Pete La Roca

Album: Basra
Format: LP
Label/Info: Blue Note Vinyl Reissue

Favorite cut: "Basra" - A one-chord ride up the Tigris and back down the Euphrates.

Andrew Hill

Album: Grass Roots
Format: CD
Label/Info: Blue Note Connoisseur Series

There are more critically-acclaimed Hill records, but I come back to these 1968 sessions again and again.

Tina Brooks

Album: True Blue
Format: LP
Label/Info: Blue Note Vinyl Reissue

Tony Williams

Album: Life Time
Format: CD
Label/Info: Blue Note 1999 Remaster - Rudy Van Gelder Edition

Jackie McLean

Album: Jacknife
Format: CD
Label/Info: Blue Note

Ornette Coleman Trio

Album: At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm, Volume One
Format: CD
Label/Info: Blue Note 2002 Remaster - Rudy Van Gelder Edition

Lee Morgan

Album: Sidewinder
Format: LP
Label/Info: Blue Note Vinyl Reissue - 180 Gram Audiophile Pressing
(1999 Rudy Van Gelder Edition on CD is a fine substitution.)

Favorite cut: Totem Pole