List 3: Suggested Music, Listening, and Viewing

POPULAR

The Beach Boys Greatest Hits
The Beatles
George Benson
Joe Cocker, With a Little Help From My Friends
Sam Cooke, Portrait of a Legend
Feeling Groovy (Patrick and Eugene)
Aretha Franklin
Marvin Gaye, The Love Songs (& Ain’t No Mountain High
Enough)
Al Green (Greatest Hits)
The Jackson 5, I’ll Be There
Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (or anything else she sings)
Ben E. King, Stand By Me
Carole King: Tapestry, Music, Rhymes & Reasons
Bette Midler: The Divine Miss M
Moon River
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Sade, Stronger than Pride
Frank Sinatra
Buffalo Springfield, For What It’s Worth
James Taylor (Best of James Taylor)
Tears for Fears, Shout
The Temptations (My Girl, The Way You Do The Things
You Do, anything else)
Three Dog Night (especially One, Eli’s Coming, Joy to the
World)
Stevie Wonder, At the Close of a Century

CLASSICAL

Bach (anything he wrote)
Bach: Hilary Hahn plays Bach
Bach: Piano Concertos, Partitas, Preludes and Fugues, 2- and
3-part Inventions, Goldberg Variations, played by Glenn
Gould
Bach Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, played by Yo-Yo
Ma (or anything else played by him)
Beethoven Symphonies (eg #7 2nd movement & #9)
Beethoven piano sonatas, piano concertos
Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano, played by Yo-Yo Ma &
Emanuel Ax
Brahms Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, Clarinet Trio
Chopin Nocturnes
Elgar Cello Concerto by Jacqueline Du Pre (or anything else
played by her)
Mozart Piano Concertos, played by Murray Perahia
Mozart Piano Sonatas, Sonatas for 1 Piano 4 Hands, Sonatas
for 2 Pianos
Mozart Violin Sonatas, played by Hilary Hahn
Poulenc Clarinet Sonata, Flute Sonata
Schubert Impromptus, Fantastia in F Minor for two pianos,
Trout Quintet, Unfinished Symphony
Schumann Kreisleriana, Fantasiestucke
Schumann: Music & the Mind, Vol I (DVD), The Life &
Works of Robert Schumann, by Dr. Richard Kogan

JAZZ

Louis Armstrong:
Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson, Louis Armstrong
& Ella Fitzgerald
Chet Baker
Joanne Brackeen
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Betty Carter
Ray Charles (especially Georgia on My Mind)
John Coltrane (especially My Favorite Things, My One &
Only Love)
Eddie Daniels: To Bird With Love
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Eliane Elias, Something for You (sings and plays Bill Evans)
Bill Evans; Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Ella Fitzgerald
Getz/Gilberto (especially The Girl From Ipanema,
Corcovado)
Dexter Gordon
Jim Hall, Concierto
Herbie Hancock, Speak Like a Child
Keith Jarrett (At the Deer Head Inn or any trio)
Nino Josele (jazz guitar; especially playing the music of Bill
Evans)
Jeremy Pelt
Houston Person (especially It Might As Well Be Spring)
Oscar Peterson
Toots Theilemans
Sarah Vaughan
Ben Webster; Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
Joe Williams
Cassandra Wilson (Blue Skies, Standards)

MUSICAL THEATER

A Chorus Line
Company
Dreamgirls
Hairspray
In the Heights
Mo’ Better Blues
Rent
Singin’ in the Rain
Spring Awakening
Wicked

DVD/TV

The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Hitchcock movies
Monk
Project Runway
The Rachel Maddow Show
Sports Night
West Wing
Woody Allen movies

COMEDY

George Carlin