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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Art Pepper

NO LIMIT

Contemporary / OJC   1977 / 1989

Art Pepper(alto and tenor sax), George Cables(piano), Tony Dumas(bass), Carl Burnett(drums)

 

Rita Sanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47uIZFNTIvQ

*Mambo de la Pintahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gknRRzQ6Cfo

Ballad of sad Young menhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtrDWBOsvIg

 

*On Mambo de la Pinta, Pepper overdubbed himself on tenor so he could play along with himself on alto.

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Marcus Roberts

ALONE WITH THREE GIANTS

Novus  1990

The three giants are Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk.

 

Morton

Jungle Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgXbNlWVffo

New Orleans Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHF8KczwKHI

The Crave : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL3a12m_U7M

Ellington

Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_rEaVodZnI

Mood Indigo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPctDMlzPE0

Solitude : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKiT9qi8MwM

Monk

Misterioso : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_vX_wTOhA

In Walked Bud : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r15Ri5nSA6k

Crepuscule with Nellie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj6g1ktrAsc

 

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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

 

Willie Dixon

THE BIG THREE TRIO

CBS  (compilation)  1990

Wikipedia : William James Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time.

Born: July 1, 1915, Vicksburg, MS

Died: January 29, 1992, Burbank, CA

 

Hard notch boogie beathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXMThTIYpfI

Tell that womanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm8E7wtypIs

Come here pretty babyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sh9mt1BMaQ

No one to love me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSSAPJsdnFo

You don't love me no morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6k---0B4k4

Big three stomphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0mMN1II2wo

 

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The Langley Schools Music Project

INNOCENCE AND DESPAIR

Bar None  2001

We don't need no stinking drug-crazed Rockers!!

Excellent Booklet with great explanation of this project.

 

Good Vibrations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA3i0M65U-s

Help me Rhonda : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFIMTkNDobU

Desperado : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9F-no5av-s

Mandy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tZAjSLzMbc

Sweet Caroline : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xNl6_IiQm0

Space Oddity : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWjTbB4ONeM

 

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Ludwig Van Beethoven

THE BEETHOVEN JOURNEY

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Sony  2012

 

Piano Concerto No.1, in C Major Op.15

Allegro con brio :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO4_kvRjeZs

Largohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqYrDZUMcuA

Rondo.  Allegrohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOmWIaO5mFw

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John Coltrane

SOULTRANE

John Coltrane(tenor sax), Red Garland(piano), Paul Chambers(bass), Arthur Taylor(drums)

Prestige  1958 / 1987

 

I want to talk about youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osUFSIugxx8

Russian Lullabyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRm4iaNn3OU

Good Baithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgSS4syBg6w

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Jimmy Smith

BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK

Blue Note  1960 / 2007 (RVG Edition)

 

Back at the Chicken Shackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rmIIvimeUY

When I grow to old to dreamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ZHFlvJ_tQ

On the sunny side of the streethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5AFNZ2CD6c

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Ludwig van Beethoven

SYMPHONY NO. 9

Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

DG  1977 / 2007

The first multi-disc box set I ever purchased.  From a classical record shop in Nuremberg, Germany.  If you thought you might like a record, you could play it on the house turntable to be sure!!  The clerk assured me my copy had not been 'tried out'.

Outstanding packaging.  A collectors item, even in the age of digital. 

 

Symphonie Nr. 9 d-moll op. 125:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ucw4r6ZRos&t=3347s

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Joe Henderson

JOE HENDERSON IN JAPAN

Milestone / OJCCD  1973 / 2000

 

All Japanese rhythm section.  

'Round Midnight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJhvNqd3szE

Blue Bossa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGoa_bevt28

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The Quintet

JAZZ AT MASSEY HALL

Debut / OJC   1953 / 1989

Dizzy Gillespie(trumpet), Charlie Parker(alto sax), Bud Powell(piano), Charles Mingus(bass), Max Roach(drums)

 

Perdidohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TvNzAe3oGo

All the Things you arehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9NV5kehLo

A Night in Tunisiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkn2rDQx0Ok

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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

George Benson

TENDERLY

Warner Brothers  1989

George Benson(Guitar), McCoy Tyner(piano), Ron Carter(bass), Louis Hayes(drums), Lenny Castro(percussion)

 

At the Mambo Innhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11-TeC5wq90

Stella by Starlighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xelCxHoV5Gs

I could write a bookhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EPydLtFOGw

Tenderlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS3Hiksc78M

Stardusthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf7FY1R5ig8

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World Saxophone Quartet

RHYTHM AND BLUES

Elektra Musician  1989

Julius Hemphill(alto sax), Oliver Lake(alto sax), David Murray(tenor sax), Hamiet Bluiett(baritone sax)

 

For the love of moneyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFy2scn-CsI

Let's get it onhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8YF2qB5VGw

The dock of the bayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKN_4qNWzJQ

Night Trainhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KoZuy60OX8

Try a little tendernesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jH3bsj_OPI

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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

 

Kenny Burrell

ELLINGTON IS FOREVER VOL. 2

Fantasy  1977 / 1994

Notes : We hope you enjoy this, our second volume of Ellington is Forever.  Again, it is also our hope that these performances will give you further cause to reflect on the wonderful contribution to us all from Duke Ellington.  --  Kenny Burrell

 

I'm just a lucky so and so : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEFSeH3pD3E

Take The A Train : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtxIHJpPqE

Come Sunday : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yId01fp3aNE

Satin Doll : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qLjXd4OKOc

Prelude to a Kiss : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hm-kP6i0A

Nothin' but the Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR06Do2dwZk

and 10 more!

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Duke Ellington

MONEY JUNGLE

Blue Note  1962 / 1987

Duke Ellington(piano), Charlie Mingus(bass), Max Roach(drums)

Notes: "The title tune is "Money Jungle."  This sounds like a title that might have been thought of by the protest conscious Mingus or Roach.  But no, as all the tunes here, it is a product of the Ellington imagination."

 

Money Jungle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9CfWuUIhvk

Caravanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPnB56fQJNQ

Very Specialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdhmqZGYDA

REM Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnbZUFQqnEY

African Flowerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HFQy9_rY58

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I suppose that it could be argued that a protest is not much of a protest if it is not in plain “view”. However, some, including some artists, choose to not mix their art with politics; not in an obvious way, anyway.

“I merely took the energy that it takes to pout and wrote some blues.” - Duke Ellington

 

Great record, btw.

some artists, choose to not mix their art with politics; not in an obvious way, anyway.

 

Mingus was very radical and outspoken, as long as he was in NYC.  Below the Mason-Dixon, not so much.

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She seems to have the right cultural pedigree.  Being a stone fox does not hurt.

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Tina Brooks

TRUE BLUE

Blue Note  1960 / 1992

Notes: Brooks was one of Jazz's ultimate footnotes until the Blue Note savvy Japanese brought his 1958 quintet session, Back to the Tracks and the rest of the Brooks/McLean music into print toward the close of the 1970s.

 

Good Old Soul (alternate take) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSKgqALZ0II

True Bluehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEVrlhg4rmw

Nothing ever changeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy9dkBv9_8w

Up Tight's Creekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fstrRnjj1jE

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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

 

Otis Clay

SOUL MAN :  LIVE IN JAPAN

Bullseye Blues / Rounder    1983 / 1991

After all, Saturday is Blues / R&B day.

 

A Nickel and a Nailhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9DlXwHIR4

Here I amhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4pXKj0qhZw

Love don't Love nobodyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP675BN-V2A

Love and Happinesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EBHsnlf6S8

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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

THE MUSIC OF JOHN LEWIS

Blue Engine Records  2017

with Wynton Marsalis featuring Jon Batiste

 

Delaunay's Dilemma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTDEFrPpZq4

Django https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYxhWeC8K3w

2 degrees East, 3 degrees Westhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f85t2lhD9Vc

Two Bass Hithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35c-Lv_lITY

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I always play this one the 4th because I am proud 1 cared for the anti-air guns of The U. S. S. Hancock for my 3 years. This Great Ship that fought better then any Carrier  WWII Korea and Vietnam. There it was the oldest ship but made more sorties than any other .

Her men loved her, she alive to us and we all went out for her .

Sleep in the Ocean now loved one .

Sonny Stitt with Oscar Peterson  

SITS IN WITH THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO

Verve  1959 / 2008

Notes require a microscope.

I can't give you anythinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Spi1ClH4cI

The Gypsyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzmdPTgMEpY

Scrapple from the Applehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGAnajI1twk

Easy does ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGl86wRHeKg

Blues for Pres, Sweets, Benhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbIOxwRRqks

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AMEN

 

I was also proud that we shoot at balls in the sea to find 100 Sailors fit to go on land with the 38 Marines always on the carrier, should that be need, with M1 rifles in hand.

Since I was a born hunter, got my first deer at 12 . I came in 3rd .Even tried in over the ship nets in the Phillpines , no sweat !

 

Malachi Thompson and Africa Brass

BUDDY BOLDEN'S RAG

Delmark  1995

featuring Lester Bowie

Notes: The word JAZZ wasn't connected to the music until about 20 years after the music became popular in New Orleans.  The popular term for syncopated music at the time was Rag.

 

Buddy Bolden's Raghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYm-uuKYzrs

Mouse in the Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StplLBDJVbQ

We Bophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avqYxljClsg

Kojo Timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7pnMWqPL0

 

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