Your 'old slippers'....

[tonym]

I like that this thread's been resurrected!

Sonce I started it my tastes have changed a little and as a result I can add some newer, though nonetheless comfortable, slippers to the pile.

One is Marcin Wasilewski's first, 'Trio'. In a similar vein Brad Mehldau's 'Songs' with his first trio.

Keep them coming please!

T.

[ejp626]

Probably the jazz that brings back the most memories is Monk on BN and Mingus Ah Um. But they aren't exactly relaxing slipper music in my mind. I think that would be Miles Davis Sketches of Spain.

[Homefromtheforest]

Miles Davis "kind of blue"

Jackie McLean "destination out"

Ralph Towner "solstice"

Terje Rypdal "descendre"

I think I've played these records the most out of all the ones in my collection so they feel like old comfy slippers whenever I hear them!

[crisp]

Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson. One of the first jazz CDs I bought, aged 19, as a blind buy because it had Bye Bye Blackbird on it and I already had (and liked) Peterson's second Cole Porter songbook. I remember being pleased that I recognised This Can't Be Love (probably from Round the Horne!).

The Touch of Your Lips is probably my favourite track and the version of Wee Small Hours is just perfect. I've bought many many more albums with these artists since but this is the one that always heals and comforts – it's so warm.

[sidewinder]

Listening to Grant Green's 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' today, I realised that it fits ideally into this category for me. Can listen to this one forever !

[GA Russell]

Groove Holmes - Soul Message

Stan Getz - Sweet Rain

Manfred Mann - My Little Red Book of Winners

Henry Mancini - Music from Peter Gunn

[king ubu]

off the top of my head - jazz and beyond:

Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster

Céu - Céu

Céu - Vagarosa

Dr. John - The Sun Moon and Herbs

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

John Coltrane - Crescent

The Band - The Band

Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind

Big John Patton - Got a Good Thing Goin' On

Thelonious Monk - Misterioso

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus

Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack

Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

some Lester Young, like the 1944 Savoy session or the Jones-Smith Inc. date

Hank Mobley - Soul Station

Johnny Griffin - The Congregation (actually I need just the title tune there ... or even just the tenor solo ... could go endless there!)

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement

[Joe]

GERRY MULLIGAN MEETS BEN WEBSTER

ELMO HOPE TRIO (HiFi Jazz / Contemporary)

George Lewis, HOMAGE TO CHARLES PARKER

Charles Mingus, EAST COASTING

Sonny Clark, LEAPIN' AND LOPIN'

Ran Blake / Jeanne Lee, NEWEST SOUND AROUND

Monk, ALONE IN SAN FRANCISCO

Miles, FILLES DE KILIMANJARO

Coltrane, LUSH LIFE

[A Lark Ascending]

Various bits of Sibelius, Mahler, Bruckner, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Richard Strauss - the classical composers I first explored in the mid-1970s and still have a homing instinct for.

Edited December 27, 2013 by A Lark Ascending

[mikeweil]

Hank Mobley - Soul Station

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement

These two would be likely candidates for me as well.

Lester Young is desert Island stuff, but as I was rather late into Pres in my listening career, his recordings are not old slippers for me.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Yes, I forgot to put 'Swiss movement' down on my list.

MG