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I've been irregularly listening to Desert Island Discs since about 2008 (weirdly enough it's my grandfather that put me on to it. Guess he used to talk to the Brits about BBC Radio back in the day). I always thought it was a cool concept (format outlined below) and I was supposed to (try to) determine my picks. So here goes: Format: Guests are invited to imagine themselves  cast away  on a  desert island , and to choose eight pieces of music, originally gramophone records, to take with them; discussion of their choices permits a review of their life. Excerpts from their choices are played or, in the case of short pieces, the whole work. At the end of the programme they choose the one piece they regard most highly. They are then asked which book they would take with them; they are automatically given the  Complete Works of Shakespeare  and either the Bible or another appropriate religious or philosophical work. Guests also choose one  luxury , w...

 I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm very indiscriminate hence this list has all types from bebop to free jazz. More serious or more learned jazz fans can probably generate a list for each genre of jazz, but I'm not at that level yet. So this is it for now.  I'll pick one album from an artist and I'm trying to get the ones a particular artist is credited with (ses, I know they're all over each others records). The Jazz at Massey Hall or Getz/Gilberto   will be on another list but I'll include 'X and a quartet'. There's a logic to it, trust me . In no particular order: 1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - 1964- Modal jazz/Post-Bop 2. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue- 1959- Modal Jazz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB669XXjnUg 3. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um - 1959 - Free jazz/Jazz/Post-Bop 4. Sonny Rollins Quartet - Saxophone Colossus - 1956 - Jazz/Hard Bop 5.   Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin - 1958 - Jazz/Hard Bop ...