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.......

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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! 

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

IMO , the greatest American Jazz Man !

 

 

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