My musical tastes are pretty eclectic. I like some songs or groups from almost every style of music. I have a really motley collection of CDs.

Some samples from my collection.

The Horn
Hermann Baumann - "Virtuoso Horn" Teldec 4509-94525-2
... georgeous, lyrical Horn playing
Andrew Clark - "Music for Horn" EMI Classics 7243 5 72822 2 2
... some of the best Natural Horn playing you'll hear
"The London Horn Sound" - Cala CACD0112
... great version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody
Dennis Brain (1921-1957)
... virtually anything by him - recording technology not advanced enough to do him justice back then

Friends
Brandon Louis Jones - classical guitar
... extremely good - student of Christopher Parkening
... I did the Oct 2006 videos on his site with a Sony DVDcam and a Rode NT4 stereo mic
... Yeah, I know. XY recording is old hat but it works very nicely and is a self-contained package.

Chicago Brass Band - Colin Holman director
... one of the top British style brass bands in North America
... I've known Colin since he was director of the Illinois Brass Band - another top group

Kent Richter - composer, guitar
... writer of both deep & thoughtful as well as funny songs
... He's put together one self-published album which is already sold out
... I recorded about half the pieces on that album with a Shure SM81 on the guitar

Howie Whitacker - composer, sax, reeds
... "minor inconvenience" - jazz - self published
... contact howard dot whitacker at wheaton dot edu or dplies at warnerpacific dot edu

Jazz
Erroll Garner (1921-1977) - piano
Stephane Grappelli (1908-1997) - violin

Native American
Carlos Nakai - Kokopelli's cafe
Douglas Spotted Eagle
Travis Terry

Tom Lehrer (1928- )
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
We Will All Go Together when We Go
The Elements

Rock
Rick Wakeman - Six Wives of Henry VIII
Mountain (1969-1972) - Felix Pappilardi and Leslie West

Folk
Peter, Paul and Mary

Big Band
Benny Goodman (1909-1986) - Sing, Sing, Sing
Cab Calloway (1907-1994)
Harry James

Early Music
Waverly Consort
Boston Camerata
Mediaeval Baebes - Mirabilis - 2005

Brass
Canadian Brass -
. . fantastic version of Bach's Tacata and Fugue in Dm
Empire Brass - Passages -
Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble
London Brass
Summit Brass

Ethnic music
Celtic
Chinese - dizi (bamboo traverse flute), Xiao (straight flute), Guqin (multistring zither - horizontal harp)

Composers
Gershwin (1898-1937)
Debussy (1862-1918)
Gabrieli (1555 ? -1612) - especially when transcribed for brass quintet

Oldies
The Mamas and the Papas
The Beach Boys
Jan & Dean

Misc
The Black Watch - pipe band - one of the best
"In Ecco" The Antwerps Blokfluit Consort - Ricercar 245622 MU/797
... one of the best recorder ensembles

Opera - mostly individual songs
Pucini (1858-1924) - almost anything
Bizet (1838-1875) - "The Pearl Fishers" - "Au fond du temple saint" - georgeous tenor/baritone duet
... Alanga & Terfel
... Bjorling & Merrill
... You Tube has several others, perhaps not as good

Other Stuff
Folbot kayaks - the Horn - Books - Music - Leatherman - Computers - Biking - Camping - Heathkits
Hopi silver work - Daisy BB guns - China - Vacation Evaluations - Rants - Wreck - Airbus A380 at O'Hare

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