MUSICAL INPUT FOR THE NEW YEAR

The Art of Touch is closely connected with the art of music. And, though few of those below are actually music for massage, they are the 30 albums that dependably have moved me most over the years - to dance, to sing, to feel re-inspired, to be reminded of the vast heights to which the human imagination can go.

I’m sure you have your own favorites; so these are just sharing ones I think you might enjoy too. May the arts of touch and music feed your body and soul.

Not in prioritized order:
1. Ali Akbar Khan - Master Musician of India - Raga Chandranandan - Connoisseur Society
2. Berlioz - Requiem - Charles Munch, conductor
3. Bob Dylan - Highway 61
4. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
5. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
6. Otis Redding - Greatest Hits
7. Charles Mingus - Right Now - Live at the Jazz Workshop
8. Eric Dolphy - Last Date
9. Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
10. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
11. Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
12. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
13. Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
14. James Taylor - James Taylor
15. Willis Allan Ramsey - Willis Allan Ramsey
16. Joni Mitchell- Blue
17. Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
18. Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
19. The Butterfield Blues Band - East/West
20. The Band - The Band
21. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
22. Berlioz - Romeo and Juliet - Toscannini, conductor
23. From Spirituals to Swing
24. The Best of Chuck Berry
25. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
26. Beethoven - Op. 111 - Michaelangeli, pianist
27. Bach - Italian Concerto, Partitas #1& 2 - Glenn Gould
28. Beethoven - 4th Piano Concerto - Rudolph Serkin and Toscanni
29. Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
30. Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes (Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Elvis Costello, Jim James and Marcus Mumford - giving music to old Dylan words, never before put to music!)

filled with joy from making music at friend, Doc Mason’s house