Your One "Go To" Recording

I'm paying attention, but I'm not following the rules. Having to select just a single disc is so 20th century. Get modern, step into the new millennium and liberate your playing habits

This is an interesting topic that warrants a new thread. I have a few thoughts regarding the individual song download contributing to the death of the concept album as an artistic whole (ala "Dark Side of the Moon, or "American Idiot").

But, this is for another thread.

Right now at this point in time for me it would probably be
Cecil Taylor "Conquistador" It's got a little bit of everything I like in it.

Patricia Barber "Modern Cool".

James Taylor's Gaia from the Hourglass CD.

And that isn't because someone already suggested a Grusin album...far from it. Like some on this post I have my computer control my CD players, so it is often left to make the final order to cue the players up....but if I had to search, find and pull out an album ...it would surely be this one.

I always seem to fall back on this album and play a part of it every time I listen to music....it is an amazingly well engineered studio album with such clarity, detail and dynamics. I must have heard it a thousand times but it still has the ability to make my hair stand on end every time...and I am not even a jazz or Duke Ellington fan...so that is really saying something!!!!