The Good Stuff

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

Cheers

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.

Cheers

HoneyHoney 3
2015

Big Man

https://youtu.be/S1kRNRLsdpU

Yours To Bear

https://youtu.be/0hQj6FX0XnY

Burned Me Out

https://youtu.be/Ir9l9PJksAM

God Of Love

https://youtu.be/atZi5LuZ6Jo

Mary Rich

https://youtu.be/f_KW-PA4s9g

Bonus Track:

HoneyHoney Billy Jack
2011

Lets Get Wrecked

https://youtu.be/lp0ZxFdQ6Ak

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.

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

Caravan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPnB56fQJNQ

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

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

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

Cheers

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!

Cheers

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

Highly Recommended

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlwX48dVdj1sqRp4Q172pA/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0

Cheers

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 money : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFy2scn-CsI

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

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

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

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

Cheers

Birds of Chicago 
Live From Space
2013

Barley

https://youtu.be/1bGzA4jEFZY?list=OLAK5uy_l-rpoOHN8zJJzqBAIPRxlvBOwKsrXuD0A

Sugar Dumplin'

https://youtu.be/rbEA7hYYOKE

Sans Souci

https://youtu.be/lipv1Vr14x8

Kathy

https://youtu.be/Wq6fjieugMI?list=OLAK5uy_l-rpoOHN8zJJzqBAIPRxlvBOwKsrXuD0A

Sparrow

https://youtu.be/Obad-xpejhM?list=OLAK5uy_l-rpoOHN8zJJzqBAIPRxlvBOwKsrXuD0A

Bonus Track
The Milk Carton Kids - "You Break My Heart" 

https://youtu.be/0363votyO68

George Benson

TENDERLY

Warner Brothers  1989

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

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

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

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

Tenderly : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS3Hiksc78M

Stardust : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf7FY1R5ig8

Cheers

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 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)

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

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

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

Cheers

Shara Nova, Gaby Moreno, Cantus Domus - 
TRY 

https://youtu.be/QAhs-Yc250w

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

Cheers

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

Cheers

Count Basie and his Orchestra

APRIL IN PARIS

Verve 1956 / 1997

April in Paris : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3HhxLKHnYg

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

Magic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMm-PH90SwU

Shiny Stockings : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWqbQDjLK44

Sweety Cakes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3ZTgYHoaI

Cheers

Horace Silver Quintet and Trio

BLOWIN' THE BLUES AWAY

Blue Note  1959 / 1987

Blowin' the Blues away : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vf_ixOdw8

The St. Vitus Dance : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhKHZb1bGng

Sister Sadie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkLhMPQtQ-o

Peace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieaAHwvqljg

The Baghdad Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69iLUpMNIo8

Cheers

Lee Morgan

SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND

Blue Note  1964 / 1988

Search for the New Land : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUYnnziZYDU

The Joker : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SElnpYZeDzY

Morgan The Pirate : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbYNBW5HMeo

Cheers

Scott Hamilton
Ballad Essentials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8gnQA7BSIA&list=OLAK5uy_nah_LvMTehlMXX4CIe8XIUHzAhOVqhPe8&ab_channel=ScottHamilton-Topic

Jimmy Smith

BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK

Blue Note  1960 / 2007 (RVG Edition)

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

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

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

Cheers

John Coltrane

SOULTRANE

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

Prestige  1958 / 1987

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

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

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

Cheers

Art Blakey

THE JAZZ MESSENGERS

Columbia Legacy  1956 / 1997

The last of the Messenger recordings with Horace Silver.

Infra-Rae : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvgOc6tnVwU

Nica's Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SASVefCnow

Ecaroh : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LsmpcAwWSY

The End of a Love Affair : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krf-M3cODSg

Hank's Symphony : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuNkSYX81M

Cheers

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

Largo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqYrDZUMcuA

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

Cheers

Randy Weston

PORTRAITS OF DUKE ELLINGTON

Verve  1990

C Jam Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8nlgeJh5Gc

Caravan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWnLsib9vOs

Sepia Panorama : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Ku9LJXrOY

Cheers

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

Cheers

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 beat : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXMThTIYpfI

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

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

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

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

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

Cheers

Kenny Burrell

MIDNIGHT BLUE

Blue Note  1963 / 1995

Chitlins con carne : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylGjvwXV3HA

Midnight Blue : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5xhrGqTeos

Saturday Night Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti_f4UA5DME

Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7Cr0QNlqc

Cheers

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

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

Cheers

Art Pepper

NO LIMIT

Contemporary / OJC   1977 / 1989

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

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

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

Ballad of sad Young men : https://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.

Cheers

Milt Jackson / John Coltrane

BAGS AND TRANE

Atlantic / Warner Jazz    1959 / 1988

Late late Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7US8z8h64w

Three little words : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkYqKq0_vB4

The night we called it a day : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWmgB-w0Qlo

Be-bop : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmXJUIFxYvA

Cheers

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

BLACKNUSS

Atlantic / Warner Jazz  1971 / 2007

Ain't no Sunshine : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s49BZYibMiw

What's going on : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnAXiRlANI

My Girl : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn483tTWJiY

Old Rugged Cross : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axMpEhnHfSc

I Love you, Yes I do : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT55EBoozFI

Cheers

Gioachino Rossini

COMPLETE OVERTURES VOL. 3

Prague Sinfonia Orchestra -- Christian Benda

Naxos 2013

L'Italiana in Algeri : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgTiWmI_yIM

La Cenerentola : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXIhLawb9hA

Trancredi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0x5epnJug

Matilde di Shabran : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXJ3K1kkMY

Cheers

I live all my life in Quebec city... 😊

Is Earth vast? i know by reading only....

my best to you....

It's not right that  you live in Montreal,mahgister !!!

At least 50% more better than me and I live in the best in the south below you .

Various Artists

JAZZ IN AN R&B GROOVE

HighNote Records   2004  SACD

Compilation taken from Savant and HighNote label / artists.

What a difference a day makes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHXeGduaqQ

What's going on : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRcqjIr6ItA

Night Life : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LnEqXBAmIc

At Last : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6wei4_Qys

I believe I can Fly : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_9LtYiHMA

Let's stay together : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyRem_50oys

Cheers

Thanks...

I did not know that, which is an amazing feat...

Interesting...Another reason to be interested by Mr. Stitt...

My best to you....

P.S.  made more records than any Jazz player on any instrument  .

Sonny Stitt could carry a melody an improv  at the same time .

IMO , the Greatest  American Jazz Man !

P.S.  made more records than any Jazz player on any instrument  .

Oscar Peterson Trio

NIGHT TRAIN

Verve  1962 / 1997

Oscar Peterson(piano), Ray Brown(bass), Ed Thigpen(drums)

Night Train : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKHt9b5jJqs

The Honeydripper : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4K3T5hux6U

Band Call : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quur5k_8K1w

C Jam Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffnx4wfZUY8

Bag's Groove : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ZptF7MEaI

Hymn to Freedom : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjKZUViwPHc

Cheers

This lady did quite well on it.

As for the Count ............well. he's THE  Count !

" Moonlight in Vermont" IMO , is one of the best of American Standards !

   This one is a beauty  .

Joey DeFrancesco (featuring Houston Person) - "Moonlight in Vermont" live at the 5 Spot. The really good stuff!

Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson

THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER

Riverside / OJCCD    1958 / 1993

Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Milt Jackson(vibes), Wynton Kelly(piano), Percy Heath(bass), Art Blakey(drums)

Sidewalks of New York : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwEDi3pPWeI

Things are getting better : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l96BNMieL0

Just one of those things : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TfyyNB8CfA

Sounds for Sid : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrzJNK-aRk

Cheers

Louis Armstrong

LOUIS ARMSTRONG PLAYS W.C. HANDY

Columbia   1954-56 / 1997-99   SACD

Must read booklet, that gives the origin and short history of each tune.

St. Louis Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeS29FJmLTw

Loveless Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujRw34V62dE

Ole Miss Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQyTKzZB79A

Atlanta Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaKG2WeMgGA

Hesitating Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXGHKZ28Hc

Cheers

That is normal for those who don’t have German .

Every piece he wrote had written said " Glory to God" or the like,

No German how would you know ?

Nearly all that that that was sung was about Jesus .

One piece that the above was written by Matin Luther, got to me .!

You can buy English paper on almost all Bach . Handel is great, Bach is the

Ultimate .

Cheers 

@jim5559 

I like Bach.  Have a lot of music on CD by him.  But I must confess, I never think about God while listening to his music.  From the wrong church I guess.  I only think of God when listening to Messiah.

Cheers

Benny Carter and The American Jazz Orchestra

CENTRAL CITY SKETCHES

MusicMasters  1987

Doozy (second version) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf1ta6lhyec

Symphony in Riffs : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luhJA24ubmY

Blues in my Heart : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxp9jMq43eM

Doozy (first version) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j8vQ5IKCB8

Central City Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYnruJOSi3I

Cheers