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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The Velvet Fog himself
Mel Tormé with Buddy Rich.
Together Again: For the First Time (1978)

When I Found You

https://youtu.be/C2ecCpL3bT4

Here Is That Rainy Day

https://youtu.be/9Zkchc9m17E

Blues In the Night (great tuba!)

https://youtu.be/qac4Sdkv-9g

I Won't Last a Day Without You

https://youtu.be/PWvibkc5D6o

 

Kenny Burrell

ELLINGTON IS FOREVER VOL. 2

Fantasy  1977 / 1994

Notes : We hope you enjoy this, our second volume of Ellington is Forever.  Again, it is also our hope that these performances will give you further cause to reflect on the wonderful contribution to us all from Duke Ellington.  --  Kenny Burrell

 

I'm just a lucky so and so : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEFSeH3pD3E

Take The A Train : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtxIHJpPqE

Come Sunday : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yId01fp3aNE

Satin Doll : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qLjXd4OKOc

Prelude to a Kiss : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hm-kP6i0A

Nothin' but the Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR06Do2dwZk

and 10 more!

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Duke Ellington

MONEY JUNGLE

Blue Note  1962 / 1987

Duke Ellington(piano), Charlie Mingus(bass), Max Roach(drums)

Notes: "The title tune is "Money Jungle."  This sounds like a title that might have been thought of by the protest conscious Mingus or Roach.  But no, as all the tunes here, it is a product of the Ellington imagination."

 

Money Jungle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9CfWuUIhvk

Caravanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPnB56fQJNQ

Very Specialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdhmqZGYDA

REM Blueshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnbZUFQqnEY

African Flowerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HFQy9_rY58

Cheers

I suppose that it could be argued that a protest is not much of a protest if it is not in plain “view”. However, some, including some artists, choose to not mix their art with politics; not in an obvious way, anyway.

“I merely took the energy that it takes to pout and wrote some blues.” - Duke Ellington

 

Great record, btw.