Music That Inspires My Writing

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:

1. Pat Metheny - just about anything he does, but especially his work on movie soundtracks
2. Miles Davis - Miles Ahead, Sketches of Spain and Kind of Blue
3. Michael Franks - Abandoned Garden
4. David Sanborn - Closer
5. Peter Gabriel - Us
6. Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby
7. John McLauglin - Brise De Coeur
8. Sting - A Thousand Years, The Book of My Life, and the soundtrack to Leaving Las Vegas
9. Puccini- Madame Butterfly
10. Larry Carlton - Emotions Wound Us So and For Love Alone