Desert Island Jazz

[bigbyte]

I don't know if any one has posted this idea before, but If you were washed up on a desert island and on the beach was a chest with a few records/cd's of one form of jazz only. What would it be and you are allowed just 2 LP's/CD's of one Artist performing who would it be and which Discs.

Happy and creative 2012 to you all.

[Robin Nahum]

I suspect that for me Kinda Blue and Ella and Louis would take a while to go stale but I could also take a lot of Joe Zawinul's My People, which is all the more special now that Joe is no longer with us.

[JonnyPac]

Perhaps Andrew Hill Point of Departure... Tough decision!

[samrsmiley]

2 albums by one artist?? hmmm

Wes "Incredible Jazz Guitar" & "Smokin' at the Half Note"

that's a much tougher question than I originally thought! I was going to say some things by Jim Hall, Miles, Bill Evans, Lester Young...too much!

[bigbyte]

Having thought of the question I keep stopping when about to chip in my 2 pence worth because some other 'must have around' album comes to mind. I have to agree that Kinda Blue has to be one of the two. During these holidays I have found myself going back to some CD's I haven't played for a while, there's so much truly great stuff, Kenny Burrell's understated playing on Jimmy Smith's 'Organ Grinder Swing album, with Grady Tate on drums, gems I had nearly forgotten about.

[AmundLauritzen]

"The Swinging guitar of Tal Farlow" and "Chromatic Palette". If too many days go by without me listening to Tal, bad things happen. So naturally, I'd pick Tal Farlow.