Reney's Top 20 in jazz, blues
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While WFCR's music library has thousands of jazz recordings for Tom Reney to choose from, he occasionally supplements them with his personal collection of 2,000 CDs and 4,000 LPs seen here in his living room. KEVIN GUTTING photo |
Friday, March 9, 2001 -- Last year, when the Connecticut Library Association wanted to put together a "core list" of jazz and blues for its member libraries - the recordings that every library should offer - it turned to Tom Reney for advice. Here's the list he came up with:
Duke Ellington: "The Best of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition"
Duke Ellington: "Uptown"
Louis Armstrong: "Plays W.C. Handy"
Miles Davis: "Kind of Blue"
Charles Mingus: "Mingus Ah Um"
Count Basie: "Count Basie Swings - Joe Williams Sings"
Billie Holiday: "The Quintessential, Vol. 5"
Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry: "Tenor Giants"
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: "Moanin' "
Dizzy Gillespie's All Star Quintet: "Shaw 'Nuff"
Thelonius Monk: "The Art of the Ballad"
Sonny Rollins: "Saxophone Colossus"
John Coltrane: "A Love Supreme"
Ella Fitzgerald: "Pure Ella"
Clifford Brown and Max Roach: "Alone Together - The Best of the Mercury Years"
B.B. King: "Live at the Regal"
Muddy Waters: "The Best of Muddy Waters"
T-Bone Walker: "The Very Best of T-Bone Walker"
Big Joe Turner: "The Boss of the Blues"
Robert Johnson: "The Complete Recordings"
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