Ok gang....Here is PART 1
I had to split this up due to the 10,000 character limitationin posting on the board.
I have this in chronological order based on PAGE in the thread.
This way you can go back and read the comments of the person posting etc...
If someone wants to put this in a spreadsheet so you can sort but name, album etc..this would be nice, but its a lot of work to get there.but I would think it would not be that difficult to do this if if desired.
I know I might have some mis-spellings etc, but its close enough to identify the recommendations.
Lots of great stocking stuffers for sure!!
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Richard Souther "Cross Currents" New Age (Mary's Question and transition into High Tide)
Kitaro-Cirque "Ingenieux"- New Age Electronic
James Newton Howard "James Newtom Howard and Friends" - Jazz
David Benoit "Waiting for Spring" - Jazz (Some Other Sunset. My Romance)
Donald Fagen "Nightfly" Walk Between the Raindrops, The Goodbye Look, Ruby Baby
Steely Dan "Aja"
Steely Dan "Two Against Nature"
Tony Bennett "There's a Small Hotel" (Rogers and Hart Songbook)
Bobby McFerrin "Freedom is a Voice"
Shirley Horn "Hers to Life" (Return to Paradise)
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis "Two Men With the Blues" (concert)
Blood Sweat & Tears "Blood Sweat & Tears" (God Bless the Child)
Esperanza Spalding "Esperanza CD" (Precious)
Lenny Kravitz "Its Time For A Love Revolution" (This moment Is All There Is)
Nora Jones "Come Away With Me" (Cold, Cold Heart)
Sting "Mercury Falling" (I Was Brought to my Senses)
Tony Corbiscello "Real Time" (As If We Never Said Goodbye)... Big Band (Top shelf trumpet playing)
Jazz at the Pawnshop - Various Artists
Steve Bach "More Than A Dream"
Wynton Marsalis "The Magic Hour" (Feeling of Jazz)
The Bad Plus "These Are the Vistas" (Keep the Bugs Off Your Glass And The Bears Off Your Ass)
Bozzio, Levin, Stevens "Blacl Light Syndrome" (Duende)
Ben Harper "Fight For Your Mind" (Gold To Me)
Morphine "Cure for Pain" (Buena)
Nils Lofgren "Acoustic Live" (Keith Don't Go)
Mino Cinelu "Mino Cinelu" (Oncoming Horizons)
Copland "Fanfare For the Comman Man" Louis Lane, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on Telarc
Ben Vaughn "Designs in Music" (Too Happy"
Rimsky-Korsakov "Dance of the Tumblers" Eiji Oue/Minnesota Orch
Dean Peer "Think" (Its All Good)
Weather Report "Sportin' Life" (Confians)
Bernadette Peters "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (Blackbird)
ZZ Top "Tres Hombres" (La Grange)
Dave Grusin "Discovered Again"
Vienna Tang "Waking Hour"
Lyle Lovette "Joshua Judges Ruth"
Dave Grusin 'Homage to Duke"
Thelma Houston "I've Got the Music In Me"
Dead Can Dance "Boxed Set"
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Ry Cooder "Paradise and Lunch"
Flim and The BB's "TriCycle", "Big Notes", "Tunnel"
Kim Pensyl "Sketches 1", 'Sketches 2", "Sketches 3"
Roberta Flack "Quiet Fire" (Get Up Moses)
Rhythm Devils "The Apocalypse Now Sessions" (Napalm for Breakfast)
Bad Company "Bad Company" (Seagull, Hell..)
Leon Russell "Leon Russell" (A Song For You) A DCC gold disc mastered by Steve Hoffman
Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Sessions"
Stanley Turrentine "Stan the Man" SHM-CD
Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed" SHM-CD
Patricia Barber "A Fortnight in France"
Linda Ronstadt "Round Midnight" Nelson Riddle Songs, 2 cd set
Spyrogyra "Off the Deep End"
Holly Cole "It Happened One Night"
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Manu Katche "Neighboorhood"
Diana Krall "Love Scenes" (My Love Is)
Regina Spektor "Begin To Hope"
Quincy Coleman "Come Closer" (Want Me Back)
Ronan Hardiman "Anthem", "Solas"
Count Basie "88 Basie Street" XRCD version
Joe Satriani "The Electric Joe Satriani: An Anthology" (Rubina)
Igor Stravinski "The Right of Spring"
Benny Goodman - 'Benny Goodman and Friends'
The Benny Green Trio - "Testifyin'" 'Live at the Village Vanguard
Bill Berry - 'For Duke'
Bill Mays Trio - 'Live at the Jazz Standard'
Bob James - 'Dancing on the Water'
Carmen McRae - 'The Great American Songbook'
Clifford Jordan - 'Live at Ethell's'
The Count Basie Orchestra - 'Live at EL Morocco'
Diana Krall - 'The Girl in the Other Room'
Ella Fitzgerald - 'Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie'
Fred Hersch Trio - 'The Fred Hersch Trio Plays'
Hope Waits - 'Hope Waits'
James Carter - 'Chasin' The Gypsy'
Jane Monheit - 'Come Dream With Me'
Joshua Redman Quartet - 'Live at the Village Vanguard'
Kendra Shank - 'Afterglow'
Oscar Peterson - 'Live at the Blue Note'
Ray Brown/Laurindo Almeida - 'Moonlight Serenade'
The Ray Brown Trio - 'Live at Kuumbwa'
Rickie Lee Jones - 'Pop Pop'
Roy Gaines - 'I Got the T-Bone Walker Blues'
Victor Feldman - 'Audiophile'
Wynton Marsalis Septet - 'Live at the Village Vanguard'
Johnny Cash - 'American Recordings'
Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle - 'What's New'
Blue Rodeo "Five Days In July"
Aimee Mann "Magnolia Sundtrack" (One)
Natalie Merchant's "Tigerlily" (Carnival,The Letter)
Holly Cole's "Romantically Helpless" (One Trick Pony)
Gladiator Soundtrack (The Battle)
Hugh Masekela "Burmester Reference III CD" (Stimela)
Rebecca Pidgeon "The Raven" (Spanish Harlem) (24/96 version)
Wilco's "Being There" (Sunken Treasure)
Steely Dan "The Royal Scam" (Kid Charlemagne)
Rusted Root "When I Woke" (Cat Turned Blue, Laugh As The Sun)
Peggy Lee "Black Coffee" (Black Coffee)
Ben Harper "Fight For Your Mind" (Gold To Me, God Fearing Man)
Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets (Crush)
Elanor McEvoy "Yola" (Isn't It A Little Late?)
Roland Kirk "Domino" (Domino,remastered)
Sarah McLachlan "Surfacing" (Angel)
Tommy Emmanuel - "Center Stage"
Ray Brown- "Walk On"
Stravinsky "Firebird Suite" Eiji Oue Minnesota Orch
Chrisette Michele "I Am" (Your Joy)
Mars - Dean Peter...
Brian Wilson Surf's Up!
Bizet - Carmon Fantasie Anne-Sophie-Mutter, Vienner Phil - James Levine
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Chet Atkins "Sails"
Rene Olstead "Skylark" (Nothing But the Blame"
Jennifer Warnes "Famous Blue Raincoat"
Preston Reed "Instrument Landing"
Eva Cassidy "Time After Time", "Imagine'
Madeleine Peyroux "Careless Love"
Ray Charles "Genius Loves Company"
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Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
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Allison Kraus "Union Station Live"
Josh Groban "Closer"
Chris Issac 'Best of Chris Issac"
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Keb' Mo' "Suitcase"
Rodger Waters "Amused To Death"
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John Lee Hooker "Chill Out"
Eric Bibb "A Ship Called Home"
Robert Plant / Allison Krauss "Raising Sand"
Ottmar Liebert "Luna Negra"
Pink Floyd "Dark Sinde of the Moon" Dream Theater mix
Muddy Water 'FOlk Singer"
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Lyle Lovette "Step Inside This House"
Tears For Fears "The Hurting" Mercury Reissue
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Joe Jackson - any
Peter Wolf "Sleepless"
Ry Cooder "Buena Vista Social Club"
Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus"
Ali Farka Toure & Tuomani Diabatie "In the Heart of the Moon"
Steve Turre "TNT","Sanctified Shells","In the Spur of the Moment"
Chucho Valdes "Live at the Village Vanguard","Bele Bele en La Habana"
Clark Terry "Live-Village Gate"
Taj Mahal "Shoutin in Key", "Senor Blues"
Little Carlie and the Night Cats "Disturbing the Peace"
Jimmie Lee Robinson "All My Life"
John Mellencamp "Trouble No More"
Jorma Kaukonen "Blue Country Heart"
Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms" XRCD
Donald Fagen "Morph The Cat", "Kamakiriad"
Paul Simon "Graceland"
Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell "El Corazon"
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey 'Walking With Giants"
Bliss "Quiet Letters", "Afterlife"
Three Mo'Tenors
Allison Krauss "New Favorite", "So Long So Wrong"