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| The Good Stuff Top 5 Tenor All Time! Are you sure about that? John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, maybe others. Cheers | |
| Hobby, Hobby, Hobby? ’Hobby’ is the correct term for audiophiles, because in a hobby, you are never done. Cheers | |
| The Good Stuff Joe Henderson POWER TO THE PEOPLE Milestone 1969 / 2007 Notes: The thing about Joe Henderson is, you can never get anybody to say anything bad about him. maybe that's a problem: if he annoyed or angered or upset people, they'd write more abou... | |
| Music is sound, sound can be music Duke Ellington has said all that needs saying. Duke Ellington: “Music is an aural art; if it sounds good, it’s good music.” Leonard Bernstein: “Amen.” Q. What do you think of the new music? A. I think that music is neither new nor old. Q. I me... | |
| Shostakovich Fifth Symphony @mahler123 & @ghdprentice Thanks for your replies. I started wondering about this way back when I was kid and went to the Saturday matinee, almost always westerns, and best of all the Disney cartoons. I remember the scene when the car... | |
| The Good Stuff Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans KNOW WHAT I MEAN Riverside / OJC 1961 / 2011 Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Bill Evans(piano), Percy Heath(bass), Connie Kay(drums) Heath and Kay of MJQ fame. Adderley and Evans members of the 1958 Mile... | |
| Shostakovich Fifth Symphony @mahler123, Very interesting post on Shostakovich 5. Brings to mind a question that always enters my mind when I hear classical music described like you did. The question is, do the images you receive from the music depend upon knowing the hist... | |
| The Good Stuff Macy Gray STRIPPED Chesky Records 2016 Macy gray(vocals), Art Hoenig(drums), Daryl Johns(bass), Russell Malone(guitar), Wallace Roney(trumpet) Recorded using one microphone in a Brooklyn Church. I Try : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiT... | |
| The Good Stuff Oscar Peterson and Harry Edison OSCAR PETERSON AND HARRY EDISON Pablo / OJC 1974 / 1992 Another in a series of excellent recordings by Oscar Peterson with the Great Trumpet players of his day. All except Miles Davis. I think I found out why.... | |
| The Good Stuff Nicholas Payton SMOKE SESSIONS Smoke Sessions Records 2021 Not bad for 2021. Hangin' in and Jivin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUfrqVQ10DI Big George : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlkfUS3xfq4 Levin's Hope : https://www.youtube... | |
| The Good Stuff James Williams and ICU TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE BLUES Evidence 1996 Notes : While James Williams calls his Intensive Care Unit "a Jazz-Gospel ensemble, for lack of a better description," its blend of the sacred and the secular and its use of bot... | |
| The Good Stuff Freddie Redd MUSIC FROM THE CONNECTION Blue Note 1960 / 2005 Wiki : The Music From "The Connection" is an album of music composed by jazz pianist Freddie Redd for Jack Gelber's 1959 play The Connection. This first recording of the music was r... | |
| The Good Stuff Oscar Peterson PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON Pablo 1967-1986 / 1999 Take the A train : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2a9HKIO9Y4 Don't get around much : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3gQd07wHnI Cotton Tail : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB... | |
| The Good Stuff Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart THE 6 STRING QUINTETS The Talich Quartet, Karel Rehak (viola) Calliope 1999 3CD set Notes : The quintet K.515, on the other hand is a model of balance and harmony. Mozart had just returned from Prague, where Die Zaube... | |
| The Good Stuff Billie Holiday LADY SINGS THE BLUES Verve 1954-1956 / 1995-2000 Nice booklet with some great photos. Say it isn't so : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpqMjFRT2_c Lady sings the blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID02UTUgKeo God ble... |