MUSIC
(albums that are seriously worth checking out!!!)
Guitar Albums:
Mark Turner - Dharma Days (Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitarist)
Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Enemies of Energy
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Anything!!!
Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at the Half Note
Pat Metheny - Trio Live
Pat Metheny - Anything!!!
Barney Kessel - The Pollwinners
Van Halen - Anything (Eddie Van Halen, guitarist)
Paul Desmond/Jim Hall - Box Set
Sonny Rollins - The Bridge (Jim Hall, guitarist)
Lenny Breau - Live at Bourbon Street
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity (John McLaughlin, guitarist)
Django Reinhardt - Anything!!!
Joe Pass - Intercontinental
Van Halen - Fair Warning
John McLaughlin - Shakti
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Oliver Gannon - Anything!!!
Oliver Gannon and Bill Coon - Two Much Guitar
Messugah - Chaosphere (Fredrik Thordendal and Marten Hagstrom, guitarists)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (David Gilmour, guitarist)
Pink Floyd - Anything!!!
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
Jimi Hendrix - Anything!!!
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Anything!!!
James Brown - Star Time Box Set (Jimmy Nolan, guitarist)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic (John Frusciante, guitarist)
Wes Montgomery - Complete Riverside Recordings
Seamus Blake - The Call (Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitarist)
Megadeth - Rust in Peace (Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman, guitarists)
John Mayall - The Bluesbreakers feat. Eric Clapton
Pat Metheny - Question and Answer
Ihor Kukuruhdza - As it was
George Benson - Witchcraft
John Scofield - Rough House
Paul Motian - Bill Evans (Bill Frisell, guitarist)
AC/DC - High Voltage (Angus and Malcolm Young, guitarists)
Wes Montgomery - Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides
Joe Pass - Portraits of Duke Ellington
Joe Pass - For Django
AC/DC - Back in Black
Rush - Hemispheres (Alex Lifeson, guitarist)
Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Led Zeppelin - Anything!! (Jimmy Page, guitarist)
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
Yes - Close to the Edge (Steve Howe, guitarist)
Otis Rush - The Essential
Pault Motion and the Electric Bebop Band - Anything!!!
Adam Rogers - Anything!
Not Necessarily Guitar Albums
Miles Davis - Anything!!!
Miles Davis - Legendary Stockholm Concert
Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine/Four and More
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Beatles - Anything!!!
Art Blakey - A Night at Birdland
Art Blakey - Ugetsu
John Coltrane -Soultrane
John Coltrane - Coltrane's Sound
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
John Coltrane - Anything!!!
Weather Report - 8:30
Weather Report - ANYTHING!!
Talking Heads - Sand in the Vaseline
Erykah Badhu - Live
Elvin Jones - Live at the Lighthouse
U2 - Anything!!!
U2 - Zooropa
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jay Z - Anything
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Steely Dan - Anything!!!
Steely Dan - Aja
The Cult - Electric
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Ahmad Jamal - Live at Pershing
Outkast - ATLiens
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
Dave Holland - ANYTHING!!!
Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variations (either!!)
Wings - Band on the Run
Jeff Buckley - Grace
David Bowie - ANYTHING!!
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Sloan - Navy Blues
Bill Withers - Greatest Hits
Charlie Parker - Anything!!!
Charlie Parker - The Complete Charlie Parker on verve
Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
Peter Gabriel - US
The Clash - London Calling
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Tragically Hip - Phantom Power
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Donny Hathaway - Live
Michael Brecker - Don't Try This At Home
Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
Tim Fuller - Dreaded Soul
Miles Davis - ESP
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Stevie Wonder - Anything!!!!
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Bob Dylan - Highway 61
Nirvana - Anything!!!
Nirvana - Incesticide
Jaco Pastorius - Invitation
Chet Baker - It Could Happen To You
Radiohead - Anything!!!
Radiohead - OK Computer
Stravinsky - Petroushka
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
Steve Reich - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Clipse - Lord Willing
NERD - In search of
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
Lou Rawls - Live!
Ella Fitzgerald - Anything!!!
Herbie Hancock - Anything!!!
The Police - Message in a Box
Charlie Mingus - Mingus at Antibes
Chick Corea - Now he sings, Now he sobs
Tower of Power - What is Hip: The Best of Tower
Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Keith Jarrett - Personal Mountains
The Band - Best of
The Bloomdaddies - The Bloomdaddies
Frank Sinatra - Live at the Sands
Simon and Garfunkel - The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings
Otis Redding - The Immortal
Interpol - Antics
Otis Redding - The Ultimate
Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
Harry Connick Jr - Lofty's Roach Souffle
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Vampire Weekend - Anything!
Feist - The Reminder
Elliot Smith - Either/OR
Ben Folds - Anything!!
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Joe Jackson - I'm the Man
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Van Morrison - His Band and Streetchoir
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Van Morrison - Moondance
Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
George Robert Quintet - Tribute
Fleet Foxes - Anything!
Ryan Adams - Live at Carnegie Hall
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
BOOKS
Here's some great books although the list is ever growing so follow me on Goodreads:
PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY
Philosophical Histories, Biographies, and Starting Places:
Think - Simon Blackburn
The Conquest of Happiness - Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius - Ray Monk
A New History of Western Philosophy: Vol 1 - 4 - Anthony Kenny
Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Informal Logic - Douglas Walton
The Conquest of Happiness - Bertrand Russell
Belief/Epistemology:
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast - Lewis Wolport
Counterknowledge - Damian Thompson
Voodoo Histories -David Aaronovitch
Nudge - Richard Thaler
Believing Bullshit - Stephen Law
Why People Believe Weird Things- Michael Shermer
Going to Extremes - Cass Sunstein
Psychology/Behaviour:
On Creativity - David Bohm
Driven - Paul Lawrence
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahnemen
The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
Freakonomics - Steven Leavitt
Conciousness Explained - Daniel Dennett
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
The Narcissicism Epidemic - Jean Twenge
Cracked - Dr Drew Pinsky
The Mirror Effect - Dr Drew Pinsky
The Authenticity Hoax - Andrew Potter
The Efficient Society - Joseph Heath
Flow - Mihalyi Czemihalyi
The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow
Economics
Filthy Lucre/Economics Without Illusions - Joseph Heath
Moral Philosophy/Ethics:
Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
Ethics - Gordon Marino
The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris
The Secret Knowledge - David Mamet
Justice - Michael Sandel
Prince - Machievelli
Arts:
Three Uses of the Knife - David Mamet
Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Beauty - Roger Scruton
Eyes Wide Open - Raphael Fredrichs
Free Play - Stephen Nachmanovitch
Running/Sports
Brain Training for Runners - Matt Fitzgerald
Competitve Runner's Handbook - Bob Glover
Misc Non Fiction
Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do - Tom Vanderbilt
HUMOUR
Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Christian Lander
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail - Hunter Thompson
FICTION
A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan DoyleOne Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Average American Male - Chad Kultgen
The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Mark Haddon
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Survivor - Chuck Pahlaniuk
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Brothers Karamazov - Fydor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoevsky
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Jaws - Peter Benchley
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Oddessy - Homer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey
Sea Wolf - Jack London
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
BOOKS ABOUT MUSIC AND MUSICIANS (non instructional....for instructional books see Lessons page)
This Is Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levithan
Revolution in the Head - Ian Macdonald
Meet Me in the Bathroom - Lizzie Gordon
Temperamant - Stuart Isacoff
How to Disappear Completely: Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album - Marianne Tatom Letts
How Music Works - David Byrne
Red - Sammy Hagar
Effortless Mastery - Kenny Werner
Guitar Zero - Gary Marcus
Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown - David Menconi
Waiting to Derail: Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown - Thomas O'Keefe
Ghost Rider - Neil Peart
Travelling Music - Neil Peart