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

Who can resist these parlor game questions? Not me, so here's a shot at it...

John Coltrane - "Love Supreme"
Thelonious Monk - "Brilliant Corners"
Bill Evans - "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"
Ornette Coleman - "Change of the Century"
Charlie Parker - "The Legendary Dial Sessions"

Tomorrow, it would be a different five...maybe we could cheat and include box sets? Billie Holiday's Verve and Columbia recordings? Monk's Riverside Tenor Sessions? The Duke Ellington RCAs? The Coltrane Quartet on Impulse? Miles at the Plugged Nickel?

LOL @ Onhwy61!

If I were to be limited to just five, you might have to broaden the selection for me, as I like a lot of sub-genres from outside of the US. What if I were to bring along a bunch of steamer trunks ala JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO?

I got a funny feeling the natives of The Enchanted Isle of Jazz would be making Gunbei Chowder before too long.

Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Innermounting Flame
Johnny Mathis - Open Fire, Two Guitars
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto - Getz/Giberto
Django Reinhardt - Djangology

Coltrane:
Villiage Vanguard sessions
Classic quartet studio recordings
European Tour
Meditations
Live in Seattle.

5 is asking the impossible...but here is,

Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges: Back to Back
Sonny Clark: Leapin' and Lopin'
Duke Ellington: The Cosmic Scene
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus