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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•World Saxophone Quartet - Revue
•Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet - on Emarcy
•Sarah Vaughan - No Count Sarah
•Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - at Carnegie Hall
•Batacumbele - Live at the University of Puerto Rico
Kind of Blue - Davis
Sunday at the VV - Evans
The Out of Towners - Jarrett
Extended Play - Holland
One of the 50s/60s Blue Notes, e.g., Song for My Father, Speak No Evil, etc. I'll decide just before I'm shipped to the island.
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).