Week 21:: Not-Quite-Classics

There are in jazz those seminal works which transcend all qualifiers of style and chronology to survive and be celebrated as 'The Classics.'  A comprehensive listing is somewhat subjective, though a shorter list is almost irrefutable - Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme, Money Jungle, Ellington Uptown, Genius of Modern Music, Birth of the Cool, Bitches Brew, Afro-Blue, Ah-Um, ...His Mother Called Him Bill, Straight Life, etc.  you get the idea.

But for every one of these classics, there exist thousands of other jazz albums of note, hundreds of which rest in the catalogue of established jazz masters (the rest beholding to lesser-known figures of the jazz realm).  Rather than try to explore any of these in totality, this week we look at some of the significant - but decidedly not 'Classic' - contributions of jazz Masters.

Enjoy, and pardon the subjectivity.

Audio

Playlist

1. Miles Davis - There's No You - Blue Moods
2. John Coltrane - The Inch Worm - Coltrane (Impulse!)
3. Eric Dolphy - Miss Toni - Outward Bound
4. Bobby Hutcherson - Una Muy Bonita - Stick-up!!!
5. Herbie Hancock - King Cobra - My Point of View
6. Art Blakey - Backstage Sally - Buhaina's Delight
7. Horace Silver - The Outlaw - Further Explorations...
8. Wes Montgomery - 'Round Midnight - A Dynamic New Sound

::WSRP::  What You See Is What You Hear Is What You Get.