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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Playing for Change SONGS AROUND THE WORLD Hear Music 2008 / 2009 / 2019
Stand by Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpc51uAvKmk One Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWPtHDele7s No more trouble : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS4XI6UXkCs Love rescue me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coOjRG30zEg
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David Was / Don Was WHAT UP, DOG? Chrysalis 1988
Somewhere in America : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bncm9dH0czQ Anytime Lisa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh2pZrppGq8 11 mph : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWg95lnccc I can't turn you loose : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9PkUTPlCk
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Original Cast Recording THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, The Original Soul Stirrers, The J.D. Steele Singers, The Institutional radio Choir Elektra / Nonesuch 1988
A Voice Foretold : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqCfChKHfk Lift Me Up : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoqU-NI_ajQ
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Horace Silver Quintet FINGER POPPIN' Blue Mitchell(trumpet), Junior Cook(tenor sax), Horace Silver(piano), Eugene Taylor(bass), Louis Hayes(drums) Blue Note 1959 / Jazz Heritage 1992
Come on Home : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zAxNA70Qnk Juicy Lucy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-KjJDooJmQ Cookin' at the Contential : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWUJ8gyN9fY Swingin' the Samba : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ogAkIc75_E
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Ultimate Mozart : The Essential Masterpieces SERENATA NOTTURNA IN D MAJOR, K239 Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner Decca 1968 / 2006 5 CD Box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoTOlwJN88Q Cheers
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Dexter Gordon HOMECOMING: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD Dexter Gordon(tenor sax), Woody Shaw(trumpet), Ronnie Mathews(piano), Stafford James(bass), Louis Hayes(drums) Columbia 1976 / 1990 2CD set 'Homecoming' refers to Gordon's return to the US after an extended stay in Europe.
Body and Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3IvbyffXOc Fried Bananas : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Suzl1XTzo 'Round Midnight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DD_BWPjlQ
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Horace Silver Quintet SONG FOR MY FATHER Carmell Jones(trumpet), Joe Henderson(tenor sax), Horace Silver(piano), Teddy Smith(bass), Roger Humphries(drums) Blue Note 1964 / 1989
Calcutta Cutie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p78zIW0jF8 Que Pasa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOjnA33p-pk Song for my Father : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKf1x3CALAE The Kicker : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS5RBRuzbjM
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Delivered Indeed ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTnvRNh7Go&list=RD7xTnvRNh7Go&start_radio=1 Cheers
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Delbert McClinton- The Jealous Kind 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrhEywEYmn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhT7NkqTZCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w67n35oyQCg
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Dee Dee Bridgewater MEMPHIS Okeh 2017
I can't get next to you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D12fn1a-Mes Going down slow : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tiONsEnRE The Sweeter He Is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuibejJg9mA Precious Lord (take my hand) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdszR6rCLA
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@rok2id, beautiful! Martin L. Gore "cover version" Motherless Child, off Counterfeit e.p.
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Sunday:
Motherless Child : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv5c9jvfIPE Joshua : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlm5gd30trY Amen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaExZxHNjAs
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@rok2id Not familiar with "Dexter Gordon and Orchestra MORE THAN YOU KNOW SteepleChase 1975 / 1989" But I have yet to be disappointed by anything I have purchased on Steeplechase Records. |
Dexter Gordon and Orchestra MORE THAN YOU KNOW SteepleChase 1975 / 1989 This is a result of staying in Europe a little too long.
More than you know : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRE3WBZmnHw Naima : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB6famNx1C8
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Horace Silver Quintet FINGER POPPIN' Blue Note 1959 / 1988 Blue Mitchell(trumpet), Junior Cook(tenor sax), Horace Silver(piano), Eugene Taylor(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)
Juicy Lucy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-KjJDooJmQ Cookin' at the Continental : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWUJ8gyN9fY Come on Home : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zAxNA70Qnk Swingin' the Samba : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ogAkIc75_E
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Sunday Nearer my God to Thee : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1mQT1u_45I Amazing Grace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3QbHNOxzcY Nothing like massed brass. Cheers |
Horace Silver IN PURSUIT OF THE 27TH MAN Blue Note 1972 / 2002 Randy Brecker(trumpet), Michael Brecker(tenor sax), David Friedman(vibes), Horace Silver(piano), Bob Cranshaw(electric bass), Mickey Roker(drums) google--What is this? The meaning of angel number 27 is a message from the angels that you are on the right path and doing things in alignment with your divine purpose.
Liberated Brother : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XS79mmcs_0 Gregory is Here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH0dcxPBbj0 Nothin' can stop me now : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed04dStgKhY In pursuit of the 27th man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTy8kM3Hak
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Lee Morgan THE GIGOLO Blue Note 1966 / 2005 LeeMorgan(trumpet), Wayne Shorter(tenor sax), Harold Mabern(piano), Bob Cranshaw(bass), Billy Higgins(drums)
Yes I Can, No you can't : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWY3WKewZ3M Speedball : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gp72Pt-8JI The Gigolo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU1ggIQBwz0
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Rachelle Ferrell FIRST INSTRUMENT Blue Note 1990 with Wayne Shorter, Michel Petrucciani and Stanley Clarke on 'Autumn Leaves'
You don't know what love is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAer-wDWzk Bye bye blackbird : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnpaisZYtjQ Autumn Leaves : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xgNA3rCw7U
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Gene Harris ALLEY CATS Concord Jazz 1999 with: Niki Harris, Ernie Watts, Jack McDuff
Jive Samba : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTD_ygyD65k Blues March : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSVM-KXPuY Put it where you want it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSnC7QH8-3s&t=48s Walkin' with Zach : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TE1VGpLVR8
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Seeing them while they make music just makes it more better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aryDMAP6oug Cheers
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Dexter Gordon OUR MAN IN PARIS Blue Note 1963 / 1987 Dexter Gordon(tenor sax), Bud Powell(piano), Pierre Michelot(bass), Kenny Clarke(drums) Notes : In this Paris album, Dexter's colleagues have a long history as a unit in that city...This, therefore, is not a date with a pick-up rhythm section.
Willow weep for me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh9CyimkKWc
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Carmen McRae LOVER MAN and other Billie Holiday classics Columbia / Sony 1962 / 1997 Nat Adderley(cornet), Eddie "lockjaw" Davis(tenor sax)
Them there eyes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSqsTcVqFDk Miss Brown to you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QaF4Y34MdY I cried for you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClIJDe3aB6w Lover man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hhbLWxcvJg God Bless the child : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE2zLIGVBNU
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Kenny Burrell / Grover Washington Jr. TOGETHERING Blue Note 1984 Kenny Burrell(guitar), Grover Washington(saxophone), Ron Carter(bass), Jack De Johnette(drums), Ralph MacDonald(percussion)
Soulero : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYWV2_JbfoU Asphalt Canyon Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AymC4YZQB1U Togethering : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mou5bK3mJOk What am I here for : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6l854Wssnw
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Solomon Burke It's Saturday night somewhere. Solomon Vincent McDonald Burke was an American singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s. He has been called "a key transitional figure bridging R&B and soul", and was known for his "prodigious output". Wikipedia Born: March 21, 1940, Philadelphia, PA Died: October 10, 2010, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands
Along about midnight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dHWdhHUysQ No more nights by myself : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJBh-ojdrI0 Good rockin' tonight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoyV3ySzMlQ Ain't nobody's business : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7mGme_n-s
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Absolutely loving all those recommendations @rok2id , thank you, |
Grover Washington Jr. INNER CITY BLUES Verve 1972 / 2008 Washington's first session as leader.
Inner City Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1xYt0oIFtI Mercy Mercy Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV6WkpDg_K0 Ain't no Sunshine : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltMwiCoRAng
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The Manhattan Transfer THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER Atlantic 1975
Tuxedo Junction : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwL9xf3YQ-4 Operator : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldo_MyO-QHU Gloria : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElPTTxBNj-0 Java Jive : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XxsasUHzaQ Candy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ya7VsA_mQ
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Modest Mussorgsky PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Evgeny Kissin (piano) RCA 2001 Recorded at SWR Studio, Freiburg Germany, August 4&5, 2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_Rsl7fjok Cheers |
Willy DeVille - Unplugged /Berlin is a 2002 album by Willy DeVille. |
Clark Terry PORGY and BESS with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra Americana Music / 2004
It ain't necessarily so : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMTZ1mivvc I love you porgy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1FW-A46xt8 There's a boat leaving : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zD0Ws7MIGo
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Lee Morgan THE COOKER Blue Note 1957 / 2006 RvG Edition Lee Morgan(trumpet), Pepper Adams(baritone sax), Bobby Timmons(piano), Paul Chambers(bass), Philly Joe Jones(drums) Notes: If we accept Morgan’s distinction between an original style (which he claimed not to have at this point in his career) and an identity, THE COOKER can be heard as the album in which the Lee Morgan identity is announced. Morgan is 19 years old on this recording. His 5th recording in less than a year.
A Night in Tunisia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXYtFqXBGTU Lover Man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Kyqap3ZIs Just one of those things : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2bKSBO40js
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Modern Jazz Quartet CONCORDE Prestige / OJCCD 1955 / 1987 Milt Jackson(vibes), John Lewis(piano), Percy Heath(bass), Connie Kay(drums) Notes : The earlier MJQ sessions were released on 78s, 45s, EPs and 10 inch LPs. Later they were collated on 12-inch LPs. This was the first session done specifically for 12-inch and was also Connie Kay's first recording with the group after replacing Kenny Clarke.
Ralph's New Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tlHmbZvHZk Gershwin Medley : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es6D-WEIUtU Concorde : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z3J9tbOM7A
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Miles Davis STEAMIN' WITH THE MILES DAVIS QUINTET Prestige / OJCCD 1956 / 1989 (released 1961) Miles Davis(trumpet), John Coltrane(tenor sax), Red Garland(piano), Paul Chambers(bass), Philly Joe Jones(drums)
Salt Peanuts : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27xcTwkIgY Well you needn't : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IADoYWvaFYI Surrey with fringe on top : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OZormKf7Gs
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McCoy Tyner NIGHTS OF BALLADS AND BLUES Impulse / MCA 1963 / 1997 Notes : McCoy Tyner, in his third album under his own name, vividly illustrates he is one of those rare Jazz musicians that bridges the gap between erudite Jazz and lyrical commercial appeal. Like Erroll Garner and Dave Brubeck, Tyner has "something" that engenders a universal listening response.
Satin Doll : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD_L_twj_50 Round Midnight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxIj_8V865o Blue Monk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnsDmKd04Uk Star Eyes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2XrXxtboo Days of wine and roses : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD9P3M7FARM
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Louis Armstrong THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION Hip-o Records / Verve 2006 Excellent booklet with pictures.
Basin Street Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V7kjJFETUw&list=OLAK5uy_mwbtuQ7xoTuRdT4Ie3Ktxy4I5EYI-jzmU&index=10 Cabaret : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJra5gYKJDk&list=OLAK5uy_mwbtuQ7xoTuRdT4Ie3Ktxy4I5EYI-jzmU&index=2 Hello Dolly : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7a8L5JyHKo&list=OLAK5uy_mwbtuQ7xoTuRdT4Ie3Ktxy4I5EYI-jzmU&index=4 Wonderful World : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrd_3VMC3c&list=OLAK5uy_mwbtuQ7xoTuRdT4Ie3Ktxy4I5EYI-jzmU&index=1 Saints go Marching : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlwGamclHGM&list=OLAK5uy_mwbtuQ7xoTuRdT4Ie3Ktxy4I5EYI-jzmU&index=19 Love is here to stay** : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2cnMbi_27A&list=OLAK5uy_mwbtuQ7xoTuRdT4Ie3Ktxy4I5EYI-jzmU&index=5 and 17 more!! Cheers
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