100 Recordings

This list is an aggregation of the 100 most important albums and recordings to my personal and musical development. Each entry on this list has shaped me some way; I would not be who I am if it weren't for these albums.

The activity of compiling this list was given to me by one of my main primary mentors, Aaron Staebell, and we challenge you to do this for yourself; it is an exercise in thoughtful nostalgia. Find all the albums that made you who you are, even the records you don't like, or maybe used to like. I could tell a story about every single album on this list. What has impacted you?

• 25th Anniversary - El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico
• <|º_º|> - Caravan Palace
• A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi
• A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
• A Very Vulfy Christmas - Woody Goss
• An Evening with Silk Sonic - Silk Sonic
• Anniversary Songs, Vol. 3 - Selmer #607
• Anomalie - Métropole
• At Night, Alone. - Mike Posner
• Awaken My Love! - Childish Gambino
• Backwards Compatible - The 8-Bit Big Band
• The Beautiful Game - Vulfpeck
• The Blues and the Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson
• Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots
• Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - Andrew Rannels, Josh Gad
• Brasilian Skies - Masayoshi Takanaka
• Brown Sugar - D'Angelo
• CAPTURISM - fox capture plan
• The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio - Nat King Cole Trio
• COWBOY BEBOP Soundtrack - SEATBELTS
• Consummation - Thad Jones, Mel Lewis
• Decrease - Todd Galberth
• Djesse Vol. 2 - Jacob Collier
• Doo-Wops and Hooligans - Bruno Mars
• Drums Unlimited - Max Roach
• Drunk on a Flight - Eloise
• Elastic - Joshua Redman
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald and Nelson Riddle
• The Epic - Kamasi Washington
• Esperanza - Esperanza Spalding
• Fiddler on the Roof - Cannonball Adderly
• Finger Lickin' Good -Dr. Lonnie Smith
• The Good Life - Sammy Rae and the Friends
• Gongjoong Doduk - Mid-Air Thief
• Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 - Jacob Mann Big Band
• Gumbo - PJ Morton
• Hafbl - A Healthy Alternative for Better Living
• Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) - Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Here We Go Jack - Vulfmon
• Holiday Spirits - Straight No Chaser
• The Human Condition - Jon Bellion
• IGOR - Tyler the Creator
• IV - BADBADNOTGOOD
• In Tune - Oscar Peterson Trio and Singers Unlimited
• In the Lonely Hour - Sam Smith
• It Is What It Is - Thundercat
• Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
• Juno - Remi Wolf
• Kinfolk 2: See the Birds - Nate Smith
• King Pleasure Sings / Annie Ross Sings - King Pleasure, Annie Ross
• La La Land (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Justin Hurwitz
• The Last Five Years (Original Cast Recording) Jason Robert Brown
• Les Miserables (Movie Soundtrack) - Claude-Michel Schöneberg
• Live at Pinch Recording - Dan Pugach, Nicole Zuraitis
• Madvilliany - Madvillian, Madlib, MF DOOM
• Mamma Mia! - 1999 Original Cast Recording
• Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Live - The Cannonball Adderly Quintet
• Milestones - Miles Davis
• Modern Johnny Sings: Songs in the Age of the Vibe - Theo Katzman
• Mood Valiant - Hiatus Kaiyote
• Motion - Lee Konitz
• My Spanish Heart - Chick Corea
• NOT TiGHT - DOMi & JD BECK
• Night Train - Oscar Peterson Trio
• Not a Trampoline - Rob Cantor
• Now's the Time - Charlie Parker
• Nu Funk - Scary Pockets
• PACIFIC - Haruomi Hosono
• Pentatonix - Pentatonix
• Philosophy of the World - The Shaggs
• Piano Concerto No. 2 - Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Relaxin with the Miles Davis Quintet - Miles Davis First Quintet
• The Rising Tied - Fort Minor
• Scenery - Ryo Fukui
• The Script - The Script
• Seven Steps to Heaven - Miles Davis Second Quintet
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
• Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio - Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio
• Standards, Vol. 2 - Keith Jarrett
• Steven Universe (Original Soundtrack) - Rebecca Sugar
• Stranger Heads Prevail - Thank You Scientist
• The Stranger - Billy Joel
• The Stripped Mixes - Jackson 5
• Swagism - Ghost-Note
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Broadway Cast Recording) - Stephen Sondheim
• Symphony No. 8 - David Maslanka
• Talking Book - Stevie Wonder
• Ten Hours - First of October
• This Thing Called Living - Eloise
• Thriller - Michael Jackson
• Time - Louis Cole
• Toy Tunes -Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, Bill Stewart
• Travels - Rhythm Future Quartet
• Underground - Thelonius Monk
• Waking Up - OneRepublic
• We Are - Jon Batiste
• We Like it Here - Snarky Puppy
• We Three - Roy Haynes, Phineas Newborn Jr., Paul Chambers
• Well I Should Have…* - Jon Benjamin - Jazz Daredevil
• Year 4 - insaneintherainmusic