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
128x128rok2id

Top 5 Tenor All Time!

Are you sure about that?

John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins,   maybe others.

Cheers

Gordon bumped for Henderson MAYBE, so arguably Top 5 tenor? Depends on the moment.

 

Heck yeah I'm sure! 😉

Ahmad Jamal

THE ESSENCE PART 1

Verve   1994-1995

 

Notes : "Liner notes are boring." One of the best pieces ever done liner-notes-wise was done by Delfayo marsalis - Brilliant.  

This music represents some of the things I have heard and continue to hear during my career as Composer, Pianist, Orchestrator. - Ahmad Jamal

 

Catalinahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0aY-QcCxZc

Lover Manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMaTUGEtphs

Autumn Leaveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnkgxUk-UlY

Bahiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8jVyZ0cNSU

 

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J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding

THE GREAT KAI AND J.J.

Impulse 1961

The very first Impulse recording. Later known as the Label that Coltrane built.

 

The start of something : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dayk0txtYLg

Blue Monk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khbVC7g2cmU

Side by Side : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tRbqJQpr4

Theme from Picnic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8u54iLpZZU

Georgia on my Mind : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KM47zupXk

Cheers

 

Clifford Brown - Max Roach Quintet

THE COMPLETE STUDY IN BROWN

EmArcy / Essential Jazz Classics   1955 / 2016  2CD set

 

Notes : This release includes all existing music related to the classic Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet's albums Study in Brown and More Study in Brown.  It consists of the original contents of both albums, complemented by every surviving alternate take of the tunes from the LPs.  These albums are among the most treasured gems in Jazz history.

 

Swingin' https://www.youtube.com/watc=wEy5uTFOMvI

Sanduhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wpcrWCutFQ

Take the A trainhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZO_hGJaIKk

Cherokeehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BDS4ONdKHk

Cheers

 

James Booker

CLASSIFIED

Rounder   1982 / 2013

Excellent Booklet.  Booker died in 1983, a few months after this recording session. 

 

Lawdy Miss Clawdyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp1QK9l8shA

Lonely Avenuehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc7frlqhLu4

All around the worldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bbwya4dqtc

Prof Longhair Medleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYjy5_A6BS8

Warsaw Concertohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iCOf3dyVys

Amenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MKI8YyMAs

and 16 more!

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Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers

FREE FOR ALL

Blue Note 1964 / 2004

Notes : The magic that transpired here was absent on Kyoto, though, which is why Free For All remains the true summation of the Hubbard/Fuller/Shorter/Walton Messengers.

 

Free for All : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJBLA39spc4

Hammer Head : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_T6YmbSNk

Pensativa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJOSoSbba4

The Core : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJBLA39spc4

 

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Louis Armstrong

THE HOT FIVES VOL 1

Columbia  1925-26 / 1988

(cornet, trumpet)Louis Armstrong, (banjo)Johnny St. Cyr, (clarinet)Johnny Dodds (piano)Lil Armstrong, (trombone)Kid Ory

Notes : With these first 16 recordings by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, the trumpeter revolutionized Jazz, changing it from an ensemble oriented music into an art form dominated by virtuoso soloists.

 

Come back, Sweet papahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exT3OJ6X2mc

Heebies Jeebieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYI9dPyZ7lw

Cornet Chop Sueyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX6llYLb_p0

Muskrat Ramblehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbjkN6ZB-os

Don't for get to mess aroundhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQjYnW3x8Y

and 11 more!

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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

 

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

 

Cheers

 

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.

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

 

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

 

Cheers

 

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

 

Cheers

 

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

 

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

Thanks @rok2id and all,

I’ve been lurking here for quite a while and enjoying all the titles. I’m currently on Amazon Music and can get most of the suggestions, will probably be going to Tidal soon if they have a larger library.

@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.

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers

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!

 

Cheers

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

 

Cheers 

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

 

Cheers

 

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

 

Cheers