Jeff Waggoner

For two decades Jeff Waggoner has worked as both a writer and journalist, examining subjects that stretch from Bill Clinton's escapades to Sonny Rollins' improvisations and eventually concluding that musicians and artists represent his genuine heroes. He served as jazz critic for the Albany, New York weekly The Source, signing those pieces with the pen name Sonny Collier.

Desert Island Picks

Brahms - Two Rhapsodies, Piano Pieces, (Radu Lupu) Brahms Quartet for Piano and Strings No 1 in G minor Mompou: Spanish Songs and Dances, (Alicia De Larrocha)

Sibelius - Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in d, op 47 Beethoven piano sonatas Walter Gieseking

Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby

Jimmy Smith: Got My Mojo Workin'

Ellis Larkins-Live at Maybeck Recital Hall

Cedar Walton - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall

Hank Jones/Charlie Haden - Steal Away

Charlie Haden's Quartet West - Haunted Heart

Paul Desmond/Jim Hall - Take Ten

Charles Mingus - Ah Um

Ella Fitzgerald - The Best of the Songbooks

Billy Holiday - The Quintessential Billy Holiday

Fats Waller: Ain't Misbehavin': 25 Greatest Hits

The Best of Louis Jordan

Sonny Boy Williamson II - King Biscuit Time

Essential Blues Piano

Marvin Gaye - Greatest Hits

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Anthology

Merle Haggard - 16 Biggest Hits

Hank Williams Sr. - 20 Greatest Hits

Jubilation: Great Gospel Performances, Vol. I-III.

Woody Guthrie: Library of Congress Recordings