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.
I can’t speak for others with my many flaws . but for me something knocks me over
at first hearing or never .
It is generally true for me too....
But there is sometimes exception...
I listened to all Bruckner symphonies and the one i like the less after many listening became the one i love the most because of his depth and meaning...It was impossible for me to grasp that at first listening... For example the 6-7-8-9 th are all more easy and beautiful to listen... But the 5th is so deep in expressing life mystereies that beauty is not the word... When beauty and truth married i call that the deepest meaning... Try it.... The music recreated through his themas and motives repeated in the finale long fugue the remembered meaning of a human life after death...
The symphony is a wheel circling us like our life did....
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.
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
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.
*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.
**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.
Cheers
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, 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
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.
’Friends’ include, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin, Manhattan Transfer, Wynton Marsalis, Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy Cobb, Al Grey, Tommy Flanagan and others. Excellent Booklet. Gives details on each song and lists who ’sings’ who.
For instance, Judith Hendricks ’sings’ the Louis Armstrong solos on STARDUST.
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