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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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

CONCERTO NO.25 FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA

Leon Fleisher (piano) / Cleveland Orchestra - Szell

CBS   1960-1961 / 1987

 

Concerto NO. 25 in C major  K. 503

Allegro maestoso : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQlfeWv5KLQ

Andante : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryiiPm2HTEc

Allegretto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJOLzItn67M

 

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The Pointer Sisters

YES WE CAN CAN

The best of the Blue Thumb Recordings

Universal Music  1997

You gotcha Blues, Country, Pop and Jazz, all on one disc.  A fourfer?

 

Going down slowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8EwD62JTjs

Fairytale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZBErXJpIE

Cloudburst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-OaC8LPdX4

Jadahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWrWtq7M9DM

Salt Peanutshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sKBSsaqeyY

 

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Paul Chambers

BASS ON TOP

Blue Note  1957 / 2007

Kenny Burrell(guitar), Hank Jones(piano), Paul Chambers(bass), Art Taylor(drums)

Excellent Booklet with pics.

 

Yesterdayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqitMFdcsMU

You'd be so nicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG4KfCiUVrs

Dear Old Stockholmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU6_nMhhYDI

Chasin' the Birdhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnrWtO0hzBI

 

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Gene Ammons' All Stars

THE BIG SOUND

Prestige / OJC   1958 / 1991

Notes : John Coltrane's only known recorded solos on Alto Saxophone.

 

Blue Hymnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuH9Q3BxRuM

That's All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvqVSqKm2E

Cheek to Cheekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x3KnsxVulA

 

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

PIANO CONCERTO No.2 

Van Cliburn (piano)

Chicago Symphony -- Fritz Reiner

RCA  1961, 1962 / 1994

Notes : Informative booklet which includes, 'The History of Living Stereo.'

 

Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18

Moderato; Allegrohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUrotc3cj-s

Adagio sostenutohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv3NfWt6LzM

Allegro scherzandohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5GbS96-_xw

 

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The Tina Brooks Quintet

THE WAITING GAME

Blue note  recorded / released  1961 / 2002

Wiki : The Waiting Game is an album recorded by hard-bop tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks, recorded on March 2, 1961 for Blue Note, but not released as a single album until 2002. It features performances by Brooks, Johnny ColesKenny DrewWilbur Ware and Philly Joe Jones. It was Brooks last recording as leader.

 

Dhyanahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaMk8GBM1jY

David the Kinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJZ652bZ1jY

Stranger in Paradisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifPxhbrWTkc

The Waiting Gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMkT55MU7yU

 

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

FIRST FLIGHT TO TOKYO

Recorded / Released by Blue Note   1961 / 2021   2CD set

Excellent packaging and absolutely Outstanding Booklet.

This set is a previously unissued gig by one of the greatest lineups in the long history of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers -- Blakey, drums; Bobby Timmons, piano; Wayne Shorter, saxophone; Lee Morgan, trumpet; Jymie Merrit, bass. First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings are drawn from the final shows of the band's first tour of Japan. They were professionally recorded on a Nagra tape recorder to serve as a soundtrack for a documentary film that was never completed. At some point over the decades, the original tapes were transferred to quarter-inch tape reels, cataloged, shelved, and sat some more -- they were never really "lost."  ---  All Music Guide

 

 

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

Dat Derehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRuAO2S_kB0

A Night in Tunisiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGDs4FAWqCQ

Now's the timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPM7bUsMGMc

'Round about Midnighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBGPeld0d4g

 

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Coleman Hawkins

THE HAWK FLIES HIGH

Riverside / OJCCD    1957 / 1987

Notes : Hawkins literally invented Jazz saxophone, starred in the first Jazz big band, and played with unfailing strength and invention into the sixties.

 

Sanctityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHeXHbb0IE8

Chanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtGhtrDueO0

Laurahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8JkbVfoB1Y

 

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Herbie Hancock

GERSHWIN'S WORLD

Verve 1998

with / Joni Mitchell, Kathleen Battle, Stevie Wonder, James Carter, Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, Orpheus Chamber Orch, Wayne Shorter, and Eddie Henderson.

 

The man I Lovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hng-V6zwaIE

Summertimehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrU73XFKkjM

St. Louis Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ETI30Oyhc

Cotton Tailhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C-jUAQJzWo

Prelude in C# minorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jNqGX3wrd0

 

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@mspot 

I have a copy of the DVD, but I prefer the CD.  I actually have two copies of the CD, just in case I drop one, resulting in permanent damage. :)

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Original Cast Recording

THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS

Nonesuch 1988

 Wikipedia:  The Gospel at Colonus is an African-American musical version of Sophocles's tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus. The show was created in 1983 by the experimental-theatre director Lee Breuer, one of the founders of the seminal American avant-garde theatre company Mabou Mines, and composer Bob Telson. 

 

How Shall I See You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3qweSTxVYI

A Voice Foretold : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqCfChKHfk

Lift me Up : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoqU-NI_ajQ

Stop Do Not Go On : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyXUCGAPfeg

Lift Him Up : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiiJl4qmOjk

 

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only America could have given the world  rock & roll 

 

You may be confusing Rock & Roll with 'Rock'.  Two entirely different things.

 

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but virtually the rest of the entire world has a European "bias" on Classical Music

America is an 'exceptional' country, so this is not surprising.

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D. Gillespie - R. Eldridge - H. Edison - C. Terry - J. Turner

THE TRUMPET KINGS MEET JOE TURNER

Pablo / OJCCD  1975 / 1990

Saturday, Da Blues.

 

Mornin’, Noon and Night : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N1z5g6-jZI

I know you love me baby : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x-eruIjW8o

T.V. Momma : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-oPzb2NRGY

’Tain’t nobody’s business : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIsoOdRKZpo

 

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Folks seemed to agree 

 

So do I.  I just have an American bias, just as you have a European bias.

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Chucho Valdés

BELE BELE EN LA HABANA

Blue Note   1998

 Wikipedia:       Jesús Valdés Rodríguez, better known as Chucho Valdés, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger whose career spans over 50 years. An original member of the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, in 1973 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. 

 

Con Poco Coco : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgfy1KAhF8U

El Cumbanchero : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkat6-VwVA

Tres Lindas Cubanas : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dPvB27V68

Son Montuno : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxo-M_mY2_k

 

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I can not say the LPO is the best Orchestra in the world ,but I will say nobody is better .

 

Not sure they are even the best in the United Kingdom, the world, there is always Cleveland.

Exhibit A:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHCFKu__zl4&t=1662s

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Duke Ellington and Count Basie

DUKE ELLINGTON MEETS COUNT BASIE

Columbia  1961 / 1999   SACD

First Time! The Count Meets the Duke is an album by American pianists, composers and bandleaders Duke Ellington and Count Basie with their combined Orchestras recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961. On stereo releases of the album, Basie's band is featured on the left channel and Ellington's on the right. Wikipedia

 

Battle Royal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCEcX73-LJk

Jumpin' at the Woodside : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnlaNFl5Gr8

Segue in C : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNvCOCEZWfM

Corner Pocket : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YRdDeoSu74

 

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George Cables

CABLES VISION

Contemporary / OJC    1979 / 1992

with Freddie Hubbard and Bobby Hutcherson and others

 

Morning Song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY-hXWvxezM

I Told You So : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc0qzTQrNBU

Inner Glow : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4phzyBPZ7I

Byrdlike : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTUYwacGjc4

 

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Ludwig van Beethoven

COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS

Igor Levit (piano)

Sony  2019     9CD Box

 

Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor "Pathetique", Op.13

Dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky

                                                    

1. Grave, Allegro di molte : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqOgLPb6iu0

2. Adagio Cantabile : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MWgWcCCwEE

3. Rondo, Allegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHQwmb0DwY

 

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@danager 

Glad you like the music. 

Jazz is hard for me I don't always get it.  Been trying for a couple years and the needle is starting to move but most of jazz intricacies are musically way over my head.

 

As with any type of music, no one likes it all.   Most times, there is nothing to "Get".  It just strikes a chord with you, or it does not.  Any Jazz tune with the word BLUES in the title is a safe place to start.   BTW, Jazz intricacies are musically way over most of our heads, The Frogman being an exception.  But that's no reason not to enjoy the music.

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Horace Silver Quintet

FINGER POPPIN'

Blue Note / Jazz Heritage   1959 / 1992

Notes: Silver gives a short insight of each tune.  Great.

 

Cookin' at the Continental : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWUJ8gyN9fY

Come on Home : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zAxNA70Qnk

Swingin' the Samba : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ogAkIc75_E

Juicy Lucy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-KjJDooJmQ

 

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Duke Ellington

PIANO REFLECTIONS

Capitol Jazz   1953 / 1989

Duke Ellington(piano), Wendell Marshall(bass), Butch Ballard(drums), Dave Black(drums), Ralph Colier(congas)

 

Who Knows : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DoPXLYi3I

Passion Flower : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nyPY_jx2ZI

B Sharp Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe8x1uWCpAg

Sentimental Mood : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atUg6Ehc7JI

What they used to be : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG5sD2i1s7o

Montevideo (night time) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyVivWlBCzo

 

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When it comes to Opera, all we need is Rossini for the overtures, and Mozart and Puccini for the Operas.

Great post.

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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET IN SAN FRANCISCO

Riverside / OJC  1959 / 1989

Notes: When the Cannonball Adderley Quintet finished "Hi-Fly"--its closing number after a four-week engagement at the Jazz Workshop in October 1959--the audience stood and cheered and whistled and clapped for fifteen minutes.

 

Bohemia after dark : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfM5nJI60Vw

Spontaneous Combustion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT_m8LVctk0

This Here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es8kM8FU6eU

Hi-Fly : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSB6dlwHYo

 

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Gioachino Rossini

COMPLETE OVERTURES VOL 1

Prague Sinfonia Orchestra / Christian Benda

Naxos    2012

Very informative fold out booklet.

 

La gazza ladra : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNElkeCHRW8

Semiramide : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw4xHuTKP3U

*Elisabetta d'Inghilterra : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZuKaIqhsFU

 

*Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (Italian pronunciation: [elizaˈbɛtta reˈdʒiːna diŋɡilˈtɛrra]; Elizabeth, Queen of England) is a dramma per musica or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play Il paggio di Leicester (Leicester's Page) by Carlo Federici, which itself "was derived from a novel The Recess (1785) by Sophia Lee." Some of Elisabetta 's music was recycled in later operas and a part of Elisabetta's first aria was re-used by Rossini four months later in Rosina's aria "Una voce poco fa" in the opera The Barber of Seville.

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Saturday. The Blues.

Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges

BACK TO BACK (Ellington and Hodges play the Blues)

Verve 1959 / 1997

Duke Ellington(piano), Johnny Hodges(alto sax), Harry "Sweets" Edison(trumpet), Les Spann(guitar), Sam Jones(bass), Jo Jones(drums)

 

Weary Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB-J2Bly0T0

Royal Garden Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOeaEj1nCyM

St. Louis Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSW2lRqssEo

Basin Street Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLt63R_m_Sk

 

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band

MY FEET CAN’T FAIL ME NOW

Concord Jazz 1984

Notes : Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s first recording.

 

Blue Monk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amx6g4zFKss

Caravan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPgSiTh-GBk

St. James Infirmary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhK7zXqEZxo

Li’l Liza Jane : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61gqJp-z0Nk

My Feet Can’t Fail : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpaBXN_BAs

 

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Oh! There you are!! :--)))

 

The Queen Lives!!!   I thought Putin had kidnapped you.  Good to hear from you.  What is Jazz without it's Queen?

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Miles Davis

LIVE AROUND THE WORLD

Warner Bros 1988-1991 / 1996

 

In a Silent Way : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzLgVMBMOM8

New Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBTgTdK-UkY

Human Nature : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lttlkkPWC3w

Time after Time : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BfXH3mgZdU

TuTu : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJQsOESMEZs

**Hannibal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIOZHH8rtZ0

**Miles' last recording. He died a few weeks after this.

Excerpt from The Last Miles:
Live Around The World: On recording Miles’s last concert

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and you can be sure that if anyone had known that Miles’ performance at the Hollywood Bowl on 25 August 1991 would be his last, a video crew would have been dispatched to the stadium and probably a remote recording facility too. As it happened, this final performance was not even recorded professionally. Indeed, Miles’ concert sound mixer, Don Kurek didn’t even use a DAT [digital] recorder. Instead, he plugged an analogue Sony Walkman Pro deck into the mixing desk and in the words of road manager Gordon Meltzer: “ Recorded on the cheapest, one-dollar non-metal tape audio cassette you could get.” The resulting recording was dogged by tape hiss, pops and drop-outs (where the sound disappears because of blemishes on the tape’s oxide coating). Yet the producers of Live Around The World were able to salvage a recording that was good enough to include on a CD, and that was largely thanks to modern studio technology.

 

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Hindsight is a wonderful thing and you can be sure that if anyone had known that Miles’ performance at the Hollywood Bowl on 25 August 1991 would be his last, a video crew would have been dispatched to the stadium and probably a remote recording facility too. As it happened, this final performance was not even recorded professionally. Indeed, Miles’ concert sound mixer, Don Kurek didn’t even use a DAT [digital] recorder. Instead, he plugged an analogue Sony Walkman Pro deck into the mixing desk and in the words of road manager Gordon Meltzer: “ Recorded on the cheapest, one-dollar non-metal tape audio cassette you could get.” The resulting recording was dogged by tape hiss, pops and drop-outs (where the sound disappears because of blemishes on the tape’s oxide coating). Yet the producers of Live Around The World were able to salvage a recording that was good enough to include on a CD, and that was largely thanks to modern studio technology.

Hank Mobley

STRAIGHT NO FILTER

Blue Note  1963-1966 / 2001

Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, Billy Higgins, Freddie Hubbard, Barry Harris, Paul Chambers, Andrew Hill, Philly Joe Jones, John Ore, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren

 

Straight No Filter : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6_--p9LFS4

Yes Indeed : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaADTWuga1k

Feeling Good : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeiBSKVATs

Soft Impressions : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpIMF-Nx-Qs

Chain Reaction : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7LCG3Y0Uuo

 

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Irakere

THE BEST OF IRAKERE

Columbia / Sony   1979-1980 / 1994

Notes: This compilation features the best of the all-too-brief period during which they were still performing as a unit.  Jazz greats Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval head the all-star line-up.

 

Gira Gira : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSodmEsZJy8

Aguanile : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvW2vl-ZYZ8

Ciento Anos De Juventud : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTWrUjXoLF0

Misa Negra : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35VE2rZUz_g

 

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