Vinyl-House Top Ten Album Lists
A selection from some of our team members ‘Top Ten’ albums in no particular order.
‘The General’ - nicknamed for his order barking demeanour, a former golden-era DJ and walking encyclopedia of musical knowledge. Overseer of the archive, emissary of the institute.
Gene Harris: How Insensitive
Grant Green: Live At The Lighthouse
Donald Byrd: Live At The Half Note
Sibelius: Violin Concerto - Jascha Heifetz
Steve Parks: Movin In The Right Direction
Schubert: Arpeggione - Janos Starker
All Beethoven Conducted By Furtwangler (doesn’t care if this counts as more than one)
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Afro Blue
All Charlie Parker (doesn’t care if this counts as more than one)
Terry Callier: First Light
….all Iron & Wine, all John Fahey, most Violent Femmes, most Erica Morini, most Nathan Milstein and last but not least an inability to count to ten.
‘Spanners’ - collection hunter and all round Trojan, just don’t ask him to do anything involving DIY.
Terry Callier: Time Peace
Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers: Music Of Many Colours
Grant Green: Live At The Lighthouse
Horace Silver Quintet: Song For My Father
Andy Bey: Experience & Judgement
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas For Solo Violin - Jascha Heifetz
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto - Alfredo Campoli / Argenta
Jungle Brothers: Raw Deluxe
Edouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole - Jascha Heifetz
Rosco Peco Train - aka ‘The Wheel Man’ - there is no journey too far for Peco, whatever size or wherever the collection may be he is ready to get behind the wheel of a transit van or 7.5 tonne truck and hit the road. His record stands at 940 miles covered in a single day, all in the name of collecting vinyl.
Nick Drake: 5 Leaves left
Leonard Cohen: 10 New Songs
Narada Michael Walden: Garden of Love Light
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Bruce ‘Moony’ Latham - Bruce was in charge of operational support services for Radio 3 music and responsible for the staffing of all promenade concerts and operas within the London area for the BBC. We are honoured to have this marvelous human being as part of the Vinyl-House collective.
Verdi: MacBeth - Warren / Rysanek / Erich Leinsdorf
Verdi: La Traviata - Los Angeles / Del Monte / Tullio Serafin
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor - Sutherland / John Pritchard
Donizetti: La Favorita - Barbieri / G.Raimondi / Angelo Questa
J.Strauss: Die Fledermaus - Schwarzkopf / Gedda / Von Karajan
Ponchielli: La Gioconda - Milanov / di Stefano / Fernando Previtali
Massenet: Manon - Los Angeles / Legay / Pierre Monteux
Donizetti: Don Pasquale - Luise / Aymaro / Oncina / Argeo Quadri
Offenbach: La Perichole - Lafaye / Amade / Igor Markevitch
Puccini: Tosca - Callas / di Stefano / Gobbi / Victor de Sabata