Doug wrote:
> You don't agree with Leonard Bernstein that The
> Beatles were the greatest songwriters since
Schumann?
Sometimes it is the case that specialists in one artistic field have opinions which are worthless concerning other fields. So listeners of classical music, to the extent that they are motivated to investigate Jazz, will listen to Andre Previn's mediocre Jazz recordings, because it is a name they recognize.
In my experience, "serious" musicians (i.e. classical/composed music or Jazz/improvised music) generally have uninteresting preferences in pop/rock music. I don't understand why they prefer the Beatles to Captain Beefheart.
Chuck wrote:
> How about we start a thread where each person lists
> ten of their favorite albums?
rock/pop:
1. Gang of Four - Entertainment 2. The Raincoats - self-titled 3. Kleenex/Liliput - (everything they ever recorded) 4. Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station 5. Can - Ege Bamyasi 6. Neu! - Neu! 7. Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy for Lilith 8. Iggy Pop - The Idiot 9. Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro 10. Faust - So Far...
Jazz/Improvisation:
1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 2. Cecil Taylor - Nailed 3. Peter Brötzmann - Chicago Octet/Tentet 4. Duke Ellington - The Blanton/Webster Band 5. AMM - The Nameless Uncarved Block 6. Alexander von Schlippenbach - Pakistani Pomade 7. Burkhard Beins/Andrea Neumann - Lidingö 8. Evan Parker - The Snake Decides 9. Keith Rowe - Harsh 10. Miles Davis - Live at the Plugged Nickel
Classical/Composed Music:
1. Morton Feldman - All Piano (John Tilbury, piano) 2. Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music 3. Beethoven - Fifth Symphony (Carlos Kleiber, Vienna Philharmonic) 4. Bach - Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould) 5. Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing 6. Cornelius Cardew/Scratch Orchestra - The Great Learning 7. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte 8. Iannis Xenakis - La Légende d'éer 9. Alban Berg - String Quartets (Leipziger Streichquartett) 10. John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (either the John Tilbury or Steffan Schleiermacher recordings)
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