The Good Stuff



There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed. --  Duke Ellington

This purpose of this thread is to provide a place to post outstanding examples of the Good Music. 
Genre Immaterial.

On the Old Kentucky Shore // Joan Osborne & Ricky Skaggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liTdpTz7g5A

My CD has a different cover art, but it is the same album.

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Heritage Blues Orchestra

AND STILL I RISE

Raisin' Music   2011

Wiki: True to the heritage part of its name, the New York City-based Heritage Blues Orchestra sticks mostly to traditional blues material....

NYC!!!!    The end of days is nearer than we think!

 

Don't let nobody drag your spirit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAsWKlV2KEg

Clarksdale Moan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPe_pbMxyqA

Catfish Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ov0-XmddxA

Get Right Church : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysylEeu18Lo

 

Cheers

 

The Manhattan Transfer

SWING

Atlantic    1997

with Stephane Grappelli and Asleep At The Wheel

 

Stomp of King Porter : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrhbipzohRY

Sing Moten's Swing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kDy6OnPS2k

A-Tisket, A-Tasket : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSrzAwQ-I2g

Down South Camp Meetin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TNeTd59omo

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9hFOT8hLVw

and 8 more!

 

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Count Basie

COUNT BASIE AT NEWPORT

Verve     1957 / 2007

As Pops once said, "Now we has Jazz."

 

Swingin' at Newport : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCbbTdoHeY

Sent for you Yesterday : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJJfGGTlJUg

Boogie Woogie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEWE8lsZ8nw

One O'Clock Jump : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFhq7eBiQCY

Blee Blop Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTZAH7vE__Q

Lester Leaps In : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKO_FUKbaDw

and 7 more!!

 

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Eric Dolphy

LAST DATE

EmArcy      1964 / 1991

Eric Dolphy(flute, bass clarinet and alto sax), Misja mengelberg(piano), Jacques Schols(bass), Han Bennink(drums).  Recorded in Holland.

Dolphy died 27 days after this recording.  Age 36.

 

Epistrophy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-9kFCNbQzo

South Street Exit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDECa7GlTFc

You don't know what love is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxb5G2I69tQ

 

Cheers

 

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington

THE GREAT SUMMIT / THE MASTER TAKES

Roulette Jazz / Parlophone     1961 / 2000

 

Clarinet: Barney Bigard,  Drums: Danny Barcelona, Vocals: Duke Ellington, Piano: Duke Ellington, Trumpet, Vocals: Louis Armstrong, Bass: Mort Herbert, Trombone: Trummy Young

 

Dukes Place : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNkbEYV2Qfk

Lucky so and so : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDIkQVgtShw

Don't mean a thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I32ft4Sse4

See the Light : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFxWWyTa7CM

The Mooche : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyTfgNY0kVM

Don't get Around : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJVqsEK8s8

and 11 more!

 

Cheers

 

 

Ludwig van Beethoven

GEORGE SZELL CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN

Cleveland Orchestra --  George Szell

Sony Classics      1966 / 2013    5CD Box

 

Symphony No. 7 in A major op. 92

1. Poco sostenuto - Vivace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5OTQ7OELg

2. Allegretto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx6jYCPgTeU

3. Presto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKn7jvFJLzo

4. Allegro con brio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arDTp5btnKM

 

Cheers

 

Benny Carter

FURTHER DEFINITIONS

MCA / Impulse         1961 / 1986

Fairly decent Saxophone section.  Notes require Microscope.

Alto Saxophone: Benny Carter, Phil Woods

Tenor Saxophone: Charlie Rouse, Coleman Hawkins

Bass: Jimmy Garrison - Guitar: John Collins - Piano: Dick Katz

 

Body and Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwtb91WzXBY

Honeysuckle Rose : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9xRN-ohKl4

Doozy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FyezhZjHRU

Blue Star : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzfQ8X0IiXU

Crazy Rhythm : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN0qroqTjqU

Seems like the word Saxophone should have been in the title.

 

Cheers

 

 

Various  Artists

THE YOUNG LIONS

Vee Jay / Suite Beat Records       1960 / 1986

Excellent notes by Cannonball Adderley, where he blasts everyone from wealthy teenage rockers, to Dick Clark and country music performers.  He calls it the "Glorification of Mediocrity".  I call it "firing for effect".

Notes: "Modern Jazz obviously cannot and will not stand still.  Modern Jazz traditionalists must realize that the music of Bird is only a logical step wise development of that which had gone on before.  Conversely, the avant-garde cannot expect basic stylistic changes to develop among mature players through artificial stimuli; for the hysterical cry for change tends to give sanctuary to charlatans."  ---- Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

All written in 1960.

 

Seeds of Sin : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3eR2TJQ0pc

Scourn' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpTkehgVEgE

That's Right : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZXgx0q1IxI

 

Cheers

 

Duke Ellington

THE BLANTON-WEBSTER BAND

RCA / Bluebird    1939-1942 / 1986      3CD Set

Excellent Booklet with a synopsis of each song.  A few pictures.

K0-Ko : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwBfqCsW1k

Flamingo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_zl2EIiy0

Cottontail : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq5LRQIJx3k

Concerto for Cootie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqPqj8CQUM

Jack the Bear : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTbXap_H22E

Hayfoot Strawfoot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jq9O_GsK7U

C Jam Blues :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq2zDGRgTz4

And 59 more!!   Everything he recorded during 1939 thru 1942.

 

Cheers

Wycliffe Gordon

DREAMS OF NEW ORLEANS

Chesky Records     2012

Notes:  A world-class trombonist-composer and longstanding member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, under the direction of Jazz Maestro Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon has cut a wide stylistic swath on his 20 albums to date.  From Gospel and Southern Blues to J.J. Johnson-inspired hard bop, along with faithful interpretations of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk classics.  He was recognized by the Jazz Journalist Association as Trombonist of the year for 2012, his seventh time winning that accolade.

 

When Saints Go Marching In : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icKhmYxDL8s

St Louis Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfNDHZJjuU

Tiger Rag : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHF_xCU5zns

Come Home Bill Bailey : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leKMJzwFhTg

Down by the Riverside : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsgnQzDczss

 

Cheers

 

 

Clifford Brown and Max Roach

AT BASIN STREET

Emarcy / Mercury    1956 / 1990

Also includes Sonny Rollins on Tenor Sax.  The last Brown / Roach album.

 

What is this thing called love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTWRZkoLGx8

I'll Remember April : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efD90XFbpsE

Love a many splendored Thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efD90XFbpsE

Gertrude's Bounce : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tUOEIaEBw

 

Cheers

 

Charles Mingus

BLUES & ROOTS

Atlantic Jazz        1959

Notes: " This record is unusual--it presents only one part of my musical world, the Blues.  A year ago, Nesuhi Ertegun suggested that I record an entire Blues album album in the style of Haitian Fight Song, because some people, particularly critics, were saying I didn't swing enough."    😊

 

Wednesday Prayer Meeting : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGJrFslQ4q4

Mr Jelly Roll Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzNuG8q2Xh8

Moanin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvjZ7fUUBU

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRZGFJIEZsQ

 

Cheers

 

Ludwig Van Beethoven

BEETHOVEN 9 SYMPHONIES

Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - John Eliot Gardiner

Archiv  1994      5CD Box

 

You can't accuse this guy of loitering about.

Symphony No. 5 in C minor,  op. 67

1. Allegro con brio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtHx8uHouKY

2. Andante con moto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvu0uBYanEs

3. Allegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWe5k54NpCQ

4. Allegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBl99DuwHo

 

Cheers

 

 

 

Elton John

ONE NIGHT ONLY - The Greatest Hits

Mercury / Universal      2000

 

My Favorite Treadmill Music

Philadelphia Freedom : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44SkvEqbpuc

Rocket Man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6wxp3Z_zks

The Sun Go Down On Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISA7jg82uUc

Candle In The Wind : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JTe7bGaXAA

 

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Chester  Burnett  a.k.a.  Howlin' Wolf

THE CHESS BOX - Disc 2 of 3    1955-1962

Chess / MCA Records      1991

 

Gotta be Saturday Night Somewhere.

 

Howlin' For My Darling : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEv5A5Ir1c

Goin' Down Slow : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDAAx-PXGQ

Spoonful : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbwOt_9LAR8

Shake for Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j27WE6AC4U0

Red Rooster : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQVz6B-KwQ

Who's Been Talking : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jxaWMFhTg

 

Cheers

 

Wynton Marsalis

MR. JELLY LORD - STANDARD TIME VOL. 6

Columbia / Sony Classics 1999

A tribute to Jelly Roll Morton

 

Smokehouse Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OLBY3vk-hQ

New Orleans Bump : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmBHMTsy2BY

Sidewalk Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9su7o9Aw7vI

Dead Man Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D41Z6KtxjPw

Mamanita : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2e2fL86n0Q

Jungle Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ZqgzGeKIY

 

for all you audiophiles -- Wynton and Eric Reed record a cylinder of "Tom Cat Blues" on vintage Thomas Edison equipment. Finally something my POLKS can better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLEEJ0Vt7Ck

 

Cheers

 

Ellington & Coltrane

DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE

John Coltrane(tenor sax, soprano sax), Duke Ellington(piano), Jimmy Garrison(bass), Aaron Bell(bass), Elvin Jones(drums), Sam Woodyard(drums)

Impulse      1962 /1995

Notes: "Duke Ellington was put into the Jazz world to separate the men from the boys.  His grasp of harmony and instrumental voicing is more advanced than anybody else's in the entire range of Jazz, and the reason why many modern fans are unable to accept him is not that they are too modern for Duke, but that Duke is too modern for them."

 

In a sentimental Mood : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiP7jKdAhD0

Take the Coltrane : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJnIgZwnDuM

Big Nick : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCu7Dd8CqoE

My Little Brown Book : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q18F--zZ-I

 

Cheers

 

Nat Adderley

WORK SONG

Riverside / OJC        1960 / 1989

Notes: "Cornet, cello, and guitar make up a front line that will probably never be duplicated.  The guitarist was his friend Wes Montgomery, just emerging towards Jazz stardom; the cellist was the longtime bassist of Cannonball's band, Sam Jones."

Work Song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqUd7gXxqmc

My Heart Stood Still : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyhGSG33xfs

Mean to Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyJ2mSlzbU

Sack of Woe : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9qOX8HXtQ

 

Cheers

Jon Henderson

DOUBLE RAINBOW - The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim

Joe Henderson(tenor sax), Eliane Elias(piano), Oscar Castro-Nieves(guitar), Nico Assumpcao(Bass), Paulo Braga(drums)

Verve   1995

Felicidade : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdqioEDQsGY

Once I Loved : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg3smyF8B14

 

Joe Henderson9Tenor sax), Herbie Hancock(piano), Christian McBride(bass), Jack DeJohnette(drums)

Triste : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W81MHzVykc

Zingaro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sPfRGo7QKE

No More Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15aI1r_skhE

 

Cheers

Nancy Wilson / Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

NANCY WILSON / CANNONBALL ADDERLEY

Nancy Wilson(vocals), Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Nat Adderley(cornet), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

Capitol  1961 / 1993

 

Save Your Love for Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpqQwbayrzM

The Masquerade is Over : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNa9PJLIdsA

Teaneck : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCsoR62epPs

The Old Country : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWElAxatI4Y

 

Cheers

Bill Evans

THE PARIS CONCERT, Edition One

Elektra Masters  1989

 

My Romance : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ESPzJB9JOI

*I Loves You Porgy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWCtoE7OX4Q

Beautiful Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeDufyIIdeM

*He seems to leave 'Porgy' altogether, but comes back at the very end at 6:39.  Love it.

 

Cheers

James Booker

RESURRECTION of the BAYOU MAHARAJAH

Rounder   1993

Notes: "Booker had all these musical cats hanging out inside him - Louis Morreau Gottschalk, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor longhair, Chopin, Monk - and they all decided to stand up and go to the piano at the same time.  He was a one-of-a-kind, brilliant, genius."

 

Medley: Slow Down : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zya7-ekMXw

Medley: Tico Tico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA5Aoq32N4g

Medley: Life : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa7w0yYjXNs

Save your love for me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd2GJeaPQ8o

 

Cheers

Milt Jackson

PLENTY, PLENTY SOUL  //  BALLADS & BLUES

Atlantic / Poll Winners Records      1957 / 2012

 

Plenty, Plenty Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR8mbsZG1XY

Blues at Twlight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHMcn9xMDsk

The Spirit-Feel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1relR9eKdQ

These Foolish Things : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h8SDQyz5ww

Gerry's Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040aK3jFw_w

 

Cheers

Just poking a little fun on the somewhat large number of postings

 

That's the way I took it.  But I try to post only once a day.  I can get carried away!

Cheers

 ****Are you just listing every song you ever heard?*****

I only list what I own,  and only the ones I consider above average.

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Tina Brooks Quintet

MINOR MOVE

Blue Note 1958

One of the more tragic personal stories in Jazz. First recording as leader in 1958, last recording in 1961, dead at age 42. Died 13 years after his last recording. Recorded a lot more but Blue Note never released them. Seems the folks at Blue Note were disgusted by his heroin habit.

Notes: He died at 42, a bitter, penniless, incapacitated wreck, but he was given up for dead years before that."

No other genre can match Jazz for wasted talent and potential.

 

Minor Move : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpML8UqIV30

Everything Happens to Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFkShfAZb0

Nutsville : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGn4tqO1YIk

The Way You Look Tonight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFv1cAEVWMY

 

Cheers

 

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

THE FAR EAST SUITE - SPECIAL MIX

Blue Bird     1966 / 1995

Notes: When Duke Ellington visited Baghdad, Isfahan and Beirut in 1963, they were part of a world we know more about today.  The fact that a military coup was in progress and jets shooting up the presidential palace when he arrived in Baghdad indicates that even then things were not perhaps what they seemed to be.  ---    Stanley Dance

 

Isfahan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXm-6sPDCm0

Bluebird of Delhi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F145wF4wP4

Ad Lib on Nippon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB1zXHJcdyA

Mount Harissa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSughSaBmYM

 

Cheers

Sonny Stitt

THE LAST SESSIONS, VOLUMES ONE and TWO

Recorded 9 June 1982.  Sonny Stitt died of cancer on July 22 1982.

with Jimmy Cobb, Walter Davis, George Duvivier, Bill Hardman, Junior Mance

Savoy Jazz        1982 / 2003

Volume Two:

At Last : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnG9xxLIcw

As Time Goes By : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZlVltPAMM

Bouncing With Bud : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQrCsydZed8

Volume one:

Steamroller : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kQEO7Np5g

Sweet Georgia Brown : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmFfTiWOM80

I'll be seeing You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_2ptVhsHOA

 

Cheers

 

 

Lee Morgan

LEE MORGAN VOL. 3

Lee Morgan (trumpet), Gigi Gryce (alto sax), Benny Golson (tenor sax, arrange), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Charlie Persip (drums)

Blue Note  1957 / 1996     (mono)

All Compositions by Benny Golson

 

I Remember Clifford : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFH7YQ-2U2w

Tip Toeing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-s5tPPeNk

Hasaan's Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feNz-vgOSgA

 

Cheers

 

Coleman Hawkins

ALIVE! AT THE VILLAGE GATE 1962

Verve / American Jazz Classics       1962  

Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy9qN7afXL0

All the Things You Are : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNg1jELYyI

 

same recording date, with Roy Eldridge and Johnny Hodges

Satin Doll : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mbu_tF1KXo

The Rabbit in Jazz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDiGhwcjbA

Perdidio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EG86kUp3w

 

Cheers

 

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

OVERTURES

Chicago Symphony orchestra -- Fritz Reiner

RCA Gold Seal / BMG 1958 / 1990

 

The Silken Ladder : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrugBmgKIIQ

The Barber of Seville : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ei0w3Ndyfc

William Tell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJNGz0RL6qo

 

Cheers

Sonny Rollins

PLUS 4

Prestige / OJC     1956 / 1987

Notes: ...On "Pent-Up House", Sonny and Brownie combine in one of the most brilliant interactions in the recorded annals of Jazz. -- Nat Hentoff

Quite a statement.

Valse Hot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIVtK2gXLpk&t=162s

I Feel a Song Comin' On : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUzYLtf7pKw

Pent-Up House : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlpEnsa2d8

Cheers

Clark Terry

PORTRAITS

Chesky Records 1989

Notes : "This session is a tribute to legendary trumpeters"

 

Little Jazz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48S9GYC_upQ                          (Roy Eldridge)

Jive at Five : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_I_KW9dmo                      (Harry "Sweets" Edison)

Sugar Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Y1k_kUSoE                       (Clyde McCoy)

Autumn Leaves : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP5sVYySTbc                 (Miles Davis)

Sleepy Time Down South : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-xIfIFb2VU      (Louis Armstrong)

 

Cheers

 

Lester Young

LESTER YOUNG IN WASHINGTON D.C. 1956  VOL 2

Pablo Records / OJC      1956 / 1996

Another Great from Mississippi.

 

Lester Leaps In : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgbCjn5hsuY

Jumpin' with Symphony Sid :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhbeP7Mv_8

I'm Confessin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijfTz195rY

Lullabye of Birdland : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdYnd51ZFo

 

Cheers