Bret Zvacek, the Director of Jazz Studies at the Crane School of Music, asked me and several other jazz educators to: “List 12 (jazz) albums in no particular order that made a lasting impression on you, but only 1 per band.”
Here’s my list:
- Fred Hersch – Forward Motion
- Jerry Bergonzi – Standard Gonz
- Michael Cain – Circa
- Maria Schneider – Evanescence
- John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
- Jim McNeely – Group Therapy
- Azimuth – How It Was Then… Never Again
- Miles Davis – Four and More
- Kenny Wheeler – Gnu High
- Mel Lewis/Bob Brookmeyer – Live at the the Village Vanguard
- Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles
- McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy
