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Desert island music? The no-holds-barred list goes like this: Miles Davis Quintet - Complete Columbia Studio Rec. 1965-8 (box) Keith Jarrett Standards Trio - Live at the Blue Note (box) Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Bela Bartok - Music for Strings Percussion & Celesta, Divertimento for Strings Thelonious Monk - Monk’s Dream John Coltrane - Complete Africa/Brass Sessions Bill Evans - Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (box) Yes - Close to the Edge Toru Takemitsu - Requiem/Twill by Twilight/etc. (Sony CD) Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds King Crimson - The Great Deceiver (box) King Crimson - Absent Lovers Andrew Hill - Black Fire Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear Concerts (box) The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta Steely Dan - Aja Arcana - The Last Wave Brian Eno - Music for Films Rush - Signals XTC - Black Sea Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene Herbie Hancock - Crossings Larry Young - Unity Jazz only, dropping down to twenty, and omitting boxsets where possible: Miles Davis Quintet - Nefertiti Keith Jarrett trio - Live at the Blue Note Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Joe Henderson - In 'n Out Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream Monk - Genius of Modern Music Vol.2 Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard John Coltrane - Complete Africa/Brass Sessions Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus Clusone 3 - An Hour With Paul Bley - Footloose Larry Young - Unity Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric Andrew Hill - Black Fire Charles Mingus - Black Saint and The Sinner Lady Herbie Nichols - Complete Blue Note Recordings Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple Duke Ellington - Blues in Orbit Herbie Hancock - Crossings A few entries in both lists are subject to change, but those are my personal favorites as of the middle of 2006, and most of them have been entrenched for quite a while. The honorable mentions are too plentiful to mention. (Edited July 2008, because I didn’t actually list 25 titles the first time around. Whoops.) Back to Essays |