Best track you heard all week

[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

[Matthew]

The Beach Boys: Please Let Me Wonder Edited March 9, 2010 by Matthew

[BillF]

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

Yes, that's a great one, Peter!

[Shawn]

Love Song From "Apache" - Coleman Hawkins (from Today & Now)

[jazzbo]

Water Babies, Miles Davis, all of side one really but especially "Capricorn." I get really bored by Shorter often I must confess, but he's pure brilliance here, and clearly demonstrates he was then a master of the saxophone too.

Edited March 9, 2010 by jazzbo

[Hot Ptah]

"My Favorite Things" on Sun Ra's "Some Blues But Not The Kind That's Blue."

Water Babies, Miles Davis, all of side one really but especially "Capricorn." I get really bored by Shorter often I must confess, but he's pure brilliance here, and clearly demonstrates he was then a master of the saxophone too.

I loved "Water Babies" when it was first released. Side 1 got very heavy play in our little college apartment of jazz fanatics. Side 2, not so much.

Edited March 9, 2010 by Hot Ptah

[jeffcrom]

Not quite the right thread for this, but I think that maybe Bunny Berigan recorded the worst song ever written in 1936: "The Goona Goo." Berigan plays well, and the instrumental parts aren't bad, but when Art Gentry started singing the lyrics I thought the floor was going to split and open a portal to hell. I'm too scared to reproduce the lyrics here, but if you're brave enough, they are here.

[JohnS]

Really enjoyed Donald Byrd's Chant lp this week.

Several fine tracks but I especially liked "That's All".

[paul secor]

Charles Ives: "Study No. 9 - The Abolitionist Riots" (1943 recording) from Ives Plays Ives

[Uncle Skid]

Jackie McLean, "Rene", from "Let Freedom Ring".

There's quite a conversation going on in this tune... lots of great moments from all players, but I especially like the one note exchanges around 6:55 or so.

[Matthew]

Caroline No (a capella). Short, and even more heartbreaking then the album version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qti_9EuE22o&feature=related

[Sundog]

Dr. John- Shoo Fly Marches On... Talk about your grease!

[jazzbo]

I can't decide if it's "Blues for Louise" or "Jitterbug Waltz" from Zoot Sims' "Warm Tenor" on Pablo. One of my favorite Zoots!

[Matthew]

Moby Grape's 16 minute version of Dark Magic, recorded at the Avalon Ballroom, December 31, 1966. Awesome psychedelic madness.

[Late]

track: "Strange Things Happening Every Day"

[JohnS]

"They Call The Wind Maria". From Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Selection From Lerner and Loewe. RCA

Love the way Griffins leaps out on this track.

[porcy62]

Booker Lttle's Out Front, all the record, with a light preference for side 2. Actually I never listen to this record before, I am pretty familiar with most of Booker's playing as sideman, but this record is an astounding surprise.

Edited March 29, 2010 by porcy62

[Big Al]

Jazz: Roy and Diz throwing off the mutes halfway thru "Blue Moon" as the Oscar Peterson Trio fans the flames from underneath as the old lions sail off into the stratosphere!!!

Rock: Grand Funk Railroad's "Queen Bee" because of the mental image that popped into my head when I heard it, which was so insanely disturbing, I've been trying to get it out of my head. It doesn't help, unfortunately, that a very small, dark, and psychotic part of me kinda enjoys it.

[kh1958]

Booker Lttle's Out Front, all the record, with a light preference for side 2. Actually I never listen to this record before, I am pretty familiar with most of Booker's playing as sideman, but this record is an astounding surprise.

I listened to Out Front and its companion recording on Bethleham very many times. Two great records.

[Hot Ptah]

Frank Zappa and a 20 piece band (with full big band reed and brass sections) playing "The Grand Wazoo" live in Boston, on the 2007 release "Wazoo". This is the most fun song to listen to on this often rather challenging release.