
Thelonious Monk: Monk’s Dream; Monk in Tokyo
Gerry Mulligan: Night Life
Archie Shepp: The House I Live In; New York Contemporary Five
Various Artists: A Christmas Gift to You from Phil Spector
Nancy Wilson: Yesterday’s Loves Songs; Today’s Blues
Honorable Mentions : Eric Dolphy: Iron Man (released 1968); Duke Ellington: The Great Paris Concert (released 1973); Joe Henderson: Our Thing (released 1964); Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy (released 1967)
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