My Favorite Things
These are a few of my favorite things . . .
FAVORITE RECORDINGS
- Art Tatum - "Solo Masterpieces - Vol 12"
- Bali - "Gamelan and Kecak"
- Beethoven - "Nine Symphonies" Von Karajan
- Bill Evans - "The Paris Concerts - Edition One"
- Bill Frisell - "Before We Were Born"
- Cameroun - "Baka Pygmy Music"
- Cannonball Adderley and Nancy Wilson
- Charlie Haden, Egberto Gismonti, Jan Garbarek - "Folk Songs"
- Charlie Parker - "Savoy Recordings Master Takes"
- Chick Corea - "Now He Sings, Now He Sobs"
- Chick Corea - "Light as a Feather"
- Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
- Eberhard Weber - "Little Movements"
- Freddie Hubbard/Woody Shaw - "The Eternal Triangle"
- Gary Burton/Mike Gibbs - "Seven Songs for Quartet and Chamber Orchestra"
- Hampton Hawes Trio - "Volume One"
- Hank Mobley - "Soul Station"
- Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland - "Parallel Realities Live"
- Horace Silver - "Song For My Father"
- Igor Stravinsky - "The Rite of Spring" Seiji Ozawa and BSO
- Jaco Pastorius - "Word of Mouth"
- Jan Garbarek - "I Took Up the Runes"
- John Coltrane - "Coltrane's Sound"
- Joni Mitchell - "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter"
- Keith Jarrett - "My Song"
- Keith Jarrett - "Solo Concerts - Bremen & Lausanne"
- Keith Jarrett Trio - "Still Live"
- Keith Jarrett Trio - "Tribute"
- Lyle Mays - "Lyle Mays"
- McCoy Tyner - "The Real McCoy"
- McCoy Tyner - "Supertrios"
- Miles Davis - "58 Sessions"
- Milton Nascimento - "Sentinela"
- Oregon - "Out of the Woods"
- Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays - "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls"
- Pat Metheny Group - "First Circle"
- Paul McCandless - "Premonition"
- Phineas Newborn - "The Piano Artistry of Phineas Newborn"
- Ravi Shankar - "Golden Jubilee Concert"
- Shankar - "Nobody Told Me"
- Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia - "Yugal Bandi"
- Sonny Rollins - "The Bridge"
- Steve Reich - "Tehillim"
- Steve Swallow - "Home"
- Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life"
- The Dregs - "Dregs of the Earth"
- Thelonious Monk - "Misterioso"
- Weather Report - "Weather Report" (from 1982)
FAVORITE PIANISTS / KEYBOARDISTS
- Ahmad Jamal
- Art Tatum
- Aydin Esen
- Benny Green
- Bill Evans
- Bobby Timmons
- Bud Powell
- Cedar Walton
- Chick Corea
- Count Basie
- Dave Kikoski
- Don Grolnick
- Dr. John
- Dorothy Donegan
- Duke Ellington
- Errol Garner
- Fats Waller
- Floyd Cramer
- Glenn Gould
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba
- Hampton Hawes
- Hank Jones
- Herbie Hancock
- Horace Silver
- Jaki Byard
- James Williams
- Jay McShann
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Joe Zawinul
- Joey Calderazzo
- Junior Mance
- Keith Jarrett
- Ken Palmer
- Kenny Barron
- Kenny Drew
- Kenny Drew, Jr.
- Kenny Kirkland
- Larry Young
- Lennie Tristano
- Leon Russell
- Little Richard
- Lyle Mays
- Mary Lou Williams
- Matt King
- McCoy Tyner
- Michael Cochrane
- Mike LeDonne
- Mike Nock
- Mulgrew Miller
- Nat King Cole
- Oscar Peterson
- Patrice Rushen
- Peter Martin
- Phineas Newborn
- Rachel Z
- Ranier Bruninghaus
- Ray Bryant
- Red Garland
- Rene Urtreger
- Ron Oswanski
- Roosevelt Sykes
- Shirley Scott
- Sir Roland Hanna
- Sonny Clark
- T Lavitz
- Teddy Wilson
- Thelonious Monk
- Tommy Flanagan
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Warren Bernhardt
- Wynton Kelly
FAVORITE COMPOSERS
- Aaron Copland
- Alan Hovhaness
- Bill Frisell
- Bob Marley
- Carla Bley
- Charles Ives
- Charles Mingus
- Chick Corea
- Claude Debussy
- Conlon Nancarrow
- Eberhard Weber
- Eduardo del Barrio
- Egberto Gismonti
- Frederic Chopin
- Gil Evans
- Herbie Hancock
- Horace Silver
- Igor Stravinsky
- Jaco Pastorius
- Joe Zawinul
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- John McGlaughlin
- Joni Mitchell
- Keith Jarrett
- Ludwig Von Beethoven
- Lyle Mays
- Mike Gibbs
- Milton Nascimento
- Pat Metheny
- Paul McCandless
- Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
- Prince
- Ralph Towner
- Roger Sessions
- Sergey Prokofiev
- Steve Morse
- Steve Reich
- Steve Swallow
- Steve Tibbetts
- Stevie Wonder
- Suzanne Vega
- Thelonious Monk
- Tom Jobim
- Trilok Gurtu
- Vince Mendoza
- Walter Pistons
- Wayne Shorter
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Youssou N'Dour