Ultimate Mix-CD Gift Mix

[chris]

So, I'm getting ready to burn some mixed-CDs for friends who are somewhat into jazz, but not fanatics. What tracks would you put on a desert island mixed disc for your vaguely jazz-loving friends? Things that avoid the most common tracks that a casual listener will have heard, of course...

[Jim Alfredson]

Dood, put some Boney James on that mutha!!!

Seriously, some really funky Jimmy Smith circa "Back At The Chicken Shack" would do.

[chris]

Of course an Organissimo track is guaranteed too

[Chrome]

Horace Silver: Sister Sadie ... irresistible!

[Brandon Burke]

This is the basic template I begin with:

* George Russell - "Ezz-thetic"

* Mal Waldron - "Warm Canto"

* Bud Powell - "Duid Deed"

* Freddie Redd - "Thespian" (or "Swift")

* Mary Lou Williams - "Ain't Necessarily So"

* Stan Getz & Cal Tjader - "Ginza Samba"

* Andew Hill - "Yokada Yokada"

* John Coltrane - "Ole"

* Sun Ra - "Angels and Demons at Play"

* Bobby Hutcherson - "Patterns"

* Elmo Hope - "Something for Kenny"

* Charles Mingus - "Myself When I am Real"

* Jackie McLean - "Old Gospel"

* Duke Ellington - "Single Petal of a Rose"

From there it varies....