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This is the music that I'm listening to right now
1Bill Evans Live at the Village Vanguard
A huge amount of CityTools was developed while listening to this. "Waltz for Debbie" is one of the great things in life.
This box set is unbelievably rich. It was produced by San Franciscan Orin Keepnews -- who produced for a stable of geniuses.
This box set is unbelievably rich. It was produced by San Franciscan Orin Keepnews -- who produced for a stable of geniuses.
2Kind of Blue
Miles Davis -- what else can I say?
3Ah um
Charles Mingus is endlessly fascinating to me -- every bit as idiosyncratic as Thelonius Monk, but much more ambitious.
4Careless Love
Madeleine Peyroux might be channeling Billie Holiday (and why not?) but she's got her own chops too. One of the great voices of our time.
5Rain Dogs
There are almost no real geniuses alive in music today. Tom Waits is one of them, though. Rain Dogs, in my mind, is one of the most complete and compelling collection of music ever released.
6Koln Concert
Keith Jarrett. Music to do anything by...
7Three Ragas
Ravi Shankar at his best. His daughter ain't half bad either. Both of them (Anoushka and Nora Jones).
8Robert Johnson's Collected Works
He only cut a few sides before his mysterious death, but this is the ultimate Delta bluesman. No one played like him before, and no one plays like him since. Sometimes he'd face the wall when recording because he didn't want people to observe how he fingered the guitar.
The songs, the music, the voice. Perfect. You wouldn't want to change a note of it.
The songs, the music, the voice. Perfect. You wouldn't want to change a note of it.
9The Innocent the Wild and the E Street Shuffle
This was my first Bruce Springsteen album -- got it before Ashbury Park -- and it remains one of my all-time favs.
10Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits
Sometime a guy is in a Rat Pack frame of mind....
11The Melody at Night, with you
More Keith Jarrett. What are you, crazy, of course there's more Keith Jarrett on my list.
12Saxophone Collosus
Sonny Rollins is a god. Better then Trane and Bird, if you ask me. Hey, it's my list, if you disagree make your own. Anyhow, when they have a shindig in heaven, I figure they place this.
My son Max and I got to see Sonny play recently. Oh... wow...
My son Max and I got to see Sonny play recently. Oh... wow...
13Chopin Nocturnes
Arthur Rubenstein does the master proud. Nothing makes a gentle afternoon or evening sweeter...
14Brilliant Corners
Monk's greatest work, although I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Underground Monk, which my mom bought for me when I was 14.
15The Amazing Bud Powell
Christ, he died at like 44. Drugs. What a waste. He was a genius, pure and simple. His brother dies young too -- a good musician in his own right -- but that was a car accident (off a bridge, eek!).
16The Real Thing
Taj Mahal -- my buddy from when I lived in the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson -- knows how to stomp, that's for sure. This is a truly great album.
The weird thing about Taj Mahal is that he recorded the same thing over and over. Can't understand that. But he's so bouyant a spirit that it works.
I'm looking for a CD of Recyling the Blues and Other Related Stuff (long out of print)... If any body has one, get in touch...
The weird thing about Taj Mahal is that he recorded the same thing over and over. Can't understand that. But he's so bouyant a spirit that it works.
I'm looking for a CD of Recyling the Blues and Other Related Stuff (long out of print)... If any body has one, get in touch...
17Mahler's Fifth Symphony
I just hate the first movement of this. But the fourth and five are really nice. All the same, I find myself less interested in Mahler with each passing year. Odd. These are the Leonard Bernstein boxed set. Can't go wrong with Lenny.
18Beetohoven's Ninth Symphony
If you could only listen to one piece of music for your entire life, this is it. No question. It's one fo the most perfect things ever created by a human.
Again, this is a Leonard Bernstein recording.
Again, this is a Leonard Bernstein recording.
19Closing Time
Tom Waits again, but old Tom Waits. You can kind of divide his career in to the Nighthawks at the Diner phase and then the post Frank's Wild Years phase. Both are terrific. The more recent stuff is just magnificent art, but the earlier stuff (like Closing Time) has a kind of narcotic appeal.
I used to play this on the theater loudspeakers when I was a projectionist in college. The audience never knew what the hell it was all about.
I used to play this on the theater loudspeakers when I was a projectionist in college. The audience never knew what the hell it was all about.
20Graceland
Paul Simon's greatest album, to my way of thinking. And that's saying something because, well, Paul Simon is amazing.
This collection of music will never tire you out and never get old.
This collection of music will never tire you out and never get old.
21Taking the Long Way Home
The Dixie Chicks are one of the great trios on the American scene right now. I don't think that this one is as good as Fly or Wide Open Spaces, but it's still a good solid album.
And the Chicks are cool, too. No matter what the haters say...
And the Chicks are cool, too. No matter what the haters say...
22Diana Krall Live in Paris
A nearly perfect live CD and Krall has got all her vim and vigor going for her.
