[Dixielandjazz] Greatest Jazz Album Ever Recorded

[Robert Ringwald]

Harry Callaghan wrote:

(snip)
> In any case, again not appointing myself as the sole authority on the
> subject,  I invite anyone who is familiar with Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
> recorded in March & April of 1959 to also give a listen to a Cannonball
> Adderley album entitled "Somethin' Else", recorded in March 1958.
> Through the years, i have heard of many, including Q, who regard the former
> as possibly the greatest jazz album ever recorded.
> The personnel is completely different, save for the fact that Adderley
> appears on both albums.  I have always enjoyed the latter far more, and I
> attribute that to the absence of Coltrane, who was on the Davis album
(snip)

"the greatest jazz album ever recorded"???  I don't think so.  

I nominate Armstrong's first recording of "West End Blues."  

And, who is Q?  


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