If you wanted to impress someone, which track?

Along Map's line:

The Theme From Shaft.
Not audiophile and panpotted to within an inch of its life, but a pretty "showy" recording that usually gets the desired response.

At the other end of the scale, the earlier recommendation of St. James Infirmary is great, as are the Duke Ellington Small Band recordings on Pablo. Choose any cut from Intimacy of The Blues or The Queen's Suite.

Marty

The Theme From Shaft.
Not audiophile and panpotted to within an inch of its life, but a pretty "showy" recording that usually gets the desired response. 05-27-10: Martykl

Glad to see you mention the theme to the "Shaft" movie soundtrack. It is arguably some of the best music ever recorded for a soundtrack. (timeless) I recommend it highly to those of you who are not familar with it.

"The Theme From Shaft."

That is good!

It is on this:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000KP62UM/3dgazo391-20

Lots of classics to recommend on this recent and nicely mastered release!

Not just "Theme From Shaft" but "Son Of Shaft" to boot!

I was playing Stan Getz "The Girl From Ipanema" and my 14 year old son got off his Xbox and walked in the room to see what was playing. That doesn't happen very often! It did sound VERY good!

Good one Mapman. When I sold some speakers a while back that's the song the buyer asked to play to make sure he wanted them.