Ethics

Desert Island Jazz

By Ed Brayton

D.A. Ridgely has post at Positive Liberty about jazz and it sort of hints at the famous desert island question: If you were trapped on a desert island, what jazz albums would you want with you? He immediately suggests Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and I agree unequivocally. And he's right about the specific song So What on that album as well. And he posts a youtube video with just the audio from that song, which I'll reproduce below. I'll add a few suggestions of my own.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 18, 2009 (boomark / email).