| Here's my top 5... this is too hard of a decision so I had to make some general must haves in here. It's all music that inspires me more than the other albums in my collection. I could live with just these 5 discs and be happy:
1. Clark Terry: Clark After Dark (this is by FAR the best CD in my collection... and I have almost 1,000 CDs)
2. Freddie Hubbard: The Body and the Soul (1964, peak freddie with his best recorded trumpet sound...WOOWWOWWOWOWOWO and killer arrangements by Wayne Shorter)
3. John Coltrane: A love Supreme (I've listened to this disc probably 200 times and each time it's new and fresh to me).
4. Kind of Blue (duh... everything you'd ever want in jazz musicianship in my opinion...I guess that's why it should be in everyone desert island collection)
5. Mahler 5 with Solti/Chicago from the mid 70's maybe? I can't remember the exact recording but that's definitely in my top five.
OF COURSE if I was stranded I'd bring my 40GB mp3 jukebox with only 5,500 tunes currently on it. Three cheers for modern technology!
Now...if you were stranded and could only have one horn what would it be?
Forget it!
-T |