When I write I need music flowing through my ears, to my heart and then to my head. For example, I listened to a lot of jazz when I wrote Waking Up in Corporate America. Some have told me that silence works best whey they write, but for me music is the needed writing soundtrack.
The following is a list of some music (artists, individual compositions and complete volumes) that I have used to make my writing soundtrack inspiring:
- Pat Metheny - just about anything he does, but especially his work on movie soundtracks
- Miles Davis - Miles Ahead, Sketches of Spain and Kind of Blue
- Michael Franks - Abandoned Garden
- David Sanborn - Closer
- Peter Gabriel - Us
- Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby
- John McLauglin - Brise De Coeur
- Sting - A Thousand Years, The Book of My Life, and the soundtrack to Leaving Las Vegas
- Puccini- Madame Butterfly
- Larry Carlton - Emotions Wound Us So and For Love Alone
