>Curious what others find interesting to listen to.
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Okay, I'll play. Here's some of what's on the MP3 player and within arms reach of my desk... ( Yeah, I own a lot of music done since 1980 <g> but most likely not what they're playing at the mall or giving grammy's to. Lots of jazz and blues, lots of piano and guitar, lots of people who will never see the pop chart, lots of musicians mostly popular with other musicians - and who have serious instrumental chops - obviously no rap, especially no grunge, very little punk or neo-punk ... )

Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grapelli - the Hot Jazz Club stuff
Dave Brubeck / Paul Desmond
Bill Evans – it doesn’t get any better than that
Ahmad Jamal
Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert
Duke Ellington ( with props to Billy Strayhorn for Lush Life )
	especially The Mooch and Black and Tan Fantasy 
Gershwin
Cole Porter 
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
Puccini – everything – but Nessun Dorma makes me cry
Mascagni - The Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticanna
Joaquín Rodrigo  – Concierto de Aranjuez
All Villa Lobos but especially the 12 studies for solo guitar
Albeniz
Piazzolla
Klezmer music 
Great Dixieland ( American Klezmer <s> )

David Grisman, Mike Marshall, Tony Rice, Rob Wasserman, Daryl Anger 
and every incarnation of the David Grisman Quintet/Quartet

Bela Fleck and anybody who ever was a Flecktone

Things I never get tired of :

        Dark Side of the Moon
        Wish you were here
        Hotel California
        Desperado
	Red Octopus
	Aqualung
	4 Way Street – CSN&Y
	Kind of Blue – Miles Davis et al
	W.S. Walcott Medicine Show – The Band
	Soundtrack from The Last Waltz
		(Winterland,Thanksgiving, 1976 – I still have my ticket stubs )
	Clapton – Layla ( acoustic )
	Professor Longhair
	Dr. John – the New Orleans piano stuff only
	
Isley Brothers - Shout
Talking Heads - Slippery People
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit 
Joe Zawinul - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Matt Dennis - Angel Eyes
Skynrd – The Smell
Billy Joel - Keepin' the Faith
Monte Alexander – Battlehymn of the Republic
Al Cooper, Mike Bloomfield – Season of the Witch ( from Super Sessions)
Commander Cody – Beat me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
Jerusalem (Elgar version – still can’t get through it without choking up )

The Four Tops
Dire Straits
The Nylons
Heart 
	Magic Man
	White Lightning and Wine

Simon and Garfunkel 

Leonard Cohen - especially
	Sisters of Mercy
	The Master Song
	Suzanne
	Dress Rehearsal Rag
        First we take Manhatten

The JJ Cale cover of Cohen’s Hallelujah
Little Feat – Dixie Chicken and Weed, Whites and Wine
The Gene Krupa drum solo on Benny Goodman’s Sing, Sing, Sing
Neal Diamond – Cracklin’ Rose ( you had to be in Bangkok then )
Stones – Paint it Black, Jumpin’ Jack Flash ( helicopters ... )
Hendricks – All along the Watchtower
Dylan  
	Positively Fourth St.
	Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.
	It ain’t me babe

Outsiders –  Time won’t let me
Zombies - She’s not there
Del Shannon – Runaround Sue
Wilson Pickett
Ottis Reading
Janis
Maria Muldaur – both then and now – she’s still got it