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What are the treasures in your vinyl library?

They don't have to be the collector's items, necessarily. I'm just asking, what is your short list of LPs in your personal library that you prize the most (maximum 5)?

I'll start:

Diana Krall: "From This Moment On" from Classic Records, mastered on a tube cutter

Buddy Rich: "Class of '78", Direct-to-disk recording of my favorite drummer leading the best incarnation of his band

Muddy Waters: "Folk Singer", not MFSL or German pressing or original pressing or anything fancy, just a Chess/MCA 1987 reissue LP that puts you in the room with Muddy

I also have a 35mm Everest recording of Mozart woodwind sonatas that I picked up at St. Vincent DePaul for $1. It's old and a little ragged, but that 35mm mag tape really puts the players right there in the living room.
johnnyb53

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t_bone
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My "most treasured list" evolves. Currently, I am being relatively flexible with the term and it is the next five in the stack of stuff I pull out from the larger stack. The front five there are currently...

Kenny Dorham - AfroCuban
Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners
The Magnificent Thadeus Jones
Jimmy Smith - Open House
Talking Heads - not sure which one

(the next five are ELP and classical albums).
Nothing is particularly mint, and nothing is that rare (they are almost all Japanese pressings but I live in Japan so that comes with the territory), but it sounds nice...
t_bone
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My current "front five" on the stack are:
1) Cootie Williams Sextet & Orchestra "Original Hit Recordings from 1944 featuring Bud Powell, "Cleanhead" Vinson, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Pearl Bailey (Phoenix LP-1)
2) Sonny Rollins' Movin' Out (Prestige 7058 mono)
3) Schubert Piano Sonata in C Minor, Impromptus; Alfred Brendel (Japanese Phillips)
4) Chopin Preludes; Martha Argerich (DG Japan pressing)
5) Zino Francescatti and Robert Casadesus playing Faure Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Japanese pressing; CBS Sony mono SOCU 58)

But what I am really waiting for is the next 30: just bought a stack of (only) saxophone jazz over the weekend - several Coltranes I don't have, a few Sonny Rollins I don't have, more Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Phil Woods, Art Pepper, Coleman Hawkins, Archie Shepp, and a bunch of other artists. Am really looking forward to that!
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