sleepy jack

You all know the drill, I decided to do pre-59 because looking through lists (well more the lack of lists...) I've decided coming up with 100 would be very hard. So yeah, everything pre-59 lets aim for 100 but if we fall short oh well.

Almanac Singers "Songs for John Doe"
Billie Holiday "Lady Day"
Billie Holiday "Lady in Satin"
Billie Holiday "Lady Sings the Blues"
Billie Holiday "Songs for Distingué Lovers"
Hank Williams "Moanin' The Blues"
Johnny Cash "Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar!"
Johnny Cash "The Fabulous Johnny Cash"
John Lee Hooker "I'm John Lee Hooker"
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
Ornette Coleman "The Shape of Jazz To Come"
Pete Seeger "The Goofing-Off Suite"
Pete Seeger "American Industrial Ballads"
The Weavers "The Weavers At Carnegie Hall"
Woody Guthrie "Dust Bowl Ballads"

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Comus

...I don't even have one album that predates 1963 on my computer right now... I'll come back when I find what was in my old music collection.

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sleepy jack

Okay after much previewing, researching and so on I've extended the list quite a bit. I imagine some of it will go, I didn't like alot of the early rock and roll stuff however some of the other stuff was nice particularly Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus.

MB's Top Albums Pre-59 - Rate Your Music

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sleepy jack

Where is right-track! He has to know some old soul ]:<

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right-track

Soul is mostly 60's.
Early R&B is what you want to look for.

You missed Nat King Cole and Ray Charles!
Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson and Muddy Waters should be included too.

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Rainard Jalen

João Gilberto "Chega de Saudade" [1st bossa nova album, great stuff]
Bernard Herrmann "Vertigo" [a MASTERFUL score]
Sun Ra "Jazz in Silhouette"
Frank Sinatra "A Swingin' Affair!" [16 great songs; i'm not complaining]
Moondog "Moondog" [important avant garde work]
Julie London "Julie Is Her Name" [at least a dozen great songs; and the superb "cry me a river"]
Frank Sinatra "Songs for Young Lovers" [8 great songs; again, why complain]

Wayfarer

Those both came out in '59.

How about Sonny Clark's "Cool Struttin'"? Or ehhhm...Nina Simone's "Jazz As Played In An Exclusive Side Street Club"? "Moanin'" by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, "In The Wee Small Hours" by Frank Sinatra, "Bach: The Goldberg Variations" by Glenn Gould, "Sound Of Joy" by Sun Ra, "At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival" by the Oscar Peterson Trio, "Jazz Moods" by Yusef Lateef, "Saxophone Colossus" by Sonny Rollins, and so on...

And that's just jazz from the '50s.

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Rainard Jalen

Yeah about this whole pre-59 thing. Why not just make it pre-60?

Urban Hatemonger

This man appears to be missing from the list

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sleepy jack

Sorry, I should've said pre-60 I meant 59 and back >.> after Comus and I finish with the finishing touches on the 70-74 list I'll get all this on. Igor Stravinsky came out with some stuff he'll go on also.

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