| Cannonball Adderley |
Mercy Mercy Mercy & Work Song |
| Mose Allison |
Parchman Farm & Young Man Blues (1957) et al. |
| anonymous (15th century) |
Dale si le das (from: Concionero Musical de Palacio) by New London Consort, voc: Catherine Bott |
| anonymous (17th century) |
Diddle diddle (also known as: "Lavenders Blue") by The City Waites |
| Louis Armstrong |
West End Blues (1928) "The most perfect three minutes of music" |
| J.S. Bach |
Kantate 147 (Chorals) & (the Choral, played by Dinu Lipatti, piano) |
| J.S. Bach |
Die Kunst der Fuge (Contrapunctus XIV unfinished, Glenn Gould) |
| J.S. Bach |
Das wohltemperierte Klavier (Landowska, Gulda, Gould, Richter, Edwin Fischer) |
| J.S. Bach |
Orchestra Suite no. 3 (BWV 1068) |
| J.S. Bach |
Canons (BWV 1072, 1076, 1078 = 230 years avant Steve Reich!) |
| J.S. Bach |
Mass in B minor |
| Barbara |
Pierre & A mourir pour mourir & Goettingen & Nantes, et al. |
| Count Basie Orch. |
Jumpin' at the Woodside (1938, and more with Clayton, Prez, Jo Jones, Rushing etc.) |
| Count Basie Orch. |
Lil' Darling ("The Atomic" album, 1957) et al. |
| The Beatles |
I admit: many of their songs (yes, and the Stones too) |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
Sonatas no. 8, op. 13 (Adagio) & no. 23, op. 57 & no. 30-32, op. 109-111 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
String Quartet no. 13, op. 130 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
Piano concert no. 3, 2. Satz Largo (A. Benedetti Michelangeli) |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
Piano concert no. 5, 2. Satz Adagio (Edwin Fischer) |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
Symphony no. 6, op. 68 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
Große Fuge B-Dur, op. 133 |
| Bix Beiderbecke |
I'm Coming Virginia (1927, Trumbauer Orch.) |
| Vincenzo Bellini |
Norma (aria "Casta diva", Callas, 1954) |
| Chuck Berry |
Roll over Beethoven (1956) & Rock and Roll Music (1957) et al. |
| Art Blakey |
Moanin' (1958) & Blues March (1958) |
| Paul Bley |
Ida (by Carla Bley, 1965) |
| Booker T. and the MGs |
Green Onions (*) |
| Jacques Brel |
Amsterdam & Ne me quitte pas |
| Clifford Brown/Max Roach |
Cherokee (1955) et al. |
| Tim Buckley |
Sweet Surrender |
| Buffalo Springfield |
For What it's Worth (*) |
| Eric Burdon |
"The Black-Man's Burdon" album & Winds of Change (*) et al. |
| Gary Burton Quartet |
Sing Me Softly of the Blues (Carla Bley) |
| The Butterfield Blues Band |
"East-West" album |
| J.J. Cale |
"Naturally" album |
| Hoagy Carmichael |
Rockin' Chair (1930, with Bix, Miley, Goodman, Dorsey, Venuti, Lang etc.) |
| Ray Charles |
What'd I Say & I'm Moving On (1959) et al. |
| Ray Charles |
Worried Life Blues (Someday Baby) (1953) |
| Frederic Chopin |
Ballade g minor, op. 23 (by A. B. Michelangeli) |
| Frederic Chopin |
Nocturnes (by Arthur Rubinstein) |
| Charlie Christian |
Seven Come Eleven (1939 with Goodman Sextet) |
| Charlie Christian |
Solo Flight (1941 with Goodman Orch.) |
| Charlie Christian |
Swing to Bop (1941) |
| Nat King Cole |
Sweet Lorraine (1940 & 1943) & Lush Life (1949) & Nature Boy, et al. |
| Ornette Coleman |
Sadness (1962) & Lonely Woman (1959) |
| John Coltrane |
My Favorite Things (1960 and '63) & Ole (1961) et al. |
| Comedian Harmonists |
Tout le jour, toute la nuit (Night and Day) & Creole Love Call, et al. |
| Commodores |
Nightshift |
| Miles Davis |
It Never Entered My Mind (1954) et al. |
| Miles Davis |
Blue in Green (1959) ...and the whole album of course: "Kind of Blue" |
| Miles Davis |
"Porgy and Bess" album, 1958 |
| Miles Davis |
"Ascenseur pour l'echafaud" soundtrack album, 1957 |
| Spencer Davis Group |
Keep on Running & Gimme Some Lovin' (because of Steve Winwood) |
| Paul Desmond (Brubeck 4) |
Take Five |
| Bo Diddley |
Bo Diddley (1955) et al. |
| Eric Dolphy |
Left Alone (1960) & Tenderly (1960) et al. |
| Eric Dolphy |
"Out to Lunch" album, 1964 |
| Lonnie Donegan |
Rock Island Line (1954) (*) |
| John Dowland |
Flow My Tears (Alfred Deller, voc) et al (but not the version from "Sting", bah!) |
| Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger |
Season of the Witch (1967), All Blues, et al |
| Anton Dvorak |
Rusalka (Mondlied) (by Gabriela Benackova) |
| Bob Dylan |
Highway 61 Revisited (and generally the first 8 albums) |
| Bob Dylan |
Subterranean Homesick Blues & Desolation Row (1965) |
| Bob Dylan |
The Times they are A-Changing (1964) |
| "The Electric Muse" |
The Story of Folk into Rock (4-LP sampler; mostly British singers and bands) |
| Duke Ellington |
East St. Louis Toodle Oo (1927) & Mood Indigo (1930 & '32) |
| Duke Ellington |
Creole Love Call (1932) & Cotton Tail (1940) & Take the A-Train (1941) et al. |
| Booker Ervin/Horace Parlan |
Well, Well (1960, "Cookin'" album) |
| Bill Evans |
Debbie's Waltz, et al. |
| Bill Evans |
"Live at the Village Vanguard" albums, 1961 |
| Fairport Convention |
Stranger to Himself & Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Sandy Denny!) |
| Family |
"Music in a Doll's House" album (*) |
| Gabriel Faure |
Messe de Requiem (Herreweghe) |
| Ella Fitzgerald |
"In Berlin" album, et al. |
| Ella & Louis |
Stars Fell on Alabama & more from their collaboration |
| Maureen Forrester |
Bach & Händel Arien |
| Aretha Franklin |
Respect, et al. |
| Slim Gaillard |
The Flat Foot Floogie (1938) et al. |
| Jerry Garcia/David Grisman |
Shady Grove & Whiskey in the Jar & "Not for Kids Only" album |
| Erroll Garner |
"Concert by the Sea" album |
| Djivan Gasparyan |
Heavenly Duduk |
| Marvin Gaye |
Sexual Healing & I Heard It Through the Grapevine |
| Stan Getz |
Moonlight in Vermont (with Johnny Smith, 1951) |
| Stan Getz/Gilberto |
"Jazz Samba" album (and more of Getz) |
| Dizzy Gillespie Orch. |
Good Bait (1947) ...and 1945/'46 with Parker, q.v. |
| Jimmy Giuffre |
The Train and the River (1956) |
| Willibald Gluck |
Orfeo ed Euridice (Kathleen Ferrier or Rita Streich) |
| Benny Goodman Trio/Quartet |
China Boy / Moonglow (1936) |
| The Grateful Dead |
Morning Dew & "So Many Roads" (this set's disc 3) et al. |
| The Grateful Dead |
"The Closing of Winterland, December 31, 1978" |
| Friedrich Gulda |
G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald (1978) & his Mozart & Beethoven interpretations |
| Bob Haggart / Ray Bauduc |
The Big Noise from Winnetka (1938) |
| Ioannis Halkias (Jack Gregory) |
Minore tu Teke (Rembetika from 1930) |
| Chico Hamilton |
Love Song to a Baby |
| Harlem Hamfats |
Oh! Red (1936) |
| Lionel Hampton |
his RCA Victor recordings 1937-'41 |
| Georg Friedrich Haendel |
Ombra mai fu (from opera "Xerxes"; Kathleen Ferrier, voc; and of course her "What is Life"/Gluck) |