Bud Tristano's Favorite Records: The Lists

My Favorite Records: The Lists

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Rock Records (the short list): See the long list for more! ==> Long List Alice In Chains: "Alice In Chains" The Beatles: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" Cream: "Disraeli Gears" Jimi Hendrix: "Are You Experienced?" Jethro Tull: "Aqualung" Led Zeppelin: "IV" Pink Floyd: "Dark Side of the Moon" Steve Vai: "Passion and Warfare" Van Halen: "Van Halen" The Who: "Who's Next" Frank Zappa: "Sheik Yerbouti" Classical Short List: Laurindo Almeida: "Conversations With The Guitar" J.S.Bach: "Bach Organ favorites" (E. Power Biggs), especially: Fantasy and Fugue in Gm (The "Great") Passacaglia and Fugue in Cm Toccata and Fugue in Dm Fugue in Gm (The "Little") Béla Bartók: "Bartók Plays Bartók" Ferde Grofé: "The Grand Canyon Suite" Niccolò Paganini: "24 Caprices" (Salvatore Accardo) "Concerto #1 in D Major" (Zino Francescatti) Andres Segovia: "The Guitar and I" Igor Stravinsky: "Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky" (The Rite of Spring) "Stravinsky Plays Stravinsky (Masters of the Piano Roll)" Blues: Michael Bloomfield: "If You Love These Blues, Play 'em as You Please" Clarence Gatemouth Brown: "The Original Peacock Recordings" Eric Clapton with John Mayall: "Bluesbreakers" Albert Collins: "Don't Lose Your Cool" Buddy Guy: "A Man and the Blues", "Stone Crazy!" Screamin' Jay Hawkins Lightnin' Hopkins John Lee Hooker: "That's Where it's At!" "Is He the World's Greatest Blues Singer?" "In Person", "Alone" Son House Elmore James Skip James Robert Johnson Blind Willie Johnson Albert King: "Live Wire/Blues Power" B.B. King Charlie Patton Otis Rush: "Groanin' the Blues" Frankie Lee Simms: "Lucy Mae Blues" Guitar Slim: "The Things That I Used To Do" (Specialty SPS 2120) Stevie Ray Vaughan Johnny Guitar Watson: " Hit the Highway" Muddy Waters: "Rolling Stone", "Down on Stovall's Plantation" Bukka White Howlin' wolf Country/Bluegrass/Folk: Chet Atkins Berline/Crary/Hickman: "Night Run" Wolf Biermann Johnny Cash John Denver Hot Rize C.W. McCall: "Black Bear Road" Waylon Jennings The Judds Bill Monroe Willie Nelson Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers Dolly Parton Blaine Sprouse: "Summertime" Doc Watson Hank Williams Hank Williams Jr.	Jazz: Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines Charlie Christian: Live at Minton's John Coltrane: "A Love Supreme", "First Meditations" Roy Eldridge: GNP Crescendo Compilation 9009 Roland Kirk: "I Talk With the Spirits": Bireli Lagrene: "Routes to Django" Wes Montgomery: "Wes and His Brothers" Charlie Parker: "One Night in Birdland" (great Bud Powell), Anything else! Bud Powell: "The Amazing Bud Powell" Django Reinhardt: Just about anything! Max Roach: "Drums Unlimited", "Solos" with Connie Crothers: "Swish" Frank Sinatra Art Tatum: "Piano starts Here" Lennie Tristano ==> Jazz Records Lester Young and Billie Holiday Some of Bud's Best Friends: New Artists Records Classical: Laurindo Almeida: "Conversations With The Guitar" J. S. Bach E. Power Biggs: "Bach Organ favorites" "E. Power Biggs Plays Bach in the Thomaskirche": Solo Violin: "Chaconne from Partita No. 2"" The Swingle Singers: "Bach's Greatest Hits" (don't laugh) Walter Carlos: "Switched-On Bach" (don't laugh) Béla Bartók: "Bartók Plays Bartók" "44 Duos for Two Violins" "6 String Quartets" (Emerson String Quartet) Ludwig van Beethoven: "String Quartet in Am (Op. 132)" "Symphony No. 5 in Cm (Op. 67) " "Symphony No. 9 in Dm (Op. 125)" "String Trios (Heifetz/Primrose/Piatigorsky)" Pierre Boulez: "Boulez Conducts Boulez" Julian Bream: "20th Century Guitar" Claude Debussy: "The Composer as Pianist" "Prelude, Afternoon of a Faun" "12 Etudes for Piano" (Mitsuko Uchida) Eckhardt-Gramatté, MacDonald, Matthews: "Canadian Music For Chamber Orchestra" Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte Eliot Fisk: "24 Caprices" (Paganini) Ferde Grofé: "The Grand Canyon Suite" Jascha Heifetz Josef Hofmann: "The Golden Jubilee Concert" (The Complete Josef Hofmann, Vol. 2) Charles Ives: "Ives Plays Ives" György Ligeti: "The Ligeti Project" (Teldec/Newline) Franz Liszt: "12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante" Nyiregyházi Plays Liszt (Ervin Nyiregyházi) Yngwie Malmsteen: "Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E flat minor, Op. 1" Yehudi Menuhin/Ravi Shankar: "West Meets East" Ennio Morricone: Any of his spaghetti western film soundtracks,especially "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Symphony No. 25 in Gm K.183" "Requiem in Dm" Niccolò Paganini: "24 Caprices" (Salvatore Accardo), "Concerto #1 in D Major" (Zino Francescatti) Francis Poulenc: "Concerto in Gm for Organ, Strings and Tinpani", "Poulenc d'après Poulenc" Sergei Prokofiev: "Prokofiev Plays Prokofiev" Sergei Rachmaninoff: "Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff" Clara Rockmore: (Theremin) Schoenberg/Berg/Webern: Finnadar SR 9008 Andres Segovia: "The Guitar and I", "My Favorite Spanish Encores" Dmitry Shostakovich: "Shostakovich Plays Shostakovich" Richard Strauss: "Also Sprach Zarathustra" Igor Stravinsky: "Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky" (The Rite of Spring, Petrushka, The Firebird Suite) "Stravinsky Plays Stravinsky (Masters of the Piano Roll)" Edgard Varèse: "The Varèse Album" (Columbia/Robert Craft) Frank Zappa: "The Yellow Shark" International/etc.: Wolf Biermann (Germany) The Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir: "Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares" Paco De Lucia/Al Di Meola/John McLaughlin: "Passion, Grace, and Fire" Russell Donnellon (the "Central Park Guitarist") Carlos Montoya: "Adventures in Flamenco" Sabicas: "Flamenco Puro" Ravi Shankar (India) Taraf de Haïdouks

Rock Records: The Long List

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ACDC: "Back in Black" Alice In Chains: "Dirt", "Alice in Chains" Aerosmith: "Rocks", "Nine Lives" The Allman Brothers: "At Fillmore East" The Animals Bachman-Turner Overdrive: "Bachman-Turner Overdrive II" Bad Company: "Bad Company", "Straight Shooter" The Beatles: "Revolver", "Sgt. Pepper", "Abbey Road" Jeff Beck: His Yardbirds solos "Blow by Blow", "There and Back", "Guitar Shop" Black Sabbath: "Paranoid" Chuck Berry Blue Öyster Cult: "Blue Öyster Cult", "Agents of Fortune" Lynn Bongiorno Boston: "Boston", "Don't Look Back" Roy Buchanan: "Roy Buchanan" Cacophony (Marty Friedman & Jason Becker): "Go Off!" Captain Beefheart: "Trout Mask Replica" Chicago Transit Authority: "Chicago Transit Authority" Eric Clapton: "Bluesbreakers" (With John Mayall), "Slowhand" Alice Cooper: "Billion Dollar Babies" Cream: "Fresh Cream", "Disraeli Gears" Deep Purple: "Machinehead", "The Book of Taliesyn" Al Di Meola: "Splendido Hotel" Dio: "The Last in Line" Dokken: "Beast From the East", "Under Lock and Key" The Doors: "Absolutely Live" Bob Dylan: "Highway 61 Revisited" The Eagles: "Hotel California" Fleetwood Mac: "Rumours" Foreigner: "Foreigner" Peter Frampton: "Frampton Comes Alive" Guns 'N Roses: "Appetite For Destruction" The Jeff Healey Band: "See the Light" Heart: "Dreamboat Annie" Jimi Hendrix: "Are You Experienced?" "Axis: Bold as Love" "Electric Ladyland", "Rainbow Bridge" his Woodstock solos "Live at the Fillmore East" (Band of Gypsys) Alan Holdsworth: "Metal fatigue", "IOU" "Wardenclyffe Tower" James Gang: "Rides Again" Jefferson Airplane: "Surrealistic Pillow", "Volunteers" Jethro Tull: "Aqualung", "Songs From the Wood", "Roots to Branches" Jewel: "Peices of You" Eric Johnson: "Tones", "Ah Via Musicom" Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company: "Cheep Thrills" Judas Priest: "Defenders of the Faith" Kansas: "Leftoverture", "Point of Know Return" Mike Keneally: "Wooden Smoke", "Vai: Piano Reductions, Vol. I" John Lennon: "Plastic Ono Band" Led Zeppelin: "IV", "Houses of the Holy", "Physical Graffiti" "BBC Sessions" Living Colour: "Time's Up" Lynyrd Skynyrd Lonnie Mack: "The Wham of That Memphis Man!" Maenad Mahavishnu Orchestra: "The Inner mounting Flame"	Yngwie Malmsteen: "Rising Force", "Marching Out", "Trilogy" The Marshall Tucker Band: "Searchin' For a Rainbow" "Together Forever" Paul McCartney & Wings: "Band on the Run" "Venus and Mars" Lorrena McKennitt: "The Visit" Metallica: "Master of Puppets", "Metallica" The Steve Miller Band: "The Joker", "Fly Like an Eagle" The Moody Blues: "Days of the Future Passed" "On the Threshold of a Dream" Gary Moore: "We Want Moore!" Motorhead: "Orgasmatron" Nektar: "Recycled" Ted Nugent: "Double Live Gonzo" Ozzy Osbourne: "Diary of a Madman", "Tribute" Pantera: "Vulgar Display of Power" Pentangle: "Basket of Light" Pink Floyd: "Dark Side of the Moon" "Wish You Were Here" Queen: "Night at the Opera", "Jazz" Rainbow: "Rising", "On Stage" Ratt: "Invasion of Your Privacy" Terry Reid: "Terry Reid" The Rolling Stones: "Let it Bleed" David Lee Roth: "Eat 'em and Smile", "Skyscraper" Rush: "2112", "A Farewell to Kings" Santana: "Abraxas" Joe Satriani: "Not of This Earth", "Surfing With the Alien" Michael Schenker Group: "Michael Schenker Group" Scorpions: "Love at First Sting" Bob Seger and the Silver bullet Band: "Night Moves", "Live Bullet" Bruce Springsteen: "Nebraska" Steppenwolf Al Stewart: "Year of the Cat" Stone Temple Pilots: "Core" Styx: "The Grand Illusion", "Peices of Eight" Pete Townshend: "Scoop" UK: "UK" Steve Vai: "Flexable", "Passion and Warfare" Van Halen: "Van Halen" "Fair Warning", "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" Stevie Ray Vaughan: "Texas Flood", "Couldn't Stand the Weather" Tom Waits The Who: "Who's Next", "Quadrophenia" The Yardbirds Yes: "Close to the Edge" Neil Young: "Freedom", "Arc" Frank Zappa: Everything from 1976 - 1982 ZZ Top: "Degüello"
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ACDC: "Back in Black"
Alice In Chains: "Dirt", "Alice in Chains"
Aerosmith: "Rocks", "Nine Lives"
The Allman Brothers: "At Fillmore East"
The Animals

Bachman-Turner Overdrive: "Bachman-Turner Overdrive II"
Bad Company: "Bad Company", "Straight Shooter"
The Beatles: "Revolver", "Sgt. Pepper", "Abbey Road"
Jeff Beck: His Yardbirds solos
"Blow by Blow", "There and Back", "Guitar Shop"
Black Sabbath: "Paranoid"
Chuck Berry
Blue Öyster Cult: "Blue Öyster Cult", "Agents of Fortune"
Lynn Bongiorno
Boston: "Boston", "Don't Look Back"
Roy Buchanan: "Roy Buchanan"

Cacophony (Marty Friedman & Jason Becker): "Go Off!"
Captain Beefheart: "Trout Mask Replica"
Chicago Transit Authority: "Chicago Transit Authority"
Eric Clapton: "Bluesbreakers" (With John Mayall),
"Slowhand"
Alice Cooper: "Billion Dollar Babies"
Cream: "Fresh Cream", "Disraeli Gears"

Deep Purple: "Machinehead", "The Book of Taliesyn"
Al Di Meola: "Splendido Hotel"
Dio: "The Last in Line"
Dokken: "Beast From the East", "Under Lock and Key"
The Doors: "Absolutely Live"
Bob Dylan: "Highway 61 Revisited"

The Eagles: "Hotel California"

Fleetwood Mac: "Rumours"
Foreigner: "Foreigner"
Peter Frampton: "Frampton Comes Alive"

Guns 'N Roses: "Appetite For Destruction"

The Jeff Healey Band: "See the Light"
Heart: "Dreamboat Annie"
Jimi Hendrix: "Are You Experienced?"
"Axis: Bold as Love"
"Electric Ladyland", "Rainbow Bridge"
his Woodstock solos
"Live at the Fillmore East" (Band of Gypsys)
Alan Holdsworth: "Metal fatigue", "IOU"
"Wardenclyffe Tower"

James Gang: "Rides Again"
Jefferson Airplane: "Surrealistic Pillow", "Volunteers"
Jethro Tull: "Aqualung", "Songs From the Wood", "Roots to Branches"
Jewel: "Peices of You"
Eric Johnson: "Tones", "Ah Via Musicom"
Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company: "Cheep Thrills"
Judas Priest: "Defenders of the Faith"

Kansas: "Leftoverture", "Point of Know Return"
Mike Keneally: "Wooden Smoke", "Vai: Piano Reductions, Vol. I"

John Lennon: "Plastic Ono Band"
Led Zeppelin: "IV", "Houses of the Holy", "Physical Graffiti"
"BBC Sessions"
Living Colour: "Time's Up"
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lonnie Mack: "The Wham of That Memphis Man!"
Maenad
Mahavishnu Orchestra: "The Inner mounting Flame"

Yngwie Malmsteen:
"Rising Force", "Marching Out", "Trilogy"
The Marshall Tucker Band:
"Searchin' For a Rainbow"
"Together Forever"
Paul McCartney & Wings:
"Band on the Run"
"Venus and Mars"
Lorrena McKennitt: "The Visit"
Metallica: "Master of Puppets", "Metallica"
The Steve Miller Band:
"The Joker", "Fly Like an Eagle"
The Moody Blues:
"Days of the Future Passed"
"On the Threshold of a Dream"
Gary Moore: "We Want Moore!"
Motorhead: "Orgasmatron"

Nektar: "Recycled"
Ted Nugent: "Double Live Gonzo"

Ozzy Osbourne:
"Diary of a Madman", "Tribute"

Pantera: "Vulgar Display of Power"
Pentangle: "Basket of Light"
Pink Floyd:
"Dark Side of the Moon"
"Wish You Were Here"

Queen:
"Night at the Opera", "Jazz"

Rainbow: "Rising", "On Stage"
Ratt: "Invasion of Your Privacy"
Terry Reid: "Terry Reid"
The Rolling Stones: "Let it Bleed"
David Lee Roth: "Eat 'em and Smile", "Skyscraper"
Rush: "2112", "A Farewell to Kings"

Santana: "Abraxas"
Joe Satriani: "Not of This Earth", "Surfing With the Alien"
Michael Schenker Group: "Michael Schenker Group"
Scorpions: "Love at First Sting"
Bob Seger and the Silver bullet Band:
"Night Moves", "Live Bullet"
Bruce Springsteen: "Nebraska"
Steppenwolf
Al Stewart: "Year of the Cat"
Stone Temple Pilots: "Core"
Styx: "The Grand Illusion", "Peices of Eight"

Pete Townshend: "Scoop"

UK: "UK"

Steve Vai: "Flexable", "Passion and Warfare"
Van Halen: "Van Halen"
"Fair Warning", "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
Stevie Ray Vaughan: "Texas Flood", "Couldn't Stand the Weather"

Tom Waits
The Who: "Who's Next", "Quadrophenia"

The Yardbirds
Yes: "Close to the Edge"
Neil Young: "Freedom", "Arc"

Frank Zappa: Everything from 1976 - 1982
ZZ Top: "Degüello"

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==> Rock Short List

Bud Tristano supports our First Amendment rights to free expression, and has prepared this statement:
I refuse to apologize for any lyrics on any record that anyone may find offensive.
If you want to believe that the artists you listen to have all lived perfect lives and have never hurt anyone's feelings, then go for it!

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