Desert Island discs

steam-powered

I did a search of the forum and couldn't find any threads on desert isle discs. If you could only bring a handful, what would you bring?

rimm

Sinatra with Basie at the sands
Django -Paris and Rome complete recordings-just for the sheer joy of it all
Pour Django-Boulou and Elios Ferre
Mose Allison-Alison wonderland
Fats Wallers greatest hits
Tchavolo Schmitt-Miri Familia
Joe Pass-Virtuoso
Guns And Roses-Appetite for destruction :twisted:
I have big hands-maybe thats too many??

pinkgary

Robert Johson complete
Integrale (all, or if pushed, 5 Mystery Pacific)
Sticky Fingers & Let it Bleed - Stones
Berlin Philharmonic (von Karajan in the '80's) conducting Beethoven's 9th
The Moto Boogie Affair - Parlament
American Beauty - Grateful Dead
The Ink Spots Greatest Hits
Talking Timbucktu - Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Touré

& if i could carry more Ernest Ranglin - in Search of Da Riddum or Talking Blues - Bob Marley

Oh, & Appetite for Destruction

redblues

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Mississippi John Hurt - Oberlin College (Vangaurd '66)
Fapy Lafertin - Fapology
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey/Garveys Ghost (dub)
Miriam Makeba - Live at Berns Stockholm 66
Tom Waits - Closing Time
The Best of Blue Note Records
Art Blakey - Moanin
Townes van Zandt - Townes van Zandt

& Django.....much harder to do that list than I thought it would be

Phil

my 10 choices would be:

Armenian Navy Band ~ 'How Much is Yours?'
Avishai Cohen ~ "At Home"
Ralph Towner ~ "Ana"
Brad Mehldau ~ "Songs: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3"
Mike Stern ~ "Standards"
Stephane Wrembel ~ "Barbes Brooklyn"
Keith Jarrett ~ "My Song"
Angelo Debarre ~ " Paroles de Swing"
Lennie Tristano ~ "Complete with Warne Marsh"
Django & Stephane and HCF ~ any compilation

jovation

OK, Here are my ten:

DR JSP box set --> I'm going to let a box set of five count as one

Matelo Ferré '- Tziganskaia

Pearl Django (w/Paul Mehling) - Mystery Pacific

Beatles - Abbey Road

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

Gustavo Santaolalla - Motorcycle Diaries Soundtrack

Bach - preludes (must include "Air on a G string")

Bob Marley - Legend

Dvorak - New World Symphony (since someone on another desert island stole my copy of Beethoven's Ninth)

The Clash - London Calling (w/bonus tracks "Armagideon Time", and "White Man in Hammersmith Palais")

steam-powered

Off the top of my head, I think I'd grab the following (in no particular order)

Brandenburg Concertos (conducted by Gustav Leonhardt)
Django JSP boxed set
Beethoven Piano Concertos (conducted by Harnoncourt)
Sol Hoopi set on Yazoo records
Oscar Peterson Live at Blue Note (four disc set)
Lollo Meier "Rosas"
Wes Montgomery complete riverside recordings
Charley Patton vol 1 and 2 on Yazoo records
Barney Kessel "Let's Cook"

rimm

I feel short changed as I only listed 8-I have to add
Comme un Manouche Sans Guitare: Thomas Dutronc
Joni Mitchell-Blue

redblues

Alas, i forgot the timeless
Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 string Guitar

Bob Holo

Look around though - because I think somewhere there's a thread for Desert Island GJ disks - though it was called "...recommendations... where musicality is the focus, not shredding." or something like that.

So let's see. Instead of re-posting my GJ disks - how about if I add my non-GJ island disks... hopefully that's not too off topic.

Barney Kessel "To Swing or Not"...
Brubeck's Time Out...
Miles Live Friday Night at the Blackhawk...
Coletrane's Ballads...
Van Halen 1...
Zepplin 4...
Clifford Brown's Memorial Album...
Billie Holiday & Lester Young - Lady Day & Pres...
Dexter Gorton's Our Man in Paris...
Sinatra's Come Fly with Me...
Oscar Peterson's "On the Town"...
Eddie Harris' first album on Mercury... (eponymous I think... the rust colored cover)
BG in HiFi...
Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"...
Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers...
Julian Bream's Spanish Recital...
Albinoni's Adagio (Karajan / Berliner)...
Dvorak's New World Sympony (Reiner / Chicago or Bohm / Vienna)...
Heifitz - Sibelius Concerto (Hendl / Chicago)
Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life
Oingo Boingo Only a Lad...
Talking Heads Little Creatures...
Public Enemy Nation of Millions...
Beach Boys Pet Sounds,
Beatles Revolver

...uggh... I'll stop now... almost impossible to stop..