Your Top Five CTI Records

Thought it would be nice to hear people's top five, here's mine, try and keep it to the one's that you actually own, that should make choosing easier (KUDU, Salvation etc. included).

In no particular order:


Antonio Carlos Jobim 'Stone Flower' CTI - 6002


George Benson 'White Rabbit' CTI - 6015


Idris Muhammad 'Power Of Soul' KU - 17


Hank Crawford 'Help Me Make It Through The Night' KU - 06


Johnny 'Hammond' Smith 'Gambler's Life' Sal- 702



And just for fun the absolute worst CTI record I own, and would highly advise against purchasing, dun, Dun, DUN:

here's my top 5:
(in no particular order)

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower
Joe Farrell - Upon this Rock
Hubert Laws - Rite of Spring
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
George Benson - The Shape of Things to Come

Just curious if you have Laws 'Afro Classic' too, and still picked the 'Rite of Spring.' I don't have Rite of Spring so I'd be curious to know if it's better in your opinion...

yeah - I got both.
Afro classic is nice too,
but there is an ill extra p loop on the rite of spring that I dig...
It's kinda a weird record - hubert does re-interpretations of classical joints on it...

yep, i'm a newb Whats CTI?

openeye...

hilarious pic in your avatar.


Whats the deal with akai pads anyway? Never hear probs about the ones on the 60 3k 2kclassic and xlclassics.

Bob James ONE

Something Like That, it seems that all pads on every mpc ever made were made by the same company EXCEPT when Akai designed the MPC1000 they decided instead of using pad sheets made my this company they would use a new design of their own making... at any rate these Akai designed mpc1000 pads seem to be going dead left and right and they're trying to charge people for a "upgrade", which of course are the original pad design made by the original manufacturer, ugh. weak huh?

BOB JAMES ONE.............IS A MONSTER..........

EVERY BODY KNOWZ I LUV BJ4 It was MY AVATAR FOR A SEC.......

ALSO AS ABOVE WHITE RABBIT.....................

Grover Washington - FEEL SOO GOOD (Tho' MAN HAZ IT BEEN SAMPLED!!)
(OR AS I LIKE TO CALL IT BOB JAMES 5)


AND I ACTUALLY LIKE MILT JACKSON OLINGA!!!!!!!!!




RITE OF SPRING IS KOOL THO..........I REALLY LOVE HUBERT LAWS CRYING SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


MAN CTI / KUDU ALBUMS ARE VERY NICE 4 THE MOST PART.............

all the Grover sh*t

all the Bob sh*t

all the Idris sh*t

all the Hubert sh*t

all the Freddie sh*t

all the Deodato sh*t

and all the Milt sh*t




Creed Taylor International represents

openeye wrote:yep, i'm a newb Whats CTI?

It stands for Creed Taylor International. It's a record label that produced albums its hey day from about 70-79 I'll say. A lot of people sample the CTI records, and for good reason. It's a jazz focused label.

And that's a big 10-4 on BJ-1, don't know how I left that out. Monster. Confirmed.

i got bj4 for .50centzz, and the one with the lady bug on it not on CTI. im the master digger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

j/k

but i cant participate in this becuz i dont have 5 CTI records i think a bob james, and 2 bensons are all i got. damn i need to go diggggg

any CTI in good condition that you can get for less than $3 is a good cop imo... some of the best album covers of alltime are on the various incarnations of the CTI label...

maxey127 wrote:i got bj4 for .50centzz, and the one with the lady bug on it not on CTI. im the master digger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

j/k

but i cant participate in this becuz i dont have 5 CTI records i think a bob james, and 2 bensons are all i got. damn i need to go diggggg

The Lady Bug Cover is Bob James - Lucky Seven (A Master Digger Would Know THAT...........tell em' EDE..........)

and Ur right thatz on "Tappan Zee" Bobs Own Label.................


ITS A DOPE ALBUM FULL OF CTI PLAYERS BUT LIKE U DID SAY NOT CTI




I Bought Mine A While Ago For like.........................................

$3 Mint in Plastic....................

mpc4000xl wrote:

maxey127 wrote:i got bj4 for .50centzz, and the one with the lady bug on it not on CTI. im the master digger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

j/k

but i cant participate in this becuz i dont have 5 CTI records i think a bob james, and 2 bensons are all i got. damn i need to go diggggg

The Lady Bug Cover is Bob James - Lucky Seven (A Master Digger Would Know THAT...........tell em' EDE..........)

and Ur right thatz on "Tappan Zee" Bobs Own Label.................


ITS A DOPE ALBUM FULL OF CTI PLAYERS BUT LIKE U DID SAY NOT CTI




I Bought Mine A While Ago For like.........................................

$3 Mint in Plastic....................

word ...but the one i have is a different color ,i could be wrong but i remeebr it beging blue i'm thinking the label perhaps,


Eric Gale- forecast









and all the ones you guys mentioned too are great