{"id":1241,"date":"2010-05-30T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2010-05-30T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T19:45:36","slug":"top-ten-favorite-jazz-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Favorite Jazz CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally, a friend asks me to name my all-time favorite jazz CDs. That’s extremely difficult to do, especially since I own more than 1,500 of them.<\/p>\n

Here is my Desert Island List of My Top Ten Jazz CDs of all-time. It is quite absurd that there are no CDs by Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Harold Mabern, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan, Betty Carter, Charles Tolliver, Kenny Dorham, Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Billy Higgins, Jackie Mclean, Hank Jones, Barry Harris, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Barron, Lester Bowie, Duke Ellington, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Phil Woods, Count Basie, Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Heath or many others on the list. Many of these folks perform on the recordings listed below.<\/p>\n

There is also no room for my current favorite musician Dianne Reeves<\/a> (every one of her albums is a gem); my brilliant pals, Brian Lynch<\/a>, Carl Allen<\/a> or Branford Marsalis<\/a> or my all-time hero Roy Haynes<\/a> in the top ten.<\/p>\n

Branford Marsalis’ recent album, Metamorphosen<\/a>, will surely be remembered as one of the great recordings and bands of the early 21st Century.\"Simpatico\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was beyond honored to work on Brian Lynch’s project with Eddie Palmieri, Simpatico<\/a>, which won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album<\/a>. This record gets better with each listening.<\/p>\n

Gary Stager’s Top 10 Favorite Jazz CDs <\/strong>(in no particular order)
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