[David]

I don’t mind a list of personal favorites from someone-or-other. In fact, I love the window into someone’s soul.

It’s the dishonesty I don’t like — dishonesty in the name of ecumenicism or inclusion or whatever is driving this person to want to be falsely applauded for being a jazz listener. It’s quite obvious that this person is not a jazz listener and is only pretending to be one. The whole list has TWO jazz standards — Miles Davis Kind of Blue and Coltrane A Love Supreme, and they seem arbitrarily (or maybe strategically) listed at 25 and 54, respectively. Anybody who likes and knows jazz enough to add jazz to a list that is almost entirely pop and rock would do one of two things:

— Either put a more cutting-edge critical and popular Miles Davis favorite in place of Kind of Blue, like Bitches Brew (which had a far greater influence on rock) or Birth of the Cool

— Or throw in additional great jazz albums that had every bit the influence on the culture that these two albums did, just to sort of balance out the list or make the statement that a true jazz aficionado would make: “Jazz played a much bigger role in music during this same time period than the list indicates” — Mingus Ah Um, Rollins The Bridge, Ellington at Newport, Oscar Peterson Trio Night Train, Amazing Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon Go, Gillespie Afro, etc.

If you’re going to throw in two jazz albums out of 100 to tell the world that you’re a cool dude, either beef it up to a perfectly reasonable eight or ten albums or substitute an album that has more oomph than Kind of Blue (the Rumours of the jazz catalogue — mainstream, safe, sweet, huge seller).