If you’re going to get stranded on a desert island, try take this music with you:

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony #5
Don Cherry – Anything he ever played.
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Miles Smiles
Georgs Pelecis - Nevertheless
Duke Ellington - The River (for orchestra), the Far East Suite
Arvo Part - Anything, but especially Fratres, Alina, and Spiegel im Spiegel
Eric Clapton – Any solo. Also Just One Night (Live).
Olivier Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
Dave Holland/Kenny Wheeler/Bill Frisell/ Lee Konitz - Angelsong
Ray Charles – Almost anything, including America. With Betty Carter, Just You, Just Me.
John Coltrane - Ballads, A Love Supreme, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Dear Lord
Dion and The Belmonts – Greatest Hits
Pablo Casals - Bach, The Unaccompanied Cello Suites
Sir Edward Elgar - Nimrod, from the Enigma Variations
Abdullah Ibrahim - The Wedding
Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamprphoses
Ralph Towner - Celeste, Hand in Hand, Claridade
Louis Armstrong – Any vocals
Ali Akbar Khan – Raga Marwa
Otis Redding – The Very Best of Otis Redding
Astrid Gilberto – Dindi
Sting – A Thousand Years, I;’ll Be Watchin You
Bill Frisell – Anything He’s Ever Done