The 5 Jazz Recordings You Would Take With You...


stranded on an island. You can only take 5. On this magical island there is a system suited to your specific tastes and the front end of your choice. Keep in mind only jazz will be tolerated on this island. Any other musical format will bring unfreindly natives to your doorsteps who will take you off and boil you in oil. Only five, don't cheat. What's in your suitcase?
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Miles - Kind of Blue
Pete la Roca - Basra
Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Coltrane - Giant Steps / Love Supreme
Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

and few GREAT optional on the iPod -

Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones - Blue Note 1527
Jackie McLean - New Soil
Lee Morgan - Cornbread / Sidewinder
Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure
i like this island. let's pull some permits and start building condos. here's my 5:

1. Kenny Burrell- Blue Lights volume 2
2. Grant Green- Green Street
3. Sonny Rollins- Saxophone Colossus
4. Kenny Dorham and the jazz prophets vol. 1
5. The three sounds- bottoms up
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Art Pepper - Art Pepper + 11
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Diana Krall - Live in Paris
Mark Murphy - Love is What Says

Glad this is only hypothetical because I could not live without John Coltrane (Blue Train; My Favorite Things) and Bill Evans (Sunday at the Village Vanguard; Waltz for Debby).
Billy Cobham - Stratus
Eric Gale - Ginseng woman
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Jeff Beck - Diamond Dust
Donald byrd - Povo
One CD I'd like to suggest would be Steve Turre's 1997 CD of the same name, "Steve Turre," ... and the opening track with Cassandra Wilson is simply glorious, as is the rest of the CD, ... and Turre is simply at one with his trombone.

I've got several subsequent CDs by Turre, but this one is forever. You won't be disappointed.