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Jazz
- Chet Baker: My Favorite Songs, Vol. 1 & 2
- Count Basie: Count Swings, Joe Williams Sings
- Art Blakey: A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 & 2; Live Messengers
- Michael Brecker: Michael Brecker; Don’t Try This at Home
- Stanley Clarke: School Days
- Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come; Free Jazz
- Steve Coleman and the 5 Elements: Drop Kick
- John Coltrane (Favorite): Blue Train; Giant Steps, My Favorite Things;
Africa/Brass Sessions; Crescent; Love Supreme; Live at Village Vanguard;
Live at Birdland
- Chick Corea: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs; My Spanish Heart; Three
Quartets, Akoustic Band
- Miles Davis (Favorite): Round About Midnight; Miles Ahead, Milestones;
Kind of Blue; Sorcerer, Miles Smiles, Nefertiti, Bitches Brew, Star
People
- Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch
- Duke Ellington: Ellington at Newport, Black, Brown and Beige, Count
Meets Duke; Duke and Coltrane
- Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard
- Ella Fitzgerald: Any of the "Songbooks"—Porter, Gershwin, etc.
- Kenny Garrett: African Exchange Student; Tribute to Coltrane
- Stan Getz: Diz and Getz, Getz/Gilberto
- Dizzy Gillespie: Greatest Jazz Concert Ever (with Mingus, Parker,
Powell, and Roach)
- Dexter Gordon: Go
- Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage; Headhunter
- Joe Henderson: Lush Life
- Billie Holiday: The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. 1-4
- Keith Jarrett: The Koln Concert; At the Blue Note
- David Liebman: Homage to Coltrane
- Joe Lavano: Tenor Legacy
- Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire
- Branford Marsalis: Renaissance: Bloomington
- Wynton Marsalis: Black Codes From the Underground
- Bobby McFerrin: The Voice, Simple Pleasures
- John McLaughlin: Trio at the Royal Festival Hall
- Pat Metheny: 80-81; Still Life Talking; I Can See Your House From
Here (with Scofield)
- Charles Mingus: Ah Um, Oh Yeah, Black Saint the Sinner lady
- Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners; Monk’s Dream; Mysterioso
- Oregon: Roots in the Sky
- Charlie Parker: The Savoy Sessions; Bird and Diz
- Jaco Pastorius: Jaco
- Tito Puente: El Rey
- Buddy Rich: Mercy Mercy
- Sonny Rollins: The Bridge; On Impulse
- John Scofield: Groove Elation
- Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil
- Horace Silver: Song for my Father
- Take Six: Take Six
- McCoy Tyner: Supertrio; Infinity
- Dinah Washington: On Hi Fi
- Weather Report: Black Market, Heavy Weather, Mr. Gone
- Tony Williams: Civilization
- Cassandra Wilson: Blue Light Til Dawn
- World Sax quartet: Dances and Ballads
Musicians
of Special Note:
- All Time Favorite: Coltrane (59-65 Recordings) and Miles Davis (Both
the Coltrane and Shorter Groups)
- Favorite Drummers: Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Peter Erskine
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