Favorite Blue Note Recordings

I am listening to Wayne Shorter's Speak no evil , as I write this, what are peoples favorite Blue Note recordings?

I will post my list later, a top 5 or top 10.

Thanks for reviving the group! I've been uninspired of late.

Not in order:

Somethin' Else -Cannonball Adderley
Song For My Father -Horace Silver
Blue Train -John Coltrane
Soul Station -Hank Mobley
GO -Dexter Gordon

I have just started entering my jazz recordings into LT, and noticed the jazz group was dormant. And that's just wrong.

Cheers

Off the top of my head all of Monk's early recordings, Grant Green's Idle Moments, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, Andrew Hill's first albums.

All good recordings. Monohex's list almost exactly mirrors mine, although instead of Soul Station, I would add Lee Morgan's Sidewinder. Or Dolphy's Out to Lunch.

In the interests of Full Disclosure, I must confess that I've not stopped to check whether this tune was ever on a Blue Note side -- thought I rather doubt it -- but I woke-up this morning with the incomparable Eddie Jefferson in my head: "We used to have the Black Bottom and the Razamatazz./ Now it's Miles, Monk, and Moody with their Modern Jazz. Better -- better,/ gettin' better all the time." What a great cut! Yet how sad that "modern" jazz is now several decades old. Still blows the living Hell out of most latter-day stuff, though, at-least to my unreconstructed ears. Get down, sisters and brothers!

My top five would have to be;

Cool Struttin'- Sonny Clark
Out to Lunch Eric Dolphy
Point of departure Andrew Hill
Moanin' Art Blakey
One flight up Dexter Gordon

Cheers

Dang, I left out Idle Moments! Ah, well, there are too many to add to the list.

Nice to see this thread!

Off the top of my head here's a top ten, I'll go for (in no particular order):

The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan
Hank Mobley Quintet by Hank Mobley
Takin' Off by Herbie Hancock
Inventions and Dimensions by Herbie Hancock
Aligator Boogaloo by Lou Donaldson
Home Cookin' by The Incredible Jimmy Smith
Street of Dreams by Grant Green
Idle Moments by Grant Green
Blue Train by John Coltrane
At the Golden Circle Stockholm by Ornette Coleman

Happy New Year everyone!

I have to add Maiden Voyage, by Herbie Hancock. I forgot he was on Blue Note.