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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Ludwig Van Beethoven

THE COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS 1 - 32

Igor Levit (piano)

Sony 2013 / 2019 9 CD Box

 

Sonata No.14 in C-sharp minor, Op.27/2 "Moonlight"

 

Adagio sostenuto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xSpGxAMGKs

Allegretto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN-UYZwqME0

Presto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWpLVh6IIRA

 

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Sonny Rollins

TENOR MADNESS

Prestige / OJC   1956 / 1987

Notes : On Tenor Madness, Coltrane takes the first solo and also leads off on the chases.

"Chases" -- A series of short musical passages (trading fours or twos) played by several players at a fast tempo.

 

Tenor Madness : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRp9nuTWckM

My Reverie : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNTSSZm81W8

The most beautiful girl : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pi7QSOzeLA

 

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Horace Silver

HORACE SILVER AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS

Blue Note    1954-55 / 1987

Notes : It was decided that this date would present Horace as a combo leader for the first time.  He responded by getting Kenny Dorham and Art Blakey to join himself and two of the members of his Minton's quartet, Hank Mobley and Doug Watkins.  Thus The Messengers were born, or reborn.  Actually the name had been used before by Art Blakey when he led a 17 piece band on occasional gigs, and a septet on Blue Note, both in the late Forties.

 

Creepin' Inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVz-GjCU9wU

The Preacherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOMX3Q0P400

Hankerin'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuCr5QTm4RY

Doodlin'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnxYseLmBo

 

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The Modern Jazz Quartet

EUROPEAN CONCERT  (volumes one and two)

Atlantic / Collectables      1960 / 1990 / 2006

Wiki: European Concert is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in Sweden in April 1960 and originally released on two consecutive volumes on the Atlantic label.

 

Vol one:

Djangohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpVjjB5Jzlo

I Should Carehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFcB1_kNf78

Bluesologyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59SY1PEGdm4

 

Vol Two:

'Round Midnighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd5w69iaVXU

Bag's Groovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiTFVWDhgQ4

It don't mean a thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sszEfapQWxc

 

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