The Good Stuff

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

THE FAR EAST SUITE - SPECIAL MIX

Blue Bird     1966 / 1995

Notes: When Duke Ellington visited Baghdad, Isfahan and Beirut in 1963, they were part of a world we know more about today.  The fact that a military coup was in progress and jets shooting up the presidential palace when he arrived in Baghdad indicates that even then things were not perhaps what they seemed to be.  ---    Stanley Dance

Isfahan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXm-6sPDCm0

Bluebird of Delhi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F145wF4wP4

Ad Lib on Nippon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB1zXHJcdyA

Mount Harissa : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSughSaBmYM

Cheers

Tina Brooks Quintet

MINOR MOVE

Blue Note 1958

One of the more tragic personal stories in Jazz. First recording as leader in 1958, last recording in 1961, dead at age 42. Died 13 years after his last recording. Recorded a lot more but Blue Note never released them. Seems the folks at Blue Note were disgusted by his heroin habit.

Notes: He died at 42, a bitter, penniless, incapacitated wreck, but he was given up for dead years before that."

No other genre can match Jazz for wasted talent and potential.

Minor Move : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpML8UqIV30

Everything Happens to Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFkShfAZb0

Nutsville : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGn4tqO1YIk

The Way You Look Tonight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFv1cAEVWMY

Cheers

Thelonious Monk

THE LONDON COLLECTION  VOL. 1

Black Lion / 1201 Music        1971

Loverman : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlwxR9duH-Y

Blue Sphere : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDg259Jbsc

Darn That Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb3y6Sqky8s

Nice Work If You Can Get It : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgm5O3BlnLY

Cheers

@rok2id   Are you just listing every song you ever heard? 🤣  Just sitting here listening to Back To Oakland - Tower of Power.  

 ****Are you just listing every song you ever heard?*****

I only list what I own,  and only the ones I consider above average.

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