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I have not heard either. Let me see where can I find the songs.

By the way, today on my drive to work, I set up a really crazy mix on my ipod playlist. Abba, Bruce Springsteen, Alan Parsons Project, Jaco Pastorius, Thelonius Monk, Big Bill Broonzy and Mark Knopfler.

Had a good listen. The traffic never got to me, I was so engrossed in listening.

George Winston - December

Thelonious Monk- The Complete Riverside Recordings. I let a song go out of my heart - is the piece playing right now. We have moved to a five day week, so I am celebrating with some nice piano.

Nice album. I too like TM very much. Try TM plays Standards.

If you like Piano (Jazz style) then build your collection based on following (Jazz) Piano artists:

Bill Evans
Count Basie
Horace Silver
Keith Jarrett
Red Garland
Vince Guaraldi
Ramsey Lewis
Diana krall
Marc Copland
Duke Ellington
Art Tatum
Thelonious Monk
Chick Corea
Herbie Hancock
Ahmad Jamal
Sir Roland Hanna
Bud Powell
Erroll Louis Garner


And here is my pick for other instruments:

Soprano Sax

Wayne Shorter
David Liebman


Tenor Sax

Dexter Gordon
Stan Getz
Lester Young
John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
zoot sims
Joe Henderson
Hank Mobley
Tina Brooks
Stanley Turrentine

Alto Sax

Art Pepper
Jackie McLean
Lou Donaldson
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Paul Desmond
Charlie Parker
Johnny Hodges
Ornette Coleman

Bari Sax

Pepper Adams
Gerry Mulligan
Leo Parker

Trumpet

Louis Armstrong
Chet Baker
Donald Byrd
Miles Davis
Lee Morgan
Freddie Hubbard
Chuck Mangione
Tomasz Stanko
Dave Douglas
Wynton Marsalis
Dizzy Gillespie


Guitar

Grant green
Wes Montgomery
Kenny Burrel
Pat Martino
Joe pass
Allan Holdsworth
Pat Metheny
John Abercrombie
John McLaughlin

Vibes

Burton
Hutch
Milt Jackson
Lionel Hampton

Trombone

J J Johnson
Curtis Fuller
Carl Fontana

Bass

Paul Chambers
Ron Carter
Leroy Vinnegar
Charles Mingus
Charlie Haden

Drums

Philly Joe Jones
Max Roach
Alan Dawson
Billy Higgins
Idris Muhammad

Arranger

Benny Golson
Duke Pearson
Oliver Nelson
Glen Miller

Violin

Mark Feldman
Stephanne Grappeli

Organ

Shirley Scott
Jimmy Smith
Big John Patton
Lonnie Smith

Just for information. Hope this helps.

Suhas, Suhas, Suhas! I scrolled and I scrolled but I never reached the end of your list. Do you have all of them in your collection?! I really envy you.

I have only selected albums of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis and Stephane Grappelli, from your list. Still got a long way to go. To make matters worse, some of those recordings are on cassette. And the tapes are getting old.

Anyway, enjoy your jazz. I shall get hold of Standards. Lets see.

Nice collection Suhas!

How about harp: Tadao Hayashi?

Thanks for the good words. I have some 70% artists from the list. It is quite possible when one accumaltes some 200 Albums in one single genre 'Jazz' .

Thanks Xela for reminding me of Tadao Hayashi. I don't have any of his albums but I remember I heard one track at Mahendra's shop , If I recollect corretly it was a recording with Jim Brickman on Piano.

I also forgot to mention Yo Yo Ma , he is one the finest Cello player this world has ever produced. I have couple of his albums. Get one for yourself , not only for music enjoyment but to test your system too.


Regards

SUhas

Eric Clapton & B.B. King - Riding With The King

Hey! I was listening to Riding with the king yesterday. Nice jugalbandi. Which reminds me of Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler's Neck and Neck. Another great effort.

And Suhas, 200 jazz albums means you have quite an amazing collection. That is inspiring. Quite a bit of my music is still on cassettes. I am finding replacements on CD, little by little, but I still have a long way to go to get to the 200 mark.