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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All three of the collaborations are good.  They really compliment each other.

 Sidsel Endresen & Bugge Wesseltoft
Out here. In there.

Tryhttps://youtu.be/xwbVZ5huaN8

Heartbeat

https://youtu.be/0J1WSLZe7Ow

Out Here. In There

https://youtu.be/2iV2h6NRlw4

Truth

https://youtu.be/loe3JW9euSg

Bonus from NIghsong

I Think It's Gonna Rain Today · Sidsel Endresen · Bugge Wesseltoft

 

 

Count Basie

BASIE AT BIRDLAND

Roulette / EMI     1961 / 2007

Notes : If the repertoire on this album is heavily weighted toward the Blues, this is, after all, at its core, a Kansas City band and one that is able to show the infinite variety and invention that can be drawn from this simple form.  Sixteen swinging men at their peak, off the road and playing at the club they call home -- it doesn't get any better!

 

Segue in Chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB0LSQGJukM

Blues Backstagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqwUt8P7HwE

Little Pony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4fqwu8b4cc

Good Time Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pibavZgtAI

Whirly-Birdhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dITbLg8LUx0

Blee Blop Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z13_lIfGAak

 

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Wayne Shorter

NIGHT DREAMER

Blue Note   1964 / 2004

 Wikipedia :    Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. 

Night Dreamer is Shorter's first Blue Note album as leader.

 

Black Nile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OxrGVPBzZM

Charcoal Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnOgNoq5odQ

Virgohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlIG8Ihto1I

Oriental Folk Songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwiGwHvukKQ

 

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I couldn't decide which album to post so I included excerpts from both


Winds Of Change
Eric Burdon & The Animals

1967

Paint It Black

https://youtu.be/kTinm9WiWtE

The Black Plague

https://youtu.be/awtDdo5G7Gk

San Franciscan Nights

https://youtu.be/ZSesI5djIsU

Hotel Hell

https://youtu.be/WvMDwhCZdjI

The Twain Shall Meet
Eric Burdon & The Animals

1968

Monterey

https://youtu.be/8YOi8YwjeM0

Closer To The Truth

https://youtu.be/AGmVOKg9ujE

Sky Pilot

https://youtu.be/laSJI58bMMM

All Is One

https://youtu.be/vagaTjUJMRA


Bonus Track

Eric Burden Declares War

Spill The Wine

https://youtu.be/MYCRIykylOc

 

Lester Young - Roy Eldridge - Harry Edison

LAUGHIN' TO KEEP FROM CRYIN'

Verve  1958 / 2000

Lester plays Clarinet!  Nice booklet with pics.

 

Salute To Benny : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpzeFIGhw-U

Gypsy in my Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arsQrL3clDQ

Can't take that away : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK5YRgACRCs

 

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Gioachino Rossini

COMPLETE OVERTURES VOL 2

Prague Sinfonia Orchestra / Christian Benda

Naxos    2012   4CD Box

Very informative fold out booklet.

 

Il Signor Bruschino : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6_VZ8gzKew

La scala di seta : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6buh-ZV8fY

Guillaume Tell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT5uwueccaY

Sigismondo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I4MqjXQDJw

 

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@jim5559 

Great Minds!   I was just listening / watching this right before your post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif77IVQdY

About as southern as it gets.

 

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While pulling my records out of 25 years of storage I came across this jewel.  The Good Stuff long forgotten

Gino Vannelli - Powerful People
1974


People Gotta Move (Album Version)

https://youtu.be/WhjX6-iWIAg

Felicia

https://youtu.be/v41ocfGBI1M

Lady

https://youtu.be/8qS4sD0U2vI

Son Of A New York Gun

https://youtu.be/zflVgt6rjUE

 


 

Joe Jackson - Jumpin' Jive
1981

Jack, You're Dead! 

https://youtu.be/LCCWkZFgjAI

Jumpin' With Symphony Sid

https://youtu.be/gRxxQh5njSQ

Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby 

https://youtu.be/b3S8HSU3Xus

We The Cats (Shall Hep Ya) 

https://youtu.be/OliY3mHaSIY

You Run Your Mouth (And I'll Run My Business) 

https://youtu.be/bUvRkijoKss

 

Yes ,rok2Id , good is good  and bad is bad, we have a lot of both, just keep trying .

P.S.  Allison is from Ilinois, near Chicago, IMO the perfect  thing to prove what I say .

If you look down on these hill-billy’s , some of them must have went to Vanderbilt

Music "cuse they all went down on a Beethoven 5th which I can’t get on .

It is on there though.

It's obvious from the get-go these are very good artists .

 

Bluegrass in my mind is white people's Blues

 

That would be Country music.  Real country music that is.  Blues is about women, sex and booze.   Country music used to be about that also.

 

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Benny Carter and The American Jazz Orchestra

CENTRAL CITY SKETCHES

MusicMasters  1987

 

Doozy (second version) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf1ta6lhyec

Symphony in Riffshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luhJA24ubmY

Blues in my Hearthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxp9jMq43eM

Doozy (first version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j8vQ5IKCB8

Central City Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYnruJOSi3I

 

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@jim5559 

I like Bach.  Have a lot of music on CD by him.  But I must confess, I never think about God while listening to his music.  From the wrong church I guess.  I only think of God when listening to Messiah.

 

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That is normal for those who don’t have German .

Every piece he wrote had written said " Glory to God" or the like,

No German how would you know ?

Nearly all that that that was sung was about Jesus .

One piece that the above was written by Matin Luther, got to me .!

 

You can buy English paper on almost all Bach . Handel is great, Bach is the

Ultimate .

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Louis Armstrong

LOUIS ARMSTRONG PLAYS W.C. HANDY

Columbia   1954-56 / 1997-99   SACD

Must read booklet, that gives the origin and short history of each tune.

 

St. Louis Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeS29FJmLTw

Loveless Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujRw34V62dE

Ole Miss Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQyTKzZB79A

Atlanta Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaKG2WeMgGA

Hesitating Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXGHKZ28Hc

 

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Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson

THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER

Riverside / OJCCD    1958 / 1993

Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Milt Jackson(vibes), Wynton Kelly(piano), Percy Heath(bass), Art Blakey(drums)

 

Sidewalks of New Yorkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwEDi3pPWeI

Things are getting betterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l96BNMieL0

Just one of those thingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TfyyNB8CfA

Sounds for Sidhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrzJNK-aRk

 

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Joey DeFrancesco (featuring Houston Person) - "Moonlight in Vermont" live at the 5 Spot. The really good stuff!

 

" Moonlight in Vermont" IMO , is one of the best of American Standards !

   This one is a beauty  .

This lady did quite well on it.

As for the Count ............well. he's THE  Count !

 

 

Sonny Stitt could carry a melody an improv  at the same time .

IMO , the Greatest  American Jazz Man !

P.S.  made more records than any Jazz player on any instrument  .

 

 

Thanks...

I did not know that, which is an amazing feat...

Interesting...Another reason to be interested by Mr. Stitt...

My best to you....

P.S.  made more records than any Jazz player on any instrument  .

Various Artists

JAZZ IN AN R&B GROOVE

HighNote Records   2004  SACD

Compilation taken from Savant and HighNote label / artists.

 

What a difference a day makes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blHXeGduaqQ

What's going onhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRcqjIr6ItA

Night Lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LnEqXBAmIc

At Lasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6wei4_Qys

I believe I can Flyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_9LtYiHMA

Let's stay togetherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyRem_50oys

 

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I live all my life in Quebec city... 😊

Is Earth vast? i know by reading only....

my best to you....

It's not right that  you live in Montreal,mahgister !!!

At least 50% more better than me and I live in the best in the south below you .

 

Gioachino Rossini

COMPLETE OVERTURES VOL. 3

Prague Sinfonia Orchestra -- Christian Benda

Naxos 2013

 

L'Italiana in Algeri : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgTiWmI_yIM

La Cenerentola : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXIhLawb9hA

Trancredi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0x5epnJug

Matilde di Shabran : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXJ3K1kkMY

 

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