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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Curtis Fuller's Quintet featuring Bennie Golson - BLUES-ette

Not one wasted word.  Case in point, Track 4: 

Minor Vamp

 

 

Hampton Hawes Quartet

ALL NIGHT SESSION VOL 3

Comtemporary / Avid Jazz    1956 / 2013

 

Do nothin' till you hear : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4YGUNEjD1s

Between Devil and Blue Sea : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDyuDH_Euf4

Blues #4 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oCMdB3SbtM

 

Cheers

 

Harry "Sweets" Edison

THE INVENTIVE MR. EDISON 

Harry"Sweets" Edison(trumpet),  Arnold Ross(piano), Joe Comfort(bass), Alvin Stoller(drums)

Pacific Jazz / American Jazz Classics   1953 / 2014

Recorded at The Haig Club, Los Angeles, July 1, 1953

 

Tea for Two : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeSbTTGLxUs

Sept in the Rain : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJOdl-YGd4

'S wonderful : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erOGk6m-AFY

These Foolish Things : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMxNC2J1rpg

 

Cheers

 

 

Intelligent Percussion, Soulful strings, Trumpets speaking in Tongues.

Don't like this music?  Sell your gear.

One of the OP's (Jazz for aficionados) last recommendations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVJMOpIHBgc&list=RDAVJMOpIHBgc&start_radio=1

 

Cheers