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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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Art Pepper GETTIN' TOGETHER! Contemporary / American Jazz Classics 1956 / 2021
Rhythm-A-Ning : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgdj4WMoWNg Diane : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vEfuSlwkdQ Bijou the Poodle : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwdlaJ5-r0 Getting Together : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qUNBvarJhg The way You Look Tonight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMTQRl8OSZ8
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band MY FEET CAN’T FAIL ME NOW Concord Jazz 1984 Notes : Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s first recording.
Blue Monk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amx6g4zFKss Caravan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPgSiTh-GBk St. James Infirmary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhK7zXqEZxo Li’l Liza Jane : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61gqJp-z0Nk My Feet Can’t Fail : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpaBXN_BAs
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Saturday. The Blues. Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges BACK TO BACK (Ellington and Hodges play the Blues) Verve 1959 / 1997 Duke Ellington(piano), Johnny Hodges(alto sax), Harry "Sweets" Edison(trumpet), Les Spann(guitar), Sam Jones(bass), Jo Jones(drums)
Weary Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB-J2Bly0T0 Royal Garden Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOeaEj1nCyM St. Louis Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSW2lRqssEo Basin Street Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLt63R_m_Sk
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Gioachino Rossini COMPLETE OVERTURES VOL 1 Prague Sinfonia Orchestra / Christian Benda Naxos 2012 Very informative fold out booklet.
La gazza ladra : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNElkeCHRW8 Semiramide : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw4xHuTKP3U *Elisabetta d'Inghilterra : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZuKaIqhsFU
*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. Cheers |
Hampton Hawes THE GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER Contemporary / OJC 1964 / 1990
Vierd Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAvU7uLUmjY St. Thomas : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMoVmfLH9UU Secret Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezneOns7hDo G. K. Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_tsMed_nA
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Lou Rawls AT LAST Blue Note 1989 with Dianne Reeves and Ray Charles (vocals)
At Last : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV8QphIIxUo If I were a Magician : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2bj2R9XOsM That's where it's at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h86uwWZYY88 Room with a View : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55FgkTL15ok She's no Lady : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw63nUaCqN0
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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET IN SAN FRANCISCO Riverside / OJC 1959 / 1989 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.
Bohemia after dark : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfM5nJI60Vw Spontaneous Combustion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT_m8LVctk0 This Here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es8kM8FU6eU Hi-Fly : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSB6dlwHYo
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The Greatest of the Great ! Jussi Bjoerling . The Great Pavarotti sang this for many years as his go-to from Puccini , it was fantastic to say the least . For years I had Puccini lovers, like myself ,over ,I had it all . I often had Jussi sing it right after the Big man . Often people were speechless and /or tearful . Beyond the fantastic into the impossible !
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Duke Ellington PIANO REFLECTIONS Capitol Jazz 1953 / 1989 Duke Ellington(piano), Wendell Marshall(bass), Butch Ballard(drums), Dave Black(drums), Ralph Colier(congas)
Who Knows : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DoPXLYi3I Passion Flower : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nyPY_jx2ZI B Sharp Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe8x1uWCpAg Sentimental Mood : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atUg6Ehc7JI What they used to be : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG5sD2i1s7o Montevideo (night time) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyVivWlBCzo
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McCoy Tyner THE REAL McCOY Blue Note 1967 / 1987
Passion Dance : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zdoOyeRTCA Four By Five : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CO-eIhgxuU Blues on the Corner : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQFZNm7JGqg
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mahgister, I can only think the universe made these two to sing with and for each other . When I lived in Berlin Pavarotti ,in his prime,was in town for "La Boheme" and was on TV talking about Alto's with some big shot . He went through a dozen or so in really interesting this and that's . Big shot asked about Bjoerling, Pavarotti just turned his head and said " don't ask me that , I'm just human " . |
Horace Silver Quintet FINGER POPPIN' Blue Note / Jazz Heritage 1959 / 1992 Notes: Silver gives a short insight of each tune. Great.
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 Juicy Lucy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-KjJDooJmQ
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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 |
Glad you like the music.
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. Cheers |
Sonny Clark COOL STRUTTIN' Blue Note 1958 / 1999
Cool Struttin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiidZPQ9G2g Slippin' at Bells : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1Z-wgq83A Royal Flush : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cmvSzwbsEk Deep Night : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5-OFdFqGIw
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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.... |
Touch Wood - Antonio Forcione Touch Wood Tarantella Mirror Mirror Tango Suite / Libertango
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Ludwig van Beethoven COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS Igor Levit (piano) Sony 2019 9CD Box
Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor "Pathetique", Op.13 Dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky
1. Grave, Allegro di molte : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqOgLPb6iu0 2. Adagio Cantabile : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MWgWcCCwEE 3. Rondo, Allegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHQwmb0DwY
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Gillian Welch Soul Journey Gillian Welch ’’Look at Miss Ohio’’ Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor wayside/back in time Wrecking Ball |
George Cables CABLES VISION Contemporary / OJC 1979 / 1992 with Freddie Hubbard and Bobby Hutcherson and others
Morning Song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY-hXWvxezM I Told You So : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc0qzTQrNBU Inner Glow : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4phzyBPZ7I Byrdlike : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTUYwacGjc4
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Duke Ellington and Count Basie DUKE ELLINGTON MEETS COUNT BASIE Columbia 1961 / 1999 SACD First Time! The Count Meets the Duke is an album by American pianists, composers and bandleaders Duke Ellington and Count Basie with their combined Orchestras recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961. On stereo releases of the album, Basie's band is featured on the left channel and Ellington's on the right. Wikipedia
Battle Royal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCEcX73-LJk Jumpin' at the Woodside : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnlaNFl5Gr8 Segue in C : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNvCOCEZWfM Corner Pocket : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YRdDeoSu74
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Que falta você me faz - Músicas de Vinicius de Moraes
Bom Dia, Tristeza · Maria Bethânia O Que Tinha de Ser · Maria Bethânia A Felicidade · Maria Bethânia Mulher, Sempre Mulher · Maria Bethânia Gente Humilde · Maria Bethânia O Mais-Que-Perfeito · Maria Bethânia |
...as one who lives and is generally annoying on occasion.... ;) ...and IN this century... (Yes, I can and do enjoy the 'oldies but goodies....But...) I could trot out a mass of this 'n that of high points, but will abstain. What ranks among that caught ones' ears of late? "I came from SoCal in the '60s'....I mean you no harm...maybe...." ;) 21st Century J
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Ahmad Jamal CHICAGO REVISITED Telarc Jazz 1992
All the things you are : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v783UhX8Zho Daahoud : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZEwv7oj4S4 Dance to the Lady : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLGMyZwVeEI Be my Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M18N8mwizbE Lullaby of Birdland : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJwuO1Vgr5w
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@asvjerry Not sure if your comment was in my general direction but it is a point well taken but there are issues. Good to Be Back Home · Charles Bradley · Menahan Street Band Really nice cut. Sounds like James Brown. Modern but would I rather listen to James? So a more modern representation that doesn’t really sound like anyone from the past but has elements Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon Shaolin Monk Motherfunk https://youtu.be/ya7aDtEdTTo?list=RDya7aDtEdTTo Jekyll · Hiatus Kaiyote https://youtu.be/sm0NgVtz1YQ?list=PLYNXcgRtGK8EdRW2ZGjs-uZlpvlw3go0Z Laputa · Hiatus Kaiyote https://youtu.be/82DBdsi8L6E?list=PLYNXcgRtGK8EdRW2ZGjs-uZlpvlw3go0Z Swamp Thing · Hiatus Kaiyote https://youtu.be/wM9yqvkifDs?list=PLYNXcgRtGK8EdRW2ZGjs-uZlpvlw3go0Z If a new band performs the standards is it modern?
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Lester Young LESTER YOUNG WITH THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO Verve 1952 / 1997 *Lester Young on "vocals".
Ad Lib Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeHkeoYNGgI *Two to Tango : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3TKeZ3uLmc I'm Confessin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9g-x0mPoH8 Just You, Just Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFHEDrNvm1s Tea for Two : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Dxnbbs9Pg
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Not sure they are even the best in the United Kingdom, the world, there is always Cleveland. Exhibit A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHCFKu__zl4&t=1662s Cheers |
@danager *L* Actually, no....but am pleasantly stunned by your responses, if all were aimed towards me. ;) Being given a playlist that would likely take me a week or so to sift through doesn't occur on any regular basis... *G* I do urge any interested in taking an advantage on this, however.... And, after all....Thanks! 👍😃 J |
Chucho Valdés BELE BELE EN LA HABANA Blue Note 1998 Wikipedia: Jesús Valdés Rodríguez, better known as Chucho Valdés, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger whose career spans over 50 years. An original member of the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, in 1973 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands.
Con Poco Coco : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgfy1KAhF8U El Cumbanchero : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkat6-VwVA Tres Lindas Cubanas : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dPvB27V68 Son Montuno : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxo-M_mY2_k
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This tread to me is all what the forums should be. 👍 My only wish is that instead of YouTube videos they could be placed on a Qobuz playlist so I wouldn't have to look up each track / artist and add them to by favorites manually. 1st world problems Sisters & BroThers Eric Bibb, Rory Block & Maria Muldaur - Bessie's advice
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Well rok , A recording is not a live concert . I n the last 50+ yearsI have been to over 2,000 live Classical concerts . A dozen of them were the LSO . They have the power of Berlin and with English composers (some) the melody of Vienna . It is what I said it is , good as any . When Previn had it better at times .I have not heard Cleveland in 40 yrs, All I know is that Cleveland is THE poorest of any major American city , what that means for the Orchestral world I now not what..
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