What Are Some Great LIVE Jazz Recordings?

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Some of the best Coltrane recordings were live. Miles' Plugged Nickel was already mentioned above. Keith Jarret live output is awesome. Wayne Shorter live recordings from 2000s. Bill Evans' Village Vanguard, Sonny Rollins from the same venue. Joshua Redman Village Vanguard's album. Recent Village Vanguard recording of Christian McBride trio is very good as well. 

 

I am not sure avant-garde jazz recordings should be mentioned here as well, but most of significant recordings in this area were recorded live. Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, etc.

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4 minutes ago, semente said:

A few suggestions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jarret's Standard Trio 6CDs set at the Blue Note is a summit nobody would be able to climb anytime soon...)))

 

Does anybody mentioned a recording which is quite properly named 'The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever"? Parker, Gillespie, Roach, Powell and Mingus at Massey Hall in 1953. SQ is shitty, but the quality of musicianship is incomparable. 

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Smalls Jazz Club, which is located a few steps walk to legendary Village Vanguard is publishing very good current club recordings of consistently great artistic and sound quality on its own SmallsLIVE label: 

https://www.smallslive.com/store/catalogue/category/music/smallslive-catalog_7/

 

 

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8 hours ago, semente said:

Another thread that's bound to get expensive in the end... 

 

In fact I gave only a few examples, but would go much deeper, if you wish...

 

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Does anybody mention 'Ellington in Newport' album from 1956? Paul Gonsalves solo stands alone as one of the highest moments of jazz ever, in fact nothing comes close to replicate or challenge its drive, joy and abandon.

 

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As it was mentioned already many of Keith Jarrett albums were recorded live. I am mentioning some of them only (solo and band):

 

- Solo: Bremen, Lausanne

- Koln Concert

- A Multitude of Angels

- Testament: Paris, London

- Personal Mountains

- Standards Live

- The Cure

- Tokyo'96

 

This is only a small part from a huge volume of Jarrett's live output, I selected some which very dear to me.

 

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6 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

Thanks. Ok - one more recommendation. And it's Miles again - IMO ones of the most advenurous jazz/fusion recordings of all time and at the same time his last ones before the drugs and isolation period. The 1975 live Japanese albums  originally released in 1976, exclusively in Japan.

Beware, this is not the music for everyone. I strongly recommend the Japanese remasters not the original Sony editions (SQ).

 

Agharta.

 

Pangaea.

 

Issued much later but it's the same tour - Live in Tokyo 1975.

 

 

 

 

Agharta was released outside of Japan in 1976, year after its original release in Japan. I purchased two LPs set in 1976 or 1977, made in Holland. It was one of my very first Miles Davis albums, and indeed it sounded very strange and on a verge of indigestible. Pete Cosey guitar work was the most mind-blowing part of it. At that period of time it was not known yet that Miles entered the darkest and freakiest period of his life. 

 

As most of the electric Miles Davis albums of that period it was terribly transferred to CD format (imho). I didn't listen Japanese remasters.