Keith Jarrett-"The Koln Concerts"-wonderful solo piano.Of course Miles Davis 
"Kind of Blue".On the classical side there is the piano music of Eric Satie.

>From: "Christopher" <plattc@optonline.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Vince Guaraldi suggestions?
>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:29:57 -0500
>
>One of my favorite jazz pianists is Fred Hersch.  He's been an incredibly
>prolific player in the past dozen years or so and has put out some
>absolutely incredible albums.  In the mid-90's, he did a string of tribute
>albums, starting with "Passion Flower," a stunningly gorgeous tribute to
>Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington's right hand man and composer of some of
>Duke's more enduring standards).  He's got an extraordinarily fluid sense 
>of
>melody.  Great, great stuff.
>
>Another excellent current pianist is Frank Kimbrough.  He did a duo album
>with vibist Joe Locke a few years ago called "Saturn's Child" that fits 
>that
>late night contemplative mood like a glove.
>
>I'll second the Jobim suggestion as well.  "Getz/Gilberto" is a great place
>to branch out from your Astrud comp (but will likely have an overlapped 
>tune
>or two).
>
>Christopher
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
> > Of Beth2459@aol.com
> > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:39 AM
> > To: audities@smoe.org
> > Subject: Vince Guaraldi suggestions?
> >
> > Its that time of year where I get to listen to probably one of my 
>favorite
> > albums of all time - Vince Guaraldi playing the music from The Peanuts
> > Christmas
> > special.
> >
> >  While I could and do listen to this over and over and over and over, I
> > was
> > thinking that it might be good to branch out a bit.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest some albums- not nec. holiday but thats OK too, in 
>this
> > same vein? Something I could listen to year round? Seems like the only
> > other one
> > that I listen to like this (over and over, almost like background music,
> > but
> > in a good way) is an Astrud Gilberto compilation I have had for years.
> >
> > Thanks a bunch!
> >
> > Beth-
> >
> > OOPs- ok, pop content- hope to see some Auditeers at the KYBER tonight 
>for
> > Jane Anchor/Parallax Projec/IKE and the Queue! (I have no idea why CHFT
> > aren't
> > on this bill....)
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