15 great rhodes albums

A reader recently asked me to give a "Top Ten" of rhodes albums. This is not that - I avoid things like 'Top Tens" because they change all the time for me – something I was excited about ten years ago, and might be sick of now, may be completely new and exciting to someone else - and also, I judge albums on overall criterion, not just on the "rhodes content".

If I was forced into a “Top Ten” of all time, I guess there’d be lots of Herbie Hancock, Lonnie Liston Smith, early Patrice Rushen etc. etc., and some albums from here like George Duke's "Inner Source" and Bill Evans' "Symbiosis"....

But instead, here's a random list of some rhodes-flavoured jazz albums I've recently been enjoying or re-listening to from other blogs over the past year, with a few classics thrown in as well.

So, not a top ten, but a random fifteen.

( 6-years-later note : files from dead blogs and dead posts now re-upped! )

“The Baron” - Baron Von Ohlen Quartet from Quimsy’s Mumbo Jumbo

"Hairpin Circus” – Masabumi Kikuchi from El Goog Ja

"Call" - Michael Naura,  from Ish

"Echoes" - Frank Cunimondo Trio

"Sagittarius" - Frank Cunimondo Trio

”Four Corners” – Second Direction originally from The Growing Bin and Forrealheadz

'73' -Ahmad Jamal 

”Three Days of the Condor" from Orgy in Rhythm

"Upendo Ni Pamoja" by Ramsey Lewis

Hadley Caliman  - "Iapetus" from Katonah

"De Prepo" - Jorge Lopez Ruiz


"Universe" - Hampton Hawes from Ish



"Pure Dynamite" by Buddy Terry
ripped by E-Mile

"Temple of Birth" by Jeremy Steig

"Poo Sun" - Masabumi Kikuchi