Best track you heard all week

[jazzbo]

Son of a preacher man here found that "Bolero/(Hey Baby) New Rising Sun" from the new Jimi Hendrix box set "West Coast Seattle Boy" was the track of the week. Great to practice drumming to.

[aparxa]

Jump For Joy, Duke Ellington 1941

[Christiern]

The best track I heard this past week is Mahalia Jackson's original Apollo recording of Silent Night. It stunned me when I first heard it on the Danish radio about 60 years ago, and it continues to take my breath away. Apropos breath, according to the rules, Mahalia's breathing is all "wrong" on this recording, yet it is so right. If you haven't heard this gem, make sure you do so, but skip the Columbia version—they did their best to remove the Mahalia magic, and sometimes they almost succeeded. On the Apollo recording, she is accompanied only by Mildred Falls at the organ. That's really all Mahalia needed.

[golfcrazy1984]

"Clarinade" from the Mosaic Records box set of Classic Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (Disk 5). I don't know what it is about it, but Benny is absoultely perfect and swingin'. Normally I am listening to Blue Note or Ellington and Basie, but this whole set is wonderful.

[BFrank]

"Rise," Gary Bartz and Nu Troop.

I got no problem with THAT. Those first two Ntu Troop albums are classics.

Best track of the week for me was a pop tune, Janelle Monae "Cold War"

[paul secor]

Fred Anderson/Peter Kowald/Hamid Drake: "To Those Who Know" from Live at the Velvet Lounge (Okka)

[John Tapscott]

"L'Homme a la Moto"

from The Wynton Marsalis Quintet & Richard Galliano - "From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf"

Yeah, yeah, I know it's Wynton, but this is a very exciting track with some fiery exchanges and interplay between WM and accordianist Galliano who is a really amazing player, whom you can see in action on the accompnaying DVD.

[danasgoodstuff]

Damn, I loves me some Stax records - Wm Bell "I Forgot to Be Your Lover" which I've appended to my cassette copy of Soul of a Bell 'cause I love that track from '68 but generally like earlier Stax better & Eddie Floyd "Something You Got" from the Knock On Wood album, amix tape of Memphis does New Orleans may be in the offing.

[Joe]

Bud Powell's rendition of "I Remember Clifford" from the so-called "Edenville holiday" tapes of 1964 (originally issued on Mythic Sound, then again on a Pablo disc entitled BEBOP.) The piano is badly out of tune, the fidelity (uh...) informal, and I've always found Golson's elegy a little staid, even drab, but Bud, here on the cusp of his final decline, colors and shades the tune masterfully. And he finds a seam of deep, deep emotion here and mines it like no other modern jazz pianist could.

[venusbloo]

Anita O'Day-Sweet Georgia Brown, where has she been all my life???

My link

[Tom 1960]

From the album Oceans in The Sky by Steve Kuhn, his take on Kenny Dorham's Lotus Blossom.

Edited January 17, 2011 by Tom 1960

[Matthew]

So What off of George Benson's album Beyond the Blue Horizon. Benson's solo is very good.

[JohnS]

Art Pepper; The Great Lie. From Chet Baker/Art Pepper The Route on Pacific Jazz.

Art with just Leroy Vinnegar and Stan Levey in 1956. Nice to (re)discover an overlooked or just forgotten gem.

[BillF]

Art Pepper; The Great Lie. From Chet Baker/Art Pepper The Route on Pacific Jazz.

Art with just Leroy Vinnegar and Stan Levey in 1956. Nice to (re)discover an overlooked or just forgotten gem.

Nice one! Also like Shorty Rogers' great arrangement and Gene Ammons' great solo on the original "The Great Lie" by the Herman band.

[paul secor]

Bobby "Blue" Bland: "It's My Life, Baby" from The "3B" Blues Boy (Ace) - 1955 cut where Bobby Bland first sounds like BOBBY "BLUE" BLAND, and Roy Gaines' playing is like fire on the guitar strings.

[Chicago Expat]

Morris Nanton Trio - "Soul Fingers"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVNA26OX1c

[A Lark Ascending]

João Gilberto - Aquarela do Brasil (off Amoroso)

It has two amazing melodies that would make distinct songs by themselves. Together...

Great version by Jobim on 'Stone Flower' too.

[colinmce]

Roland Kirk Quartet - "No Tonic Pres"

Heard it many times before, but damn damn damn that is a ferocious tune. One of the baddest groups ever assembled. The rest of the album is just as fine, of course.

[Uncle Skid]

Charles Mingus - "Meditations on Integration", Belgium 1964 (Jazz Icons DVD).

Hole. Lee. Shit.

Eric Dolphy makes me want to cry.

[John Tapscott]

Charles Mingus - "Meditations on Integration", Belgium 1964 (Jazz Icons DVD).

Hole. Lee. Shit.

Eric Dolphy makes me want to cry.

The whole DVD is remarkable.

[Chuck Nessa]

That sort of stuff used to happen all the time - when most of jazz was alive.

[paul secor]

Sonny Rollins: "Jungoso" from What's New (RCA)

[Dan Gould]

I'm somewhat ashamed to mention that James Carr was a name completely new to me but I'm real glad I heard "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man".

[paul secor]

I'm somewhat ashamed to mention that James Carr was a name completely new to me but I'm real glad I heard "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man".

A wonderful singer and a wonderful record.

[Dan Gould]

I'm somewhat ashamed to mention that James Carr was a name completely new to me but I'm real glad I heard "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man".

A wonderful singer and a wonderful record.

Indeed! And now I am taking the full plunge and have on order the "complete Goldwax recordings" and am leaning toward taking the plunge on at least one of the Ace compilations of the Goldwax label. My brother, who knows the soul genre much better than I do, sent me a link to an NPR piece on the label, that's how I found out about Carr.