 | A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.68 simply one of the most important albums ever-- family legend has it that I actually did learn to crawl in order to put my ear by the speaker to listen to Elvin Jones' solo on the beginning of side 2
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 | Sorcerer by Miles Davis
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.98 title track=my favorite song when I was in pre-school
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 | Breakin' Away by Al Jarreau
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.33 somewhat embarrassing, but i do know this album inside and out from listening to it obsessively
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 | The Nightfly by Donald Fagen
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.97 only much later did I "understand" the lyrics......
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 | Back on the Block by Quincy Jones
Buy used from: $0.47 one of the first CDs that ever entered our house
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 | Kites Are Fun: The Best of the Free Design by The Free Design
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.99 be afraid. in an effort to be honest, I give you the music I am most embarrassed to admit listening to--- care of my mom's late-60s vocal group hippie aesthetic
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 | Mecca for Moderns by The Manhattan Transfer
Buy new: $8.96 / Used from: $2.89 I know, I know-- this list has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous...
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 | Native Dancer by Wayne Shorter
Buy used from: $5.34 finally, some taste-- milton nascimento is baaad
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 | Milton by Milton Nascimento
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.64 like I said....... and check out Herbie's solo on "Cravo e canela"
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 | Sunlight by Herbie Hancock
Buy used from: $32.36 here's an album I ruined when I spilled cherry coke all over it--- Herbie "sings" thru a Vocoder-- cheesy, but oddly endearing disco jazz.... oh, and Paul Jackson plays his ass off.
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 | Fat Albert Rotunda by Herbie Hancock
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.97 this sucker is just plain bad
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 | Sentido by Eddie Palmieri
Buy used from: $24.95 nearly flawless salsa record-- everytime I go back and listen to it again, I hear more that I like
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 | Schizophrenia by Wayne Shorter
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.50 I was a "Tom Thumb" junkie.....
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 | Song of the New World by McCoy Tyner
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $10.93 No wonder I'm supposedly so "intense," I grew up listening to this stuff.....
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 | From Left to Right by Bill Evans
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.60 Bill Evans plays Fender Rhodes electric piano
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 | Extension of a Man by Donny Hathaway
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $6.39 I feel sorry for everyone who didn't have a chance to hear Donny Hathaway growing up--- this album is friggin perfect-- check "Valdez" and "Love, Love, Love," and .....the rest of the album
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 | Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.48 Reiner's recording of "Kije" is a b*tch-- too bad you can't get it along with the original vinyl pairing of Stravinsky's "Song of the Nightengale"
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 | The Glenn Gould Edition - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I by Johann Sebastian Bach
Buy new: $20.97 / Used from: $19.99 this is hardcore......
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 | Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrushka
Buy used from: $14.95 reissues from '79--- this contains by far the baddest recording of the Bartok 2 EVER
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 | Take 6 by Take 6
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.85 one of the last records my family bought new on vinyl-- and then promptly wore out
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