Description: ONE LP is a project by photographer William Ellis in which musicians and other people in the arts are portrayed with a favourite album and tell why the recording is so significant to them.
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"Well, I had a short list of four - five actually, five.
One is 'Glenn Gould Plays Bach' and you can see from the rather beat up condition of it. It was a gift to me when it new and I can look at the year, but I was probably not more than six or seven years old when I received that - and it's probably scratched to shit, but it really awakened my love of counterpoint and moving voices and just Glenn's sense of rythm is so astonishing and you can't say that about certain classical pianists, they don't really. There's just a joy in his playing.
Then Miles Davis 'Friday Night at Tghe Blackhawk. When I listened to that record - that's when I decided I wanted to become a jazz pianist. I loved the fact that it was live, the way Wynton accompanies Miles is incredible, the sense of swing, the fact that it's a live album, it wasn't edited in the studio, you really hear the whole performance. I love that it was Miles's debut with this band - it's the first time they'd ever done a gig and he had the balls to record it and put it out. You know - that's the