(FORTUNE Magazine) – Five CDs worth listening to:

MILES DAVIS Bitches Brew (Columbia/Legacy): If you've never traveled this mighty leviathan from head to tail, now's the time: Columbia is honoring the jazz-funk opus with a special edition.

MOBY Play (V2 Records): Almost two decades after David Byrne and Brian Eno's classic My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Moby spins gold from the same impossible hybrid, hitching ancient blues, folk, and gospel wails to spellbound electronic grooves.

VARIOUS Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons (Almo Sounds): Luminaries like Elvis Costello, the Pretenders, Beck, and Emmylou Harris pay homage to the late grandpappy of twang rock.

THE FLAMING LIPS The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros. Records): You're sitting around a campfire with Brian Wilson and Neil Young when the aliens descend, abduct you, and set their gears for Saturn.

JIMI TENOR Organism (Warp/Sire): If Austin Powers and a Helsinki flight attendant spawned a love child, the kid might look and sound a lot like Jimi Tenor, Finland's dorky-suave disco duke.

And one to avoid at all costs:

ALABAMA Twentieth Century (RCA): Just in case war, genocide, plague, and disasters weren't bad enough, here comes a centenary summing-up from Nashville's drippiest schmaltz merchants. Alabama's verdict: "The 20th century wasn't all that bad." Thanks, fellas!