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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rok2id

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.

 

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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

 

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