Best track you heard all week

[WorldB3]

The new release from Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Jasmine. Track I've been listening to over and over again: Don't Ever Leave Me...beautiful!

This get my vote for this week. So refreshing to hear Jarrett play in a different setting than solo or in the standards trio. None of those hour long epics with moaning and crystalline reverb on everything (though I am a fan of ECM and some of his solo concerts), just sounds like two friends playing tunes together for family who just happen to be extremely talented.

[ejp626]

Happened to be flipping through Rolling Stone and they mentioned that Clapton was a big fan of Derek Trucks and that one really should listen to the version of Afro Blue on Truck's new double CD Roadsongs. So I did. It's a good cover, taken at a fast clip, some guitar wankery, but overall I liked it quite a bit.

[BillF]

"All the Things You Are" from Allen Eager in the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee

Bird at his most beautiful on beautiful changes caught on tape at an informal gathering.

[John Tapscott]

I must name 2

1) Lee Morgan playing "I Remember Clifford" from the Art Blakey Live in '58 Jazz Icons DVD

2) Scott Hamilton - "Castle Rock" from Organic Duke (Concord) w Mike LeDonne, Dennis Irwin and Chuck Riggs

[Chalupa]

‎"I'm ALIVE. I'm not a stone. I'm not a rock. I'm not a piece of metal y'all. I'm ALIVE!"

Johnny Thunder - I'm Alive

[Matthew]

Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker Byas A Drink. Not really a song, just Bird's solo. It's off The Complete Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker.

[BillF]

Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker Byas A Drink. Not really a song, just Bird's solo. It's off The Complete Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker.

Wonderful clip! Thanks!

[kh1958]

Baby Lips--Live at Minton's in 1941, recorded thanks to Jerry Newman--Electrifying and jaw dropping trumpet from Hot Lips Page.

Edited July 25, 2010 by kh1958

[Peter Friedman]

Sal Nistico on "Groovin' Sal" (Cherokee changes).

From Sal Nistico & Tony Scott - Swiss Radio Days 1977 - TCB

Sal was having a great day and really wails on this tune and also on "The Song Is You".

[A Lark Ascending]

Not so much a track as a tune - 'Black Velvet'.

Heard it on both a Sonny Clark and an Arnett Cobb recording last weekend and it's been stuck in my head ever since.

[Big Al]

"From This Moment On" played by John Jenkins and Kenny Burrell on their self-titled Blue Note album. Jenkins playing the melody line has been stumbling around my brain for the last day, completely unidentified, until a few minutes ago when I started searching for it on Rhapsody. And, of course, it's from a CD I no longer own. Meanwhile, hundreds of CDs sit on my shelf collecting dust. {{{sigh}}}

[ghost of miles]

Posted this in the dream-pop thread last night and still can't get it out of my head today:

Lush, "De Luxe"

[Guest Bill Barton]

On something of a Harry Beckett binge the past few days and his beautiful playing on "Maxine" with Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath (from Yes Please) is embedded in my head.

[randyhersom]

I've Got My Baby Back by Lorraine Ellison. Crawled into my head a couple weeks ago and hasn't left. It's still not my favorite Lorraine Ellison song, that's her piano and vocal version of Jimmy Cliff's Many Rivers To Cross. But it's getting a lot of listening time whether it's actually playing or not. And the great Sister Love 3 disk Rhino has lots more where that came from, including a jazzy session with Oliver Nelson that's unjustly maligned.

Edited August 12, 2010 by randyhersom

[.:.impossible]

Duran (Take 4) from The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions

[JSngry]

The Rev. Charles Powful Chaumpers w/the Fort Pow-Pow Junior Mass Choir (Sister Olinguia Posippitee, director) - GOD IS MY TOOTHBRUSH!!!

[Shawn]

Chord Change by Camel.

[Peter Friedman]

Listened to these two tunes this morning on my iPod while walking the neighborhood.

"Wingspan' from Mulgrew Miller CD of the same title. With Kenny Garrett, Steve nelso, Charnett Moffett,

and Tony Reedus.

"Uncle Bubba" from Sphere CD with Gary Bartz, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams and Ben Riley.

Both these tunes added immense pleasure to my 2 and1/2 mile walk.

[BillF]

Ted Brown playing "Body and Soul" on Free Spirit

[B. Goren.]

Sun Ra quartet playing My Favorite Things on New Steps. The quartet members are John Gilmor, Michael Ray and Luqman Ali.

[jazzbo]

"She's Moved On," Porcupine Tree, "Deadwing" Cd. Just a track that has all the elements I like so much about this band. Rocking, moving, some virtuoso playing, dynamics, drama, beauty.

[Tom Cat]

watermelon song from raining on the moon, by william parker

[Neal Pomea]

Shake it Down, Lillian Glinn.

[Sundog]

Stevie Wonder- Boogie on Reggae Woman

Heard this on the radio today, and the groove still sounds as good today, as it did back in the day. Can I play? Absolutely, Stevie!

[Leeway]

Hard to say if it was the best, but "Joshua" on Bobby Hutcherson's "Spiral" Blue Note LP blew me away. With Freddie Hubbard (tp); Sam Rivers (ts); Bobby Hutcherson (vib); Andrew Hill (p); Richard Davis (b); Joe Chambers (d), how could it not?!