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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Lee Morgan

TOM CAT

Blue Note  1964 / 2005  RvG Edition

Notes : Like many of Blue Note's artists in the 1950s and '60s, Lee Morgan produced the majority of his albums at the helm of bands that had no existence beyond the confines of Rudy Van Gelder's studio.

 

Tom Cat : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGqiloCbQYE

Twilight Mist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWTgEvBltI0

Riggarmortes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Oe17Ck6cQ

 

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Horace Silver

DOIN' THE THING -- AT THE VILLAGE GATE

Blue Note  1961 / 2006    RvG Edition

Blue Mitchell(trumpet), Junior Cook(tenor sax), Horace Silver(piano), Gene Taylor(bass), Roy Brooks(drums)

 

Filthy McNasty : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79mkzKEVjr0

Doin' the Thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWjeslQOhfE

Kiss me Right : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mylrweNOF54

 

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Thelonious Monk

AT THE BLACKHAWK

Riverside / OJCCD   1960 / 1987

Thelonious Monk(piano), Joe Gordon(trumpet), Charlie Rouse/Harold Land(tenor sax), John Ore(bass), Billy Higgins(drums)

 

Let's Call This : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx8WYjdED44

Four in One : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJanPUBLiE

'Round Midnight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmFJpS1HABo

Sentimental over You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_070LLRtfU

 

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Monty Alexander

MY AMERICA

Telarc  2002

Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander is a Jamaican jazz pianist. His playing has a Caribbean influence and bright swinging feeling, with a strong vocabulary of bebop jazz and blues rooted melodies. Wikipedia

Apparently named after British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery of Alamein.

 

Love and Happiness : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfuN5COqvYo

Mack the Knife : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD1wPr2yv4g

Battle Hymn of the Republic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I51cIP_ZGh0

Rockin' in Riddim : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDedaXg0OzY

 

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Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds

BLUE HOUR--THE COMPLETE SESSIONS

Blue Note  1960 / 2000   2CD set

 

I want a little girlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaL-vjOBGqk

Ain't I good to youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A6PE1Xc7Ds

Since I fell for youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1IRaVCkwI

Willow weep for mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AJHLr7dJfE

Blues in the closethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9vNUao-Cww

Blue hourhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2C6RInZ-0g

 

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Jacky Terrasson

REACH

Blue Note   1996

Booklet includes Interesting info on the recordings process used for this session.  Notes : The Cello recorded approach brings back this sonic fidelity beyond even the best of the legendary vintage recordings.

 

Sentimental Reasonshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84DcSyPTwnc

I should Carehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8utvlx9mtw

Just one of those thingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJks6gXPeT0

Reach/Smoke gets in your eyeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5lpahSpEFs

 

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McCoy Tyner

THE REAL McCOY

Blue Note    1967 / 1987

McCoy's debut at Blue Note.  Notes by Nat Hentoff.

 

Passion Dancehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zdoOyeRTCA

Four by Fivehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CO-eIhgxuU

Blues on the Cornerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQFZNm7JGqg

 

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Big Davis fan here, as a Jazz player.  No so much as a Trumpet player.  Armstrong, Marsalis, Edison and Eldridge are my favorites.

Maybe he played muted trumpet just a little too much.

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Franz Joseph Haydn

STRING QUARTETS Op.71 and Op.74

The Griller String Quartet

Vanguard / Artemis    1959 / 2005

 

Quartet in B-flat major, Op.71, No.1

Allegrohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bET4qGwLoY

Adagiohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE2a1YPXzZs

Menuetto :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJ3ud6BMHQ

Vivacehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nqbAayZpzs

 

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John Coltrane

BOTH DIRECTIONS AT ONCE - THE LOST ALBUM

Impulse / Verve   1963 / 2018   2CD set

"This is like finding a new room in the great pyramid." -- Sonny Rollins

Many alternate takes.

 

11383https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFesTJYGDHo

One up, One downhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv5jXVR-fK4

Impressionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NACtkYkOHOA

Slow Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH3mb3oXCpw

Vilia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC6iqCx_vKc

 

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Sonny Rollins

A NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD (complete)

Blue Note  1957 / 1999    2CD set  

Evening set.

 

Softly as in a morning sunrisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2O9RVsKFk0

Sonnymoon for twohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl4LKaS1nLI

All the things you arehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2O9RVsKFk0

I'll remember Aprilhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69kkkyEom8Y

 

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Donald Byrd

BYRD IN HAND

Blue Note / Enlightenment   1959 / 2014

From The Definitive Classic Blue Note Collection.  5CD set, 10 complete albums.

 

Witchcrafthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VftxJwFjHx4

Here am Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jpFtZ9KmvI

Devil Whiphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwZDzjpf8WA

Bronze Dancehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHvtiJJEDVc

 

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Various Composers

FAMOUS OVERTURES

Chicago / London / Wiener / Symphony Orchestras - Sir Georg Solti

Decca  1999    2CD set

 

Light Cavalryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcgpeyEae-Y

Le nozze di Figarohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIH0qnQXX6U

Egmont https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTMmyAt-Jik

II barbiere di Sivigliahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tOrpfCHw_I

Pique Damehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY7LU95jHi0

Poet and Peasanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGkzj7JRR7w

Morning, Noon and Nighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZRRwShkB0

And 12 more!

 

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

MEMPHIS...YES I'M READY

Okeh Records   2017

Nice fold out booklet with pictures.  When you remove the CD there is a cute pic of Dee Dee as a baby.  Memphis is her hometown.

 

Yes, I'm readyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3tJwWNntc8

Can't get next to youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D12fn1a-Mes

Going Down Slowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tiONsEnRE

The Sweeter he ishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuibejJg9mA

Can't stand the rainhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQJC6FVxmk

Precious Lord (take my hand) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdszR6rCLA

 

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Sonny Clark

SONNY'S CRIB

Blue Note    1959 / 1998

Nice booklet and notes by Leonard Feather.  Trane on Board!

 

Sonny's Cribhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAn0suIllvg

With a song in my hearthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1BRS6hiMTs

Speak Lowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4-TDkdu5ds

News for Luluhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb6iRsTlhOE

 

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@danager , @curiousjim 

Thank you kindly.

 

"That Old Black Magic" brought me back to my younger days and Louis Prima and Keely Smith.  One of my earliest ventures into Jazzy type music.

 

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Lee Morgan

THE COMPLETE LIVE AT THE LIGHTHOUSE

Blue Note  1970 / 2021    8 CD set

Lee Morgan's last release during his life time.

 

Friday, 10 July 1970,   Set One:

The Beehivehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u084Bm_i6wU

Yunjanahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peLDg3DHCbY

Something Like Thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkPK8thmNmE

 

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Modern Jazz Quartet

FOR ELLINGTON

East-West  Records   1988

John Lewis(piano), Milt Jackson(vibes), Percy Heath(bass), Connie Kay(drums)

 

Rockin' in Rhythmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkJXYfi4MSE

Jack the Bearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2WETT64tH8

Ko-Ko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg7CxVW1mrs

It Don't Mean a Thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvK-X9hXdws

 

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

VIOLIN CONCERTOS

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)

Berliner Philharmoniker -- Herbert von Karajan

DG  1978 / 1999

Anne-Sophie Mutter was 14 when this was recorded.  Mozart was 19 when he wrote it.

Violin Concerto No.5  KV 219

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaJqkk8R-Q4&t=248s

 

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Albert Collins / Robert Cray / Johnny Copeland

SHOWDOWN

Alligator   1985

It's Saturday Night Somewhere!!

 

T-Bone Shufflehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V88a0iBy9B4

Lion's Denhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoCSB0jNgqM

She's into Somethinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxaqKUwETFI

Black Cat Bonehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okYn4h35W5c

Bring your fine self homehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHtO0SdOL4

 

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Mary Lou Williams

SOLO RECITAL

Pablo / OJCCD     1978 / 1998

Notes : As Duke Ellington once said of Mary Lou's playing and composing, she is both "always contemporary" and "always a little ahead."

Wiki : Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981)[1] was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions).  Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious MonkCharlie ParkerMiles DavisTadd DameronBud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.

 

Tea for Twohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZv_gZqLn_Y

Honeysuckle Rosehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAIhsVR4Zho

Little Joe from Chicagohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN9_JEYSpsM

What's your story : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slwQ8yDbFjM

Medleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tflOUTatpNw

 

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Bill Evans

THE INTERPLAY SESSIONS

with Freddie Hubbard and Zoot Sims

Riverside / Milestone     1962 / 2007

 

Interplayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJnnJ49vNQo

You and the Night :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVr3zn8MEng

Wrap your troubles in a Dreamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGk9xkvI4mc

When You Wish upon a Starhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfYshSdWf-Q

 

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Bill Evans

THE PARIS CONCERT, EDITION TWO

Elektra Musician / Blue Note 1979 / 2001

Notes : Evans, the pianist and composer, sought to create beauty and explore and reveal what was best around us, without being overly sentimental or becoming too flashy or "hard" technically. He was a romanticist who swung and moved in a manner that suited him.

Recorded in 1979, he died in 1980.

 

Gary’s Theme : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYAQzd1ZxK8

Nardis : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xui8fqY9zp4

34 Skidoo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZQ_HuKpUU

 

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Hank Mobley

SOUL STATION

Blue Note  1960 / 1999

Notes : ...Soul Station stands at the head of Mobley's magnificent 1960-63 body of work, and why it has been frequently called his Saxophone Colossus or Giant Steps...

 

Rememberhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbmKLZ_opuQ

Soul Stationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfUIzb4IFgA

If I should Lose Youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GRG7HNDct8

 

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Nicholas Payton

GUMBO NOUVEAU

Verve  1996

New Orleans meets bebop.  Wonder what Pops would make of it all.

 

Whoopin' Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaphqsKzGAE

Way down yonderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVkDD4x-Uw

St. James Infirmaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8YfuttFsXs

Li'l Liza Janehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igy4qdqiex8

Wild Man Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIXrGuxkSV4

 

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Sonny Rollins

A NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Blue Note  1957 / 1987

Sonny Rollins(tenor sax), Wilbur Ware(bass), Elvin Jones(drums), Donald Bailey(bass), Pete La Roca(drums)

Notes : This LP constitutes a double premiere.  For the first time Sonny Rollins is heard appearing before the public as leader of his own combo.  For the first time Village Vanguard, one of New York's most proudly prescient night clubs, comes to life through the medium of an in-person recording.

 

Softly Morning Sunrisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ah5umK0dA

A Night in Tunisia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWiVGAdJqc

Old Devil Moonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELgmb8cyTsQ

Fourhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZf0knmytw

 

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Ludwig van Beethoven

SYMPHONY NO.5

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Manfred Honeck

Reference Recordings 2015    SACD

Excellent and very informative booklet.

Notes: Beethoven wrote his Fifth Symphony over the course of four years. During the same time, he also worked on his Sixth Symphony and other compositions including Fidelio and the Piano Concerto No.4. The world premiere of the Fifth Symphony took place on the 22nd of December, 1808 in the theater an der Wien.

 

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, OP. 67

1. Allegro con Brio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icKeTON0a60

2. Andante con moto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG3QoslAZmQ

3. Allegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6DcYGpE5Yk

4. Allegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAjXFma3318

 

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Wayne Shorter

SPEAK NO EVIL

Blue Note  1964 / 1987

Notes : Legends, folklore, black magic---all sources of artistic inspiration.  But nothing about the work of Wayne Shorter and his group can be traced to necromantic secrets.  In Speak No Evil they rely upon the stuff of all artistic achievement---talent, craftsmanship and imagination.

 

Fee-Fi-Fo-Fumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bE0CZi-O8c

Speak no Evilhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdc3KJVopU4

Wild Flowerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjGEYuITiVM

 

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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

STANDING MY GROUND

Alligator Records  1989

On this disc Brown sings and plays Guitar, Fiddle, Piano and Drums.

 

Got my mojo workinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikNVbUxQ_Bc

Born in Louisianahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ69Z73IX3c

Cool Jazzhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQpq-KJBljo

She walks right inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQeW_C7k_PM

What am I living forhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBHqMDYioQY

 

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Chucho Valdés

LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Blue Note   1999

Notes : Regarding his own compositions, Chucho Valdés explains how he melds Cuban and Jazz idioms with such finesse: "There is one thing that is bilingual," he says, "the eight chords that are purely Cuban, and the harmonics that are pure Jazz."

Son XXI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHPoXlHyCZ0

To Bud Powell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6jpPLb7i1w

Punto Cubano : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuJinRMAxo

Drume Negrita : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17p6OVgVAbg

My Funny Valentinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r31Vlw4MkY

 

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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

CANNONBALL'S SHARPSHOOTERS

EmArcy / Mercury   1958 / 1986

Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Nat Adderley(trumpet), Junior Mance(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Jimmy Cobb(drums)

 

Our Delighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmGenUcsx5g

Straight, No chaserhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOnQZ3J2H9c

If I love againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1s2TGLTKF0

Stay on ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lct90b7SjEw

Jubilationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cs9c7RgDvI

 

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Wynton Marsalis Septet

UNITED WE SWING

Blue Engine Records  2005-07 / 2018

 

The Last Timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIad7Q6M6uE

Outskirts of Townhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDqIY-A7HI

Find another Youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3aD8P6JyZM

Creole Love Call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zOlugtNz0k

Go My Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkt2IvpWY1c

The Worst Thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsjT2SyWemg

What have you done?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd1Y3I1_ci0

In order:

Blind Boys of Alabama, Ray Charles, John Mayer,  Audra McDonald, Lenny Kravitz,  Natalie Merchant, Wynton Marsalis.

 

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Hampton Hawes

ALL NIGHT SESSION VOL 1

Contemporary / Avid Jazz 1956 / 2013

Hampton Hawes(piano), Jim Hall(guitar), Red Mitchell(bass), Bruz Freeman(drums)

 

Jordu : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-tCXuA__go

Groovin’ High : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHXDPqKi0bY

Takin’ Care : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r41J8Z0oZQ

Hampton’s Pulpit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5hSMq_s49I

 

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