Merry Christmas – Bing Crosby

What Jesus is to Christmas, Bing Crosby is to Christmas music. This is one of my favorite albums during the Christmas season and gets multiple replays all the time.

Christmas Sing-in –Gunther Kalliman

At first glance, the Gunter Kallmann Chorus looks like a German version of the Ray Conniff singers, all clean cut and smiling as they heartily sing out their phonetically precise English lyrics to international pop hits. But its "Gunter Kallmann Chorus", with Orchestra and Bells. Yes, Gunter Kallmann has the bright idea to accompany his cheer

Lost In The Dream – The War on Drugs

This came to me as a recommendation from a friend who is more into the current music scene. His exact words were, ‘You may like this LP…it’s your kind of music’. Well, the name of the band was the first thing that intrigued me. I kind of liked it.

Blue Hawaii (Soundtrack) – Elvis Presley

‘Blue Hawaii’ is the fourth soundtrack album that Elvis released, both in Mono and Stereo. The film also starred the handsome singer in the lead role.

Hum Dono – Jaidev / Sahir Ludhiyanvi

Take any Mehfil (Urdu for an artistic evening congregation) and the song, Abhin Na Jaao Chod Kar Ke eventually gets sung by someone who thinks he can do it well. This is likely to happen even today in the year 2018, 57 years after the song was released. This is the power of Hum Dono’s songs, composed by Jaidev and written by Sahir.

Fireball – Deep Purple

‘Fireball’ is the 5th studio album from the innovators of hard rock, Deep Purple and is second in the quintessential Mark II Trilogy with In Rock (1970) being the first and ‘Machine Head’, the last.

Time Out – The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Very few albums in jazz history are as popular as this one. And the sweet irony is that it broke the rhythmic rules of Jazz which had been around till 1959, exploring time signatures beyond the standard 4/4 or 3/4. Critics panned it on its release but the world loved it.

My Favourite Things – John Coltrane

He made the most esoteric and beautiful album in jazz history and he also made the most accessible and beautiful album in jazz history.

Shiv Kumar Sharma with Zakir Hussain - Live Concert at Rang Bhavan, Bombay

In the collection of LPs records a friend was giving away, I found this rare gem of a disc offering sinuous, sensuous music from the maestro Shivkumar Sharma on his santoor.

Mighty Baby – Live In The Attic: Underground Unearthed Series Part 3

‘Mighty Baby’ was formed in UK in 1968 from the ashes of British beat-psych act, The Action. Their sound was typically British, but drew influences from jam rock/prog styles and fused with blues, jazz and folk elements with heavy doses of hippy psychedelia.