 | The Cry! by Prince Lasha
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $43.73 amazing, influencial, and forgotten classic
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 | Fuchsia Swing Song by Sam Rivers
Buy used from: $25.90 IMOP his very best. See my review.
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 | Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.66 stone cold classic by the great Eric Dolphy.
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 | Point of Departure by Andrew Hill
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $4.37 outside music that doesn't avoid structure. Hill's best.
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 | At the "Golden Circle" in Stockholm, Vol. 1 by Ornette Coleman
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $5.47 One of, in not my very favorite, Coleman album.
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 | Puttin' It Together by Elvin Jones
Buy new: $35.98 / Used from: $18.88 Elvin's greatest album as leader, with a wonderful Joe Farell blowing hard.
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 | Transition by John Coltrane
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.40 an undeservadedly underrated Coltrane album, that is "out" without going over the edge. Really fantastic.
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 | Evolution by Grachan Moncur III
Buy used from: $47.58 Lee Morgan really stretches himself on this one. I suggest purchasing Mosaic Select 1.
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 | Live at Pep's by Yusef Lateef
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.98 one of the best live jazz albums ever.
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 | Destination Out! by Jackie McLean
Buy new: $8.94 / Used from: $6.50 I prefer this to "one step beyond" as IMOP it has just a tad more fire. essential Mclean.
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 | Money Jungle by Duke Ellington
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.77 One of the best trio albums there is.
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 | Evidence by Steve Lacy with Don Cherry
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.99 exellent album from Lacy, with Don Cherry.
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 | Change of the Century by Ornette Coleman
Buy new: $8.96 / Used from: $3.22 one of the albums that started it all.
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 | Contours by Sam Rivers
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $12.99 a close second by Sam.
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 | Eastern Sounds by Yusef Lateef
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.75 a one of a kind album, not so much "out" as unique.
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 | Regeneration by Roswell Rudd
Buy used from: $32.70 Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy and company bring to life 3 tunes by Herbie Nichols, and 3 tunes by Thelonious Monk. This album is available for cheap on itunes.
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 | Live at Birdland by John Coltrane
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.33 my favorite live jazz album of all time. see my review.
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 | Stick-Up! by Bobby Hutcherson
Buy new: $11.94 / Used from: $6.99 my favorite Hutcherson album, Joe Henderson is on fire on this one.
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 | Change by Andrew Hill
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $8.31 with Sam Rivers. my favorite really "out" album by Hill.
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 | Extensions by Mccoy Tyner
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $8.00 though I think the OOP "expansions" edges this one (and the more inside "the real mccoy" tops both) this is solid Tyner, with wayne shorter.
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 | Pithecanthropus Erectus by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.99 a revelation for it's time. featuring the unique and underappreciated talents of J.R. Monterose.
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 | This Is Our Music by Ornette Coleman
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $6.88 Fantastic, blues drenched, Coleman album.
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 | JuJu by Wayne Shorter
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.80 Fantastic line up for a fantastic album.
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 | Hyperion with Higgins by Charles Lloyd
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $5.09 Fantastic send off for Billy Higgins.
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 | Let Freedom Ring by Jackie McLean
Buy new: $8.94 / Used from: $6.25 see my review.
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 | Conference of the Birds by Dave Holland Quartet
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $46.60 with sam rivers along for the ride Holland can't go wrong.
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 | Black Stars by Jason Moran
Buy used from: $17.98 interesting new pianist. If there is a motif somewhere in this list it's that Sam Rivers= quality avant-garde.
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 | Far Cry by Eric Dolphy Quintet with Booker Little
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.99 fantastic contribution by booker little
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 | Firebirds by Prince Lasha With Sonny Simmons
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.49 another great one from Prince Lasha.
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 | Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd at Monterey by Charles Lloyd Quartet
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $9.99 some sixties flower power jazz from Lloyd.
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 | Components by Bobby Hutcherson
Buy used from: $20.99 interesting compositions from Joe Chambers and Bobby.
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 | Trio Fascination - Edition One by Joe Lovano
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.58 very Colemanesque. see my review
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 | The Last from Lennie's by Jaki Byard Quartet
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.48 I'm not sure if this is the same album as "Live!", but if it is than it's one of his best ,and Joe Farrell is just simply awesome.
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 | Pax by Andrew Hill
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $44.57 Great line up. see my review.
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| Dimensions and Extensions by Sam Rivers
Buy used from: $3.90 hard to find, but worth the effort.
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 | Cornell 1964
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $13.00 great new find from the vault featuring some of the best outside players ever: jaki byard, eric dolphy, and the intimidating leader himself.
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 | Out of the Afternoon by Roy Haynes
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.60 Roland Kirk makes this one.
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 | Tonic by Medeski Martin & Wood
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.91 a wonderful barebones departure for MM&W
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 | Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.22 gotta have this one on here.
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 | East Broadway Run Down by Sonny Rollins
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.00 Sonny's outside excursion.
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