Which of My Top 5 Fav Jazz Albums of 1959 is yours too?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Please excuse the Dave Brubeck (I know it's a very commercial album) but Blue Rondo a la Turk is just one of my favorites.

My Fave of the bunch is "Shape of Jazz to Come" I think "Lonely Woman" is one of the best jazz songs written, I find myself whistling it to myself a lot!

[bif]

1. Kind of Blue

With Mingus and Trane in close second.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Going with Mingus.

What a great year.

On edit: no need to apologize for including Brubeck. Time Out's genius endures, and survives its over-familiarity.

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. Well, I saw your subject,

and I said "Kind of Blue."

Lo and behold, there it was!

So I voted for it.

[GumboYaYa]

4. I had never realized that all of those albums were released the same year

What a year!!!!

I have to go with Miles closely followed by Mingus and Trane as well.

Ornette's album is sick good too. I love Don Cherry.

That Brubeck album is worth mention just for the complex rythmns alone.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. That year was HOT and had many more classics

Check it out online. Search for Jazz Albums 1959 - you'll be amazed

[bif]

6. 1957 is the other incredible year

Whe I look through my collection, I'm just amazed by how many were recorded in 1957.

[Laughing Mirror]

7. Billie Holiday's last album, just because it was her

and she was the very essence of what jazz has always been to me.

Bassist Milt Hinton's picture of her in the studio during those final sessions:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. Wow - she looks like she's giving up the fight!

Wow. Thanks for posting that. She looks like a beautiful flower stamped out while in full bloom.

[Zomby Woof]

9. time to nitpick again

"Giant Steps" came out in 1960. :-)

Which makes choosing "Kind of Blue" that much easier.