What Are Some Great LIVE Jazz Recordings?

[Musicophile]

Good list already.

 

+1 especially on Ray Brown's Live at the Loa, Jarrett at the Blue Note, and Bill Evans' several Village Vanguard recordings obviously, including my favorite of them:

 

 

Below some others, focusing as requested mainly on smaller Jazz club type venues, ruling out larger places like Montreux for example.

 

Here are some of my favorites, including (obviously, if you know me) a lot of piano trio, not only from the 1950s/60s (I wasn't born yet then, but doubt that Jazz clubs have changed all that much when you count out the smoking).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Musicophile]

On 5.7.2017 at 5:35 AM, Musicophile said:

Good list already.

 

+1 especially on Ray Brown's Live at the Loa, Jarrett at the Blue Note, and Bill Evans' several Village Vanguard recordings obviously, including my favorite of them:

 

 

Below some others, focusing as requested mainly on smaller Jazz club type venues, ruling out larger places like Montreux for example.

 

Here are some of my favorites, including (obviously, if you know me) a lot of piano trio, not only from the 1950s/60s (I wasn't born yet then, but doubt that Jazz clubs have changed all that much when you count out the smoking).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've just turned my contribution here into a post for my blog, with some more background on each album.

 

https://musicophilesblog.com/2017/07/15/9-outstanding-live-jazz-recordings/

 

I'd really appreciate any feedback people may have.

[Musicophile]

1 hour ago, Route 66 said:

I don't know how I missed this link to your blog the first time I checked for responses to my query.

 

There are some excellent suggestions here and I'll definitely be checking them out as time permits.

 

Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words.