I'll get behind the Dick Dale votes!
here are some more:
Booker T and the MGs - Green Onions and Hip-Hug-Her are classics.
Bill Dogget - Honkey Tonk. one of the greatest guitar solos ever.
Dave Brubeck- Take Five- the song, the whole album is hard to do without.
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra- I Got It Bad and That Aint Good- 1956 live recording with Johnny Hodges on altosax- he literally makes it cry. add Prelude to a Kiss, A-Train...All gorgeous.
Lee Morgan- The Sidewinder ,1963, trumpet, on Blue Note- a wicked-cool groove.
Benny Goodman-Sing,Sing,Sing, 1936 Live Carnegie Hall Jazz concert- (first one ever there, first integrated band, the audience was dancing in the aisles, you can feel it.) Gene Krupa on drums, Lionel Hampton vibes.
Charlie Parker April in Paris. its beautiful.
|