1. |
Sweet Rain - STAN GETZ
Perhaps my favourite jazz album - a classic Getz record from '64 with Chick Corea - it still sounds fresh today |
| 2. |
In A Silent Way - MILES DAVIS
An influential record for me and a beautiful one - on the cusp between jazz and rock with a vibe of its own - some great wayne shorter playing |
| 3. |
A Love Supreme - JOHN COLTRANE
One of the greatest jazz albums of all time - powerful, spiritual, brilliant, majestic. |
| 4. |
Mexican Green - TUBBY HAYES
Something closer to home with Tony Levin on drums, Ron Matthewson on bass and Mick Pyne on piano - my favourite British jazz album - it contains 'trenton place' and 'off the wagon'. |
| 5. |
Flute And Nut - HAROLD McNIAR
A British Big Band album with a sixties feel with some of the most extraordinary jazz flute playing one is ever likely to hear. |
| 6. |
Lift Every Voice - CHARLES LLOYD
2002, my most recent choice - an ECM double full of noble, mature, graceful and spiritual jazz -beautiful. |
| 7. |
Upside Downside - MIKE STERN
The opposite to 6. - young, brash, powerful and exciting compelling turbo charged electric jazz with Michael Brecker and Jaco Pastorius |
| 8. |
Survivors Suite - KEITH JARRETT
An influence on me as it has long almost symphonic compositions with interesting textures and musical transitions - half way between 1. and 'close to the edge' by Yes! |
| 9. |
Inner Mountain Flame - MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA
Totally burning electric fusion with amazing harmonies, time, feel and impact - an album that changed jazz forever |
| 10. |
Blue Sun - MARK ISHAM
An album by the U.S. trumpeter who I first heard on the excellent David Torn album 'Cloud about Mercury' and who is now big in film music - it is a sort of homage to Miles' 'Kind of Blue' with electric grooves and subtle atmospheric loops - it can get under your skin! |
