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	ROB'S TOP TEN LISTS
	Favorite Music
	Title	Artist	Rob's Comments
	#1 "A Love Supreme"	John Coltrane	Spiritually-charged and life-changing.
	#2 - "Nefertiti"	Miles Davis	Group mastery -- lush, mysterious.
	#3 - "Consciousness"	Pat Martino	Reckless precision.
	#4 - "String Quartets"	Bela Bartok	Deep -- approach with care.
	#5 - "Thrust"	Herbie Hancock	The last word on groove.
	#6 - "Solstice"	Ralph Towner	Open, to the very core.
	#7 - "Inner Mounting Flame"	Mahavishnu	Blaze of glory.
	#8 - "Secret Story"	Pat Metheny	Unparalleled melodicism.
	#9 - "The Circle Maker/Isacchar"	John Zorn	Coming home.
	#10 - "Music For 18 Musicians"	Steve Reich	Tapestry that deepens with age.
	Favorite Books
	Title	Author	Rob's Comments
	#1 - "Jazz: the 1980's Resurgence"	Stuart Nicholson	Informative and insightful catalog.
	#2 - "The Music Of Life"	Hazrat Inayat Khan	Music permeates the universe.
	#3 - "Free Play"	Stephen Nachmanovich	The power of improvisation.
	#4 - "The Listening Book"	W. A. Mathieu	Depth from the ordinary.
	#5 - "Awaken The Giant Within"	Anthony Robbins	Cheesy but undeniably truthful.
	#6 - "Emerson: The Mind On Fire"	Robert Richardson	True productivity.
	#7 - "Forces in Motion: Anthony Braxton"	Graham Lock	Vision.
	#8 - "Five Decades - Poems"	Pablo Neruda	Fragrant and musky.
	#9 - "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"	Stephen Covey	Integrity.
	#10 - "Self-Portrait of a Jazz Artist"	David Liebman	Inspiration and realistic.
	Favorite Living Musicians
	Artist	Rob's Comments
	#1 - Dave Holland	The complete musician.
	#2 - Sam Rivers	Warrior.
	#3 - Ornette Coleman	Conceptualist.
	#4 - Dave Douglas	Intellect with passion.
	#5 - Ellery Eskelin	Original Voice .
	#6 - Jim Hall	Moving beyond the limits of jazz guitar.
	#7 - Pat Metheny	Devastatingly beautiful.
	#8 - John Zorn	Touched a nerve.
	#9 - Wayne Shorter	Visionary mystic.
	#10 - John McLaughlin	Avatar.