The Desert Island Collection

[crawjo]

I'm sure this has probably received its own thread before, somewhere in the vast archives, but I thought I'd go ahead and provide my "desert island" list. My self-imposed rules are that I get 50 discs to take with me. In no particular order, here's what I would take:

Ornette Coleman - Beauty Is A Rare Thing (6 discs)
John Coltrane - The Classic Quartet (8 discs)
Miles Davis - Live at the Plugged Nickel (8 discs)
Miles Davis - In Person Live Friday and Saturday (4 discs)

Those are the box sets that I take. That's 26 of the 50 discs. The other 24 that I'd take are (again in no particular order)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Patricia Barber - Verse
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador!
Cecil Taylor - Indent
Cecil Taylor - 3 Phasis
Matthew Shipp - Multiplication Table
Wayne Shorter - Juju
William Parker - O'Neal's Porch
William Parker - Scrapbook
MIMEO/Tillbury - Hands of Caravaggio
Ellery Eskelin - Arcanum Moderne
Sun Ra - Atlantis
Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms for Dimensions Tomorrow
Max Roach - Deeds, Not Words
Ornette Coleman - Complete Science Fiction Sessions Disc 1
Ornette Coleman - Complete Science Fiction Sessions Disc 2
Ornette Coleman - Live at the Golden Circle, Volume 1
Ornette Coleman - Live at the Golden Circle, Volume 2
Paul Chambers - Bass on Top
Martin Siewert/Martin Brandlmayr - Too Beautiful to Burn

Of course, this list would change a bit based on my mood at any given point, and also based on the new stuff I hear every week.

[sashabur]

Originally Posted by crawjo

My self-imposed rules are that I get 50 discs to take with me.

Are you sure you will be allowed to take that many when time comes?

[clinthopson]

I must be getting old. I rememebr a plethora of these threads from about 9-10 years ago when jazz sites hit the net.

[Brian Olewnick]

Top 50, eh? OK, a rough selection in alpha order:

AMM - AMMMusic
AMM - Generative Themes
AMM - Newfoundland
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie
Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in Sorrow
Carla Bley/Paul Haines - Escalator Over the Hill
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Anthony Braxton - New York, Fall, 1974
Anthony Braxton - Dortmund, 1976
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic/Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Willem Breuker Kollektief - In Holland
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm
Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite
Brian Eno/Robert Fripp - No Pussyfooting
Morton Feldman - All Piano
Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston
Wayan Gandera - Music for the Balinese Shadow Play
Julius Hemphill - 'Coon Bid'ness
Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
Abdullah Ibrahim/Johnny Dyani - Good News from Africa
Last Exit - Last Exit
George Lewis - Homage to Charles Parker
Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room
Michael Mantler/JCOA - Communications
MIMEO/John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
Charles Mingus - Presents Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Roscoe Mitchell - Congliptious
Thelonius Monk - Monk's Dream
Harry Partch - The Delusion of the Fury
Steve Reich - Drumming/Six Pianos/Music for Mallet Instruments...
Steve Reich - Octet/Violin Phase
Keith Rowe - 29 October 2001
Keith Rowe/John Tilbury - Duos for Doris
Keith Rowe/Toshimaru Nakamura - Weather Sky
Frederic Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Frederic Rzewski - Four Pieces/Ballad #3
Erik Satie - The Complete Piano Music (Ciccolini)
Shivkumar Sharma/Zakir Hussein - Raga Purya Kalyan
Carl Stone - Mom's
Cecil Taylor - Indent
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador!
Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues
David Tudor - Rainforest
John Zorn - Leng T'che

[crawjo]

Nice list, Brian. I saw your review of Duos for Doris on allmusic.com and decided to pick it up. I'm looking forward to its arrival, as it will be my introduction to Erstwhile and the so-called "electric-acoustic improvisation" music.

[Brian Olewnick]

Cool, crawjo. Curious to hear your take. I'd recommend reading Rowe's notes on the session that are available on the Erstwhile site; I think he provides a very good conceptual "bed" for the disc.

[crawjo]

Brian,

I'm looking forward to its arrival. Should be any day now. At any rate, I wanted to thank you for taking the time to post your list. We seem to have pretty similar tastes, so I went ahead and printed it out, and now I've got a whole new batch of albums to keep an eye out for...

[Jon Abbey]

it went out Priority this AM, crawjo, should show up tomorrow or Thursday.

[crawjo]

Originally Posted by Jon Abbey

it went out Priority this AM, crawjo, should show up tomorrow or Thursday.

Excellent!

[Other Steve]

Originally Posted by Brian Olewnick

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie
Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in Sorrow

Given that you can now get both of these on a single CD in that "Americans Swinging in Paris" series, what will you add to your list?

Always trying to be helpful. Gosh, it'll be a few days before I can even consider putting a list like this together. And when I do, it'll just make me want to carry an iPod every time I fly...

[Pete C]

[moneyp]

Great list, Brian. I like a lot of the stuff on there, and it gives me ideas what else to look for. I hope others contribute.

[crawjo]

Originally Posted by mone peterson

Great list, Brian. I like a lot of the stuff on there, and it gives me ideas what else to look for. I hope others contribute.

Yes, that was kind of what I was hoping for. As for my list, I've already decided that I need to make a couple of changes. I need to add Cecil Taylor's Conquistador, Sun Ra's Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms for Dimensions Tomorrow and Matthew Shipp's Multiplication Table (thanks to all those who recommended this gem!) Which means I'm going to cut, uhm, Jazz Advance, The World of Cecil Taylor, and Heliocentric Worlds vol. 2.

[Derek Taylor]

An impossible task, whittling down to a mere ‘50’, but sticking to jazz since that’s the focus of crawjo’s original list, I’d hit the island shore with these in my duffel (at least by this morning’s reckoning)…

Ornette Coleman – Live at the Golden Circle (2)
Lee Konitz – Motion (3)
Fred Anderson - Chicago Chamber Music (2)
Art Tatum – Complete Pablo Group Sessions (6)
Jimmy Giuffre – Flight/Emphasis (2)
Charles Gayle – More Live (2)
Tim Berne’s Bloodcount – Unwound (3)
Sonny Rollins – Live at the Village Vanguard (2)
Sonny Sharrock – Ask the Ages
John Coltrane – First Meditations
John Coltrane – Blue Train
Lee Morgan – The Last Session
Gil Melle – Quadrama/Primitive Modern
Shirley Scott – Soul Shoutin’
Sun Ra – Supersonic Jazz
Sun Ra – Cosmic Tones/Art Forms
William Parker – Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy
Charles Mingus – At Antibes
Gene Ammons – Gentle Jug
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin – Blues Up and Down
Grant Green – Green Street
Frank Lowe – Bodies & Soul
Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures
Art Blakey – Indestructible
Peter Brötzmann – Die Like a Dog
Benny Carter – 3, 4, 5
Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
Kenny Dorham – Matador/Inta Somethin’
Duke Ellington – Money Jungle (first cd version)
Bill Evans – Waltz for Debby
Gerry Mulligan – Mulligan Meets Webster
Joe Henderson – Inner Urge
Buck Hill – This is Buck Hill
Jimmy Lyons – Jump Up
Joe Maneri – Dahabenzapple
Joe McPhee – Tenor/Fallen Angels

And this hidden down my pant leg:
Shelly Manne – Live at the Blackhawk (5)

[Cem]

Thanks for the picks, folks! Now, how'bout making this thread sticky, Mone, so that the newbies & rusties alike can access it easily?

...& once most people have chimed in, we can create a merged JC top 50, maybe...? which would change weekly, I guess...

[Brian Olewnick]

Originally Posted by Other Steve

Given that you can now get both of these on a single CD in that "Americans Swinging in Paris" series, what will you add to your list?

Hmmm...that's true, eh? I was going by my vinyl. Looking over my list again, I see a few absurd omissions. Only one Ornette, one Ellington? Man...but maybe I'd add Tilbury's recording of Cage's "Sonatas and Interludes" on Japanese London. If I had limited it to one per artist (as I did on another site recently), there'd be a much wider range. On the jazz side, it's hard to leave off things like Louis Moholo's "Spirits Rejoice!" or Bengt Berger's "Bitter Funeral Beer" but crawjo said 50, dammit!

[HLJ]

Man 50 is to easy.If you stuck on an Island you got to know how to survive.Break this list down to 5.
Wynton Marsalis-Black Codes
Kem-Kemistry
Terence Blanchard-Wandering Moon
Gil Scott-Winter In America
Greg Osby-Banned In NY
Peace and all that.

[crawjo]

I second the call for this to become a sticky. I think it would make a great resource.

Also I chose 50 because I wanted a list that would reflect somebody's diverse interests...and I know that for some people here, who I understand have 1,000 + cds, cutting it down to 50 won't be easy.

[Brian Olewnick]

For the hell of it, here are the albums that I listed in a "100 best" thread on another board fairly recently, the one where I limited it (with some fudging) to one-per-artist. Below are just the ones not already listed in my post above:

Air - Air Lore
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing
Derek Bailey - Guitar Solos, Vol. 2
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings/Medea
Bengt Berger - Bitter Funeral Beer
Marc Blitzstein - The Airborne SYmphony
Olivia Block - Pure Gaze
Peter Brotzmann Tentet - Stone/Water
Rhys Chatham - Die Donnergotter
Chevalier/Havard/Ottavi/Rowe - [N:Q]
Nicholas Collins - It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Jerome Cooper - Root Assumptions
Creative Construction Company - CCC, Vol. 1
Anthony Davis - Variations in Dream-Time
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Bill Dixon - Vade Mecum II
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Phil Durrant/Thomas Lehn/Radu Malfatti - dach
John Fahey - The Legend of Blind Joe Death
Filament - 29092000
Fushitsusha - Pathetique
Jan Garbarek - Witchi-Tai-To
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach
Ground-Zero - Last Concert
Anthony Guerra - Spool [#2]
Barry Guy - Double Trouble Two
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
John Handy - Live at Monterey
Hariprasad/Zakir Hussein - Venu
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Iskra 1903 - Chapter One
I.S.O. - I.S.O.
Keith Jarrett - Death and the Flower
Joseph Holbrooke - Joseph Holbrooke '98
Greg Kelley - If I never meet you in this life, let me feel the lack
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Guy Klusevcek - Scenes from a Mirage
Kaffe Matthews/Andrea Neumann/Sachiko M - In case of fire, take stairs
Louis Moholo - Spirits Rejoice!
Toshimaru Nakamura/Sachiko M - do
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum
Perlonex - Peripherique
Polwechsel - 2
Folke Rabe - What??
Sam Rivers - Streams
Paul Rogers - Time of Brightness
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Elliott Sharp - Larynx
Howard Shore/Ornette Coleman - Naked Lunch
Dmitri Shostakovich - Complete String Quartets
Howard Skempton - Well, Well, Cornelius
Such - The Issue at Hand
Julie Tippetts - Sunset Glow
McCoy Tyner - Sahara
Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (Nonesuch)
John Wall - Constructions I-IV
Iannis Xenakis - La Legende d'Eer
Otomo Yoshihide - Ensemble Cathode
(Various) Bali - Golden Rain
(Various) Zimbabwe - The Soul of Mbira
(Various) Zimbabwe - Shona Mbira Music

[Sergio Zamora]

I'm a lazy man, so I'd take Brian's (admittedly good, but flawed nevertheless) list, shave off about 10 and add some others. I'm not sure exactly what those would be, but they would definitely include

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis/Live
Congos - Heart of the Congos
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions...
Miles - Live/Evil
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree

[Chris D]

Fifty seems like a lot, although I can't just take jazz. (Switched a couple in the edit.)

Air, Air Lore
Louis Armstrong, Hot 5s and 7s Vol. 1
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, At the Café Bohemia Vol. 1
Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come
Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Duke Ellington, And His Mother Called Him Bill
Count Basie, The Complete Atomic Basie
The Band, The Band
The Beatles, Revolver
Elvis Costello, This Year’s Model
Al Green, Call Me
Otis Redding, Otis Blue
Aretha Franklin, Lady Soul
Marvin Gaye, What’s Goin’ On
Stan Getz, The Steamer
Miles, Milestones
Miles, Kind of Blue
Miles, In a Silent Way
Dexter Gordon, Doin’ Allright
Ahmad Jamal, Awakening
Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Eno, Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street
Roxy Music, Country Life
James Brown, Live at the Apollo
Mary Lou Williams, Zoning
Chess: New Orleans
Coleman Hawkins, The Hawk Flies High
Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus
Ben Webster, King of the Tenors
The Who, Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy
Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti
Anita O’Day, Sings the Winners
Gerry Mulligan, A Concert in Jazz
The Replacements, Pleased to Meet Me
Muddy Waters, Folk Singer
Wire, 154
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Joni Mitchell, For the Roses
Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home
Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
Parliament, Mothership Connection
Kenny Dorham, Una Mas
Monk, Monk's Music
The Genius of Bud Powell
Weather Report, Sweetnighter
Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow
The Clash, London Calling
Mingus, Ah Um
Velvet Underground, Loaded

[Jason Bivins]

Definitely not just jazz (and I'll limit it to one per artist, what the hey). Here's what I would take if it happened today:

Air - Air Time
AMM - Allentown
Art Ensemble of Chicago - A Jackson in Your House
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Bad Brains - Rock for Light
Derek Bailey - Aida
Bartok - String Quartets
Tim Berne - Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill)
Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Mr. Braxton - Dortmund 1976
James Brown - Live at the Apollo 1967
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Coltrane - Live at Birdland
Miles - Live Evil
Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Morton Feldman - All Piano
Fishbone - Truth and Soul
Funkadelic - American Eats Its Young
Gesualdo - Lecons de Tenebre
Dizzy Gillespie - Complete RCA Victor Recordings
Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall
Al Green - Call Me
Gerry Hemingway - The Marmalade King
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Billie Holiday - All or Nothing At All
Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds
Abdullah Ibrahim - Water from an Ancient Well
King Crimson - Red
Steve Lacy - Remains
George Lewis - Homage to Charles Parker
London Jazz Composers' Orchestra - Harmos
Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
Joe McPhee - Oleo and a Future Retrospective
Messiaen - La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Mingus - Presents Charles Mingus
Monk - Brilliant Corners
Charlie Parker - Dial Masters
Evan Parker - At the Finger Palace
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Radiohead - OK Computer
ROVA - Bingo
Rowe/Muller/Sugimoto - The World Turned Upside Down
Sonic Youth - Sister
Burkhard Stangl/dieb 13 - eh
Cecil Taylor - Garden
Velvet Underground - VU
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years

[Dan G]

Subject to change depending on mood, and I think I can do it without dragging a turntable along (the sand on the deserted island isn't good for records).

AMM - Allentown
Art Ensemble - The Pathe Sessions (Sophie/Sorrow 2 lp/1 cd)
Asian Dub Foundation - Enemy of the Enemy
Derek Bailey - Aida
Anthony Braxton - Dortmund
Peter Brotzmann - Little Birds Have Fast Hearts #1
John Carter - Castles of Ghana
Gunter Christmann/Alexander Frangenheim - Alla Prima
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Clash - London Calling
Ornette Coleman - Golden Circle #1
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Elvis Costello - King of America
Ella Fitzgerald - Cole Porter Songbook #1
Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue
Leroy Jenkins - Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America
Krystof Komeda - Polish Jazz Vol 3 (complete Astigmatic +)
Lee Konitz - Motion
Peter Kowald - Was da ist
Joelle Leandre - Live at Otis, Hiroshima
George Lewis - Homage to Charles Parker
London Jazz Composers Orchestra - Theoria
Joe McPhee - Oleo and a Future Retrospective
Charles Mingus - Presents Charles Mingus
Gunter Muller/Taku Sugimoto - I am happy if you are happy
New Pornographers - Electric Version
Ivo Papasov - Balkanology
Charlie Parker - Dial Masters
Evan Parker - Six of One
William Parker - The Peach Orchard (counts as 2)
Gram Parsons - GP/Grevious Angel (2 lp/1 cd)
Art Pepper - + 11: Modern Jazz Classics
Sam Rivers - Live Trio Sessions
Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
Keith Rowe/Burkhard Beins - Grain
Alex Schlippenbach/Sunny Murray - Smoke
Irene Schweizer et al - Storming of the Winter Palace
Patti Smith - Horses
Paul Smoker - Alone
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Burkhard Stangl/Kristoff Kurzmann - Schnee
Sun Ra - Live in Paris at Gibus
Cecil Taylor - For Olim
John Tilbury/Keith Rowe - Duos for Doris (counts as 2)
Masahiko Togashi - Song of Soil
Fred van Hove - Pijp
Vienna Art Orchestra - Minimalism of Erik Satie
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

[crawjo]

This thread hath achieved Sticky status!

Thanks Lois (or Mone).

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Originally Posted by crawjo

This thread hath achieved Sticky status!

Thanks Lois (or Mone).

Is that a good thing? Doesn't that mean they're going to dump it instead of archiving it?

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I'm counting one four-disc box and several 2-disc items as one item each, and if I'm pressed on the matter I will declare my intention to reformat the sets in question, thereby reducing the number of discs to comply with The Requirements.




The short list:


J.S. Bach -- Musical Offering (Leonhardt)

Charles Mingus -- The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady

Astor Piazzolla -- Tango: Zero Hour

Sergey Kuryokhin -- Some Combinations of Fingers and Passion

Martha Reeves and The Vandellas -- The Ultimate Collection



the other 45:


Louis Armstrong -- Town Hall Concert May 1947

Billy Bang -- Commandment

Tim Berne -- Diminutive Mysteries (mostly Hemphill)

Art Blakey -- Moanin'

Paul Bley/ Evan Parker/ Barre Phillips -- Time Will Tell

Arthur Blythe -- Spirits In The Field

Don Cherry/ Ed Blackwell -- El Corazon

Codona (Collin Walcott/ Don Cherry/ Nana Vasconcelos)

John Coltrane -- Giant Steps

John Coltrane -- Interstellar Space

Miles Davis -- Birth Of The Cool

Eric Dolphy -- Out To Lunch

Dizzy Gillespie -- Complete RCA Victor Recordings

Billie Holiday -- Billie's Love Songs

Lee Konitz -- Motion

Michael Moore -- Jewels and Binoculars

Charles Mingus -- Mingus Ah Um

William Parker Violin Trio -- Scrapbook

Don Pullen & The African-Brazilian Connection -- Ode To Life

Anita O'Day/ Jimmy Giuffre -- Cool Heat

Anita O'Day -- Jazz Masters #49

Bessie Smith -- The Collection

Sun Ra -- Other Planes Of There

Sun Ra -- Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy/ Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow

Cecil Taylor -- Indent

Cecil Taylor -- One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye

John Zorn -- Godard/ Spillane



JS Bach -- The Art Of The Fugue

JS Bach -- Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould 1956)

Beethoven -- Symphonies #5 & #6

Beethoven -- Grosse Fuge

Bartok -- The Six String Quartets

Satie -- Piano Works (Aldo Ciccolini)

Harry Partch -- CRI vol. 1



The Art of Amalia Rodrigues

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys -- The Tiffany Transciptions, vol. 2, Best Of The Tiffanys

Bob Dylan -- The Times They Are A-Changin'

The Louvin Brothers -- When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of ...

The Essential Connie Smith



The Best of The Cadillacs

Sam Cooke -- Portrait of A Legend

Lonnie Donegan -- King of Skiffle

The Doo Wop Box

The Drifters -- Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters/ Rockin' & Driftin'

The Temptations -- The Ultimate Collection


narrowly missing the cut was Stuff Smith (CC: 1936-39) and additional picks for Cecil, Sun Ra and Harry Partch.

Peter Broetzmann - Chicago Octet/Tentet (three discs)

Ornette Coleman - Beauty is a Rare Thing (six discs)

Coltrane - Classic Quartet (8 discs)

Monk - Complete Riverside (14)

lesse, that's 31, which leaves me nineteen left.

Andrew Hill - Judgement

Andrew Hill - Point of Departure

Cecil Taylor - Live in East Berlin (two discs)

Duke Ellington - Complete Decca (three discs)

Gang of Four - 100 Flowers Bloom (two discs)

Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

Joy Division - Substance

Charlie Patton - Founder of the Delta Blues

Magic Sam - West Side Soul

Motown Box - Hitsville USA (4 discs)

Schlippenbach Trio - Swinging the Bim (two discs)


It really hurts me that I can't take anything with Han Bennink or by Wire, but there you go...that's what sucks about these lists...

[clinthopson]

I think I'll just take my dear little ipod which has about 600 cds on it.

[Noj]

1. Lee Morgan THE GIGOLO
2. Lee Morgan SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND
3. Grant Green IDLE MOMENTS
4. Pat Martino CONSCIOUSNESS
5. Wes Montgomery TEQUILA
6. Stanley Turrentine Mosaic Set
7. Freddie Hubbard RED CLAY
8. Grant Green GREEN STREET
9. Wynton Kelly Trio w/Wes Montgomery SMOKIN' AT THE HALF NOTE
10. Oliver Nelson THE BLUES & ABSTRACT TRUTH
11. Gil Evans OUT OF THE COOL
12. Horace Silver SONG FOR MY FATHER
13. Horace Silver & JJ Johnson CAPE VERDEAN BLUES
14. Jimmy Smith THE SERMON
15. Brother Jack McDuff MOON RAPPIN'
16. Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh
17. Oscar Peterson Trio With Milt Jackson VERY TALL
18. McCoy Tyner THE REAL MCCOY
19. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers MOANIN'
20. Art Blakey INDESTRUCTIBLE
21. Joe Pass VIRTUOSO
22. Mahavishnu Orchestra THE INNER MOUNTING FLAME
23. Dizzy Gillespie MATRIX
24. Larry Young UNITY
25. Larry Young LAWRENCE OF NEWARK
26. Stan Getz SWEET RAIN
27. Yusef Lateef THE BLUE YUSEF LATEEF
28. Rahsaan Roland Kirk RAHSAAN RAHSAAN
29. Hank Mobley ROLL CALL
30. Wayne Shorter JUJU
31. Wayne Shorter NIGHT DREAMER
32. Miles Davis IN A SILENT WAY
33. Miles Davis WALKIN'
34. John Coltrane AFRICA BRASS
35. John Coltrane GIANT STEPS
36. Joe Henderson MODE FOR JOE
37. Curtis Mayfield's School Of 20th Century Soul
38. Al Green I'M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU
39. The J.B.'s HUSTLE TO SURVIVE
40. Parliament MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION
41. Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns A BLOW FOR ME, A TOOT FOR YOU
42. Mickey & The Soul Generation IRON LEG: THE COMPLETE...
43. JD & The Evil's Dynamite Band EXPLODES ACROSS THE NATION
44. Stevie Wonder SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE
45. Sly & The Family Stone THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON
46. The Jimi Hendrix Experience ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
47. Band Of Gypsys
48. King Funk compilation
49. The Whitefield Brothers IN THE RAW
50. Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band EXPRESS YOURSELF

Off the top of my head. It would kill me to choose 50.

The horror! THE HORROR!

[Sergio Zamora]

Oh geez, now I want to replace Brian's list with Jay-B's as my core list. I can dig Dan's too. What to do?

[steve(thelil)]

The problem with most such lists is that they tend to omit Senator Everitt Dirkson's "Gallant Men"