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.

Cheers
rok2id

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This tread to me is all what the forums should be. 👍

My only wish is that instead of YouTube videos they could be placed on a Qobuz playlist so I wouldn't have to look up each track / artist and add them to by favorites manually.

1st world problems

Sisters & BroThers
Eric Bibb 

Eric Bibb, Rory Block & Maria Muldaur - Bessie's advice

https://youtu.be/Wp4a4LuwcCg

 

Together at the Bluebird Café
Live album by Guy Clark, Steve Earle, and Townes Van Zandt


Steve Earle - My Old Friend the Blues

https://youtu.be/l-ieyzzg2N0

Pancho And Lefty · Townes Van Zandt

https://youtu.be/nVccDPsNRzk

Tecumseh Valley · Townes Van Zandt

https://youtu.be/5bIXROVBVGk

Dublin Blues · Guy Clark

https://youtu.be/W1TjIS7jH2c

Artists: Anne Bisson, Vincent Belanger
Album: Conversations
Released: 2016

Comme un tango

https://youtu.be/NJFExC373Sw

Le vent souffle encore

https://youtu.be/4MgK4wVo5vs

Rêverie sentimentale 

https://youtu.be/J0k4i9PWDMU

Sutton Place Chorinho

https://youtu.be/bYXFZAftLIo

 

The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Features  Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes.George Barrow
 Oliver Nelson recorded in February 1961

Stolen Moments

https://youtu.be/RbaGDDbpcQ4

    Hoe Down

https://youtu.be/SlkkQiZ-gV4

    Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth - Cascades

https://youtu.be/b2jqUl27ogY

    Oliver Nelson ~ Yearnin'

https://youtu.be/2ibiHLgDAEs

    Butch and Butch

https://youtu.be/A8yiZvdXJlk

 

@rok2id 

Holy Crappp!!! how many weeks/months/years did it it take you to put this together?  I just want to say THANKS!

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.

One of my favorite albums Nancy Wilson / Julian "Cannonball" Adderley was on the list and I'm currently listening to The Grand Encounter "Tenderly" which makes it really hard to concentrate on typing but if there was a likes button you'd get mine

Que falta você me faz - Músicas de Vinicius de Moraes
Maria Bethânia


Modinha · Maria Bethânia
https://youtu.be/8jjT9C0_oW4

Bom Dia, Tristeza · Maria Bethânia
https://youtu.be/Cm7koQyf0RM

O Que Tinha de Ser · Maria Bethânia
https://youtu.be/VvMeOK2Fj4k

A Felicidade · Maria Bethânia
https://youtu.be/fbsczKsKOYk

Mulher, Sempre Mulher · Maria Bethânia
https://youtu.be/kQqNs_6C00w

Gente Humilde · Maria Bethânia
https://youtu.be/3D5bR-csznc

O Mais-Que-Perfeito · Maria Bethânia
https://youtu.be/fX7XHdcGBT4

@asvjerry Not sure if your comment was in my general direction but it is a point well taken but there are issues.
Case in Point:
Charles Bradley " Changes" (2016)

Good to Be Back Home · Charles Bradley · Menahan Street Band

https://youtu.be/SkioNKJMSUY

Really nice cut. Sounds like James Brown. Modern but would I rather listen to James?

So a more modern representation that doesn’t really sound like anyone from the past but has elements

Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon

Shaolin Monk Motherfunk

https://youtu.be/ya7aDtEdTTo?list=RDya7aDtEdTTo

Jekyll · Hiatus Kaiyote

https://youtu.be/sm0NgVtz1YQ?list=PLYNXcgRtGK8EdRW2ZGjs-uZlpvlw3go0Z

Laputa · Hiatus Kaiyote

https://youtu.be/82DBdsi8L6E?list=PLYNXcgRtGK8EdRW2ZGjs-uZlpvlw3go0Z

Swamp Thing · Hiatus Kaiyote

https://youtu.be/wM9yqvkifDs?list=PLYNXcgRtGK8EdRW2ZGjs-uZlpvlw3go0Z

If a new band performs the standards is it modern?

 

Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives
Souls' Chapel (Album Version)
Released: 2005

Somebody Saved Me

https://youtu.be/SNK39ew3ONQ

Souls' Chapel

https://youtu.be/QtwWe6GDRs4

Way Down

https://youtu.be/rItQHrKcsMI

The Gospel Story Of Noah's Ark

https://youtu.be/fsr3ftvqIkg

Kelly Joe Phelps Brother Sinner and the Whale

Kelly Joe Phelps - Talkin' To Jehovah 

https://youtu.be/6HM_HIrGlc4

Pilgrim's Reach

https://youtu.be/I2WLo-KcxjY

Kelly Joe Phelps - Goodbye To Sorrow

https://youtu.be/94K6_bahKRo

Kelly Joe Phelps - "Hope In The Lord To Provide

https://youtu.be/Mjx8-_CH-YE

 

John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman

They Say It's Wonderful · John Coltrane · Johnny Hartman

https://youtu.be/tUnm-lxHn2A

John coltrane & Johnny hartman Dedicated to You

https://youtu.be/ev6NPL9Vz8s


john coltrane & johnny hartman / "my one and only love"

https://youtu.be/ecrE80rnjhw

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman - Lush Life

https://youtu.be/NXXSmmZI3DU

You Are Too Beautiful · John Coltrane · Johnny Hartman

https://youtu.be/E3RlMT-Xino

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - Autumn Serenade

https://youtu.be/d61NTbWLMOE

 

Nancy Wilson Life, Love and Harmony 
John Klemmer Saxophone

1979

Sunshine

https://youtu.be/5IIzhqB9HVc

And

Rendezvous (Jacky Terrasson and Cassandra Wilson )
1997

Chan's Song · Jacky Terrasson

https://youtu.be/qwhvehDzn7A

Tennessee Waltz

https://youtu.be/4zqAcbwlxEs

Chicago 1987

https://youtu.be/IEnO7INb8Ic

Autumn Leaves

https://youtu.be/dFTh5hOe3iI

Blue Horse is the debut album by The Be Good Tanyas. It was released in 2000 in Canada, and in 2001 in the U.S


The Littlest Birds

https://youtu.be/vu1xmPWTsNg

Broken Telephone (I love Frazey Ford but I can't understand what's she's saying)

https://youtu.be/isc6qPAwtLo

Lakes of Pontchartrain

https://youtu.be/Dtywt38RnX4

Only In The Past

https://youtu.be/h75dvz_3G8c


Bonus Track from Hello Love

When Doves Cry 

https://youtu.be/NnSz0lanL8c


 

Thanks for the Wynton Marsalis.  While it never sounded that good it reminds me of being a kid in the pew of the our small Baptist.  That experience shaped my listening preferences today

 

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau


The Old Shade Tree

https://youtu.be/pJ4-gc9Y6lc

Scarlet Town

https://youtu.be/MXfcwUF9WrQ

I Cover the Waterfront

https://youtu.be/kai8hxq0geY

Marcie

https://youtu.be/qYcfty0rqzI

All three of the collaborations are good.  They really compliment each other.

 Sidsel Endresen & Bugge Wesseltoft
Out here. In there.

Tryhttps://youtu.be/xwbVZ5huaN8

Heartbeat

https://youtu.be/0J1WSLZe7Ow

Out Here. In There

https://youtu.be/2iV2h6NRlw4

Truth

https://youtu.be/loe3JW9euSg

Bonus from NIghsong

I Think It's Gonna Rain Today · Sidsel Endresen · Bugge Wesseltoft

 

 

I couldn't decide which album to post so I included excerpts from both


Winds Of Change
Eric Burdon & The Animals

1967

Paint It Black

https://youtu.be/kTinm9WiWtE

The Black Plague

https://youtu.be/awtDdo5G7Gk

San Franciscan Nights

https://youtu.be/ZSesI5djIsU

Hotel Hell

https://youtu.be/WvMDwhCZdjI

The Twain Shall Meet
Eric Burdon & The Animals

1968

Monterey

https://youtu.be/8YOi8YwjeM0

Closer To The Truth

https://youtu.be/AGmVOKg9ujE

Sky Pilot

https://youtu.be/laSJI58bMMM

All Is One

https://youtu.be/vagaTjUJMRA


Bonus Track

Eric Burden Declares War

Spill The Wine

https://youtu.be/MYCRIykylOc

 


While pulling my records out of 25 years of storage I came across this jewel.  The Good Stuff long forgotten

Gino Vannelli - Powerful People
1974


People Gotta Move (Album Version)

https://youtu.be/WhjX6-iWIAg

Felicia

https://youtu.be/v41ocfGBI1M

Lady

https://youtu.be/8qS4sD0U2vI

Son Of A New York Gun

https://youtu.be/zflVgt6rjUE

 


 

Joe Jackson - Jumpin' Jive
1981

Jack, You're Dead! 

https://youtu.be/LCCWkZFgjAI

Jumpin' With Symphony Sid

https://youtu.be/gRxxQh5njSQ

Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby 

https://youtu.be/b3S8HSU3Xus

We The Cats (Shall Hep Ya) 

https://youtu.be/OliY3mHaSIY

You Run Your Mouth (And I'll Run My Business) 

https://youtu.be/bUvRkijoKss

 

Joe Cocker 
I Can Stand a Little Rain

A great rendition of the Randy Newman's  Clasic Guilty

https://youtu.be/IJIcY1ciKm0

Put out the light

https://youtu.be/WpvpQ6Upo94

I Can Stand a Little Rain

https://youtu.be/PAlVvG88-PQ

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress 

https://youtu.be/R9VmHX41Hkk

 

Ray Charles and Betty Carter 
1961 album by Betty Carter and Ray Charles

Every Time We Say Goodbye

https://youtu.be/qkXYqUB-9NM

People Will Say We're In Love

https://youtu.be/bbo9pXguCXM

Cocktails For Two

https://youtu.be/iwLcsFr5ABE

Together

https://youtu.be/xOo6LIdztJo

The Velvet Fog himself
Mel Tormé with Buddy Rich.
Together Again: For the First Time (1978)

When I Found You

https://youtu.be/C2ecCpL3bT4

Here Is That Rainy Day

https://youtu.be/9Zkchc9m17E

Blues In the Night (great tuba!)

https://youtu.be/qac4Sdkv-9g

I Won't Last a Day Without You

https://youtu.be/PWvibkc5D6o

 

Not nearly enough Mighty Sam McClain on this thread
Mighty Sam McClain – Joy And Pain
1998


Gone For Good 

https://youtu.be/dwfPs0FB3xY

Sledgehammer Soul & Down Home Blues

https://youtu.be/PN7ZukeXzNg

What You Want Me to Do

https://youtu.be/y0u09jTg8Po

Where You Been So Long

https://youtu.be/L_gIPrcbWJs

I can't seem to find any YouTube cuts from this album but mana it sounds good.

Patricia Barber 
Monday Night Live At The Green Mill Volume 3

Click Here to take you to the download page

x.mp3 1. In Your Own Sweet Way (8:07)
x.mp3 2. Romanesque (4:49)
x.mp3 3. Fotografia (5:09)
x.mp3 4. Crash (8:50)
x.mp3 5. I Could Have Danced All Night (4:58)
x.mp3 6. The Thrill Is Gone (4:19)
x.mp3 7. Moon River (4:13)
x.mp3 8. You Gotta Go Home (5:07)
x.mp3 9. Stay With Me (6:31)
x.mp3 10. Orpheus (Sonnet) (4;32)
x.mp3 11. Groovin' High *
total time: (61:08)

Close You Eyes
Artist: Woong San
Release date: December 16, 2009
YouTube doesn't do this album justice. Round Midnight is one of my go to bass tracks

Close Your Eyes

https://youtu.be/cCd4dSi--hk

Walk On By : Woong San feat. Toku

https://youtu.be/6_q1qII170k

Round Midnight

https://youtu.be/kHv6dD7aSY8

 

Cayamo Sessions at Sea
Album by Buddy Miller & Friends

Friends: Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, Brandi Carlile, Shawn Colvin

Sunday Moring Coming Down

https://youtu.be/MnHHFYWjIXM

Hickory Wind

https://youtu.be/z5RgDnaaURU

Wild Horses

https://youtu.be/Uf5qEQO6HC8

Angel From Montgomery

https://youtu.be/gUAGRyafasM

 

Pontiac
Artist: Lyle Lovett
Released: Fall 1987

If I Had A Boat

https://youtu.be/hpM8FjO4Vko

Give Back My Heart

https://youtu.be/UqYMf_IEvMg

Walk Through the Bottomland (Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris)

https://youtu.be/NURxY4T9rNY

She’s No Lady

https://youtu.be/EAaJeaT5m-o

M O N E Y

https://youtu.be/6S_sny36EuY

 

I want to thank ROK2  for keeping this thread going.  It's like a sampler letting me taste all the beers.  My submission for today

Roberta Gambarini 
So In Love
With special guests James Moody, Roy Hargrove

So In Love

https://youtu.be/ObNAQu7M32Y

Crazy

https://youtu.be/GBsy1JyuoNw

That Old Black Magi

https://youtu.be/fV9gYH_AsMs?list=OLAK5uy_npqvKWCziI6VUb9_tFBi8b4fhQhMdb-8s

Estate

https://youtu.be/OTcv8N9stMQ?list=OLAK5uy_npqvKWCziI6VUb9_tFBi8b4fhQhMdb-8s

You Ain't Nothing But A J.A.M.F.

https://youtu.be/npt4bioLUrQ?list=OLAK5uy_npqvKWCziI6VUb9_tFBi8b4fhQhMdb-8s

Just watched the Netflix Miles Davis Birth of the Cool documentary.  I'm not really a Miles Davis fan as but I will say I'm more of one today than yesterday.  Great soundtrack.