Top 7 Lists

Jessee Hamlin's Top 7 Jazz Albums

• 1. Kind of Blue Miles Davis
• 2. The Best of Both Worlds Stan Getz with Joao Gioberto
• 3. My Favorite Things John Coltrane ("Pretty much anything by Coltrane on Atlantic or Impulse! Records could make the list.")
• 4. Black and Tan Fantasy Duke Ellington
• 5. Only the Lonely Frank Sinatra ("Put that one in. It's sure to piss off some jazz purist somewhere...")
• 6. ESP Miles Davis
• 7. Nefertitti Miles Davis

Mister Lucky's Top 7 Jazz Albums

• 1. Peter Gunn (Original Television Soundtrack) Henry Mancini ("particularly the tune 'The Floater'")
• 2. Red Garland's Piano Red Garland ("he was in Miles Davis' quintet")
• 3. The Misty Miss Christy June Christy ("classic jazz singer; sang 'Something Cool'")
• 4. On the Sunny Side of the Strip George Shearing
• 5. Les Liaisons Dangereuses ; Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1960) Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
  
• 6. Billy Eckstine's Boulevard of Broken Dreams Billy Eckstine
  
• 7. My Last Affair Ella Fitzgerald (with The Count Basie Orchestra)

...and Top 7 Liquids

• 1. A dry martini
• 2. Seltzer water
• 3. Rum
• 4. Dubonnet
• 5. Negroni
• 6. Dark heavy beer
• 7. Lemonade

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