Favorite instrumental album(s)?

[Doc Holliday]

Sometimes it's nice to not listen to someone singing and just enjoy the music.

When I'm in that mood, I like to cue up:

The Inner Mounting Flame - John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu Orchestra

Wired or Guitar Shop - Jeff Beck

....and anything from Stanley Clarke up to and including "Rocks, Pebble and Sand." After that, he kinda went disco on me.

So...what kind of music does it for you, DUers?

[LynneSin]

1. Anything by Yo-Yo Ma

He plays a mean Cello!

[FSogol]

2. The soundtrack to the film, "Waking Life"

Performed and written by Glover Gill and the Tosca Tango Orchestra

[iscooterliberally]

3. I like Jeff Beck too.

My favorites are Blow by Blow and There & Back. I love Weather Report too. Jaco kicks butt.

[Doc Holliday]

10. thanks for the rec, scoot

What do I win?

[iscooterliberally]

12. If I had something to give other than my appreciation of your thread...

... you would win that. Unfortunately it's been a rough year. I think I'll go listen to some Jeff Beck tonight and get over it.

[backtoblue]

4. Yiruma- River Flows In You

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[OriginalGeek]

5. A Love Supreme

Mr. Coltrane knows what's up. Although there a few words in there I think it still counts.


I would listen to an album of that contained all of Rush's instrumentals - especially live versions with extended solos. They've done enough of them I think they could make a good album - they just never did a whole album of them...

[Doc Holliday]

9. an interesting idea

'La Villa Strangiato' and 'YYZ' do it for me. Good stuff.

[OriginalGeek]

24. those were the first two that came to my mind as well

La Villa Strangiato might be my favorite Rush song period.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Tubular Bells ("Piltdown Man" excepted).

It's been with me since 1986.

Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 - Aphex Twin
Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich
Early Man - Steve Roach

[Brother Buzz]

7. The Beau Hunks Play the Little Rascals Music

The finest tribute to the genius of Leroy Shield - EVER. Leroy Shield's Hal Roach studio music was never published so the Beau Hunks transcribed the music, note for note, from film recordings. They nailed it.

R Crumb loved this music so much he drew the portrait of shield for the album cover.

The Beau Hunks Play the Original Laurel & Hardy Music, Vol. 1 and 2, merit a look-see, too.

[gratuitous]

8. Wait for Friday . . .

One of the all-time GREAT instrumental albums will be the DU3 Album of the Day. Resistance will be futile!

[Throd]

11. "Firon" by Iceburn

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather, "No Substitutions: Live In Osaka"

As a fan of Jeff beck, you would probably appreciate the killer version of "The Pump"...

[KamaAina]

14. Rick Wakeman -- The Six Wives of Henry VIII

[mzteris]

18. absolutely

[Burma Jones]

15. Anything by JS Bach, Martin Jones' recordings of ther complete Debussy Piano works - AND

Music of Gabrielli - The Empire Brass
Early Venetian Lute Music - Shirley Rumsey and Christopher Wilson
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks - Brian Eno
Preludes, Airs and Yodels - The Penguin Cafe Orchestra


Actually, I play a LOT more instrumental music than music with vocals........

[cliffordu]

16. Monk Alone - Thelonious Monk

Virtuoso by Joe Pass.

Anything by Oscar Peterson.

[Zorro]

17. Leo Kottke

6 and 12 String Guitar

[kaitcat]

19. Liquid Tension Experiment 2

Basically Dream Theater without the vocals.

[Doc Holliday]

21. some good music there

And I agree with your Dream Theater comparison.

Thanks for the rec.

[Initech]

26. Love Dream Theater and LTE.

[Kali]

20. anything by Al Di Meola

also I have some great saz music from Turkey that has instrument-only tracks but even the vocals are so exotic (and incomprehensible to me) that it sort of counts, I would say

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. Camel's 'The Snow Goose'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Goose_%28album%29

[bluesbassman]

23. Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck, Surfing With The Aliens - Joe Satriani

[greendog]

25. "Tone Poems" - Grisman & Rice, "The Black Balloon" - John Renbourn

John Renbourn - "The Mist Covered Mountains of Home":

[Initech]

27. Frank Zappa - Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar

[MiddleFingerMom]

28. Frank Zappa's "The Grand Wazoo", although...

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[Rhythm]

29. "Black Aria" -- Glenn Danzig

Dark music for dark days...

[Iggo]

30. Rising Force -- Yngwie Malmsteen

My favorite track: Far Beyond The Sun

[HopeHoops]

31. Brian Eno - "Ambient Music for Airports"

[Bake]

33. Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Banjo

Hands down. It's the album that taught almost all of us banjo pickers how to do it.

After that, Byron Berline - Dad's Favorites. David Grisman - Tone Poems.



Bake

[AsahinaKimi]

34. Kitaro ~Ten Kai

Kimiko ~yori.