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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James Carter

JC ON THE SET

DIW / Columbia     1993

James Carter-saxes, Craig Taborn-piano, Jaribu Shahid-bass, Tani Tabbal-drums

 

Caravan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zFQC4fHH8

Baby Girl Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqJl-J1-7_M

JC On The Sethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIUtlQ2HXhA

Blues Nomadic Princesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8cWbFNHUw

 

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Oscar PetersonTrio

THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO AT NEWPORT

Verve  1957 / 2007

Oscar Peterson(piano), Herb Ellis(guitar), Ray Brown(bass), Roy Eldridge(trumpet), Sonny Stitt(alto and tenor sax)Jo Jones(drums)

This performance has been issued on at least three different CDs, Newport 1957, Peterson at Newport and Stitt sits in with the OP Trio.

 

Roy's Sonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l1g_KsFVLY

Autumn in New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrl1rFiHeA

Monitor Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HgbnTQ9S3g

Scrapple from the Applehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGAnajI1twk

 

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Art Pepper

STRAIGHT LIFE

Galaxy / OJC 1979 / 1990

Art Pepper(alto sax), Tommy Flanagan(piano), Red Mitchell(bass), Billy Higgins(drums), Kenneth Nash(cowbell)

 

Surf Ride : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViJFYVY2KL8

Straight Life : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhtqEVDslJE

Nature Boy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qswHpVUP5Q

September Song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIQqfNPYz08

 

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 Antonín Dvořák

THE LATE SYMPHONIES - LEGENDS

London Symphony Orchestra -- Witold Rowicki

Philips   1969 / 1997

Notes: "Arriving in New York in 1892, Dvořák cast himself with enthusiasm into the music of a country he had long admired.  He was delighted by the songs of Stephen Foster, by Afro-American spirituals and folk music.  "It is this spirit which I have tried to reproduce in my new symphony," he later wrote.  He wrote his Ninth Symphony as music sent home "from the New World," adding this phrase as the work's title shortly before its first performance in New York in 1893."

 

SYMPHONY No.9 in E Minor, Op.95 "From the New World"

1. Adagio - Allegro molto : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWDqy5PmBCA

2. Largo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzrEtVEznNw

3. Scherzo Molto vivace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu6LX4EGzfI

4. Allegro con fuoco : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp9U50wa35I

 

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