The Good Stuff

Sonny Rollins

A NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Blue Note  1957 / 1987

Sonny Rollins(tenor sax), Wilbur Ware(bass), Elvin Jones(drums), Donald Bailey(bass), Pete La Roca(drums)

Notes : This LP constitutes a double premiere.  For the first time Sonny Rollins is heard appearing before the public as leader of his own combo.  For the first time Village Vanguard, one of New York's most proudly prescient night clubs, comes to life through the medium of an in-person recording.

Softly Morning Sunrise : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ah5umK0dA

A Night in Tunisia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWiVGAdJqc

Old Devil Moon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELgmb8cyTsQ

Four : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZf0knmytw

Cheers

Nicholas Payton

GUMBO NOUVEAU

Verve  1996

New Orleans meets bebop.  Wonder what Pops would make of it all.

Whoopin' Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaphqsKzGAE

Way down yonder : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVkDD4x-Uw

St. James Infirmary : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8YfuttFsXs

Li'l Liza Jane : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igy4qdqiex8

Wild Man Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIXrGuxkSV4

Cheers

Pontiac
Artist: Lyle Lovett
Released: Fall 1987

If I Had A Boat

https://youtu.be/hpM8FjO4Vko

Give Back My Heart

https://youtu.be/UqYMf_IEvMg

Walk Through the Bottomland (Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris)

https://youtu.be/NURxY4T9rNY

She’s No Lady

https://youtu.be/EAaJeaT5m-o

M O N E Y

https://youtu.be/6S_sny36EuY

Hank Mobley

SOUL STATION

Blue Note  1960 / 1999

Notes : ...Soul Station stands at the head of Mobley's magnificent 1960-63 body of work, and why it has been frequently called his Saxophone Colossus or Giant Steps...

Remember : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbmKLZ_opuQ

Soul Station : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfUIzb4IFgA

If I should Lose You : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GRG7HNDct8

Cheers

Bill Evans

THE PARIS CONCERT, EDITION TWO

Elektra Musician / Blue Note 1979 / 2001

Notes : Evans, the pianist and composer, sought to create beauty and explore and reveal what was best around us, without being overly sentimental or becoming too flashy or "hard" technically. He was a romanticist who swung and moved in a manner that suited him.

Recorded in 1979, he died in 1980.

Gary’s Theme : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYAQzd1ZxK8

Nardis : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xui8fqY9zp4

34 Skidoo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZQ_HuKpUU

Cheers