Great jazz

[germdoc]

I was working in the yard yesterday and had a cassette tape playing Stan Getz bossa nova music. It reminded me that there are some albums that never wear on me with repeated listening. In fact, every time I hear them I find them even more interesting.

So my pick off the top of my head for a couple of desert island disks--could listen to forever and ever without getting tired of them--would be Stan Getz--Getz/Gilberto and Jazz Samba; Miles Davis--Kind of Blue, In a Silent Way; John Coltrane--Crescent, A Love Supreme; Frank Sinatra--Greatest Hits, also his recordings with Basie and Jobim; Duke Ellington--Live at Newport 1956 and Masterpieces; Joe Pass--Virtuoso 1,2 and 3.

My choices are all in the realm of jazz, probably because it's so instrumentally and rhythmically complex, but I'm sure I could come up with a few things in any field. Classical--piano music of Chopin and Schubert, piano and orchestral works of Debussy, etc. A lot of bluegrass music, especially Doc Watson and Norman Blake. Maybe even some rock and roll...OK, I'll include the entire Beatles collection here...

Any thoughts on records you never ever get tired of?

[cabinetman]

The ones I can't stand listening to anymore are Stan Getz and Miles Davis.
Just kidding. I would say the original Beatles, Roy Orbison, and the Everly Brothers.

[kirkroy]

I love Getz's sound (or Paul Winters with a similar sound on alto). I never got into his playing too much though.

In the jazz arena I like tenor sax players from the late 50s/60s: Dexter Gordon - Doin' Alright, Coletrane stuff with Garland on piano, Coletrane - Ballands, Sonny Rollins - Way Out West. In the almost jazz category I really like Maceo Parker's 'roots' records (also liked his playing with James Brown). Don't forget Kenny G (just kidding!!! ).

I used to play tenor but pretty much gave it up when I got married. Then I let someone in the family borrow it, who let someone else borrow, who pawned it.

[schloff]

Tchaikovsky, especially March Slave (I blew the speakers in my convertible one time with this).

Metallica, most of their stuff is doable, but Master of puppets is incredible

Everclear, for their simplistic approach

Mearle Haggard, well, he's Merle. nuff sed.

Deep Purple, Perfect Strangers

Anything upbeat from Mozart

Most of Buck Owens stuff is agreeable

WASP's new material is very interesting. Neon God Pt I and Pt II come to mind.

And anything bluegrass that is unproduced and raw. Banjos, washboards and whiskey jugs do the trick any time.

[Sam Conder]

A few off the top of my head:

• U2 - Joshua Tree
• Harry Connick, Jr - Star Turtle
• Doc Severinsen & The Summit Brass - Episodes

And one quickly gaining the same status:

• Jars of Clay - Redemption Songs

[crokett]

Hmm..

John Fogerty - Blue Moon Swamp
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Dvorak's New World Symphony
George Winston - more or less anything
Van Halen - 5150
And a local artist named Michael Tuten: http://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Tuten/+wiki

[Pappy]

Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing"

The Doors (Anything)

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Any recording of "Rhapsody in Blue", but my favorite is Arthur Feidler and the Boston Pops with Peter Nero as guest pianist.

Streisand.....

Any powerful driving music from Reba!

[MilDoc]

Hey folks, there is no one greater than .... SATCHMO!

[tedkitch]

There are so many that I could choose (Meaning, this may get long):
Greatest Hits - The Cars
Master Of Puppets - Metallica
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Abraxas - Santana
Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix
Back In Black - AC/DC
Band Of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix
Blizzard Of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
Diary Of A Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
Big Bang - Enanitos Verdes
Boston - Boston
Legend - Bob Marley
Greatest Hits - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chronicles - Rush
Elegant Gypsy - Al Di Meola
Couldn't Stand The Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Surfing With The Alien - Joe Satriani
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Eat 'Em And Smile - David Lee Roth
Pornograffiti - Extreme
Friday Night In San Fransisco - Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia
Greatest Hits 1974-1978 - Steve Miller Band
Empire - Queensrÿche
Pyromania - Def Leppard
If 60's Were 90's - Beautiful People
Live On - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Machine Head - Deep Purple
Montrose - Montrose
My Generation: The Very Best Of - The Who
Original Masters - Jethro Tull
The Power Station - The Power Station
Syncronicity - The Police
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
Sonic Temple - The Cult
The Definitive Collection - Stevie Wonder
Upstairs at Eric's - Yaz
Wake Me When It's Over - Faster Pussycat
Women And Children First - Van Halen
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - Yngwie Malmsteen
1999 - Prince
1984 - Van Halen

I doubt that I even broke the surface, there are just so many good albums.

[JR]

Well, staying with jazz...

Miles Davis, in addition to the ones mentioned, Birth of the Cool.

Sara Vaughan - Columbia recordings, particularly Lullaby of Birdland, Funny Valentine, and especially The Lush Life

... and linking to classical, there's a Wynton Marsalis recording recorded in British cathedrals. Really good. I'll try to find it when I get home.

BTW - jazz fans should get to know Wynton Marsilis' work. The Lincoln Center Jazz Band cooks!

JR

[billwmeyer]

Music

I am a little diverse when it comes to music. I loved the Hey Jude Beatles album, Doors greatest hits, The Carpenters, Doors, Hermans Hermits, Mama's and the Pappa's, The Eagles, and more from by youth, mid 60's to early 70's stuff. My first 8-track purchase was Ena Godda Da Vita by Iron Butterfly.

I also love BB King, Bethoven, but have never been much into county, though I do like what Carrie Underwood has been doing (American Idol fan).

I don't do rap though!
Bill

[germdoc]

A lot of interesting stuff. I would hesitate to include much rock or blues because, much as I love the stuff and listen to it over and over (Stones' Sticky Fingers, U2's Achtung Baby come to mind) I frankly get tired of it and put it away for a year or two.

That is not true with Miles Davis, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, etc. I could listen to Kind of Blue every day for a millenium and still enjoy it. There's something in the sound, arrangements, complexity of the music that is incredibly interesting.

It's like the Mona Lisa or a Rembrandt painting--timeless and full of infinite questions and complexity. Whereas a Jackson Pollack or Kandinsky, you think, that's interesting--now let's look at the next one.

[kirkroy]

BTW - jazz fans should get to know Wynton Marsilis' work. The Lincoln Center Jazz Band cooks!

I couldn't get into his stuff when I listened years ago, too serious for me. I suppose I could give him another chance. I liked Branford Marsalis much better.

[frumper64]

Ok - not jazz, but.....
Stardust album by Willie Nelson
Facing Future - Israel Kamakawewo'Ole
just about anything Allison Kraus wants to record

[Ed62]

Ok - not jazz, but.....
Stardust album by Willie Nelson
just about anything Allison Kraus wants to record

That works for me too, as well as most anything by Sinatra. I also enjoy a lot of Jazz vocalists. One album I have is "Peter Cincotti" by Peter Cincotti. Can't get enough of it.

Ed