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1969;

1 Funkadelic - Funkadelic
2 The Rolling Stones - LET IT BLEED
3 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
4 James Brown - Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud
5 The Stooges - The Stooges
6 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
7 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
8 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
9 Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
10 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
11 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
12 Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
13 The Beatles - Abbey Road
14 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
15 Fleetwood Mac - English Rose

1968;

1 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2 The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
3 Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
4 The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
5 Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
6 The Rolling Stones - BEGGARS BANQUET
7 Nico - Chelsea Girl
8 Dr. John - Gris-Gris
9 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
10 Big Mama Thornton - Ball N' Chain
11 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
12 The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
13 The Everly Brothers - Roots
14 Traffic - Traffic
15 Ray Barretto - Acid

1967;

1 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
4 Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
5 The Doors - The Doors
6 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7 Fred Neil - Fred Neil
8 Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
9 The Doors - Strange Days
10 Love - Forever Changes
11 Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
12 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
13 Sun Ra - Atlantis
14 The Beau Brummels - Triangle
15 Magic Sam - West Side Soul

1966;

1 The Beatles - Revolver
2 Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
3 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
4 Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
5 The Rolling Stones - AFTERMATH
6 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
7 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
8 The Kinks - Face To Face
9 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
10 Them - Them Again
11 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Midnight Ride
12 Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 1
13 The Mamas & The Papas - If You Can't Believe Your Eyes and Ears
14 Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
15 Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Breakout...!!!

1965;

1 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
2 The Beatles - Rubber Soul
3 The Rolling Stones - OUT OF OUR HEADS
4 Horace Silver - Song For My Father
5 The Zombies - The Zombies (Featuring She's Not There and Tell Her No)
6 The Who - My Generation
7 The Kinks - You Really Got Me
8 Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
9 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Going To A Go-Go
10 Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game
11 The Beatles - Help!
12 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
13 Jackie Wilson - Soul Time
14 Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
15 The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today!

1964;

1 Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
2 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
3 Terry Callier - The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
4 Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty
5 Solomon Burke - Rock 'N' Soul
6 Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News
7 The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
8 The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
9 Jacques Brel - Olympia 64
10 Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
11 Skip James - Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers
12 The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
13 Mississippi Fred McDowell - My Home Is In The Delta
14 The Rolling Stones - 12 X 5
15 Charles Aznavour - La mamma

1963;

1 Sam Cooke - Night Beat
2 John Barry - From Russia With Love
3 Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
4 Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
5 Link Wray - Jack the Ripper
6 Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club
7 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
8 Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
9 Ravi Shankar - India's Master Musician
10 Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
11 The Beatles - With the Beatles
12 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
13 Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
14 The Beatles - Please Please Me
15 Roy Orbison - In Dreams

1962;

1 James Brown - Live At The Apollo
2 Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf (The Rockin' Chair Album)
3 Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
4 Odetta - Odetta and the blues
5 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
6 Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
7 Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya
8 Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song
9 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
10 Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
11 Dick Dale - Surfer's Choice
12 Roy Orbison - Crying
13 Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
14 John Lee Hooker - Burnin'
15 The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me

1961;

1 Nina Simone - Forbidden Fruit
2 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet - An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
3 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee's Greatest!
4 Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
5 Nina Simone - Nina Simone At Newport
6 Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
7 Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back
8 Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard
9 Duke Ellington with Count Basie's Orchestra - First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
10 Quincy Jones - The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones: Live!
11 Bobby Vee - Bobby Vee
12 Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
13 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Two Steps From the Blues
14 Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk
15 Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem

1960;

1 Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport
2 Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba
3 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
4 Ike & Tina Turner - The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner
5 Link Wray - Link Wray & the Wraymen
6 John Lee Hooker - The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker
7 Etta James - At Last!
8 Eric Dolphy - Out There
9 Oscar Brown Jr - Sin & Soul
10 James Brown - Please Please Please
11 John Coltrane - Giant Steps
12 Joan Baez - Joan Baez
13 Blind Willie McTell - Last Session
14 Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool
15 Dinah Washington - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes!

See also;
Best Albums of The Late Fifties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29

Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29

Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29

Best Albums of The Nineties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29

Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29

- 13th Floor Elevators, The psychedelic sounds of 13th Floor Elevators (Sunspots, 1966);
- MC5, Kick out the jams (Wrong, 1969);
- Adriano Correia de Oliveira, O canto e as armas (Orfeu, 1969);
- Afterglow, Afterglow (Sundazed, 1968);
- Al Wilson, Searching for the dolphins (Soul City, 1969);
- Alexander "Skip" Spence, Oar (Sundazed, 1969);
- Amon Düül II, Phallus Dei (Liberty, 1969);
- Andrew Hill, Point of departure (Blue Note, 1964);
- Andromeda, Andromeda (Angel Air, 1969);
- António Carlos Jobim, Wave (Polygram, 1967);
- Arcadium, Breathe awhile (Akarma, 1969);
- Archie Shepp, Kwanza (Impulse, 1969);
- Argent, Argent (BSO, 1969);
- Art, Supernatural fairy tales (Fontana, 1969);
- Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, A night in Tunisia (EMI, 1960);
- Arthur Brown, The crazy world of Arthur Brown (Polydor, 1967);
- Arzachel, Arzachel (Akarma, 1969);
- The Association, Renaissance (Collectors’ Choice Music, 1967);
- Astrud Gilberto, Beach samba (Verve, 1967);
- Bakerloo, Bakerloo (Akarma, 1969);
- The Band, Music from big pink (Capitol, 1968);
- The Band, The Band (Toshiba, 1969);
- The Battered Ornaments, A meal we can shake hands with in the dark (Repertoire, 1969);
- The Beach Boys, Surfin' safari (Capitol, 1962);
- The Beach Boys, Surfer girl (Capitol, 1963);
- The Beach Boys, Little deuce coupe (Capitol, 1963);
- The Beach Boys, Today (Capitol, 1965);
- The Beach Boys, Pet sounds (Capitol, 1966);
- The Beach Boys, Smiley smile (Capitol, 1967);
- The Beach Boys, Wild honey (Capitol, 1968);
- The Beach Boys, Friends (Capitol, 1968);
- The Beach Boys, 20/20 (Capitol, 1969);
- The Beatles, A hard day’s night (Parlophone, 1964);
- The Beatles, Help! (Parlophone, 1965);
- The Beatles, Rubber soul (Parlophone, 1965);
- The Beatles, Revolver (Parlophone, 1966);
- The Beatles, Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (EMIv);
- The Beatles, Magical mystery tour (EMI, 1967);
- The Beatles, The Beatles (Apple, 1968);
- The Beatles, Abbey Road (Apple, 1969);
- Bee Gees, First (RSO, 1967);
- Bee Gees, Horizontal (Polydor, 1968);
- Bee Gees, Odessa (Polydor, 1969);
- Bert Jansch, Bert Jansch (Transatlantic, 1965);
- Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cheap thrills (Columbia, 1968);
- Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Riverside, 1961);
- Bill Evans Trio, Waltz for Debby (Riverside, 1961);
- Billy Nicholls, Would you believe (Castle, 1968);
- Blind Faith, Blind Faith (Polydor, 1969);
- Blodwyn Pig, Ahead rings out (BGO, 1969);
- Blonde on Blonde, Contrasts (Sanctuary, 1969);
- Blood, Sweat & Tears, Child is father to the man (Columbia, 1968);
- Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blood, Sweat & Tears (Columbia, 1969);
- Blue Cheer, Vincebus eruptum (Universal, 1967);
- Blue Cheer, New! Improved! (Akarma, 1969);
- Blue Mitchell, The thing to do (Blue Note, 1964);
- The Blues Magoos, Psychedelic lollipop (Repertoire, 1966);
- Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1962);
- Bob Dylan, The freewheelin´ Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1963);
- Bob Dylan, The times they are a-changin' (Columbia, 1964);
- Bob Dylan, Another side of Bob Dylan (Columbia, 1964);
- Bob Dylan, Bringing it all back home (Columbia, 1965);
- Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisted (Columbia, 1965);
- Bob Dylan, Blonde on blonde (Columbia, 1966);
- Bob Dylan, Nashville skyline (Columbia, 1969);
- Bobby Hutcherson, Dialogue (Blue Note, 1965);
- The Bonzo Dog Band, Gorilla (BGO, 1967);
- Booker T. & The MG's, Green onions (Atlantic, 1962);
- Brian Auger & The Trinity, Definitely what!... (Disconforme, 1969);
- Bridget St. John, Ask me no questions (Cherry Red, 1969);
- Buddy Emmons, Steel guitar jazz (Verve/Mercury, 1963);
- Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield (Atco, 1966);
- Buffalo Springfield, Again (ATCO, 1967);
- The Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man (Columbia, 1965);
- The Byrds, Turn! Turn! Turn! (Columbia, 1965);
- The Byrds, Fifth dimension (Columbia, 1966);
- The Byrds, Younger than yesterday (Columbia, 1967);
- The Byrds, The notorious Byrd brothers (Columbia, 1968);
- The Byrds, Sweetheart of the rodeo (Columbia, 1968);
- The Byrds, Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde (Columbia, 1969);
- The Byrds, Ballad of Easy Rider (Columbia, 1969);
- Can, Monster movie (Spoon, 1969);
- Canned Heat, Boogie with Canned Heat (EMI, 1968);
- Canned Heat, Living the blues (Akarma, 1968);
- Canned Heat, Hallelujah (BGO, 1969);
- Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Mercy, mercy, mercy! Live at The Club (Capitol, 1967);
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Safe as milk (Buddah, 1967);
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Strictly personal (Liberty, 1968);
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Trout mask replica (Reprise, 1969);
- Caravan, Caravan (Verve, 1968);
- Charles Mingus, The black saint and the sinner lady (Impulse!, 1963);
- Charles Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus (Impulse!, 1963);
- Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse! , 1969);
- Chicago, Chicago Transit Authority (Columbia, 1969);
- Chick Corea, Inner space (Atlantic, 1967);
- Chick Corea, Sundance (Charly, 1969);
- Chicken Shack, O.K. Ken? (Blue Horizon, 1969);
- Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie & Sarah Vaughan (Capitol, 1961);
- Clark Hutchinson, A=MH2 (Repertoire, 1969);
- Climax Blues Band, Plays on (C-Five, 1969);
- Clouds, The clouds scrapbook (BGO, 1969);
- Colosseum, Those who are about to die salute you (Fontana, 1969);
- Colosseum, Valentyne Suite (Castle, 1969);
- Cream, Fresh cream (Polydor, 1966);
- Cream, Disraeli gears (Polydor, 1967);
- Cream, Wheels of fire (Polydor, 1968);
- Creation, We are paintermen (Repertoire, 1967);
- Creedence Clearwater Revival, Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy, 1968);
- Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills & Nash (Atlantic, 1969);
- David Ackles, David Ackles (Elektra, 1968);
- David Bowie, Space oddity (EMI, 1969);
- Davy Graham, Folk, blues & beyond... (DECCA, 1964);
- Davy Graham, Midnight man (Fledgling, 1966);
- Davy Graham/Shirley Collins, Folk roots, new routes (Fledg'ling UK, 1964);
- Deep Purple, Shades of Deep Purple (EMI, 1968);
- Deep Purple, Concerto for Group and Orchestra (Warner Bros., 1969);
- Deep Purple, Deep Purple (EMI, 1969);
- Deep Purple, The book of Taliesyn (EMI, 1969);
- Dexter Gordon, Go (Blue Note, 1962);
- Dexter Gordon, Our man in Paris (Blue Note, 1963);
- Dizzy Gillespie, Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1967);
- Donald Byrd, A new perspective (Blue Note, 1963);
- Donovan, Sunshine superman (PYE, 1966);
- The Doors, The Doors (Elektra, 1966);
- The Doors, Strange days (Elektra, 1967);
- The Doors, Waiting for the sun (Elektra, 1968);
- The Doors, The soft parade (Elektra, 1969);
- Duke Ellington, Money jungle (Blue Note, 1962);
- Duke Ellington/John Coltrane, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Impulse, 1962);
- Duncan Browne, Give me take you (Immidiate, 1968);
- Dusty Springfield, A girl called Dusty (Philips, 1964);
- Dusty Springfield, Dusty (Mercury, 1964);
- Dusty Springfield, Where am I going (Philips, 1967);
- Dusty Springfield, The look of love (Philips, 1967);
- Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis (Mercury, 1969);
- Earth Opera, Earth Opera (Elektra, 1968);
- East of Eden, Mercator projected (DECCA, 1969);
- Eire Apparent, Sunrise (Sequel, 1969);
- The Electric Prunes, I had too much to dream (Last night) (Rhino, 1967);
- Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera, Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera (Repertoire, 1967);
- The End, Introspection (DECCA, 1969)
- Eric Dolphy, Out there (Universal, 1960);
- Eric Dolphy, Out to lunch (Blue Note, 1964);
- Eyes of Blue, In fields of Ardath (Black Rose, 1969);
- Fairport Convention, Fairport Convention (Polydor, 1968);
- Fairport Convention, What we did on our holidays (Island, 1969);
- Fairport Convention, Unhalfbricking (Island, 1969);
- Fairport Convention, Liege & lief (Island, 1969);
- Family, Music in a doll's house (Reprise, 1968);
- Family, Family entertainment (See for Miles, 1969);
- The Five Day Week Straw People, The Five Day Week Straw People (Akarma, 1968);
- Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (Blue Horizon, 1968);
- Fleetwood Mac, Mr.Wonderful (Blue Horizon, 1968);
- Fleetwood Mac, English rose (Epic, 1969);
- Fleetwood Mac, Then play on (Reprise, 1969);
- The Flock, The Flock (Sony, 1969);
- Forest, Forest (BGO, 1969);
- Frank Zappa,, Absolutely free (Ryko, 1967);
- Frank Zappa,, Lumpy gravy (Ryko, 1967);
- Frank Zappa, Uncle Meat (Ryko, 1969);
- Frank Zappa, Hot rats (Ryko, 1969);
- Freddie Hubbard, Open Sesame (Blue Note, 1960);
- Freddie Hubbard, Ready for Freddie (Blue Note, 1961);
- Freddie Hubbard, The body & the soul (Impulse!, 1963);
- Free, Free (A&M, 1969);
- Free, Tons of sobs (Fontana, 1968);
- The Fugs, The Fugs (Fugs, 1966);
- Gene Clark, Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers (Columbia, 1967);
- George Benson, It's uptown (Columbia, 1965);
- George Benson, Shape of things to come (A&M, 1968);
- George Benson, Giblet gravy (Verve, 1968);
- George Harrison, Wonderwall music (Apple, 1968);
- George Harrison, Electronic sounds (Apple, 1969);
- George Russell Sextet, Ezz-thetics (Riverside, 1961);
- Giles, Giles & Fripp, The cheerful insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp (DECCA, 1968);
- Grachan Moncur III, Some other stuff (Blue Note, 1964);
- Grant Green, Idle moments (Blue Note, 1964);
- Grateful Dead, Anthem of the sun (Rhino, 1968);
- Grateful Dead, Aoxomoxoa (Warner, 1969);
- Grateful Dead, Live/Dead (Warner, 1969);
- Hank Mobley, Soul station (Blue Note, 1960);
- Herbie Hancock, Takin' off (Blue Note, 1962);
- Herbie Hancock, Inventions and dimensions (Blue Note, 1963);
- Herbie Hancock, Empyrean isles (Blue Note, 1964);
- Herbie Hancock, Maiden voyage (Blue Note, 1965);
- The Herd, Paradise lost (Repertoire, 1968);
- High Tide, Sea shanties (Repertoire, 1969);
- Holger Czukay, Canaxis (Spoon, 1969);
- Horace Parlan, Happy frame of mind (Blue Note, 1963);
- Horace Silver Quintet, Song for my father (Blue Note, 1964);
- Horace Silver Quintet/J.J. Johnson, The Cap Verdean blues (Blue Note, 1965);
- Humble Pie, As safe as yesterday is (Immediate, 1969);
- Igginbottom, Igginbottom’s wrench (Angel Air, 1969);
- Ike Quebec, Blue and sentimental (Blue Note, 1962);
- Ike Quebec, It might a well be spring (Blue Note, 1964);
- The Incredible String Band, The Incredible String Band (Elektra, 1966);
- The Incredible String Band, 5000 spirits or the cayers of the onion (Elektra, 1967);
- The Incredible String Band, The hangman's beautiful daughter (Elektra, 1968);
- The Incredible String Band, The big huge (Elektra, 1968);
- The Incredible String Band, Changing horses (Hannibal, 1969);
- Iron Butterfly, In-a-gadda-da-vida (Atco, 1968);
- Isaac Hayes, Hot buttered soul (Stax, 1969);
- Jack McDuff, Down home style (Blue Note, 1969);
- Jackie McLean, Destination out! (Blue Note, 1963);
- Jackson C. Frank, Jackson C. Frank (Columbia, 1965);
- Jefferson Airplane, Takes off (RCA, 1966);
- Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic pillow (RCA, 1967);
- Jefferson Airplane, Crown of creation (RCA, 1968);
- Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers (RCA, 1969);
- Jesse Colin Young, The soul of a city boy (Capitol, 1964);
- Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are you experienced? (Polydor, 1967);
- Jimi Hendrix Experience, Axis, bold as love (Polydor, 1967);
- Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric ladyland (Polydor, 1968);
- Jimmy McGriff, Electric funk (Blue Note, 1969);
- Jimmy Smith/Wes Montgomery, The dynamic duo (Verve, 1966);
- Joe Henderson, Page one (Blue Note, 1963);
- Joe Henderson, Inner urge (Blue Note, 1964);
- John Coltrane, Giant steps (Atlantic, 1960);
- John Coltrane, Coltrane plays the blues (WEA, 1960);
- John Coltrane, My favorite things (Audiophile, 1960);
- John Coltrane, Africa/Brass (Impulse!, 1961);
- John Coltrane, Olé (Atlantic, 1962);
- John Coltrane, Impressions (Impulse!, 1963);
- John Coltrane, Stardust (Prestige, 1963);
- John Coltrane, A love supreme (Impulse!, 1964);
- John Coltrane, Ascension (Impulse! , 1965);
- John Coltrane, Meditations (Impulse!, 1966);
- John Coltrane, A love supreme (Impulse!, 1966);
- John Coltrane Quartet, Crescent (Impulse!, 1964);
- John Fahey, The dance of death & other plantation favorites (Takoma, 1964);
- John Martyn, The tumbler (Fontana, 1969);
- John Mayall, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (DECCA, 1966);
- John Mayall, A hard road (London, 1967);
- John Mayall, Crusade (DECCA, 1967);
- John Mayall, The blues alone (DECCA, 1967);
- John Mayall, Bare wires (London, 1968);
- John Mayall, Blues from Laurel Canyon (DECCA, 1968);
- John McLaughlin, Extrapolation (Polygram, 1969);
- Johnny Cash, Ride this train (Columbia, 1960).
- Johnny Cash, Orange blossom special (Columbia, 1965);
- Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash at Folsom prison (Columbia, 1968);
- Johnny Winter, The progressive blues experiment (BGO, 1969);
- Joni Mitchell, Song to a seagull (Reprise, 1968);
- Joni Mitchell, Clouds (Reprise, 1969);
- José Afonso, Cantares de andarilho (Movieplay, 1968);
- Kaleidoscope, Side trips (Epic, 1967);
- Karen Dalton, It's so hard to tell who's going to love you the best (Capitol, 1969);
- Kenny Burrell, Midnight blue (Blue Note, 1963);
- Kenny Dorham, Whistle stop (Blue Note, 1961);
- Kevin Ayers, Joy of a toy (EMI, 1969);
- King Crimson, In the court of the crimson king (EG, 1969);
- The Kinks, Face to face (Essential, 1966);
- The Kinks, Something else (Essential, 1967);
- The Kinks, The Kinks are Village Green Preservation Society (Essential, 1968);
- The Kinks, Arthur or the decline and fall of the british empire (Essential, 1969);
- La Monte Young, The black record (Edition X, 1969);
- Larry Young, Unity (Blue Note, 1966);
- Laura Nyro, Eli and the thirteenth confession (Columbia, 1968);
- Laura Nyro, New York tendaberry (Columbia, 1969);
- Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (Atlantic, 1969);
- Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic, 1969);
- Lee Morgan, The sidewinder (Blue Note, 1963);
- Lee Morgan, In search of the new land (Blue Note, 1964);
- Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia, 1968);
- Leonard Cohen, Songs from a room (Columbia, 1969);
- Love, Da Capo (Elektra, 1966);
- Love, Forever changes (Elektra, 1967);
- The Lovin' Spoonful, Daydream (Buddah, 1966);
- The Lovin' Spoonful, Hums of the Lovin’ Spoonful (Buddah, 1966);
- Lucky Thompson Quartet, Lucky strikes (Prestige, 1964);
- Luiz Bonfá, Plays and sings Bossa Nova (Verve, 1963);
- The Mamas & The Papas, If you can believe your eyes and ears (Dunhill, 1966);
- Manfred Mann, The five faces of Manfred Mann (EMI, 1964);
- The Meters, The Meters (Sundazed, 1969);
- Miles Davis, Someday my prince will come (Columbia, 1961);
- Miles Davis, ’Round about midnight (Columbia, 1962);
- Miles Davis, E.S.P. (Columbia, 1965);
- Miles Davis, Miles smiles (Columbia, 1966);
- Miles Davis, In Berlin (Sony BMG, 1966);
- Miles Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro (Columbia, 1968);
- Miles Davis, Nefertiti (Columbia, 1968);
- Miles Davis, In a silent way (Columbia, 1969);
- Moby Grape, Moby Grape (Sundazed, 1967);
- The Monks, Black monk time (Repertoire, 1966);
- The Moody Blues, Days of future passed (DECCA, 1967);
- The Moody Blues, In search of the lost chord (DECCA, 1968);
- The Moody Blues, To our children's children's children (DECCA, 1969);
- The Mothers of Invention, Freak out! (Rykodisc, 1966);
- The Mothers of Invention, We're only in it for the money (Verve, 1968);
- The Move, The Move (Repertoire, 1968);
- Music Emporium, Music Emporium (Sundazed, 1969);
- The Music Machine, Turn on (Repertoire, 1966);
- Os Mutantes, Os Mutantes (Omplatten, 1969);
- Nazz, Nazz (Castle, 1968);
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Everybody knows this is nowhere (Reprise, 1969);
- The Nice, The thoughts of Emerlist Davjack (Immediate, 1967);
- The Nice, Ars longa vita brevis (Immediate, 1968);
- The Nice, The Nice (Essential, 1969);
- Nick Drake, Five leaves left (Island, 1969);
- Nico, Chelsea girl (Verve, 1967);
- Nico, The marble index (Sundazed, 1968);
- Nirvana (UK), All of us (Island, 1968);
- Open Mind, Open Mind (Philips, 1969);
- Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, Free jazz (Atlantic, 1961);
- Oscar Peterson Trio, Night train (Verve, 1962);
- Otis Redding, The soul album (Stax/Volt, 1966);
- Otis Redding, Dock of the bay (Atco, 1968);
- Paul Desmond, Bossa Antigua (BMG, 1964);
- Pearls Before Swine, One nation underground (ESP-Disk, 1967);
- The Pentangle, Basket of light (Sanctuary, 1969);
- The Pentangle, The Pentangle (Transatlantic, 1968);
- The Pentangle, Sweet child (Transatlantic, 1968);
- Peter, Paul & Mary, See what tomorrow brings (Warner Bros. , 1965);
- Pharoah Sanders, Karma (Impulse! , 1969);
- Pierre Henry, Le voyage, d'après le livre des morts tibétain (ECM, 1962);
- Pierre Henry, Messe de Liverpool (Philips, 1967);
- Pierre Henry, Messe pour le temps présent (Philips, 1967);
- Pink Floyd, The piper at the gates of dawn (EMI, 1967);
- Pink Floyd, A saucerful of secrets (EMI, 1968);
- Pink Floyd, More (EMI, 1969);
- Pink Floyd, Ummagumma (EMI, 1969);
- The Pretty Things, S.F. Sorrow (Snapper, 1969);
- Procol Harum, A whiter shade of pale (Repertoire, 1967);
- Procol Harum, Shine on brightly (Repertoire, 1968);
- Procol Harum, A salty dog (Repertoire, 1968);
- Pussy, Pussy plays (Edsel, 1969);
- Quicksilver Messenger Service, Happy trails (Repertoire, 1969);
- Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin, West meets east (Angel, 1967);
- Renaissance, Renaissance (Island, 1969);
- Robert Johnson, King of the delta blues singers (Columbia, 1961);
- The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones (England's newest hitmakers) (Abkco, 1964);
- The Rolling Stones, 12 X 5 (London Records, 1964);
- The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones N°2 (DECCA, 1965);
- The Rolling Stones, Now! (Abkco, 1965);
- The Rolling Stones, Out of our heads (Abkco, 1965);
- The Rolling Stones, December's Children (And everybody's) (London Records, 1965);
- The Rolling Stones, Aftermath (DECCA, 1966);
- The Rolling Stones, Between the buttons (Abkco, 1967);
- The Rolling Stones, Their satanic majesties request (Abkco, 1967);
- The Rolling Stones, Beggars banquet (DECCA, 1968);
- The Rolling Stones, Let it bleed (Abkco, 1969);
- Roy Harper, Sophisticated beggar (Sundown, 1967);
- Sam Rivers, Contours (Blue Note, 1965);
- The Savage Rose, In the plain (Polydor, 1969);
- Scott Walker, Scott (Fontana, 1967);
- Scott Walker, Scott 2 (Fontana, 1968);
- Scott Walker, Scott 3 (Fontana, 1969);
- Scott Walker, Scott 4 (Fontana, 1969);
- Silver Apples, Silver Apples (MCA, 1968);
- Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of silence (Columbia, 1966);
- Simon & Garfunkel, Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (Columbia, 1966);
- Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends (Columbia, 1968);
- Skin Alley, Skin Alley (Akarma, 1969);
- Sonny Rollins, The bridge (RCA, 1962);
- The Small Faces, The Small Faces (DECCA, 1966);
- The Small Faces, From the beginning (DECCA, 1967);
- The Small Faces, Ogden's nut gone flake (EMI, 1968);
- Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Make it happen (Motown, 1963);
- Soft Machine, Soft Machine (Probe, 1968);
- Soft Machine, Volume Two (One Way, 1969);
- Spirit, Spirit (Epic Legacy, 1968);
- Spirit, The family that plays together (Ode, 1969);
- Spooky Tooth, It's all about (Edsel, 1968);
- Spooky Tooth/Pierre Henry, Ceremony, An electronic mass (Edsel, 1969);
- Stan Getz, Getz Au Go Go (Verve, 1964);
- Stan Getz/João Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto (Verve, 1963);
- Status Quo, Picturesque matchstickable messages from the Status Quo (Essential, 1968);
- Status Quo, Spare parts (Sanctuary, 1968);
- Steve Miller Band, Children of the future (Capitol, 1968);
- Steve Miller Band, Sailor (Capitol, 1968);
- Stevie Wonder, For once in my life (Tamla Motown, 1968);
- Stevie Wonder, My cherie amour (Tamla Motown, 1969);
- The Stooges, The Stooges (WEA, 1969);
- Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and peppermints (Big Beat, 1967);
- Tea & Symphony, An asylum for the musically insane (Si-Wan, 1969);
- The Temptations, Cloud nine (Tamla Motown, 1969);
- Terry Riley, Reed streams (Mass Arts, 1966);
- Terry Riley, A rainbow in curved air (Columbia, 1967);
- Thelonious Monk, Monk's dream (Columbia, 1962);
- Thelonious Monk, Big band and quartet in concert (Columbia, 1964);
- Thelonious Monk, Straight, no chaser (Columbia, 1967);
- Thelonious Monk, Underground (Columbia, 1968);
- Them, The angry young Them (DECCA, 1965);
- Them, Them again (DECCA, 1966);
- Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley (Elektra, 1966);
- Tim Buckley, Goodbye and hello (Elektra, 1967);
- Tim Buckley, Happy sad (Elektra, 1969);
- Tim Hardin, 1 (Verve, 1966);
- Tina Brooks, True blue (Blue Note, 1960);
- Tom Rush, Circle game (Elektra, 1968);
- Townes Van Zandt, Our mother the mountain (Tomato, 1969);
- Townes Van Zandt, Townes van Zandt (Tomato, 1969);
- Traffic, Mr Fantasy (Island, 1967);
- Traffic, Last exit (Fontana, 1969);
- Tyrannosaurus Rex, My people were Fair and had sky in their hair... (A&M, 1967);
- Tyrannosaurus Rex, Prophets, seers & sages, the angels of the ages (A&M, 1968);
- Tyrannosaurus Rex, Unicorn (A&M, 1969);
- Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach (Akarma, 1968);
- Ultimate Spinach, Behold & see (Akarma, 1968);
- Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach III (Akarma, 1969);
- The United States of America, The United States of America (Edsel, 1968);
- Van der Graaf Generator, The aerosol grey machine (Fontana, 1969);
- Van der Graaf Generator, The least we can do is wave to each other (Virgin, 1969);
- Van Morrison, Blowin' your mind! (Epic/Legacy, 1967);
- Van Morrison, Astral weeks (Warner Bros. , 1968);
- Vanilla Fudge, Vanilla Fudge (Atco, 1967);
- Vanilla Fudge, Near the beginning (Repertoire, 1969);
- The Velvet Underground, White light/White heat (Polydor, 1968);
- The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground (Polydor, 1969);
- The Velvet Underground/Nico, The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve/MGM, 1967);
- Wayne Shorter, Speak no evil (Blue Note, 1964);
- Wayne Shorter, Schizophrenia (Blue Notev);
- White Noise, An electric storm (Island, 1969);
- The Who, My generation (Brunswick, 1965);
- The Who, A quick one (Reaction, 1966);
- The Who, The Who sell out (MCA, 1967);
- The Who, Tommy (Polydor, 1969);
- Wooden O, A handful of pleasant delites (Akarma, 1969).
- Xhol Caravan, Electrip (Garden of Delights, 1969);
- The Yardbirds, For your love, heart full of soul & others (Sunspots, 1965);
- The Yardbirds, Roger the engineer (Warner Bros., 1966);
- The Yardbirds, Little games (EMI, 1967);
- Yes, Yes (Atlantic, 1969);
- The Youngbloods, Elephant Mountain (Edsel, 1969);
- The Zombies, Odessey & oracle (Repertoire, 1967).

Artist - Album


Abdullah Ibrahim & Dollar Brand - Reflections

Andrew Hill - Compulsion!
Andrew Hill - One for One
Andrew Hill - One for One

Archie Shepp - Fire Music

The Beatles - Beatles for Sale EP
The Beatles - Help! OST
The Beatles - Miscellaneous EPs
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Rubber Soul [Deluxe - disc 1]
The Beatles - Rubber Soul [Deluxe - disc 2]
The Beatles - Rubber Soul [Deluxe - disc 3]

Blue Mitchell - Complete Blue Note Sessions, 1963-67 (disc 2)

Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings

Carmell Jones - Jay Hawk Talk

Dexter Gordon - Clubhouse
Dexter Gordon - Gettin' Around

Freddie Hubbard - The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, CD1
Freddie Hubbard - The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, CD2

Grant Green - His Majesty King Funk

Hank Mobley - Dippin'

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream & Other Delights

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

Horace Silver Quintet plus J.J. Johnson - The Cape Verdean Blues

Jackie McLean - Consequence
Jackie McLean - Consequence
Jackie McLean - Jacknife
Jackie McLean - Right Now!

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (live)

The Kinks - Kinda Kinks
The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy

Lalo Schifrin - The Liquidator OST

Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Lee Morgan - The Rumproller

Miles Davis - E.S.P.
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 1)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 2a)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (Disc 2b)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 3)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 4)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 5)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 6)
Miles Davis - The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel 1965 (disc 7)

The Monks - Five Upstart Americans

Pete La Roca - Basra

The Pretty Things - The Pretty Things

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig and Panic (RRK Quartet feat. Elvin Jones)

Sahib Shihab - And all Those Cats

Sonny Rollins - on Impulse!

Stanley Turrentine - Joyride

Various Artists - Sons of Yma

Wayne Shorter - Etcetera
Wayne Shorter - The all Seeing Eye

Wes Montgomery - Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides (disc 2)

Friday, Friday, Friday (2/22) at 11AM PST*, we will be live blogging Jackie McLean's Destination Out! right here. Come join in on the fun.

Instructions:
1. Buy/download Destination Out! if you don't already own it.
2. Hit the play button right at 11AM PST.
3. Listen.
4. Comment on whatever piques your interest.
5.
6. Profit.

*Pacific Standard Time. Use this to find the time in your area.

album donations to the local low-powered radio station, mostly to up the bebop quotient a bit--

Cannonball Adderley - Compact Jazz & Somethin' Else
Gene Ammons - Funky
Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!!
Jackie McLean - A Long Drink of the Blues
Charles Mingus - Finest Hour, East Coasting
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
George Russell - Jazz Workshop
Horace Silver - The Best of Horace Silver Blue Note Years
Supersax - Supersax Plays Bird

25 Great Hard Bop Albums at the Music Advice Center

For this compilation, I need to add a definition of hard bop, to distinguish this form from its close precedent, bebop, or simply, bop.

Here's what Scott Yanow (All Music Guide) has to say:
Although some history books claim that Hard Bop arose as a reaction to the softer sounds featured in cool jazz, it was actually an extension of bop that largely ignored West Coast jazz. The main differences between hard bop and bop are that the melodies tend to be simpler and often more "soulful"; the rhythm section is usually looser, with the bassist not as tightly confined to playing four-beats-to-the-bar as in bop; a gospel influence is felt in some of the music; and quite often, the saxophonists and pianists sound as if they were quite familiar with early rhythm & blues. Since the prime time period of hard bop (1955-70) was a decade later than bop, these differences were a logical evolution and one can think of hard bop as bop of the '50s and '60s. By the second half of the 1960s, the influence of the avant garde was being felt and some of the more adventurous performances of the hard bop stylists (such as Jackie McLean and Lee Morgan) fell somewhere between the two styles. With the rise of fusion and the sale of Blue Note (hard bop's top label) in the late '60s, the style fell on hard times although it was revived to a certain extent in the 1980s. Much of the music performed by the so-called Young Lions during the latter decade (due to other influences altering their style) was considered modern mainstream, although some groups (such as the Harper Brothers and T.S. Monk's sextet) have kept the 1960s' idiom alive. -- Scott Yanow

About the intent of the list: This isn't meant to be a final determination of the 25 best, but rather a starting point--if you listen to a few of these and find you like what you hear, use this list as a springboard. Look them up and see who's playing on them and take your search outward, backward, forward, or inward. Many great artists, many five star albums are not on this list. These are a consequence of the way our MAC-Jazz lists are constructed. Listeners add their favorites, one, two, or three at a time until we hit 25.

You don't agree with our choices? Drop a line here or over at the MAC Jazz Desk.

Andrew Hill - Black Fire (1963)
Art Blakey - Free for All (1964)
Bobby Hutcherson - Stick-Up! (1966)
Booker Ervin - Setting the Pace (1965)
Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots (1960)
Charles Tolliver - The Ringer (1969)
Chico Hamilton - Man From Two Worlds (1962)
Curtis Fuller - Boss of the Soul Stream Trombone (1960)
Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet - Illumination! (1964)
Eric Dolphy - At the Five Spot, Vol. 2 (1964)
Freddie Hubbard - The Hub of Hubbard (1969)
Jackie McLean - Destination Out! (1963)
Joe Henderson - Inner Urge (1964)
John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959)
John Handy - Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (1965)
Johnny Griffin - A Blowin' Session (1957)
Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land (1964)
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century (1960)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig and Panic (1965)
Roy Brooks - The Free Slave (1970)
Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon (1962)
Sonny Clark - Sonny Clark Trio (1958)
Walter Bishop Jr. - Coral Keys (1972)
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (1965)
Woody Shaw - Blackstone Legacy (1970)

List: 25 Great Hard Bop Albums, Count: 25

Over at MAC, we put together a listener's list of 25 great albums from a sub-genre of jazz that we felt evinced sounds of the struggle for freedom in Great Black Music. By design, but not explicitly, there's only one lp per artist or the list cold have been complete with Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Herewith, 25 lps/cds that are free in the Great Black Music sense rather than in the Globe Unity Orchestra sense.

Abdullah Ibrahim - African Space Program (1974)
Albert Ayler - Spirits Rejoice (1964)
Archie Shepp - Magic of Juju (1967)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Bap-Tizum (1972)
Billy Harper - Capra Black (1973)
Carlos Garnett - Black Love (1974)
Clifford Thornton - Ketchaoua (1969)
Don Cherry - Complete Communion (1965)
Eddie Gale - Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music (1968)
Frank Lowe - The Flam (1975)
Frank Wright Quartet - Church Number Nine (1973)
George Russell - Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved By Nature (1968)
Grachan Moncur III - New Africa (1969)
Human Arts Ensemble - Under The Sun (1973)
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (1962)
James "Blood" Ulmer - Odyssey (1983)
Joe McPhee - Nation Time (1970)
Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.(1972)
McCoy Tyner - Extensions (1970)
Mtume & The Umoja Ensemble - Alkebu-lan (Land of the Blacks)(1972)
Noah Howard - The Black Ark (1969)
Norman Connors - Dance of Magic
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity (1971)
Sonny Simmons - Music from the Spheres (1966)
Sunny Murray - Sunny Murray (1966)

If we've left off one of your favorites, wander over to the Music Advice Center Jazz Desk and add a few hundred more.

as far as any of the selections I made for this list, I am always willing to discuss why I made such a choice (Art Ensemble's Baptizum as opposed to Phase One or Certain Blacks for example, or McCoy Tyner's inclusion on this list although his music was not overtly political). Ask here, or through pm.

Thu 28 Jun – Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

Despite the title, I attended the festivities only on July 6. This was my first time to Montréal. Even having been fore-warned, I was a little surprised, but French is the language of choice up there. I managed to pick up a few words here and there, but no matter who is talking with you, they try French first, realize you're American, roll their eyes, and default to English. Overall though, I loved the setup of this festival. They take over roughly 3-4 city blocks and turn it into festival central. The shows - close to 500 total, are all free (besides ticketed indoor events). There's always about 4 things going on at once, so if you get bored with one artist, you can easily find something else to check out. I saw these groups:

No Name Jazz Sextet - These guys were pretty good, and on the mainstage when I arrived. Arrangements were good, solos were well crafted. Very straight ahead. They wore matching shirts.

Christine Jensen Quartet - The program notes I picked up described, saxophonist and namesake of the group, Christine as being heavily influenced by Lee Konitz and Wayne Shorter. They nailed it. Now, would I have picked up on this if the program notes hadn't told me so? Perhaps, but I also would have come up with Jackie McLean, at least based on her timbre. I enjoyed part of her set but due to the nature of the festival, she kind of lost my attention when she went to play a ballad, so I wandered over to see something else.

Sambasunda - Sambasunda was really cool.. I'm totally into any eastern music I can find these days, though my finds are few and far between. They kind of morph latin flavors, rhythms, and instrumentation with the traditional Balinese gamelan harmonies, rhythms, and instrumentation. Part of it seemed a little cheeseball to me when a couple of young ladies in their troupe made their way to the stage to shake their things and croon. I could've done without that.

Spam Allstars - I previously knew of these guys from my Phish listening days, from keyboardist Page McConnell's solo album Vida Blue: The Illustrated Band. Honestly, I liked Spam Allstars better as a solo group! I think the lack of drum kit/bass causes them to be a bit more creative with the turntables and afro-percussion. All of them were very strong individually on their instruments, and the total package set the tone for the evening.. the place was bouncing at this point with 50,000 to 70,000 people in the streets at festival central, and the bass from Spam Allstars could be heard all over the festival grounds except at the mainstage where Ryan Shaw was performing.

Ryan Shaw - I caught one song of his. It wasn't really jazz, but he had a huge crowd at the festival. I didn't find him to be too interesting. The crowd of people at the mainstage was HUGE.

Esperanza Spalding - What more can I say about Esperanza! She's just so great and still fresh to me. Too bad she got stuck with a shitty sound guy. Come on! It's a freakin' jazz trio! It's not that hard to mix!