I'm at the pearly gates and they tell me I can only bring in one jazz cd


Prez and Teddy (Lester Young and Teddy Wilson). To my fellow jazz fans if you've never checked this out do so. I play it again...and again...and.......

scottya118

Actually, it's a trick question.
(Heaven is 52nd St., NYC, circa 1945).
Only those choosing Charlie Parker discs are allowed inside. 

Between a rock and a hard place! In heaven only one piece of music, sounds like hell to me. In hell, all your records warp! I think I would be shooting for limbo. I hear their power grid is pretty clean.

Miles Davis - Seven Steps To Heaven.

But why in God's name would anyone listen to jazz on CD? That ain't heaven.

Prez and Teddy seems to capture the essence of "Jazz" at its best - bluesy, folksy, sophisticated, and optimistic - always in the moment yet reflective and forward thinking

Not religious at all…but Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (a very spiritual, gospel-y masterpiece).  

Easy, Sonny Stitt could carry a melody and improv it at the same time.

IMO , the greatest American Jazz Man !

 

 

If the only thing they'd let me bring in was Jazz, I'd turn around and go the other way - what's the expression? "The devil's got all the best music!". For my tastes, he does! 

At one place they ain't giving you the choice, the other one would become a hell for me, having only one cd to play over and over again for eternity! This is why I can't play any best ever games, variety is the essence of what's best for me.

Miles Davis Escalier sur l‘Echafaut (not the pearly gates but same outcome)

Hell would be where they don’t play the John Coltrane but the Julie Andrews version.

My choice would be Ellington "1940 Live From the Crystal Ballroom Fargo, North Dakota".

 

scottya118

I'm at the pearly gates and they tell me I can only bring in one jazz cd

One CD - for all eternity? I don't want to be the one to tell you, but you aren't at the Pearly Gates. You're at the other place.

i’d be pissed that god has no turntable. ’1’s and ’0’s? really? 😎

not my idea of heaven.