Best track you heard all week

[Big Al]

The soundtrack CD to Woody Allen's Radio Days. I don't know the name of the song that plays as the credits begin in the movie, but it's not on the CD and I wish it was. This is one of the CDs that first got me hooked on jazz.

[Jazzmoose]

Sonny Rollins: Blue 7. Can you believe I forgot how good this was?

[Larry Kart]

Chu Berry's solo on the alternate take of "Too Marvelous For Words," from the Mosaic Box. Fascinating player, significantly different from his colleagues, including Coleman Hawkins. Berry was in another place. Also, while I'm not saying this is the way he put his thing together, think of him in harmonic terms first, and it gets very interesting.

[jazzbo]

Ghosts, Albert Ayler, "Spiritual Unity" ESP DISK

[sidewinder]

Sonny Rollins 'Newk's Fadeaway' on Ken Clarke's BBC radio programme the other day. That track is a short masterpiece - not a wasted note !

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

this is a huge one for me, i finally undertand after 29 years, and have a new profound respect for the words and music of BILLY JOEL!!!

[Guest Bill Barton]

Two of them, one old and one new.

Abdullah Ibrahim: "Ancient Africa" from the Sackville album of the same name

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Torben Waldorff: "Late" from American Rock Beauty (new on artistShare). Donny McCaslin's tenor on this one is sublime.

[okierambler]

"Green Grass," the lead track on Varmint, the latest release from Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldown (Cuneiform).

Edited February 18, 2010 by okierambler

[Big Al]

this is a huge one for me, i finally undertand after 29 years, and have a new profound respect for the words and music of BILLY JOEL!!!

Wow, that's right about the age I figured out what Joel was saying all these years and promptly lost all respect for his music and especially his words.

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A track called "Look No Further" from an album called No Strings (With Strings by Ralph Burns and His Orchestra made me feel all kinds of melancholy. After hearing it for the first time, all I kept remembering was the Peanuts episode "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown," the scene where Woodstock whistles "O Mio Babbino Caro" as Peppermint Patty ice skates.

(no, I don't know squat about opera; Google and Wikipedia make finding answers so easy these days)

[paul secor]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - Alfreda Hodgson/Horenstein/BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra -final movement - Der Abschied

Not just the best track all week - I have a sense that I may not hear any music that's more moving than this over the rest of my life.

[JohnS]

I've been working my way through a bunch of Special Edition live tapes this week. Lots of nice stuff but a long version of India with a lengthy oblique piano introduction by DeJohnette, followed by David Murray on bass clarinet has got to be the most arresting thing I've listened to this week.

[ghost of miles]

Stuck inside my head today for some reason:

Neil Young "After the Gold Rush"

[jazzbo]

"Buster Voodoo" from Rodrigo y Gabriela's "11:11"

Edited February 19, 2010 by jazzbo

[WorldB3]

Mtume - Harold Land w/Bobby Hutcherson - A New Shade Of Blue.

I was very excited to finally track down a vinyl copy of A New Shade Of Blue last week.

[Matthew]

The Beach Boys -- Surf's Up Absolutely gorgeous. I always find it amazing that this beautiful music can come from such a SoCal soul crushing state-of-being and location like Hawthorne. And I say that as one who grew in a soul-crushing SoCal locale myself.

[Sundog]

Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock dueting on Someday My Prince Will Come from their 1974 PBS Soundstage Performance.

[zootsi]

Fantastic Mood by Cleve Lyons. This unusual, obscure Hammond B3 piece was played many years ago on the George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz radio show out of Buffalo. I can remember it from my youth, never knew what it was until I just came across it on Hound Dog's web site.

[colinmce]

Mingus Sextet - "Meditations"

I'd heard the versions from Cornell and the Jazz Workshop, but the piece never made much of an impression on me until I stumbled on this video earlier in the week (I've been on a big Mingus kick). I returned to the Cornell verison with a renewed appreciation for this truly stunning composition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOd4TlP7MP8

Edited February 26, 2010 by colinmce

[kh1958]

Mingus Sextet - "Meditations"

I'd heard the versions from Cornell and the Jazz Workshop, but the piece never made much of an impression on me until I stumbled on this video earlier in the week (I've been on a big Mingus kick). I returned to the Cornell verison with a renewed appreciation for this truly stunning composition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOd4TlP7MP8

Other worthy versions of this song are on The Great Concert of Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey and Right Now, all from 1964 and 1965.

Edited February 26, 2010 by kh1958

[colinmce]

Yes, by 'Jazz Workshop' I meant Right Now. Still need to grab the Great Concert and Monterrey discs.

[Peter Friedman]

"Back To The Land" by The Lester Young Trio with Nat "King" Cole and Buddy Rich - Verve

[paul secor]

Billie Holiday: "For All We Know" from Lady in Satin

One for the ages - not just for the week

[Chuck Nessa]

Liza by Mel Powell, Ruby Braff, Skeeter Best, Oscar Pettiford and Bobby Donaldson.

Something like once a year I play this to remind me what I love. Been doing this for decades. It is sure to bring me out of any funk.

[AndrewHill]

Mingus Sextet - "Meditations"

I'd heard the versions from Cornell and the Jazz Workshop, but the piece never made much of an impression on me until I stumbled on this video earlier in the week (I've been on a big Mingus kick). I returned to the Cornell verison with a renewed appreciation for this truly stunning composition. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=UOd4TlP7MP8

Other worthy versions of this song are on The Great Concert of Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey and Right Now, all from 1964 and 1965.

Was just spinning the Cornell 1964 version of this today.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

"Rew mi Senegal" by Canari de Kaolack, from untitled K7 by the band. Beautiful relaxed feeling, very different to other early Mbalax recordings.

MG