A Few Favorite Albums

Cornelius Boots, Consuela Lee, Iva Bittová, Kohachiro Miyata, Coltrane & Hartman, Sarah Vaughan, Maria Joäo Pires

Earlier this year music journalist Thomas Staudter asked me to contribute to a series he does. He requested my choice of seven albums that I feel are a “gift to the cosmos” and that “I’m grateful for.”

Here are the albums that came to mind:

Cornelius Boots - Sabbaticus Rex II

This is best described as a “soundscape.” It features shakuhachi master Cornelius Boots wit…