Most of the jazz I love must MOVE me. My most memorable years collecting
jazz were my teenage years 1966-1972. Most of the following sides are
from that period and remain the music that I MUST have.
- Charles Lloyd- Forest Flower, Charles Lloyd Quartet
at Monterey
- Caramba- Lee Morgan
- Hugh Masekela- The Americanization of Ooga Booga
- Johnnie "Hammond" Smith- Breakout
- Mongo Santamaria- Mongo Explodes Live at the Village Gate
- The Last Session- Lee Morgan
- The Gigolo- Lee Morgan
- The Best of Nancy Wilson- Can't live without "When Did You
Leave Heaven?", "The Days of Wine and Roses" and "Face
it Girl, It's Over"
- Ella Fitzgerald- Newport Jazz Festival, Live at Carnegie Hall
July 5, 1973, "Indian Summer"
- Wayne Shorter- Speak No Evil
- Gil Scott-Heron- Pieces of a Man
- Brian Auger's Oblivion Express- Second Wind
- Charles Earland- Livin' Black, Grover Washington and Gary
Chandler blow!
- The Visitors- In My Youth
- Gato Barbieri- Chapter Two "Hasta Siempre"
- Grant Green- Alive, "Down Here on the Ground", "Sookie,
Sookie"
- Gil Scott-Heron- A New Black Poet
- Eddie Harris- The Electrifying Eddie Harris
- Norman Conners-The Best of Norman Conners and Friends, "This
is Your Life", "Wouldn't You Like to See?"
- Gloria Lynn- I Wish You Love
- John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
I like to dance to jazz and most of the above pieces are to shake to
rather than meditate to. That is, except for the 'Trane. That piece
should be on EVERYONE'S list. That my sound a bit arrogant, but of all
the jazz I've ever heard, it's the only one that comes closest to
defining what jazz and spirituality, especially done by those that are
closer to it, can accomplish.
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