Giant Steps, with its hurtling chord-storm of a title track and a raft of enduring compositions, including the exquisite ballad Naima and the postbop-blues Mr PC, is naturally the standout album.
Nor does Lynskey's analysis leave room for Ochs's finest topical song, the poetic "Crucifixion," about John F. Kennedy's murder, as well as for some of Ochs's most enduring compositions, including "Changes" and "Pleasures of the Harbor," which are songs of weariness, sorrow and fate, not songs of dissent.
Hers is a career studded with enduring compositions of her own (Talk of the Town, Back on the Chain Gang, Don't Get Me Wrong, I'll Stand by You among them) and lending her plaintive, impassioned alto to the words of others (I Got You Babe with UB40, Love Can Build a Bridge with Eric Clapton et al and Straight Ahead with Tube & Berger).
In a musical career that stretched over eight decades, from radio shows to "Spider-Man 2," Mr. Mizzy wrote pop hits, novelty songs and movie scores, but his most enduring compositions were the two humorous theme songs he created in the mid-1960s.
It features, for the first time on record, Zappa playing extended guitar solos and contains one of his most enduring compositions, "Peaches en Regalia", which reappeared several times on future recordings.
Cedar Walton, a pianist who distinguished himself as both an accompanist and a soloist, and who wrote some of the most enduring compositions in modern jazz while a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the early 1960s, died on Monday at his home in Brooklyn.
His most enduring composition may be the opera Porgy and Bess, a story about two blacks, which Gershwin intended as a sort of "folk opera", a creation of a new style of American musical theater based on American idioms.
That MMM is now living and breathing as an enduring, taunting piece of contemporary composition means that Lou is on the way to having the last laugh (another of his favourite things).
In complete contrast, there is the enduring order of his compositions.
A warmly earnest tribute featuring new arrangements for a septet, it's yet more proof of the enduring sturdiness of these compositions.
The Bonn compositions of most enduring interest date, as might be expected, from the last years: a Rondino and an Octet, for wind instruments, composed in 1792, probably for the elector's harmonie (wind band); a Trio in G Major for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano (1791); and the two cantatas.
