Your One "Go To" Recording

And that isn't because someone already suggested a Grusin album...far from it. Like some on this post I have my computer control my CD players, so it is often left to make the final order to cue the players up....but if I had to search, find and pull out an album ...it would surely be this one.

I always seem to fall back on this album and play a part of it every time I listen to music....it is an amazingly well engineered studio album with such clarity, detail and dynamics. I must have heard it a thousand times but it still has the ability to make my hair stand on end every time...and I am not even a jazz or Duke Ellington fan...so that is really saying something!!!!

Dave Grusin's Homage to Duke

And that isn't because someone already suggested a Grusin album...far from it. Like some on this post I have my computer control my CD players, so it is often left to make the final order to cue the players up....but if I had to search, find and pull out an album ...it would surely be this one.

I always seem to fall back on this album and play a part of it every time I listen to music....it is an amazingly well engineered studio album with such clarity, detail and dynamics. I must have heard it a thousand times but it still has the ability to make my hair stand on end every time...and I am not even a jazz or Duke Ellington fan...so that is really saying something!!!!

Rzado,

I too have that Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Ricardo Muti...its awesome....so is Lorin Maazel and Cleveland Orchestra's 5th Symphony by Shostakovitch..and so is Telarc's Rachmaninov 3nd and 4rd and so...oops I forgot...as they said in Highlander "There can only be one"

This changes all the time of course, but currently it is "Robbie Williams, Swing while your Winning" CD.

An absolutely outstanding recording....but moreover it really puts the "fun" back in music! (unlike many pop, classical, jazz, acoustic or rock genre's that take themselves all too seriously)

A pleasant dusting of duets, a bit of broadway, some great energetic Basie Band arrangements and of course, plenty of swing.

I was shocked that Robbie could pull this swing thing off so well.