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What are the treasures in your vinyl library?

They don't have to be the collector's items, necessarily. I'm just asking, what is your short list of LPs in your personal library that you prize the most (maximum 5)?

I'll start:

Diana Krall: "From This Moment On" from Classic Records, mastered on a tube cutter

Buddy Rich: "Class of '78", Direct-to-disk recording of my favorite drummer leading the best incarnation of his band

Muddy Waters: "Folk Singer", not MFSL or German pressing or original pressing or anything fancy, just a Chess/MCA 1987 reissue LP that puts you in the room with Muddy

I also have a 35mm Everest recording of Mozart woodwind sonatas that I picked up at St. Vincent DePaul for $1. It's old and a little ragged, but that 35mm mag tape really puts the players right there in the living room.
johnnyb53
psacanli
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Jazz Party by Claude Bolling.
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elinor
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Numbered but not in any particular order:

1. Elgar's Starlight Express-2 records HMV Greensleeves
2. La Fete De Lane - Harmonia Mundi
3. Handel's Organ Concerti - Philips - Concerto Amsterdam w/Jaap Schroder
4. Harry Belafonte @ Carnegie Hall - Classic Reissue
5. Vaughn Williams - The Lark Acending - Marriner w/St Martins in the Field - Philips

I agree with my dear friend Rushton, the list changes depending upon my mood, but these bring me pleasure more often than most others.
psacanli
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30 year old Paco de Lucia albums aquired from Spain in 70's. Still like new.
hxt1
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Wow! Good stuff!
My mint records japan obi pressings of
1,let it bleed
2, aftermath
3,first stereo pressing of kind of blue
4 a signed tamla 1st pressing of Stevie wonder
the 12 year old genius
5 art Blakey and the jazz messengers Buttercorn Lady,
featuring a young Keith Jarret, and a young Chuck Magnione,
pry it from my cold dead hands

there are so many more, but these were all given to me,
except kind of blue!
t_bone
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My current "front five" on the stack are:
1) Cootie Williams Sextet & Orchestra "Original Hit Recordings from 1944 featuring Bud Powell, "Cleanhead" Vinson, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Pearl Bailey (Phoenix LP-1)
2) Sonny Rollins' Movin' Out (Prestige 7058 mono)
3) Schubert Piano Sonata in C Minor, Impromptus; Alfred Brendel (Japanese Phillips)
4) Chopin Preludes; Martha Argerich (DG Japan pressing)
5) Zino Francescatti and Robert Casadesus playing Faure Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Japanese pressing; CBS Sony mono SOCU 58)

But what I am really waiting for is the next 30: just bought a stack of (only) saxophone jazz over the weekend - several Coltranes I don't have, a few Sonny Rollins I don't have, more Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Phil Woods, Art Pepper, Coleman Hawkins, Archie Shepp, and a bunch of other artists. Am really looking forward to that!
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