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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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@rok2id Are you just listing every song you ever heard? 🤣 Just sitting here listening to Back To Oakland - Tower of Power. |
Thelonious Monk THE LONDON COLLECTION VOL. 1 Black Lion / 1201 Music 1971
Loverman : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlwxR9duH-Y Blue Sphere : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDg259Jbsc Darn That Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb3y6Sqky8s Nice Work If You Can Get It : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgm5O3BlnLY
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Tina Brooks Quintet MINOR MOVE Blue Note 1958 One of the more tragic personal stories in Jazz. First recording as leader in 1958, last recording in 1961, dead at age 42. Died 13 years after his last recording. Recorded a lot more but Blue Note never released them. Seems the folks at Blue Note were disgusted by his heroin habit. Notes: He died at 42, a bitter, penniless, incapacitated wreck, but he was given up for dead years before that." No other genre can match Jazz for wasted talent and potential.
Minor Move : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpML8UqIV30 Everything Happens to Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFkShfAZb0 Nutsville : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGn4tqO1YIk The Way You Look Tonight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFv1cAEVWMY
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Duke Ellington and His Orchestra THE FAR EAST SUITE - SPECIAL MIX Blue Bird 1966 / 1995 Notes: When Duke Ellington visited Baghdad, Isfahan and Beirut in 1963, they were part of a world we know more about today. The fact that a military coup was in progress and jets shooting up the presidential palace when he arrived in Baghdad indicates that even then things were not perhaps what they seemed to be. --- Stanley Dance
Isfahan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXm-6sPDCm0 Bluebird of Delhi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F145wF4wP4 Ad Lib on Nippon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB1zXHJcdyA Mount Harissa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSughSaBmYM
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Sonny Stitt THE LAST SESSIONS, VOLUMES ONE and TWO Recorded 9 June 1982. Sonny Stitt died of cancer on July 22 1982. with Jimmy Cobb, Walter Davis, George Duvivier, Bill Hardman, Junior Mance Savoy Jazz 1982 / 2003 Volume Two: At Last : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnG9xxLIcw As Time Goes By : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZlVltPAMM Bouncing With Bud : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQrCsydZed8 Volume one: Steamroller : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kQEO7Np5g Sweet Georgia Brown : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmFfTiWOM80 I'll be seeing You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_2ptVhsHOA
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Various Artists BODY + SOUL : LOVE SERENADE Twenty-Four Sensual Grooves Sony / Time-Life 1998 2CD Set
Can You Stop the Rain : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt9yRFWvY8s Cruisin’ : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx77P0VH6FA Rock Me Tonight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnsv0qKWsI Tonight I Celebrate My Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GOLnWz_Osc Shake You Down : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc8wmLul3uw Float On : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZklwTGZutc Sexual healing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlSiASsUIs&list=PL2RLLzPkq5q0hkmetxBSoXr1PKZ91HVji If You Don’t Know Me by Now : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbaSh8i5eyE
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Lee Morgan LEE MORGAN VOL. 3 Lee Morgan (trumpet), Gigi Gryce (alto sax), Benny Golson (tenor sax, arrange), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Charlie Persip (drums) Blue Note 1957 / 1996 (mono) All Compositions by Benny Golson
I Remember Clifford : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFH7YQ-2U2w Tip Toeing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-s5tPPeNk Hasaan's Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feNz-vgOSgA
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Coleman Hawkins ALIVE! AT THE VILLAGE GATE 1962 Verve / American Jazz Classics 1962 Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy9qN7afXL0 All the Things You Are : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNg1jELYyI
same recording date, with Roy Eldridge and Johnny Hodges Satin Doll : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mbu_tF1KXo The Rabbit in Jazz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDiGhwcjbA Perdidio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EG86kUp3w
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Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) OVERTURES Chicago Symphony orchestra -- Fritz Reiner RCA Gold Seal / BMG 1958 / 1990
The Silken Ladder : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrugBmgKIIQ The Barber of Seville : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ei0w3Ndyfc William Tell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJNGz0RL6qo
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Sonny Rollins PLUS 4 Prestige / OJC 1956 / 1987 Notes: ...On "Pent-Up House", Sonny and Brownie combine in one of the most brilliant interactions in the recorded annals of Jazz. -- Nat Hentoff Quite a statement. Valse Hot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIVtK2gXLpk&t=162s I Feel a Song Comin' On : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUzYLtf7pKw Pent-Up House : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlpEnsa2d8 Cheers |
Hampton Hawes Trio HAMPTON HAWES TRIO, VOL. 1 Contemporary / OJC 1955 / 1987
I got Rhythm : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t9w_nioOzM Blues the Most : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8iSgxAZUtk Hamp's Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofsXa2-gXLg Carioca : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxtQd7B0vPY All the Things You Are : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmnkP1tBAg8
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Clark Terry PORTRAITS Chesky Records 1989 Notes : "This session is a tribute to legendary trumpeters"
Little Jazz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48S9GYC_upQ (Roy Eldridge) Jive at Five : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_I_KW9dmo (Harry "Sweets" Edison) Sugar Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Y1k_kUSoE (Clyde McCoy) Autumn Leaves : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP5sVYySTbc (Miles Davis) Sleepy Time Down South : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-xIfIFb2VU (Louis Armstrong)
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The Gaither Gospel Series ATLANTA HOMEOMING Spring House Inc. 1998
Daddy Sang Bass : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gsx75aYYnU Where could I go : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv409yaRKIU Something got a hold of me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt4PyEFlf6Q Alpha and Omega : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0unha_-APWc Peace in The Valley : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cTMwlVSswE
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Lester Young LESTER YOUNG IN WASHINGTON D.C. 1956 VOL 2 Pablo Records / OJC 1956 / 1996 Another Great from Mississippi.
Lester Leaps In : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgbCjn5hsuY Jumpin' with Symphony Sid : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhbeP7Mv_8 I'm Confessin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijfTz195rY Lullabye of Birdland : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdYnd51ZFo
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Dexter Gordon BOTH SIDES OF MIDNIGHT Black Lion Records 1967 / 1984
Devillette : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abr0uSGGgtI Sonnymoon for Two : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1y3J9Vk52g For All We Know : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPjOMnSu_kE
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Various Country & R&B Duets RHYTHM COUNTRY AND BLUES MCA Records 1994
I Fall to Pieces -- Aaron Neville & Trisha Yearwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepL2VMzdHs
Rainy Night in Georgia -- Sam Moore & Conway Twitty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvMteHdpMCI
The Weight -- The Staple Singers & Marty Stuart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5DwLAU8rE
Something is Wrong with my Baby -- Patti Labelle & Travis Tritt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWaP6H_n0qw
Since I Fell for You -- Natalie Cole & Reba McEntire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk6o6LUKUT4
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Cook, Dixon & Young COOK, DIXON & YOUNG Volume one RCA Victor 2005 It Don't Mean a Thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNYe_eeZdLQ Mr. Bojangles : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kIoV751b0Y Birdland : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOmpI1GuJw Saints go Marching : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qUtQlTTmQ Cheers |
Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross THE HOTTEST NEW GROUP IN JAZZ Columbia / Sony 1959 / 1996 One of the great Jazz album cover art.
Centerpiece : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8GGr9m8qXs Moanin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvSO6dbEvzo Cloudburst : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx4SECmHl8Y Everybody's Boppin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alOScICRPP0 Charleston Alley : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6loAjCQCQ4 Cheers
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Buffy Saint Marie IT'S MY WAY Vanguard Records 1964 My Third LP, after Dylan and Baez. Those were the days. It's My Way : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9MQ48goMKs Ananias : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGFQIN3f-_s Cod'ine : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3bfqlTCHZk Babe in Arms : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2oOYEnxerY Cheers
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Michel Legrand LEGRAND JAZZ with / Miles Davis on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor sax, Phil Wood on alto sax, Jerome Richardson on bari sax, Herbie Mann on flute, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and a multitude of others. Philips 1958 / 1986 The Jitterbug Waltz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEBY7AMeMMQ Night in Tunisia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVhwNdAKhM Stompin' at the Savoy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XKZ38zhhes Django : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6croQb4iM8 'Round midnight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbf7PNG5nxw Cheers My copy is the original with different cover art. Don't have to look at that silly cigarette dangling from his mouth. That's considered French Cool. |
Rahsaan Roland Kirk KIRKATRON Warner Bros 1977 / 2005
Serenade to a Cuckoo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8D-WRtfHHE This Masquerade : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOlncbeuJoc Steppin' Into Beauty : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0j72owq0RY A Night in Tunisia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54CYt94AXIE Cheers
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk BOOGIE-WOOGIE STRING ALONG FOR REAL Warner Bros 1977,1978 / 2005 This is Kirk's Last Recording.
Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5lWV_KgVcM
Dorthaan's Walk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh1t8oA__k0
Watergate Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tq6OwPD3TM
Make Me a Pallet on the Floor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnU9w12Tr0c
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George Frideric Handel MESSIAH The English Concert & Choir -- Trevor Pinnock Archiv 1988
Sinfony : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QI6lk0N7OI Unto Us a Child is Born : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0BZND4Q0N0 Why do the Nations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XKNkOeBcxE Hallelujah : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkE2TPdCt8
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Wynton Marsalis CRESCENT CITY CHRISTMAS CARD Columbia 1989
Sleigh Ride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vC8lR8eRm4
Winter Wonderland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFhai1P5vns
God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G8aBz-VGEU
Carol of the Bells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86XJI4YiJs
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Oscar Peterson AN OSCAR PETERSON CHRISTMAS Telarc 1995
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tLTmUs9dWo
Let It Snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Wa1mmNjz4
White Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWTSWf5EIT8
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQewXQvTJbM
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers UGETSU Art Blakey(drums), Curtis Fuller(trombone), Freddie Hubbard(trumpet), Wayne Shorter(tenor sax), Cedar Walton(piano), Reggie Workman(bass) Riverside / OJC 1963 / 1989
One by One : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUkk9cqj54 Ping Pong : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7y5ShdnPGc I Didn't know what time it was : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7rIAfvHZ78 Cheers |
Charlie Parker THE BEST OF THE COMPLETE SAVOY & DIAL STUDIO RECORDINGS with / Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Bud Powell and many more. Savoy Jazz 1947, 1948 / 2002
Dewey Square : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLey06n6WKw Parker's Mood : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqRpTD2Qc6A Chasin' the Bird : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW3e2H5knxc Scrabble from the Apple : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HySu7kIZyc0 Cool Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7we5T7Hm95M Moose the Mooche : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1WXgLIC0-A&list=OLAK5uy_lkJ5_IXGNJl_deoqhxu8nH4lq4v7fu3_g&index=3
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Dr John N'AWLINZ: DIS DAT OR D'UDDA EMI Records 2004
Quatre Parishe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe2oX-dHDxQ
Marie Laveau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eUvjh5t2QM
When the Saints go Marching In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f5SS_iiqC4
The Monkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6iHsz12OHA
Hen Layin' Rooster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjH_gMP4s7Q
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Cannonball Adderley Sextet LUGANO 1963 Julian Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Nat Adderley(cornet), Yusef Lateef(tenor sax, flute, oboe), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums) TCB Music 1963 / 1995 Excellent Booklet with pictures. In English and Italian.
Trouble In Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew2tnZIodgw
Jive Samba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5YC7N7biTo
Dizzy's Business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bN4pwIwABA
Work Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpk6AFwqhQw
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Miles Davis COLLECTORS ITEMS Miles Davis(trumpet), Sonny Rollins(tenor sax), Charlie Parker(tenor sax), Walter Bishop(piano), Tommy Flanagan(piano), Percy heath(bass), Paul Chambers(bass), Philly Joe Jones(drums), Arthur Taylor(drums) Prestige / OJC 1953, 1956 / 1987
'Round Midnight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSVy7f_ygEk
Compulsion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkiJlqs-DBU
No Line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9Hbxq5jUw
Vierd Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orWwCUt0gZc
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Ella Fitzgerald THE COMPLETE ELLA IN BERLIN Verve Records 1960 / 1993
Misty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjd82e55iZo
The Lady is a Tramp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5F8w48x-tI
How High the Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAwYLQLs3Do
Mack the Knife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vXAtVbZbkI
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The Fairfield Four STANDING IN THE SAFETY ZONE Warner Bros. 1992
My God Called Me This Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzvpREhlMe0
Born Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQ43R_NCQA
Standing in the Safety Zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTdZ2cSkW0U
Dig a Little Deeper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJvgQSa6D2Y
Roll Jordan Roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6RcVJJ7aKQ
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Louis Armstrong SATCH PLAYS FATS Columbia 1955 / 2000 SACD non-hybrid
Blue Turning Grey over You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNABVcdOUkw
Honeysuckle Rose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIXEh9gKfXQ
Squeeze Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoJA951jDYc
Ain't Misbehavin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27tE0HVA3w
Black and Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyg8aB9qtr8
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Louis Armstrong LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND THE GOOD BOOK Decca 1958
Rock My Soul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXrGJxI_gAo
Nobody knows the trouble I have seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmngSBpBtoU
Shadrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPu0VEyeoRE
Go Down Moses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXFz-4w1YhA
Ezekiel saw the Wheel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gwhlb_aWPM
Didn’t It rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3JfctI1RaY Cheers
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Johann Strauss WALTZES AND POLKAS Sony Essential Classics 1961, 1962, 1969, / 2003
Viennese Blood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSYNRTM0PKk
Thunder and Lightning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE52O3YYacY
The Blue Danube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNdbCE3hp-U
Roses from the South https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2fsrmaYHoM
The Blue Danube (Mo better version) Willi Boskovsky - Wiener Philharmoniker London / Decca 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntAsXVV7oCM&list=RDMM&index=1
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Ray Charles GENIUS LOVES COMPANY HEAR Music 2004 Ray Charles died the year this was recorded. Excellent Booklet with great pictures.
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word -- with Elton John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Qcll0gTDE
Fever -- with Natalie Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvYUA6dtjE4
Here we go Again -- with Norah Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD4Eo3KWx1k
Sinner’s Prayer -- with B.B. King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSOGcEFdoLI
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Charles Mingus MINGUS AT ANTIBES Mingus(bass), Booker Ervin(tenor sax), Ted Curson(trumpet), Eric Dolphy(alto sax & bass clarinet), Bud Powell(piano), Dannie Richmond(drums) Atlantic Jazz 1976 / 1986 These guys are on fire!
Wednesday Night Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNWqqGTgwew
Prayer for Passive Resistance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UUV3dHBEBc
Folk Forms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=397PU-4KX5w
Better Git It in Your Soul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V46NvfMpThs
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Crème de la crème of Artists WE ARE THE WORLD Great talent, Good Cause, Great Performance. I wonder what happened to the money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjkUyX0rVw Cheers
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers A NIGHT IN TUNISIA Lee Morgan(trumpet), Wayne Shorter(tenor sax), Bobby Timmons(piano), Jymie Merritt(bass), Art Blakey(drums). Blue Note 1960 / 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHKyVJ5YfNU Cheers |