194. Soft Machine – Third
The dark winter of Prog rock is coming, but Soft Machine’s final behemoth album isn’t without its intrigue, even if it is hard work.
Tag: jazz
177. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
This is where I start to struggle. This isn’t the first time I’ve alluded to the fact that I can’t…
33. Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba
The other night, I streamed this album over AirPlay as I was having a meal around a friend’s house, and it’s a telling testament to this bossa nova trailblazer that we were only about 30 seconds in before the conversation turned to “Mad Men”.
21. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Is it bad that I had to wait 21 albums into this audio odyssey before I got to an album…
12. Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool
As you may have gathered from my constant moaning about it, jazz has never really been my thing. These bebop…
10. Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners
More jazz? Well if you insist. Actually, if all the jazz albums I had to plough through were like this,…
7. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra – Live at Newport
Ugh. Jazz. Well, undertaking to list to 1001 Albums starting in the fifties meant that I was going to have…