>OK, anyone with taste in music as good as yours is entitled to OS eccentricity <g>
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>They are truly in the Pantheon. This album should be required listening before the age of 10 so kids at least get to hear music before being exposed to (shudder) pop, punk, rap etc. (of course they still get Pink Floyd 101 and much blues piano)

Ha, thanks. "Kind of Blue" is just stunning. I know every note, every nuance, because I've listened to the entire album a million times.

A sometimes overlooked classic is Coltrane's "Blue Train" album. It's another five star gem.

Lately I've been listening to Art Blakey/Jazz Messengers (I go through cycles). They never had any one classic album - just consistently enjoyable hard-bop.

Re: Pink Floyd, I'm somewhere between casual listener and fan of their music. But they certainly have earned their status.

There are only 3 rock bands I regularly listen to...Rush, Yes, and Emerson, Lake, Palmer. (Certainly like Genesis, Pearl Jam). Hate pop, and I think 99% of rap and hip/hop should be, as Tony Soprano says, "flushed down the pisciadood"