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

it is unlikely that any of us will go to heaven (it's too hard to deserve it) ... and in hell it will hurt so much that there is no time for music ... only eternal tears of flour and screaming - without the ability to change it.

Bitches Brew

Tough assignment. I might have to go with Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall…just because it’s underrepresented and i KNOW someone will share their copy of Kind of Blue

Yeah, I'm afraid I'll be passing through fiery gates, but I'd have to bring Kind of Blue with me. That recording still effects me, and one I've never grown tired of. Plus, down there, it will likely be my only respite to chill a bit.

In 1977 my father gave me the Bill Evans quintet recording "Quintessence" as I was leaving to study jazz at university. I have listened to it thousands of times since that day in every stage of my life and it has never failed to move me, A Child Is Born in particular. Wonderful music beautifuly recorded. Good enough for my life's sound track, good enough for after.