Essential Jazz Music

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Al DiMeola	Elegant Gypsy
Andreas Vollenweilder	Dancing With The Lion
Art Blakey	A Night at Birdland
Art Blakey	Moanin'
Benny Goodman
Bill Evans	Explorations
Billie Holliday	Billie's Blues
Carl Stalling	The Carl Stalling Project
Cecil Taylor	Unit Structures
Charles Mingues	Ah Um
Charlie Parker	Yardbird Suite
Count Basie
Dave Brubeck	At Carnegie Hall
Dave Brubeck	Jazz at Oberlin
Dave Brubeck	Jazz Goes to College
Dave Brubeck	The Last Set at Newport
Dave Brubeck	Time Out
Dexter Gordon	Dexter Calling
Dexter Gordon	Go!
Dexter Gordon	Our Man in Paris
Duke Ellington	Ellington Indigos
Duke Ellington	Jazz Party
Duke Ellington	Live at Newport
Duke Ellington	The Blanton/Webster Band
Ella Fitzgerald	Songbooks
Gato Barbieri	Chapter One Latin America
Glen Miller
Herbie Hancock	Headhunters
Herbie Hancock	Emperyan Isles
Herbie Hancock	Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock	Maiden Voyage
Horace Silver	Blowin the Blues Away
Jaco Pastorius	s/t
Jazz Messengers	Live at the Café Bohemia
Jean-Luc Ponty	Imaginary Voyage
Jelly Roll Morton	The Complete Library of Congress Recordings
John Coltrane	A Love Supreme
John Coltrane	Giant Steps
John Coltrane	Live at Birdland
John Coltrane	Live at the Village Vanguard
Juan Garcia Esquivel	Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
Keith Jarrett	The Koln Concert
King Oliver	King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set
Larry Coryell	Spaces
Louis Armstrong	The Complete Hot 5's and 7's
Mahavishnu Orchestra	Apocalypse
McCoy Tyner	The Real McCoy
Miles Davis	Complete Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis	Kind of Blue
Miles Davis	Someday My Prince Will Come
Miles Davis	7 Steps to Heaven
Miles Davis	Sketches of Spain
Ornette Coleman	Shape of Jazz to Come
Oscar Peterson	Night Train
Return To Forever	Romantic Warrior
Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus
Squirrel Nut Zippers	Hot
Stan Getz & Kenny Barron	People Time
Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd	Jazz Samba
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto
Stanley Clarke	School Days
The (Jazz) Crusaders	Southern Comfort
Thelonius Monk	Monk's Dream
Thelonius Monk	Underground
Thelonius Monk & John Coltran	Live at the Five Spot
Weather Report	Heavy Weather

Essential Rock Music

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Aerosmith	the first 4 albums
Alice Cooper	Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper	Killer
Alice Cooper	Love It To Death
Alice Cooper	School's Out
Allman Brothers	Live at the Fillmore East
Allman Brothers	Eat a Peach
At the Drive-In	In Casino Out
Bad Company
Bad Religion
Badfinger
Beach Boys	Greatest Hits
Beach Boys	Pet Sounds
Beatles	Basically Everything
Beatles	Revolver
Beatles	Rubber Soul
Beatles	White Album
Ben Folds Five	Amen
Ben Folds Five	Whatever and Ever
Big Star	#1 Record
Big Star	Sister/Lovers
Big Star	Radio City
Billy Joel	The Stranger
Black Sabbath	Ozzy Osbourne Years Box Set
Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath	Master of Reality
Black Sabbath	Paranoid
Blondie	Parallel Lines
Bo Diddley	Chess Box
Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan	John Wesley Harding
Bruce Springsteen
Buddy Holly	Best of
Chicago	Chicago II
Chicago	Chicago IX
Chuck Berry	Best of
Chuck Berry	The Great 28
Cream	Disraeli Gears
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Crosby, Still, & Nash
David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust
Deep Purple
Donovan
Doobie Brothers
Eagles	Hotel California
Eddie Cochran	Best of
ELO
ELP
Elvis Costello & the Attractions	This Year's Model
Eric Clapton	Cream of Clapton
Eric Clapton	Crossroads
Fleetwood Mac	Rumours
Gang of Four	Entertainment
Gene Vincent	Best of
Genesis	the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Iron Butterffly	In a gadda da vida
Janis Joplin	Pearl
Jeff Beck Group	Beck-Ola
Jeff Beck Group	Truth
Jefferson Airplane	Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane	Volunteers
Jehtro Tull
Jerry Lee Lewis	Best of
Jimi Hendrix	Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix	Are you Experiences
Jimi Hendrix	Axis: Bold as Love
Jimi Hendrix	Electric Ladyland
Jimmy Eat World	Bleed American
Johnny Cash
Joni Mitchell	Blue
Joni Mitchell	Court & Spark
King Crimson	In the Court of the Crimson King
Kiss
Led Zeppelin	Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin	II
Led Zeppelin	IV
Little Richard	Best of
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ministry
Minutemen	Double Nickels on the Dime
Mommas & the Poppas
Montrose
Neil Young	Harvest
Neil Young	Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young
New York Dolls	New York Dolls
Patti Smith Group	Horses
Pearl Jam	Vs.
Peter Frampton	Frampton Comes Alive
Phil Spector	Best of
Pink Floyd	Dark Side of The Moon
Pink Floyd	Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd	The Wall
Pink Floyd	Wish you were here
Pixies	Doolittle
Pixies	Surfer Rosa
Queen	Sheer Heart Attack
Queen	A Night at the Opera
Rage Against The Machine	Evil Empire
Rage Against The Machine	RATM
Ray Charles	Greatest Hits
Rolling Stones	12x5
Rolling Stones	Beggar's Banquet
Rolling Stones	Exile on Main St
Rolling Stones	Hot Rocks
Rolling Stones	Let it Bleed
Rolling Stones	Some Girls
Rolling Stones	Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones	Tattoo You
Rory Gallagher	Calling Card
Rush	A Farewell to Kings
Santana	Abraxas
Simon & Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel	Greatest Hits
Steely Dan	Aja
Steppenwold
Steve Miller Band
Sublime	40oz to Freedom
T.Rex	Electric Warrior
T-Bone Walker	Blues Masters
Ted Nugent	first album
Ted Nugent	Free for All
Television	Marquee Moon
The Clash	London Calling
The Clash	The Clash
The Cure
The Doors	The Doors
The James Gang
The Johnny Burnette Trio	Rockabilly Boogie
The Kinks	Village Green Preservation Society
The Moody Blues	Days of Future Passed
the Mothers of Invention	We're Only In This For the Money
The Ramones	Rocket to Russia
The Stooges	The Stooges
The Velvet Underground	Anything, really.
The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Who	Live at Leeds
The Who	Live at the Isle of Wight
The Who	Tommy
The Who	Who's Next
The Who	Ultimate Collection
The Zombies	Odessey & Oracle
Thin Lizzy	Vagabonds of the Western World
Tom Waits	Blue Valentines
UFO	Strangers in the Night
Van Halen	1
Van Halen	2
Van Morrison	Astral Weeks
Van Morrison	Moondance
Various Artists	Nuggets (Box Set)
Warren Zevon	I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Wilco	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
XTC
Yardbirds	Best of
Yardbirds	Over Under Sideways Down
Yes	Close to the Edge
ZZ Top

Essential Classical Music

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Alexander Borodin	Piano Quintet in C minor
Allegri	Psalm Li (Miserere)
Bach	Brandenburg Concertos
Bach	Concerto for two violins
Bach	Mass in B Minor
Bach	Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Beethoven	Archduke Piano Trio
Beethoven	Moonlight Sonata
Beethoven	Symphony 3
Beethoven	Symphony 6
Beethoven	Symphony 9
Beethoven	Waldstein Sonata
Beethoven	Emperor Concerto
Beethoven	Symphony 5
Berlioz	Symphony Fantastique
Borodin	In the Steppes of Central Asia
Borodin	Polovtsian Dances
Brahms	Academic Festival Overture
Brahms	German Requiem
Brahms	Piano Quintet in F minor
Brahms	Piano Trip in C Major
Brahms	Requiem
Brahms	Rhapsodies
Brahms	String Quartet in A Major
Carl Orff	Carmina Burana
Cavalli	Requiem
Charpentier	Midnight Mass
Charpentier	Prelude to Te Deum
Cherubini	Requiem
Chopin	Scherzo B-flat Minor
Claudio Monteverdi	Vespro della Beata Vergine
Corelli	Christmas Concerto
Debussy	Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Debussy	Suite Bergamasque
Dvorak	American String Quartet
Dvorak	New World Symphony
Dvorak	Slavonic dance
Dvorak	Symphony 9
Edvard Grieg	Peter Gynt Suite
Elgar	The Dream of Gerontius
Erik Satie	Trois Gymnopedies
G.F. Handel	Messiah
G.F. Handel	Music for the Royal Fireworks
GabrielFaure	Requiem
Handel	Coronation Anthems
Haydn	London Symphonies
Haydn	Opus 64 #5 (The Lark)
Henry Purcell	Aenaes
Henry Purcell	Dido
Henry Purcell	King Arthur
Ildebrando Pizetti	Cade la Sera
J.S. Bach	Goldberg Variations
J.S. Bach	Magnificat
J.S. Bach	Art of the Fugue
J.S. Bach	Cello Suites
J.S. Bach	St. Matthews Passion
Johann Strauss	Waltzes
Josquin	Ave Maria, gratia plena
Josquin	Missa L'Homme Arme Sexti Toni
Mahler	Das Lied von der Erde
Mahler	Symphony 5
Mahler	Symphony 1
Mascagne	Cavalleria Rusticana
Maurice Duruffle	Quatre Motets
Mendelssohn	Italian Symphony
Mendelssohn	Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn	Violin Concerto in E Minor
Mozart	Eine Kleine Nachtmusic
Mozart	Piano Concerto 20
Mozart	Piano Concerto 21
Mozart	Piano Concerto in C
Mozart	Requiem
Mozart	Symphony 40
Mozart	Symphony 41
Mozart	The Marriage of Figaro
Mussorgsky	Night on a Bare Mountain
Pachebel	Canon in D
Palestrina	The Pope Marcellus Mass
Rachmaninoff	Concerto 2
Rachmaninoff	Concerto 3
Rachmaninoff	Symphony 2
Ravel	Piano Trip in A Major
Richard Strauss	Sprach Zarathustra
Richard Strauss	Tone Poems
Rimsky-Korsakov	Scheherezade
Rossini	The Thieving Magpie
Rossini	The William Tell Overture
Saint-Saens	Carnival of the Animals
Saint-Saens	Danse Macabre
Saint-Saens	Symphony 3 in C Minor
Schubert	Death and the Maiden
Schubert	The Trout Quintet
Schubert	Unfinished Symphony
Schubert	Winterreisse
Schumann	Carnaval
Schumann	Dichterliebe
Schumann	Piano Quintet
Schumann	Symphony 1
Sibelius	Finlandia
Smetana	Die Moldau
Smetana	Ma Vlast
Strauss	The Blue Danube Waltz
Tchaikovsky	1812 Overture
Tchaikovsky	Piano Concerto 1
Tchaikovsky	The Nutcracker Suite
Tchaikovsky	Violin Conerto
Verdi	Requiem
Vivaldi	B Minor concerto
VIvaldi	Beatus Vir.
Vivaldi	Four Seasons
Vivaldi	Opus 3 (L'Estro Armonico)
Wagner	Tannhaueser Overture
William Byrd	Mass in B Minor