Someone mentioned Shostakovitch. He's going up for me, up my personal scale,
for which I claim no objectivity, because sometimes all sorts of things are
my # 1, for a week last April, a dribbling intake to a cistern on a campsite
toilet cistern which chanted sections of Finnegan's Wake to me in the
shivering morning visit was my favourite sound. And Stravinsky is tending to
go down.
Very big yes to Cassandra Wilson & Maria Farandouri
anyone into Marion Montgomery? not the same level as those mentioned but
frequently still superb phrasing
& Miles Davis of course but I found about him later
Coltrane was my first big discovery in teens / adulthood - heard a track
somewhere and thought WHAT IS THAT?! as in _where can i go to listen to that
nonstop for a few years?_ & that remains, still my favourite things, vying
with J S Bach
Ludvig Van B is there all the time
I was also immediately obsessed when I heard the Mahavishnu Orchestra The
Inner Mounting Flame, but I got over it; more to do with altered states I
think
did have a fair obsession with Messiaen wch is dormant rather than dead
& Sun Ra & Charles Mingus & Sonny Rollins
&... dont get me started
(dylan i became obsessed by fairly early on tho i didnt go on buying the
records after early 70s - they didnt quite grab me in the same way)
& who could forget tears for sourvenirs by Ken Dodd
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