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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@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. 

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

DIZ 'N' BIRD IN CONCERT

Not Now Music  1947 / 2015    Disc 3

Recorded at Carnegie Hall

 

A night in tunisiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZQcE1xOrJ4

Dizzy Atmospherehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IGnn4wNeyU

Groovin' Highhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJC0oEJv3DI

Confirmation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiKroVlXLk

 

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@reubent 

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.

 

 

Thelonious Monk

THE LONDON COLLECTION VOL 2

Black Lion / 1201 Music   1971 / 2019

Monk's final recording session as leader.

 

Evidencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSpbaWVbWWA

Criss Crosshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IKofzm7fTA

Nuttyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Ln8f9TBpQ

Hackensackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaOHyBj5wPs

 

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