60′s lists are making the rounds right now, so I figured I’d throw my hat in the ring. As usual, the choices reflect my obsessions and my limitations. This list is more canonist than I’d prefer but I’m no crate digger. (And before you get too excited, know this: it’s, like, 50% jazz.)
The 5th Dimension – The Age of Aquarias
13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
Albert Ayler – Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village
Albert Ayler – New York Eye & Ear Control
Al Green – Green is Blues
AMM – AMMusic
Andrew Hill – Black Fire
Andrew Hill – Point of Departure
Anita O'Day & Carl Tjader – Time for Two
Archie Shepp – Four for Trane
Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man
Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul
Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow
Art Ensemble of Chicago – A Jackson in Your House
Art Pepper – Smack Up
B.B. King – Live at the Regal
The Band – The Band
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys – Wild Honey
The Beatles – Rubber Soul
The Beatles – Please Please Me
The Beatles – Magical Myster Tour (US L.P. version)
Beroff, etc. – Messiean: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
Big Brother & The Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
Bill Evans Trio – Waltz for Debby
Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz
Blue Cheer – Outside Inside
Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billie Joe
Bobby Hutcherson – Components
Booker T. & the Mgs – Green Onions
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos – Carnegie Hall Concert
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells – Hoodoo Man Blues
The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Can – Monster Movie
Cannonball Adderley – Sextet in New York
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe as Milk
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
Caetano Veloso – Caetano Veloso
Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures
Cecil Taylor – Conquistador!
Charles Mingus – The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus – The Great Concert of Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus – Oh Yeah!
Chuck Berry – St. Louis to Liverpool
Coleman Hawkins – Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy & The Poor Boys
Dexter Gordon – Go!
Dionne Warwick – Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls
Dionne Warwick – Golden Hits
Dolly Parton – Just Because I’m a Woman
Don Cherry – Symphony for Improvisers
Donald Byrd – A New Perspective
Don Ellis – Electric Bath
The Doors – The Doors
Duke Ellington – Far East Suite
Duke Ellington - …And His Mother Called Him Bill
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach – Money Jungle
Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella in Berlin
Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
Elvis Presley – From Elvis in Memphis
Ennio Morricone – The Good, The Bad & the Ugly
Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
Eric Dolphy – Live at the Five Spot
Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief
Flamin’ Groovies – Supersnazz
The Four Tops - Reach Out
The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace of Sin
The Fugs – First Album
Frank Sinatra – Sinatra at the Sands
Frank Sinatra – Nice ‘n’ Easy
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention – We’re Only In It For The Money
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention – Uncle Meat
Freddie Hubbard – Hub-Tones
Funkadelic – Funkadelic
Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster – Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
George Russell – Ezz-Thetic
George Solti, Vienna Philharmonic et al. – Das Ring Des Niebelungen
Glenn Gould – Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk 1
Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze, et al. – Topicalia our Panis et Circencis
Godz – 2
Grachan Moncur III – Evolution
Grand Funk Railroad – Grand Funk
Grant Green – Grantstand
Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa
Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza – s/t
Gyorgy Ligeti – Requiem/Lontano/Continuum [Bour, Orchestre Du Sudwestfunk]
Hank Mobley – Soul Station
Harry Partch – The World of Harry Partch
Herbie Hancock – Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
Holy Modal Rounders – 1
Holy Modal Rounders – The Moray Ell Eats the Holy Modal Rounders
Horace Silver – Songs of my Father
Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf
Hungarian String Quartet – Barktok: Six String Quartets
Iannis Xenakis – Metastasis/Pithopakta/Eonta (Simonovic, Ensemble Instrumental De Musique…)
Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul
Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz – Getz & Gilberto
James Brown – Sex Machine
James Brown – Live at the Apollo
Jackie Mclean – Destination…Out!
Jackie Mclean – One Step Beyond
Jacques Brel – Ces Gens-La
Jaki Byard – Jaki Byard Experience
Jerry Lee Lewis – Live at Star Club, Hamburg
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
Jimmy Giuffre – Free Fall
Jimmy Rushing – Rushing Lullabyes
Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack
Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz – Getz/Gilberto
Joe Harriot – Abstract
John Fahey – The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special
Johnny Hartman – John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
Joseph Jarman – Song For
Karl Bohm, Nilsson, Windgassen, et al. – Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Hymnen
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gielen/Kagel – Gruppen fur 3 Orchester
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Mikrophonie I&II
Kenny Burell – Midnight Blue
The Kinks – Something Else By The Kinks
Laura Nyro – Eli & The Thirteenth Confessions
Larry Young – Unity
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
Lee Konitz – Motion
Lee Konitz – The Lee Konitz Duets
Lee Morgan – Searching for the New Land
Lennie Tristano – The New Tristano
Leonard Cohen – The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington – The Great Summit
Luciano Berio/Swingle Singers/New York Philharmonic – Sinfonia
Magic Sam – West Side Soul
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Dance Party
The MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
Merle Haggard & The Strangers – Pride In What I Am
Merle Haggard & The Strangers – Same Train, A Different Time
The Meters – The Meters
Miles Davis – Miles Smiles
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
Miles Davis – Nefertiti
The Millenium – Begin
Mississippi John Hurt – The Immortal Mississippi John Hurt
Moby Grape – Moby Grape
The Monkees – Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, LTD
Morton Subotnik – Silver Apples from the Moon
Muddy Waters – Live at Newport
Nat King Cole – Wild is Love
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
New York Art Quartet feat. Amiri Baraka – New York Art Quartet
Noah Howard – The Black Ark
Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Ornette Coleman – This Is Our Music
Ornette Coleman – At the Golden Circle
Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes
Otis Redding – Otis Blue
Patty Waters – College Tour
Peter Brotzmann – Machine Gun
Pharoah Sanders – Karma
Randy Newman – Randy Newman
Ray Charles – The Genius Sings the Blues
Ray Charles – Modern Sounds In Country and Western
Red Krayola – The Parable of Arable Land
The Rollings Stones – Between the Buttons [UK Edition]
The Rolling Stones – Beggar’s Banquet
Rod Stewart – The Rod Stewart Album
Roscoe Mitchell Sextet – Sound
Roger Miller – The Return of Roger Miller
Sam Rivers – Fuschia Swing Song
Scott Walker – Scott 4
Serge Gainsbourg – Initials B.B.
The Shaggs – Philosophy of the World
Sly & The Family Stone – Stand
The Soft Machine – The Soft Machine
The Sonics – Here are the Sonics!!!
Sonny Rollins – The Bridge
Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins – Sonny Meets Hawk
Sonny Simmons – Music of the Spheres
Sonny & Linda Sharrock – Black Woman
Stan Getz – Focus
Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf – The Second
The Stooges – The Stooges
Sun Ra – Atlantis
Sun Ra – The Magic City
Terry Riley – A Rainbow In Curved Air
The United States of America – The United States of America
Vanilla Fudge – Vanilla Fudge
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
The Weavers – Weaver’s Almanac
Wes Montgomery – Smokin’ at the Half Note
Wilson Pickett – The Exciting Wilson Pickett
The Who – The Who Sell Out
The Zombies – Begin Here
VA – A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
VA – Anthology of American Folk Music
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