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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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Cannonball Adderley CANNONBALL TAKES CHARGE Riverside / Capitol Jazz 1959 / 2002 Alto Saxophone: Cannonball Adderley, Piano: Wynton Kelly, Double Bass: Paul Chambers, Drums: Jimmy Cobb
Serenata : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccl4W_BHZR0 Poor Butterfly : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umlAV-2jDpo I remember you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI0T-Rau33g Barefoot Sunday Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3hxbW2XYJ0
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Miles Davis and John Coltrane MILES AND COLTRANE Columbia 1958 / 1988
Straight no Chaser : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVg5OpVCzZE Two Bass Hit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYWXhtiXFzc Bye Bye Blackbird : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKdq3pFSRw Ah-Leu-Cha : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb0hB46UmwU
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Barbara Hendricks BARBARA HENDRICKS SINGS SPIRITUALS EMI Records 1983 (37 deutsche marks)
When I lay my Burden down : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41IKAVWPLZA Swing Low, Sweet Chariot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpR55c6zzA Git on board : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNghZSWZuaM Deep River : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dO-4Iv5464 Joshua fit the battle of Jericho : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCJAAK4btPo Plenty good room : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ZeYasTUUI Were you there : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-nl7O3DEIM
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WAR Along with Earth, Wind and Fire, the best Pop / Rock bands ever! You actually had to be a musician. Some their best. Always reminds me of El Paso, Texas.
Slippin' into Darkness : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBNZevgJH1g All day music : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5pX4mRQcFo Four Cornered Room : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyVE_giKfHg The Cisco Kid : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_SXcE-L1E Gypsy Man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p0cofSgEHE Southern Part of Texas : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrWdUenTxV8 War is Coming : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGXhpFz6aAA Cheers |
Thelonious Monk THE LONDON COLLECTION VOL 3 Black Lion / 1201 Music 1971 / 2019 Monk's final recording session as leader.
Trinkle Tinkle : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu3nO1Peib4 Introspection : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5OaTVmai6Q Crepuscule with Nellie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRG7hOlARH0 Chordially : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTixxYcAg2Q
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Thelonious Monk THE LONDON COLLECTION VOL 2 Black Lion / 1201 Music 1971 / 2019 Monk's final recording session as leader.
Evidence : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSpbaWVbWWA Criss Cross : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IKofzm7fTA Nutty : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Ln8f9TBpQ Hackensack : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaOHyBj5wPs
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I just got the LP recently. It was in a batch of ex-college radio station LPs I picked up at Plaid Room Records, Loveland (Cincinnati), Ohio. Really happy to have it on original radio station demo vinyl. I tend to overlook the politics in music and just enjoy the songs.
Me too nowadays. Back then I had just graduated and still had some of that student idealism left. By then I had almost given up on reading the NME which seemed to be becoming increasingly left wing (not to say increasingly hypocritical as well) even for my stomach. Of course the world of work and adult responsibilities would further broaden my outlook in the years to come. It might have saved me a lot time if someone had explained the truth about human nature back then. Those naughty adults and all the grown up stuff they won't tell you! Generally musicians tend to portray themselves to being the left of the political spectrum, mainly I supsect for commercial reasons given the average age of their fans. The one exception was Mick Jagger who once quipped that his heart was Labour (left of center) but his money was Tory (right of center). Anyway, here is that would be eternal teenager in one of his better moments.
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Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie DIZ 'N' BIRD IN CONCERT Not Now Music 1947 / 2015 Disc 3 Recorded at Carnegie Hall
A night in tunisia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZQcE1xOrJ4 Dizzy Atmosphere : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IGnn4wNeyU Groovin' High : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJC0oEJv3DI Confirmation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiKroVlXLk
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Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie BIRD AND DIZ Not Now Music 1949-1950 / 2015 Disc 1
Bloomdido : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGxajV75VvM My Melancholy Baby : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr6coB5EAHY Oscar for Treadwell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Fz_Uh_Z00 Mohawk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knzEzq9wxqw
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@cd318 - I just got the LP recently. It was in a batch of ex-college radio station LPs I picked up at Plaid Room Records, Loveland (Cincinnati), Ohio. Really happy to have it on original radio station demo vinyl. I tend to overlook the politics in music and just enjoy the songs. |
Art Pepper SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD Contemporary / OJC 1977 / 1991 Notes: "The club is often thought of by Jazz artists as the best place to play in New York and possibly the nation; cynics might say that's because all the other places are so rotten, but that's a bit too glib to explain the Vanguard's longevity."
The Trip : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rruEUYRWNA4 You go to my Head : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYCtUPd3KA Cherokee : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUVtQOLE4q4 Cheers |
Hank Mobley NO ROOM FOR SQUARES Blue Note 1963 / 2000 RvG Edition
Three way split : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdY_T_TEFF8 Up a Step : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cypfeCIthQ No room for squares : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLWQkjcLC8Y Old World, New Imports : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88kS_3UHxso
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Modern Jazz Quartet FONTESSA Atlantic 1956 / 1989
Versailles : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8G9f-7OFo Bluesology : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2sfC-QQc5k Willow Weep for Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP7sZ9UlhBU Woody N You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt3jo3CD8jI Cheers
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Ludwig van Beethoven GEORGE SZELL CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN Sony 1957 / 2013 5CD set
Symphony No.3 in E-flat major op.55 "Eroica" Allegro con brio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0w84_AOJVg Adagio assai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TaiFswHARM Scherzo. Allegro vivace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCUu6Q4qe2E Finale. Allegro molto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6KCkv79kQ
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Willie Dixon I AM THE BLUES Columbia / Legacy 1993 Notes : "Now for the first time we hear Willie and his hand-picked crew of Chicago Blues veterans in a program of his compositions exactly as he wanted them interpreted -- strong, direct, ungimmicked. It's been worth the wait."
Spoonful : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ7fNUJ3qTE I can't quit you baby : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GO2nU57Ldk The Little Red Rooster : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us7UZD8BdRE Back Door Man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I17sIMCYXSM The Seventh Son : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOo7OmnmYA
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Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie THE GIFTED ONES Pablo / OJC 1979 / 1996 Count Basie(piano), Dizzy Gillespie(trumpet), Ray Brown(bass), Mickey Roker(drums)
Back to the Land : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZ57eqRNis St. James Infirmary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me_7MvpHm2w Ow! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg1V4uaJsHw
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Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers JUST COOLIN' Blue Note Recorded 1959 / Released 2020
Hipsippy Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-W_uJFYcLQ M & M : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1y9mucc3hc Jimerick : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WOohiUTbec Just Coolin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl8NQa5wk7c
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Gene Harris Quartet IT'S THE REAL SOUL Concord Jazz 1996
Summertime : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQbO2qGRcZM Estoril Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2oikkPqh54 You don't know me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEdvLnyStpg Lady be Good : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYWbYVMbCRM
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Dexter Gordon BODY AND SOUL Black Lion 1967 Recorded at the Montmartre Jazzhus, Copenhagen.
Like Someone in Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIKZjylJrPIN Never be another you : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3IGe2m--7U Body and Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFCBbXm6e8
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Harold Mabern MABERN PLAYS COLTRANE Smoke Sessions Records 2021 (recorded 2018)
My Favorite Things : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgitnIRKp3Q Impressions : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cyFNw0YZdE Blue Train : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m83n-_O90-I
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND Ropeadope 2004
Friend we have in Jesus : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znUhQEd_h7M Just a Closer Walk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPq32Pq1d8o Jesus on the Mainline : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OTvhnZ-KA0 I'll Fly Away : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxL7YSf14yY Amazing Grace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7_EntH1Au4 Down by the Riverside : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoHmMkRYfv8 Cheers |
Claudio Roditi MILESTONES Candid 1992 Claudio Roditi(trumpet,flugelhorn), Paquito D'Rivera(alto sax, clarinet), Kenny Barron(piano), Ray Drummond(bass), Ben Riley(drums)
Milestones : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYlAvr8LtCg But Not for Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRW6wF_21Yk I'll remember April : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFTEYTf111Y Cheers
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Ernestine Anderson WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN Concord Jazz 1985
In the evening : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OTrtKMJSSA Down Home Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_n5RLhPBOU Mercy, Mercy, Mercy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL3S2_SE7so Someone else steppin' in : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwfXwSjzHJ8 I love being here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxX165PU0Oc Cheers |
Count Basie KANSAS CITY SHOUT Pablo Records 1980 / 1987
Just a Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EplnmoOtVFY Blues for Joe Turner : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-sOrRxii8E Everyday I have the Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05KOyeaMtSE My Jug and I : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHValUTz1EM Cherry Red : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1zpgM9Y9k Stormy Monday : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT3MAIi4grs Cheers |
The Adderley Brothers THE SUMMER OF '55 Savoy Jazz 1955 / 2002 2CD Set Excellent Booklet with great pictures. Amusing story told by Phil Woods about Cannonball's arrival and impact on the NYC Jazz scene.
Bohemia after dark : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8d7ayfo6Uw Chasm : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GsC3Rmc8rE Hear me talkin' to Ya : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLd395hQbs We'll be together again : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn4AshlvIJM Caribbean Cutie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjag8JUav1A Flamingo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUeyvzMNWA Cheers |
Eric Dolphy Quintet OUTWARD BOUND New Jazz / OJCCD 1960 / 1987
G.W. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBNzGoqtl84 Green Dolphin Street : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-BsQG4VrWM Glad to be Unhappy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjmDmsL0sAE Miss Toni : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCb9fPPTH74 Cheers
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John Coltrane COLTRANE PLAYS THE BLUES Atlantic 1960 / 1989
Blues to Elvin : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h24fqlzqbo Blues to Bechet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5s9kuNBuoM Blues to You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByX5dLaIA3M Mr. Syms : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DEG21pKt7c Cheers
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Fred McDowell AMAZING GRACE Testament 1969 / 1994
Amazing Grace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Dwh2mQdhc Jesus is on the Main Line : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCBKJinuQ60 I'm so Glad : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTSvaxj6sA Lay my Burden down : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEUNASfr0U This Little Light : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Ch3g9MT1w Cheers |
Sly and The Family Stone GREATEST HITS Epic 1970 / 2007 A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away
Dance to the Music : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQPqe8oKlvk Stand : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al0WUPn_CnM Sing a Simple Song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4qqNl_nsUQ Thank You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOa5UOHdwnc Everyday People : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsxM-zuKdmQ Cheers |
Malachi Thompson and Africa Brass BUDDY BOLDEN'S RAG Delmark 1995 featuring Lester Bowie Notes: The word JAZZ wasn't connected to the music until about 20 years after the music became popular in New Orleans. The popular term for syncopated music at the time was Rag.
Buddy Bolden's Rag : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYm-uuKYzrs Mouse in the House : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StplLBDJVbQ We Bop : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avqYxljClsg Kojo Time : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7pnMWqPL0
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Talking Heads
Life During Wartime Heaven Animals https://youtu.be/eBiIFhg0Jnc?list=RDeBiIFhg0Jnc Bonus Track talking heads 77 Psyco Killer
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Freddie Hubbard READY FOR FREDDIE Blue Note 1961 / 2004
Weaver of Dreams : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkF2qaXODU Crisis : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28DvmK-i6Wc Birdlike : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Euo2PLEuU0
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Thelonious Monk MONK'S MUSIC Riverside / OJCCD 1957 / 1993 with Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane
Well you needn't : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDbsXep1638 Ruby my Dear : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6haQ1gJa644 Off Minor : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o3-FRnJquQ Epistrophy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RR5KZ4XFSI Crepuscule with Nellie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1uuRGs_UeQ
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I was also proud that we shoot at balls in the sea to find 100 Sailors fit to go on land with the 38 Marines always on the carrier, should that be need, with M1 rifles in hand. Since I was a born hunter, got my first deer at 12 . I came in 3rd .Even tried in over the ship nets in the Phillpines , no sweat !
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Sonny Stitt with Oscar Peterson SITS IN WITH THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO Verve 1959 / 2008 Notes require a microscope. I can't give you anything : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Spi1ClH4cI The Gypsy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzmdPTgMEpY Scrapple from the Apple : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGAnajI1twk Easy does it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGl86wRHeKg Blues for Pres, Sweets, Ben : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbIOxwRRqks Cheers
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I always play this one the 4th because I am proud 1 cared for the anti-air guns of The U. S. S. Hancock for my 3 years. This Great Ship that fought better then any Carrier WWII Korea and Vietnam. There it was the oldest ship but made more sorties than any other . Her men loved her, she alive to us and we all went out for her . Sleep in the Ocean now loved one . |
Various THIS IS MY COUNTRY RCA 1993
Fanfare : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qY5ZZtVQ_A America : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16mbMJvXf54 Battle Hymn : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsNCllEHD0 American Salute : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ_KmI37HQk Shenandoah : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3F3dvaeORU St. Louis Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYaVYD1LqRQ Stars and Stripes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW0vU-Sc0ik Anthem : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjTeWZsxtIo Cheers
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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra THE MUSIC OF JOHN LEWIS Blue Engine Records 2017 with Wynton Marsalis featuring Jon Batiste
Delaunay's Dilemma : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTDEFrPpZq4 Django : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYxhWeC8K3w 2 degrees East, 3 degrees West : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f85t2lhD9Vc Two Bass Hit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35c-Lv_lITY Cheers
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Otis Clay SOUL MAN : LIVE IN JAPAN Bullseye Blues / Rounder 1983 / 1991 After all, Saturday is Blues / R&B day.
A Nickel and a Nail : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9DlXwHIR4 Here I am : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4pXKj0qhZw Love don't Love nobody : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP675BN-V2A Love and Happiness : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EBHsnlf6S8 Cheers |
Tina Brooks TRUE BLUE Blue Note 1960 / 1992 Notes: Brooks was one of Jazz's ultimate footnotes until the Blue Note savvy Japanese brought his 1958 quintet session, Back to the Tracks and the rest of the Brooks/McLean music into print toward the close of the 1970s.
Good Old Soul (alternate take) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSKgqALZ0II True Blue : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEVrlhg4rmw Nothing ever changes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy9dkBv9_8w Up Tight's Creek : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fstrRnjj1jE Cheers |