Which 2 CD's to a desert island?

[saxophil]

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If you were to go to a desert island all alone for a year and you can take just 2 CD's with u, which ones would you choose and why?
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[Ritchie]

First choice: Miles Davis' Kind of blue. The masterpiece of modern jazz. And you've got Trane and Cannonball for us sax addicts.

The second CD is more difficult, it would be either one by Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus or the Village Vanguard (wait - these are three CDs already, if you count Vol 1-3 separately), or a Charles Mingus CD from the time he played with Eric Dolphy, most probably Mingus At Antibes.

It's only for a year, then I could listen to all the other great stuff again. The most interesting thing in Jazz for me is the huge variety of styles and personalities. So it is really hard to single out a few.

[kindofblue]

John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West

(Of course, these would be the remastered, gold 24 bit, with a bazillion outtakes, as the outtakes are as good as the original, sometimes better.)

[Gandar]

Jazz pärlor
Women - The best jazz vocals

First is Swedish collection-cd that I bought used few years ago. It contains great pieces and its in quite good condition too :)

Second is another collection I bought. I like jazz vocalists, espesially women and it has so many good songs.


THOUGH I would have choosed my The Best of Glenn Miller and his orchestra - In the Mood , but it has 3 cd's so thats too much if we are allowed to bring only 2 cd's.

[Big Nick]

Can we assume that we can play them really LOUD.
If so then:
Morphine - Yes (Dana Colley's baritone)
Pink Floyd - Pulse (singalong)
I don't think I could put up with subtlety on a desert island.

[Andrew]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Phil Woods - An Affair to Remember

[Cameron Wigmore]

Getz And Gilberto - featuring Jobim. C'mon, I wanna have visions of the girl from Ipanema!!! lol
Tie between Kind of blue and Dark Side of the Moon, (pink Floyd) for the other one. Big Floyd fan here...

[Joseph Boucher]

My first choice CD would be "Timeless Cannonball Adderley". A collection of eight works he recorded in 1955 during a visit to N.Y. The second CD I would have is "Triumphant Sax!", which features John Coltrane, Gerry Mulligan,Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, and other greats. Joe.

[saxophone_volume1]

wait......
does a desert island have electricity, cause my batteries won't last one year.

Ok i would take any Maceo Parker cd i could find just for the pure 98% Funk and 2% jazz.

Then either Dave Brubeck - Take 5 or maybe David Sanborn - Pearls for some sentimental moments, if htere were any.
Sand isn't the most appealing thing in the world.

Could you dance on the Island??

[Joseph Boucher]

Saxophone Volume 1, "Could you dance on the Island?" Good question, why don't you ask yourelf?

[Goin4DaTone]

Kind of Blue, Take 5

[Jazzophone]

The Best of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, 1955-1961 (phenomenal album, has Milestones and 'Round Midnight and Blue in Green and other such classic songs)

and then either Dino Martinis stuff (the local band from Calgary, anyone seen them around? they tour a bunch), the Benny Carter All-Star Sax Ensemble, or some of my rock stuff. The Beatles. :P

[saxshooter]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Radiohead - OK Computer

[BayviewSax]

Miles - Kind of Blue
Walt Dickerson - This Is Walt Dickerson

[hodges1]

the best selling jazz cd of all time, kind of blue-miles davis as well as birth of the cool(1950), 1950, miles davis, gil evans, lee konitz, gerry mulligan,
john coltrane(this one i would never want to be without).

[TJS]

Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter
Inner Visions - Stevie Wonder

[Media Lint]

1. The best performance of Beethoven's 9th I can locate.

2. Variable. At the moment I'd probably take Beaver & Krause Wild Sanctuary/Gandharva double rerelease since this is my disc of the moment. This option would be different another day. Something a lot more modern. And Gandharva has Gerry Mulligan performing in Grace Cathedral ... so, you can't really top that for early electronic experimental music. Besides, I think the contrasting renditions of "Walking by the river" could keep me sane on an island for quite some time. Alternatively, I'd ask for a laptop and a CD of a train simulator.

[benjamin1979]

kenny g - paradise. ha ha, sometime listen to pop also not too bad. 2nd would sanborn.

[Hobis]

Hank Mobley - Soul Station
John Coltrane - Blue Train

[wiju]

hy, my two disks

miles davis "kind of blue"
rosario giuliani "luggage"

[BlueNote]

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Charles Mingus, Mingus X5

[Funky Chicken]

Sonny Rollins- Saxophone Colossus
Hank Mobley- Workout

[larrys]

John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman
Mingus Ah Um

[hannibal]

John Denver's Greatest Hits and 'Rip Pig Panic' by RR Kirk.

Alone for 1 year on an island, no company, no horn, no beer- you're bound to go completely insane anyway so why not choose an appropriate soundtrack? :P

[hornstar]

Stanton Moore, "All Kooked Out"
A.D.D. Trio, "Sic Bisquitus Disintegrat"

[allthewoodwinds]

Stan Kenton Orchestra "Cuban Fire"

Buddy Rich Big Band "Mercy, Mercy"

[JazzFluteBaz]

Peter-Lukas Graf: Works for Solo Flute
Holly Hofmann: Tales of Hofmann
Chris Botti: Night Sessions

Yeah, well, that's three... How long we spendin' on this island, anyway?

[xax]

No 1. "Undercurrents" Bill Evans & Jim Hall
No 2. see above

or how about no CDs and i bring my tenor...and i stay 2 years!

[bbbouklas]

1. I would burn a cd with my favourite Charlie Parker tunes
2. would be either a) Hendrix, band of gypsies b) a collection of Django Reinhardt or c) Greg Osby , St Louis shoes
I don't know I am really confused now.. could I please take my 60Gb ipod?????
my sax(es)?? my grand piano??

[bjornblomberg]

Going to a desert island, I would at least bring the following two CDs:

1. Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
2. Salif Keita: Soro

But, I would try to smuggle in at least one more CD, probably Jimmy Smith & Eddie Harris: All the way live, or maybe one CD by Fela Kuti or Kanda Bongo Man in case some other people would be stranded at the same island and ready for a party.

Bjørn

[DTExpress]

Sonny -Village Vanguard -(Vol. 1 and 2 are sold together now so I'll take both)
Steely Dan- AJA'

[chitownjazz]

I'd take

1) Anthony Williams - Spring (and it's a short CD!)

2) Jackie McLean - Destination Out

Or, I'd see if they both fit onto a single CD, and then I could also take

2a) Coltrane/Ali - Interstellar Space

Do I win the trip to the desert island??

[Saxaholic]

I would definitely take:

1. Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section

and

2. Dave Brubeck Quartet "Jazz at Oberlin" .

Saxaholic

[brasscane]

One: Bach's "Goldberg Variations" played by Glenn Gould
Two: Coltrane's "A Love Supreme"

[silvin]

Very Very hard ...
I would say, if it's not possible to do some compilations ...

1 - The Mattheus Passion - JS Bach (by Philipp Herreweghe)
2 - Rites - Jan Garbarek (to have some freshness under the tropic!)

[gelliot2]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Ritchie Cole - Profile.

[brianincairo]

Trane & Hartman
Saxophone Colossus

[hakukani]

First, the batteries would run down on a cd player, so I'm not going to take cd's. I'm taking my horn!

[Jonathan C.]

How to build a Boat.
I think that is 2 cd's right there.

[Mactenor]

Stan Kenton`s "West Side Story"
Rodrigos Concierto de Aranjuez

[crazydaisydoo]

Art Pepper- Meets the Rythmn Section. The guy was a genius.. really.
Julie London- Julie is her Name (sorry no sax, but sublime jazz guitar by Barney Kessel and understated vocals. Froth, but wonderful froth.)

[jrvinson45]

How to build a Boat.
I think that is 2 cd's right there.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! Besides, if you're stranded with the rest of these cats it would be helpful to know how to build one out of the hundreds of copies of "Kind of Blue.":D :D :D

[Giganova]

1) Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
2) Stanley Turrentine's "Blue Hour"

I seem to like the blues, huh?

[Eric Bessette]

Mingus: Ah Um
Coltane: The Atlantic Years

I don't need to explain why.

[Swingtone]

Grant Green - Alive

Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack

[bjornblomberg]

I recently got the John Coltrane Box with the complete Prestige recordings. I wonder if that could count as two CDs on the island since it is all in one box?

What a wonderful collection of music anyway. The more I listen to this guy, the more fascinated I get. The Prestige recordings are supposedly some of his early work, but still he playes extremely convincingly and with a lot of emotion too. Perfect technique, still the tunes are not exceedingly "technical", just musical.

Ok, I guess I could get the whole collection burned on 2 CDs with mp3s for the island trip...

[Prime Sax]

Way too hard a decision . . .
I'd have to find a way to pick one of these:

People Time - Getz/Barron
Stan Getz and Bill Evans
Ray Charles' Greatest Hits (Georgia On My Mind . . . . )
Birth of The Cool - Davis
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Don Ho's Greatest Hits
California Concerts (either volume) - Mulligan
The Essential Dave Brubeck

Then I'd take a CD-ROM with pictures of Catherine Zeta-Jones

[fballatore]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Beatles - White Album (OK, so I know that's 2 discs. So shoot me.)

[hakukani]

Way too hard a decision . . .
I'd have to find a way to pick one of these:

People Time - Getz/Barron
Stan Getz and Bill Evans
Ray Charles' Greatest Hits (Georgia On My Mind . . . . )
Birth of The Cool - Davis
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
Don Ho's Greatest Hits
California Concerts (either volume) - Mulligan
The Essential Dave Brubeck

Then I'd take a CD-ROM with pictures of Catherine Zeta-Jones

Don Ho's Greatest hits?
I play in a band with a former member (bass) of Mr. Ho's band. He worked with him for two years, and finally said 'Don, I can't play this s*** no more.'

[Prime Sax]

Don Ho's Greatest hits?
I play in a band with a former member (bass) of Mr. Ho's band. He worked with him for two years, and finally said 'Don, I can't play this s*** no more.'
Perhaps some background is in order . . . . well, maybe not. But I'll tell you anyway.
The greatest love of my life became the greatest love of my life while listening to Don Ho (her personal favorite). I'm not talking about Pearly Shells or Tiny Bubbles. More like I'll Remember You, She's Gone Again, Blue Hawaii, Hanalei Moon, Hawaiian Wedding Song . . . This was back in the 60s when he had his show at the Coconut Grove. I about went broke taking her to see that damn show so many times. But believe me, it was well worth it . . . even the S*** !!
Now, many years later, I hear one of those songs and my heart breaks and I cry myself to sleep. Oh, the memories!:crybaby: (I just couldn't remember the name of any of his albums that would more accurately reflect the songs that affect me . . . sorry.)
So while those songs may cause some to grit their teeth and pull their hair and call them s***, I have good reason to put them up near the top of the list. The question was which CDs would I take.

[edhara]

If I could take my horn with me I'd bring:

Aebersold Volume 16: Turnarounds, Cycles, and II-Vs
Aebersold Volume 68: Giant steps (in all 12 keys)

... and practice, practice, practice..

[hakukani]

Perhaps some background is in order . . . . well, maybe not. But I'll tell you anyway.
The greatest love of my life became the greatest love of my life while listening to Don Ho (her personal favorite). I'm not talking about Pearly Shells or Tiny Bubbles. More like I'll Remember You, She's Gone Again, Blue Hawaii, Hanalei Moon, Hawaiian Wedding Song . . . This was back in the 60s when he had his show at the Coconut Grove. I about went broke taking her to see that damn show so many times. But believe me, it was well worth it . . . even the S*** !!
Now, many years later, I hear one of those songs and my heart breaks and I cry myself to sleep. Oh, the memories!:crybaby: (I just couldn't remember the name of any of his albums that would more accurately reflect the songs that affect me . . . sorry.)
So while those songs may cause some to grit their teeth and pull their hair and call them s***, I have good reason to put them up near the top of the list. The question was which CDs would I take.


I liked the story, and the tunes. Unlike jazz, the goal of entertainers is to give the same show consistently every performance. I think anything turns to s*** if you do the same thing the same way 5 or 6 nights a week.

Background is good. The Don Ho cd just stood out from your other selections.

[edhara]

... ya know, all of a sudden, I feel like finding a ball, sticking leaves in its head, marking it up and calling it "Wilson." :D

[hakukani]

... ya know, all of a sudden, I feel like finding a ball, sticking leaves in its head, marking it up and calling it "Wilson." :D


Wilsoooooooon!
My teeth hurt.:)

[larryb]

Louis Armstrong, Complete Hot Fives (w/Earl Hines) on JSP

Mozart, Cosi fan Tutte (Rene Jacobs conducting) on Harmonie Mundi

[Carl H.]

Jeeze, nobody has burned MP3's to a cd here?

[58tenor]

How come the Professor could make a radio out of a cocoanut but he couldn't patch the Minnow's hull?

[Jonathan C.]

How come the Professor could make a radio out of a cocoanut but he couldn't patch the Minnow's hull?
Because the show would end.