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.
Notes: A world-class trombonist-composer and longstanding member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, under the direction of Jazz Maestro Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon has cut a wide stylistic swath on his 20 albums to date. From Gospel and Southern Blues to J.J. Johnson-inspired hard bop, along with faithful interpretations of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk classics. He was recognized by the Jazz Journalist Association as Trombonist of the year for 2012, his seventh time winning that accolade.
Excellent notes by Cannonball Adderley, where he blasts everyone from wealthy teenage rockers, to Dick Clark and country music performers. He calls it the "Glorification of Mediocrity". I call it "firing for effect".
Notes: "Modern Jazz obviously cannot and will not stand still. Modern Jazz traditionalists must realize that the music of Bird is only a logical step wise development of that which had gone on before. Conversely, the avant-garde cannot expect basic stylistic changes to develop among mature players through artificial stimuli; for the hysterical cry for change tends to give sanctuary to charlatans." ---- Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Clarinet: Barney Bigard, Drums: Danny Barcelona, Vocals: Duke Ellington, Piano: Duke Ellington, Trumpet, Vocals: Louis Armstrong, Bass: Mort Herbert, Trombone: Trummy Young
Wynton Kelly(piano), Wes Montgomery(guitar), Paul Chambers(bass), Jimmy Cobb(drums)
Notes: A legendary session recorded live at a New York nightclub, Smokin' at the Half Note captures Wes Montgomery at the height of his improvisational powers....Many consider it the best performance on record by one of the most inventive guitarists in Jazz history.
SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR : THE MUSIC OF BILLY STRAYHORN
Comtemporary 1987
Flugelhorn: Art Farmer, Saxophone: Clifford Jordan, Piano: James Williams, Bass (vocal): Rufus Reid, Drums: Marvin Smith
Art Farmer appeared quite often on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
Billy Strayhorn, Ellington collaborator, died of cancer, and he wrote several tunes based on his ordeal, such as, Blood Count, Unit 7, and Upper Manhattan Medical Group.
Notes: Last December our friend and drummer of 40 years, Connie Kay, passed away. In an effort to re-live some of the marvelous moments we had been fortunate to share with him, I began going through some of our concert tapes recorded all over the world during our long career. In doing so I stumbled upon this 1960 Live Recording that we made in Slovenia. In my opinion, never before or since has the Modern Jazz Quartet played better, whether on stage or in the recording studio. -- John Lewis, February, 1995
Ike Quebec(tenor sax), Grant Green(guitar), Paul Chambers(bass), Philly Joe Jones(drums), Sam Jones(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)
Blue Note 1961 / 2007 (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
Notes: Over the years Blue Note has developed a well-deserved reputation as a label which continually fosters new talent. It has not, as of 1962, slackened its activity in this direction. Newcomers Freddie Hubbard, Grant Green, and Stanley Turrentine are testimony to this. ☺
During the last three years of his life, Art Tatum was extensively recorded by producer Norman Granz for his Clef and Verve labels, including 125 solo performances contained in the seven-CD Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces (Pablo 4404). Granz knew that Tatum also excelled when teamed with stimulating players, so 80 selections were recorded with all-star groups and collected in the six-CD Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces (Pablo 4401). It is from the latter that the dozen selections on this "best of" set are drawn.
Roland Kirk(tenor sax, manzello, stritch, flute, nose flute, siren whistle, voice), Herbie Hancock, Andrew Hill, Wynton Kelly(piano), Vernon Martin(bass), Henry Duncan, Roy Haynes(piano)
Kenny Dorham(trumpet), Joe Henderson(tenor sax), McCoy Tyner(piano), Butch Warren(bass), Pete LaRoca(drums)
Blue Note 1963 / 1999 (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
Notes: "One aspect of the Dorham/Henderson discography that is especially fascinating is the way in which they assembled distinctive rhythm sections for each album."
Speaking of good things rok2id , I could have told Putin that people fighting on their own land fight like hell .
From what I have seen on TV last night logistics have got the Ukraines those self-tracking shoulder missiles "cus it alone could blow up the 2 Russian air strikes I saw blow up!
No joke , If I was there I would grab an AK ., I’m still strong and a great shot .
Putin may have made the mother of all miscalculations. If we can get the Ukrainians ammunition and the anti-armor and anti aircraft missiles / weapons in time, I am sure the Ukrainians can deal with the Russian Infantry. Remember STINGER got the Soviets out of Afghanistan.
In any event, I think this will open the eyes of the world, and esp NATO countries, to the threat which did not go away with the fall of the wall, if anything, it became more dangerous. It will also expose the Russian military.
Germans sent a load of anti-tank missiles to day , Briits have send all kinds of stuff, Canada ammo and believe it or not Canadians have great cybor which has been there. Almost all NATO boys are doing what they must .
The best news is Sweden and Finland are coming on board . Russians know what the bad-ass fins are like.
True but not much known , Sweden has the best plane for plane air force there is,
a hundred Swedish Grippens would end it all .
A fantastic thing took place, ,engineers put out TNT for a bridge the Russians were using for tanks , which was using set off by radio , but radio did not work.
One soldier just stood up and went down and set it off with his hand and himself . How brave can a man be !
God Bless the Ukrainians .
P..S . I don’t see them given up any time soon . The President saying "I need ammo, not a ride " did much for moral . Country is a big as Texas Lots of forests to strike from.
I agree the Germans are beginning to pull their heads out of their rear ends. About time. This does seem like 1938 all over again. People NEVER learn anything from history.
When the Soviet Union broke up, they left a lot of nukes in Ukraine. That made Ukraine the world's third largest nuclear power at that time. I think they gave them all to the U.S. for disposal. I know they wish they had them now.
I fear a lot the military aid being sent might arrive just in time for the Russians to get it. ☹
Notes: "Jimmy Smith's story is an unusual one because he single-handedly introduced an instrument into the modern Jazz mainstream and created a sound and a style to go with it. What is most unusual is that he did not even approach the instrument until he was 28 years old, and he did not play a gig under his own leadership or record an album of his own until he was 29."
Notes: "While never an innovator, Turrentine (1934-200) was surely one of Blue Note's key players in the field of "soul Jazz", the strongly Blues-based, Gospel-influenced branch of hard bop, which itself was a simplified take on the vertiginously complex bebop form..... CTI, like Blue Note, had a "look" as well....CTI's covers featured color compositions of gallery quality by some of America's leading photographers."
Notes: "The best thing that ever happened to television happened on CBS between five and six in the afternoon on Sunday, December 8. At least that was where and when it happened first; the program may have been run at a different hour and date in your part of the country, and -- if there is any justice -- it will be repeated, the more often the better. It was an installment in *The Seven Lively Arts* series called *The Sound of Jazz,* and as far as I'm concerned, you can throw away all previous standards of comparison. This is where television began to amount to something."
Notes: "The most important point that I can see is that the Jazz musician of the future will have to be able to play all different kinds of Jazz-in all its treatments-just like the classical musician who, in one concert range from Bach to Copeland." -- James P. Johnson, 1947.
Great player! He is about to be featured in a concert at Carnegie with the American Symphony that recreates some of Ellington’s large scale works. On drums, Wynton’s ‘s little brother Jason.
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