Name a couple of HOLY GRAIL LPs

Most Holy Grail Blue Notes have been reissued on vinyl but I have yet to hear one as good as an orginal - it usually is not even close. Here is a partial list of originals that I consider to be holy grails:

1514 Jimmy Smith Vol 2 the Champ
1518 Horace Silver & Jazz Messengers
1521-22 Art Blakey Night at Birdland 1&2
1527 Magnificent Thad Jones
1577 John Coltrane Blue Train
1581 Sonny Rollins - Night at the Village Vanguard
1595 Cannonball Adderly- Somethin' Else
4011 Jimmy Smith the Sermon
4017 Horace Silver Blowin' the Blues Away
4031 Hank Mobley Soul Station
4058 Hank Mobley Roll Call
4106 Jackie McLean Let Freedom Ring
4117 Jimmy Smith Back at the Chicken Shack
4163 Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch
4175 Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles
4185 Horace Silver Song for My Father
4195 Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage

First Phoebe Snow LP, especially the song "Poetry Man".

Many to chose from. My current favourites are the following :

1. Antiphone Blues Arne Domnerus Proprius Label- the best saxophone music I have heard so far.Transport you into the scene
2. Chet Atkins Sails Columbia-1 of the best cheap LP
3. John Kaizan Neptune Bamboo - Toshiba EMI
4. Cat People OST- Giorgor Moroder. Listen to the theme track by David Bowie Putting out fire
5. Joan Baez - Diamonds and rust in the bull ring- Gold castle label
6. Ein Straussfest Telarc DG10098 (original)- listen to the canon shot
7. Le cid Louis Fremaux HMV Greensleeve label - 1 0f the cheaper classical LP which is really good
8. Doug Macleod Come to find Audioquest Label- great blues music and good recordings
9. Al Di Meola, John Mclaughlin, Paco De Lucia-Friday night in san francisco- MFSL - awesome interplay of acoustic guitars
10. Duke Ellington& Ray Brown- This one's for blanton- Pablo Records. This is 1 of my favourite jazz music

and many many more depending on the mood and time. Happy Listening and Merry Christmas

Here are a few of my favorites. Not only is the sound wonderful, but the music is as well.

Class of 55 - I got this album at a garage sale for 50 cents and it is wonderful. The sound is probably the best I've ever heard recorded. It was recorded at Sun Studios, and is Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash performing the best I've ever heard them.

Music for Bang, Baaroom and Harp - Dick Schory..interesting and super sound

Cat People - from the motion picture. This is an absolute killer. It was on Absolute Sounds HP list and it certainly belongs there. David Bowie, and Georgio Morodor.

Barry Lyndon - sound track.. Wonderful music recorded at the top of the cutting edge

Almost anything by Andreas Vollenweider and/or Dead Can Dance

The Judds... REALLY recorded open, full and deep. I use this one to test if my system is working as it should.

Absolute #1 of any genre, Prokofieff: Lt. Kije and Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale, Reiner/Chicago.

The original RCA LSC-2150 is a gem and in my top ten along with some of those already mentioned, the Classic re-issue is top 5 but the Chesky re-issue is the best recorded sound I've ever heard. If only Layton and Mohr were still at it today!

The Holy Grail for certain.

If you'd like to hear this rarity you must bring me......
a Shrub.