The Good Stuff

Hampton Hawes

ALL NIGHT SESSION VOL 1

Contemporary / Avid Jazz 1956 / 2013

Hampton Hawes(piano), Jim Hall(guitar), Red Mitchell(bass), Bruz Freeman(drums)

Jordu : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-tCXuA__go

Groovin’ High : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHXDPqKi0bY

Takin’ Care : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r41J8Z0oZQ

Hampton’s Pulpit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5hSMq_s49I

Cheers

Wynton Marsalis Septet

UNITED WE SWING

Blue Engine Records  2005-07 / 2018

The Last Time : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIad7Q6M6uE

Outskirts of Town : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDqIY-A7HI

Find another You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3aD8P6JyZM

Creole Love Call : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zOlugtNz0k

Go My Way : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkt2IvpWY1c

The Worst Thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsjT2SyWemg

What have you done? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd1Y3I1_ci0

In order:

Blind Boys of Alabama, Ray Charles, John Mayer,  Audra McDonald, Lenny Kravitz,  Natalie Merchant, Wynton Marsalis.

Cheers

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

CANNONBALL'S SHARPSHOOTERS

EmArcy / Mercury   1958 / 1986

Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Nat Adderley(trumpet), Junior Mance(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Jimmy Cobb(drums)

Our Delight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmGenUcsx5g

Straight, No chaser : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOnQZ3J2H9c

If I love again : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1s2TGLTKF0

Stay on it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lct90b7SjEw

Jubilation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cs9c7RgDvI

Cheers

Chucho Valdés

LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Blue Note   1999

Notes : Regarding his own compositions, Chucho Valdés explains how he melds Cuban and Jazz idioms with such finesse: "There is one thing that is bilingual," he says, "the eight chords that are purely Cuban, and the harmonics that are pure Jazz."

Son XXI : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHPoXlHyCZ0

To Bud Powell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6jpPLb7i1w

Punto Cubano : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuJinRMAxo

Drume Negrita : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17p6OVgVAbg

My Funny Valentine : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r31Vlw4MkY

Cheers

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

STANDING MY GROUND

Alligator Records  1989

On this disc Brown sings and plays Guitar, Fiddle, Piano and Drums.

Got my mojo working : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikNVbUxQ_Bc

Born in Louisiana : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ69Z73IX3c

Cool Jazz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQpq-KJBljo

She walks right in : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQeW_C7k_PM

What am I living for : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBHqMDYioQY

Cheers