The Good Stuff

Duke Ellington

THE BLANTON-WEBSTER BAND

RCA / Bluebird    1939-1942 / 1986      3CD Set

Excellent Booklet with a synopsis of each song.  A few pictures.

K0-Ko : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwBfqCsW1k

Flamingo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_zl2EIiy0

Cottontail : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq5LRQIJx3k

Concerto for Cootie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqPqj8CQUM

Jack the Bear : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTbXap_H22E

Hayfoot Strawfoot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jq9O_GsK7U

C Jam Blues :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq2zDGRgTz4

And 59 more!!   Everything he recorded during 1939 thru 1942.

Cheers

John Lewis

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF JAZZ

Atlantic Jazz      1988

Two degrees East, Three Degrees West : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUBxFfi_6Hc

Body and Soul : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHDEYqT4d4A

Afternoon in Paris : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfHnJtM3g5k

Cheers

Manhattan Transfer

VOCALESE

Atlantic      1985

"Featuring the Lyrics of Jon Hendricks"

Night in Tunisia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44V0muaSpjo

Killer Joe : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdqJprYf3GE

Blee Blop Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRp49tAppkU

Ray's Rockhouse : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IltM6tIolPg&list=OLAK5uy_mvSCEaaylfz1qyaNhpzQdlHEb-ECRZq-M&index=7

Cheers

Danilo Perez

PANAMONK

Impulse    1996

Bright Mississippi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrUH6jyRNGw

'Round Midnight : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HiQRY1bGbo

Evidence and Four in One : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spw4qjRyxG0

Panamonk :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZCMXk4ta9o

Cheers

Various  Artists

THE YOUNG LIONS

Vee Jay / Suite Beat Records       1960 / 1986

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

All written in 1960.

Seeds of Sin : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3eR2TJQ0pc

Scourn' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpTkehgVEgE

That's Right : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZXgx0q1IxI

Cheers