The Good Stuff

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

Cheers

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

Cheers

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

Cheers

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

Cheers