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

Xiekitchen,
The natives would certainly hold a war council on your first 5 choices but would not attack. Your second 5 would couse no consternation at all.

Time for me to chime in:

Miles - Kind of Blue (of course, of course)
Coltrane-Blue Train
Diana Krall-Love Scenes (not going anywhere without at leat one DK)
Bill Evans Trio-Waltz for Debby
Brubeck-Lve at Canegie Hall

Am I at 5 already, dang. Well that's my choices for today anyway. Tommorrow might be a different storey.

Miles & Monk at Newport, Straight, no Chaser Monk, Stratus Billy Cobham, Ben Webster, at the Renassaince. Between Nothingness & Eternity, Mahavishnu Orchrestra

Surfgod:
"Stratus" was going to be my fusion #6 choice....
and then the obligatory Weather report "Heavy Weather" and RTF "Romantic Warrior"

I just picked up a jazz CD by a bass player from Columbus, Ohio named Andy Woodson called "Catalpa" that is wonderful. Michael Cox plays soprano sax on several of the cuts and does an exceptional job. If I could only choose five recordings this would be one of them. Patricia Barber's "Cafe Blue" and "Modern Cool" would be two more I would choose. A CD by jazz drummer Toshio Osumi called "Go with the Swingin" would be number number four and Johnny O'Neil's "In Good Hands" would be number five.