some artists, choose to not mix their art with politics; not in an obvious way, anyway.
Mingus was very radical and outspoken, as long as he was in NYC. Below the Mason-Dixon, not so much.
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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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Tina Brooks TRUE BLUE Blue Note 1960 / 1992 Notes: Brooks was one of Jazz's ultimate footnotes until the Blue Note savvy Japanese brought his 1958 quintet session, Back to the Tracks and the rest of the Brooks/McLean music into print toward the close of the 1970s.
Good Old Soul (alternate take) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSKgqALZ0II True Blue : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEVrlhg4rmw Nothing ever changes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy9dkBv9_8w Up Tight's Creek : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fstrRnjj1jE Cheers |
Otis Clay SOUL MAN : LIVE IN JAPAN Bullseye Blues / Rounder 1983 / 1991 After all, Saturday is Blues / R&B day.
A Nickel and a Nail : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9DlXwHIR4 Here I am : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4pXKj0qhZw Love don't Love nobody : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP675BN-V2A Love and Happiness : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EBHsnlf6S8 Cheers |
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