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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Miles Davis

COLLECTORS ITEMS

Miles Davis(trumpet), Sonny Rollins(tenor sax), Charlie Parker(tenor sax), Walter Bishop(piano), Tommy Flanagan(piano), Percy heath(bass), Paul Chambers(bass), Philly Joe Jones(drums), Arthur Taylor(drums)

Prestige / OJC     1953, 1956 / 1987

 

'Round Midnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSVy7f_ygEk

 

Compulsion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkiJlqs-DBU

 

No Line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9Hbxq5jUw

 

Vierd Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orWwCUt0gZc

 

Cheers

Cannonball Adderley Sextet

LUGANO 1963

Julian Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Nat Adderley(cornet), Yusef Lateef(tenor sax, flute, oboe), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)            TCB Music     1963 / 1995

Excellent Booklet with pictures.  In English and Italian.

 

Trouble In Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew2tnZIodgw

 

Jive Samba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5YC7N7biTo

 

Dizzy's Business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bN4pwIwABA

 

Work Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpk6AFwqhQw

 

Cheers

 

 

Dr John

N'AWLINZ:  DIS DAT OR D'UDDA

EMI Records   2004

 

Quatre Parishe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe2oX-dHDxQ

 

Marie Laveau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eUvjh5t2QM

 

When the Saints go Marching In

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f5SS_iiqC4

 

The Monkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6iHsz12OHA

 

Hen Layin' Rooster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjH_gMP4s7Q

 

Featuring: Marvis Staples, Cyril Neville, B.B. KIng, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Mardi Gras Indians.

Cheers

Charlie Parker

THE BEST OF THE COMPLETE SAVOY & DIAL STUDIO RECORDINGS 

with / Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Bud Powell and many more.

Savoy Jazz    1947, 1948 / 2002

 

Dewey Square : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLey06n6WKw

Parker's Mood : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqRpTD2Qc6A

Chasin' the Bird : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW3e2H5knxc

Scrabble from the Apple : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HySu7kIZyc0

Cool Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7we5T7Hm95M

Moose the Mooche : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1WXgLIC0-A&list=OLAK5uy_lkJ5_IXGNJl_deoqhxu8nH4lq4v7fu3_g&index=3 

 

Cheers

 

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers

UGETSU

Art Blakey(drums), Curtis Fuller(trombone), Freddie Hubbard(trumpet), Wayne Shorter(tenor sax), Cedar Walton(piano), Reggie Workman(bass)

Riverside / OJC     1963 / 1989

 

One by One : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUkk9cqj54

Ping Pong : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7y5ShdnPGc

I Didn't know what time it was : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7rIAfvHZ78

Cheers

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

BOOGIE-WOOGIE STRING ALONG FOR REAL

Warner Bros   1977,1978 / 2005

This is Kirk's Last Recording.

 

Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5lWV_KgVcM

 

Dorthaan's Walk                                                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh1t8oA__k0

 

Watergate Blues                                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tq6OwPD3TM

 

Make Me a Pallet on the Floor                                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnU9w12Tr0c

 

Cheers

 

 

Michel Legrand

LEGRAND JAZZ

with / Miles Davis on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor sax, Phil Wood on alto sax, Jerome Richardson on bari sax, Herbie Mann on flute, Bill Evans on piano,  Paul Chambers on bass and a multitude of others.

Philips   1958 / 1986

The Jitterbug Waltz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEBY7AMeMMQ

Night in Tunisia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVhwNdAKhM

Stompin' at the Savoy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XKZ38zhhes

Django : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6croQb4iM8

'Round midnight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbf7PNG5nxw

Cheers

My copy is the original with different cover art.  Don't have to look at that silly cigarette dangling from his mouth.  That's considered French Cool.

Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross

THE HOTTEST NEW GROUP IN JAZZ

Columbia / Sony     1959 / 1996 

One of the great Jazz album cover art.

 

Centerpiece : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8GGr9m8qXs

Moanin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvSO6dbEvzo

Cloudburst : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx4SECmHl8Y

Everybody's Boppin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alOScICRPP0

Charleston Alley : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6loAjCQCQ4

Cheers

 

Various Country & R&B Duets

RHYTHM COUNTRY AND BLUES

MCA  Records      1994

 

I Fall to Pieces  --  Aaron Neville & Trisha Yearwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepL2VMzdHs

 

Rainy Night in Georgia  --  Sam Moore & Conway Twitty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvMteHdpMCI

 

The Weight  --  The Staple Singers & Marty Stuart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5DwLAU8rE

 

Something is Wrong with my Baby  --  Patti Labelle & Travis Tritt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWaP6H_n0qw

 

Since I Fell for You  --  Natalie Cole & Reba McEntire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk6o6LUKUT4

 

Cheers

Lester Young

LESTER YOUNG IN WASHINGTON D.C. 1956  VOL 2

Pablo Records / OJC      1956 / 1996

Another Great from Mississippi.

 

Lester Leaps In : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgbCjn5hsuY

Jumpin' with Symphony Sid :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhbeP7Mv_8

I'm Confessin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijfTz195rY

Lullabye of Birdland : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdYnd51ZFo

 

Cheers

 

Clark Terry

PORTRAITS

Chesky Records 1989

Notes : "This session is a tribute to legendary trumpeters"

 

Little Jazz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48S9GYC_upQ                          (Roy Eldridge)

Jive at Five : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_I_KW9dmo                      (Harry "Sweets" Edison)

Sugar Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Y1k_kUSoE                       (Clyde McCoy)

Autumn Leaves : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP5sVYySTbc                 (Miles Davis)

Sleepy Time Down South : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-xIfIFb2VU      (Louis Armstrong)

 

Cheers

 

Sonny Rollins

PLUS 4

Prestige / OJC     1956 / 1987

Notes: ...On "Pent-Up House", Sonny and Brownie combine in one of the most brilliant interactions in the recorded annals of Jazz. -- Nat Hentoff

Quite a statement.

Valse Hot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIVtK2gXLpk&t=162s

I Feel a Song Comin' On : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUzYLtf7pKw

Pent-Up House : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlpEnsa2d8

Cheers

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

OVERTURES

Chicago Symphony orchestra -- Fritz Reiner

RCA Gold Seal / BMG 1958 / 1990

 

The Silken Ladder : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrugBmgKIIQ

The Barber of Seville : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ei0w3Ndyfc

William Tell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJNGz0RL6qo

 

Cheers

Coleman Hawkins

ALIVE! AT THE VILLAGE GATE 1962

Verve / American Jazz Classics       1962  

Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy9qN7afXL0

All the Things You Are : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNg1jELYyI

 

same recording date, with Roy Eldridge and Johnny Hodges

Satin Doll : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mbu_tF1KXo

The Rabbit in Jazz : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDiGhwcjbA

Perdidio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EG86kUp3w

 

Cheers

 

Lee Morgan

LEE MORGAN VOL. 3

Lee Morgan (trumpet), Gigi Gryce (alto sax), Benny Golson (tenor sax, arrange), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Charlie Persip (drums)

Blue Note  1957 / 1996     (mono)

All Compositions by Benny Golson

 

I Remember Clifford : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFH7YQ-2U2w

Tip Toeing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-s5tPPeNk

Hasaan's Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feNz-vgOSgA

 

Cheers

 

Sonny Stitt

THE LAST SESSIONS, VOLUMES ONE and TWO

Recorded 9 June 1982.  Sonny Stitt died of cancer on July 22 1982.

with Jimmy Cobb, Walter Davis, George Duvivier, Bill Hardman, Junior Mance

Savoy Jazz        1982 / 2003

Volume Two:

At Last : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rnG9xxLIcw

As Time Goes By : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZlVltPAMM

Bouncing With Bud : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQrCsydZed8

Volume one:

Steamroller : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kQEO7Np5g

Sweet Georgia Brown : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmFfTiWOM80

I'll be seeing You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_2ptVhsHOA

 

Cheers

 

 

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

 

@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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Just poking a little fun on the somewhat large number of postings. Cheers.

Just poking a little fun on the somewhat large number of postings

 

That's the way I took it.  But I try to post only once a day.  I can get carried away!

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Milt Jackson

PLENTY, PLENTY SOUL  //  BALLADS & BLUES

Atlantic / Poll Winners Records      1957 / 2012

 

Plenty, Plenty Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR8mbsZG1XY

Blues at Twlight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHMcn9xMDsk

The Spirit-Feel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1relR9eKdQ

These Foolish Things : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h8SDQyz5ww

Gerry's Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040aK3jFw_w

 

Cheers

James Booker

RESURRECTION of the BAYOU MAHARAJAH

Rounder   1993

Notes: "Booker had all these musical cats hanging out inside him - Louis Morreau Gottschalk, Jelly Roll Morton, Professor longhair, Chopin, Monk - and they all decided to stand up and go to the piano at the same time.  He was a one-of-a-kind, brilliant, genius."

 

Medley: Slow Down : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zya7-ekMXw

Medley: Tico Tico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA5Aoq32N4g

Medley: Life : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa7w0yYjXNs

Save your love for me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd2GJeaPQ8o

 

Cheers

Bill Evans

THE PARIS CONCERT, Edition One

Elektra Masters  1989

 

My Romance : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ESPzJB9JOI

*I Loves You Porgy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWCtoE7OX4Q

Beautiful Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeDufyIIdeM

*He seems to leave 'Porgy' altogether, but comes back at the very end at 6:39.  Love it.

 

Cheers

Nancy Wilson / Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

NANCY WILSON / CANNONBALL ADDERLEY

Nancy Wilson(vocals), Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Nat Adderley(cornet), Joe Zawinul(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)

Capitol  1961 / 1993

 

Save Your Love for Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpqQwbayrzM

The Masquerade is Over : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNa9PJLIdsA

Teaneck : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCsoR62epPs

The Old Country : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWElAxatI4Y

 

Cheers

Jon Henderson

DOUBLE RAINBOW - The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim

Joe Henderson(tenor sax), Eliane Elias(piano), Oscar Castro-Nieves(guitar), Nico Assumpcao(Bass), Paulo Braga(drums)

Verve   1995

Felicidade : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdqioEDQsGY

Once I Loved : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg3smyF8B14

 

Joe Henderson9Tenor sax), Herbie Hancock(piano), Christian McBride(bass), Jack DeJohnette(drums)

Triste : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W81MHzVykc

Zingaro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sPfRGo7QKE

No More Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15aI1r_skhE

 

Cheers

Nat Adderley

WORK SONG

Riverside / OJC        1960 / 1989

Notes: "Cornet, cello, and guitar make up a front line that will probably never be duplicated.  The guitarist was his friend Wes Montgomery, just emerging towards Jazz stardom; the cellist was the longtime bassist of Cannonball's band, Sam Jones."

Work Song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqUd7gXxqmc

My Heart Stood Still : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyhGSG33xfs

Mean to Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyJ2mSlzbU

Sack of Woe : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9qOX8HXtQ

 

Cheers

Ellington & Coltrane

DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE

John Coltrane(tenor sax, soprano sax), Duke Ellington(piano), Jimmy Garrison(bass), Aaron Bell(bass), Elvin Jones(drums), Sam Woodyard(drums)

Impulse      1962 /1995

Notes: "Duke Ellington was put into the Jazz world to separate the men from the boys.  His grasp of harmony and instrumental voicing is more advanced than anybody else's in the entire range of Jazz, and the reason why many modern fans are unable to accept him is not that they are too modern for Duke, but that Duke is too modern for them."

 

In a sentimental Mood : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiP7jKdAhD0

Take the Coltrane : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJnIgZwnDuM

Big Nick : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCu7Dd8CqoE

My Little Brown Book : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q18F--zZ-I

 

Cheers

 

Wynton Marsalis

MR. JELLY LORD - STANDARD TIME VOL. 6

Columbia / Sony Classics 1999

A tribute to Jelly Roll Morton

 

Smokehouse Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OLBY3vk-hQ

New Orleans Bump : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmBHMTsy2BY

Sidewalk Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9su7o9Aw7vI

Dead Man Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D41Z6KtxjPw

Mamanita : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2e2fL86n0Q

Jungle Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ZqgzGeKIY

 

for all you audiophiles -- Wynton and Eric Reed record a cylinder of "Tom Cat Blues" on vintage Thomas Edison equipment. Finally something my POLKS can better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLEEJ0Vt7Ck

 

Cheers

 

Chester  Burnett  a.k.a.  Howlin' Wolf

THE CHESS BOX - Disc 2 of 3    1955-1962

Chess / MCA Records      1991

 

Gotta be Saturday Night Somewhere.

 

Howlin' For My Darling : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paEv5A5Ir1c

Goin' Down Slow : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDAAx-PXGQ

Spoonful : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbwOt_9LAR8

Shake for Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j27WE6AC4U0

Red Rooster : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQVz6B-KwQ

Who's Been Talking : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7jxaWMFhTg

 

Cheers

 

Elton John

ONE NIGHT ONLY - The Greatest Hits

Mercury / Universal      2000

 

My Favorite Treadmill Music

Philadelphia Freedom : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44SkvEqbpuc

Rocket Man : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6wxp3Z_zks

The Sun Go Down On Me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISA7jg82uUc

Candle In The Wind : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JTe7bGaXAA

 

Cheers

Ludwig Van Beethoven

BEETHOVEN 9 SYMPHONIES

Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - John Eliot Gardiner

Archiv  1994      5CD Box

 

You can't accuse this guy of loitering about.

Symphony No. 5 in C minor,  op. 67

1. Allegro con brio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtHx8uHouKY

2. Andante con moto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvu0uBYanEs

3. Allegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWe5k54NpCQ

4. Allegro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBl99DuwHo

 

Cheers

 

 

 

Charles Mingus

BLUES & ROOTS

Atlantic Jazz        1959

Notes: " This record is unusual--it presents only one part of my musical world, the Blues.  A year ago, Nesuhi Ertegun suggested that I record an entire Blues album album in the style of Haitian Fight Song, because some people, particularly critics, were saying I didn't swing enough."    😊

 

Wednesday Prayer Meeting : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGJrFslQ4q4

Mr Jelly Roll Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzNuG8q2Xh8

Moanin' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvjZ7fUUBU

E's Flat Ah's Flat Too : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRZGFJIEZsQ

 

Cheers

 

Clifford Brown and Max Roach

AT BASIN STREET

Emarcy / Mercury    1956 / 1990

Also includes Sonny Rollins on Tenor Sax.  The last Brown / Roach album.

 

What is this thing called love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTWRZkoLGx8

I'll Remember April : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efD90XFbpsE

Love a many splendored Thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efD90XFbpsE

Gertrude's Bounce : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tUOEIaEBw

 

Cheers