Essential Listening Recommendations by Our Teachers

Listening to new and unfamiliar music is as essential to your musical growth as practicing. We thought it would be fun for each teacher to list off what they believe to be required listening.

Alan's List:

Rock

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Genesis- Selling England by the Pound
Yes- Fragile
King Crimson- Discipline
Jimi Hendrix- Axis Bold as Love
Beatles- any cd
Eric Johnson- Tones

Jazz

Pat Metheny- American Garage
Jim Hall- Concierto
Charlie Christian- The Genius of Charlie Christian
Allan Holdsworth- Wardenclyffe Tower

Fingerstyle Guitar

Alex Degrassi- A Windham Hill Retrospective
Leo Kottke- 6 and 12 string guitar
Will Ackerman- A Windham Hill Retrospective
Michael Hedges- Aerial Boundaries

Andrew's (Incomplete) List:

Masterful Songwriters and Musical Visionaries

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Stevie Wonder - Fullfilingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
Television - Marquee Moon
Peter Gabriel - So
Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Sting - The Soul Cages
The Police (Sting) - Synchronicity
Paul Simon - Graceland
Masters of Rhythm and Grooving
James Brown - 40th Anniversary Collection
The Meters - Funkify Your Life, Anthology
Tower of Power - What is Hip? Anthology
Any Motown recording with James Jamerson on bass

Jazz Essentials

Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collosus
Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - Cookin'
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Oscar Peterson - The Song is You
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Brown and Roach Inc.
Thelonius Monk - Ken Burns Collection

(More to come when I have more time.)