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Re: Please help me expand my musical tastes...

Some you may like;

Brian Auger And The Oblivion Express, either Closer To It, Straight Ahead

Micheal Franks, Tiger In The Rain, The Art Of Tea, Sleeping Gypsy

Kenny Rankin, The KR Album or Silver Morning

Al Jarreau, All Fly Home, Look To The Rainbow, Glow

Joni Mitchell, Hejira, Court And Spark

Steely Dan, Aja

Hall & Oates, Abandoned Luncheonette

Roxy Music, Avalon

Traffic, Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys, John Barleycorn Must Die

George Benson, Breezin, In Flight

David Sanborn, As We Speak

Grover Washington Jr., Winelight, Mr. Magic

Some straight-ahead jazz LPs;

John Coltrane, JC And Johnny Hartman (a very accessible, beautiful album, and the one I'd recommend for those just starting out on Coltrane).

Chet Baker, Chet (should be able to find a nice OJC reissue LP of this).

Bill Evans, Waltz For Debby, Sunday At The Village Vanguard, Moonbeams (OJCs again), and his Verve stuff such as Empathy, A Simple Matter Of Conviction, Intermodulation.

Jim Hall, Concierto

Stan Getz, Getz/Gilberto

Modern Jazz Quartet, Django, Concorde (OJC)

Wes Montgomery, Incredible Jazz Guitar, Bumpin'

Kenny Burrell, Midnight Blue

Gerry Mulligan, Night Lights

Stanley Turrentine With The 3 Sounds, Blue Hour

McCoy Tyner, Nights Of Ballads And Blues

Should give you a good start. Try out sound clips at Amazon. You might check your local library for cds that can be checked out. A great FREE way to explore new music. And as always, make liberal use of All Music Guide, an AA sponsor that can be linked on the Music Asylum page. Good luck.



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