May 2020 Record Challenge Thread (PRIZE RAFFLE AT THE END!)

Day 3: Jazz Sunday

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

This year, I lucked out and won the Golden PIF during PIFsgiving, and I knew I needed more jazz on vinyl, so one of my picks from the prize pool (all organized by the great @Jake!) was this smooth gem. I usually like more upbeat jazz, but this is a really enjoyable half hour.

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TenderLovingKiller® said:
I was just thinking about this (well, probably over thinking it TBH), and I graduate High School in 2000 but I was in HS from 1999/2000 and most of the 2000 LPs I would choose came out after I graduated so I think I am gonna pick something the came out in 1999 that I actually listened to during my Senior year of High School.
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yeah thats my plan also. i graduated in 2014 and im gonna listen to a 2013 that was basically the sound to my senior year
 
Day 3: Jazz Sunday

This is a day I'm really thankful for because my knowledge and general experience within and around Jazz is woefully limited. Generally true for Blues and Soul too with regard any sense of breadth to the artists I know. They're genres I've always loved to hear but never pursued, so I'll be using people's picks as an opportunity to explore. Indeed one of the things I looked forward to in jumping into this all was to look to flesh out my experience within those areas.

For today's pick I've recently been listening to a decent amount of Van Morrison and love 'And it Stoned Me' which features the line "stoned me just like Jelly Roll". So that is who I went with today and went for a play of 'Doctor Jazz' by Jelly Roll Morton. There's a copy of this with a reduced and slightly rearranged tracklist – I believe it's a compilation anyway – on Discogs for under a tenner said to be in pretty good shape and have been debating purchasing it as I enjoyed my time with this quite a bit.

 
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Gonna keep Jazz Sunday going with my Day 1 - A first record spin:
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Billie & De De Pierce/Jim Robinson’s New Orleand Band - Jazz at Preservation Hall Vol. 2

Got to get a little clever with this one, can only play that Beach Boys record soo much (actually, I could play it all the time), but then people who know, don’t learn anything.

Not only is this the first Preservation Hall Jazz record I bought, it’s also the oldest.
 
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Day 3: Jazz Sunday

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Gil Scott-Heron gets rhetorical on track 3 asking "Is That Jazz?" The lyrics of this song, from 1981, takes you on a jazz history trip. Gil churns through the cannon of jazz greats. He references Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Grover Washington and Ron Bridgewater. The essence though is that jazz has a deep past, but to make it current we must stretch the definition of jazz. He pushes his own vision for the genre to include not just playing but also singing as long as it has a message that spreads love and tenderness.
 
Waitressboy said:
Day 3 - Jazz Sunday
Marco Sanguinetti - 8 (2013)

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I don't like jazz. Maybe some day, but not now.
I don't have a lnice of jazz music, maybe two or three vinyl and a couple of CDs.
Marco Sanguinetti is an Argentinian pianist that makes jazz, but I kinda enjoy his music because it sounds like Radiohead. He also made a double album of covers of Radiohead. But when he writes his own songs, it sounds like Yorke & co.
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I just want to say thanks for posting this, because this is right up my alley, and I'm always especially happy to discover Argentine music! (I lived there for a couple years)
 
DAY 4 - ALBUM FROM SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
This album and Humanz by Gorillaz were released two weeks apart the April before I graduated from HS. And between the two, I have to admit, DAMN. is the better album. I actually remember that when the video for "HUMBLE." dropped I was on my phone watching videos from Kendrick's YouTube channel so it was a surprise to go back to his channel, refresh, and be met with a brand new video. It's weird to think I might have been amongst the first people to see it. I also remember that the Friday it came out, I got up very early and listened to the entire thing before school. This is my personal favorite Kendrick album and the one I've listened to the most. In some ways it's his most straightforward and accessible, but there's also a ton to dig into once you go beneath the surface.
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gaporter said:
DAY 4 - ALBUM FROM SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
This album and Humanz by Gorillaz were released two weeks apart the April before I graduated from HS. And between the two, I have to admit, DAMN. is the better album. I actually remember that when the video for "HUMBLE." dropped I was on my phone watching videos from Kendrick's YouTube channel so it was a surprise to go back to his channel, refresh, and be met with a brand new video. It's weird to think I might have been amongst the first people to see it. I also remember that the Friday it came out, I got up very early and listened to the entire thing before school. This is my personal favorite Kendrick album and the one I've listened to the most. In some ways it's his most straightforward and accessible, but there's also a ton to dig into once you go beneath the surface.
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Oh my god, you're a tiny baby! 😘
 
Day 4 - high school

Radiohead - OK Computer

My final year of school was 96-97. OK Computer came out just as I was taking my exams and I listened to it so much. But more than that, it's the memory of that year's Glastonbury and Radiohead's amazing performance that is burned into me. I'd got four free tickets from The Supernaturals, a Scottish band that I'd somehow befriended (they'd given me two tickets to Reading the year before as well), so went with some mates to celebrate our freedom from school. It was incredibly wet and muddy, but somehow Radiohead played this dazzling set and for those two hours that was all that mattered. Still one of my favourite ever gigs, and certainly one of my favourite albums. EDIT: listening to No Surprises right now and remembering the firework show that took place in the background...

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ThePakoBuelna said:
Day 3: pass me some of that JAZZ cabbage
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Ryo Fukui "A Letter From Slowboat"

Jazz is one of the biggest gifts from the US to the world, but you gotta admit, no one does jazz like the Japanese. 🍻
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So many great albums released in that period! So many I don't have too, it's going to be an expensive quest! But for now an album from 2005, when I was in high school, and I love:

Day 4: An album from of high school
Bright Eyes "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" [2005]
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