Best track you heard all week

[John Tapscott]

A hard swinging version of John Coltrane's "Red Planet" from . Outstanding tenor solo by Chris Potter. In fact, the whole CD is very good with an excellent rhythm section of Gary Mazzaroppi (bass ) and Glenn Davis (drums).

Honorable mention- "Gloria" from a private CDR of the Clarke-Boland Big Band, May 16, 1968, Stuttgart, featuring a wonderful tenor solo by Tony Coe.

Edited April 12, 2012 by John Tapscott

[Matthew]

Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree. Played this about three times in a row. Wonderful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zbFueiBMI

Edited April 16, 2012 by Matthew

[John Tapscott]

"Brownie Speaks" from The Clifford Brown Memorial Album (Blue Note), with an amazing trumpet solo that must be still sending trumpeters to the 'shed nearly 60 years later. I can imagine Lou Donaldson waiting to solo and thinking, "Oh man, I hope my solo is going to be OK. I don't want to screw up this take." He didn't, but it's really all Brownie. Wonderful.

[mjazzg]

"I shall be released" The Band from Music from Big Pink.

Hadn't listened to the album for nigh on twenty years and was inspired to by the sad thread about Levon Helm. Could've chosen many of the tracks but the vocal performance on this track really resonated

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

"Voices Deep Within" Cedar Walton

[Tom 1960]

"Machado" from the Mike Ledonne album "Common Ground". Some nice work by Ledonne and Kenny Washington on that track.

[Sundog]

The Band- Look Out Cleveland

[Shawn]

Opeth - Folklore - at the concert last night in Los Angeles.

[Neal Pomea]

Bluebird B-6918

Clarence Williams' Washboard Band

Top of the Town/More Than That

Didn't care for Eva Taylor's vocal, but the ensemble playing is fantastic! See this lineup: http://www.redhotjazz.com/cwwbb.html. Easy tempos with a lot of New Orleans feel, even though Top of the Town is about Manhattan.

[Peter Friedman]

"Stratusphunk" from the CD - Hal McKusick - Now's The Time on Decca.

[jeffcrom]

"You'll Know the First Time" from Sounds for the 60's by Onzy Matthews. Overall, this album isn't as good as Blues With a touch of Elegance, but this beautiful, moody piece got to me.

[JSngry]

I've had these two stuck in my head and haven't been making any effort to them it out. Quite the opposite, in fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eraV-DMY5Zk&feature=related

Edited May 4, 2012 by JSngry

[Matthew]

Daniel Johnston: Story of an Artist. For some reason, this song knocked me flat on my butt today.

"The sun don't shine in your tv" What a great line.

Edited May 4, 2012 by Matthew

[king ubu]

Matana Roberts doing Oscar Brown Jr.'s "Bid 'em In" live at Bad Bonn in Düdingen, Switzerland

[Valeria Victrix]

Ralome - Plaid. Exquisite use of guitars in an electronic track

Zimbabwe - Miles Davis. Still IMO one of the most intense and coherent live recordings. The intro still gives me chills 16 years on.

[cih]

In New Orleans St Charles Hotel 1936 during Little Brother Montgomery’s notable run of 23 tracks laid down in a day, jazz band banjo luminary Guesnon asks if Bro will play behind him on a song he’s written - his first recording, and on vocals only in a great outmoded manner.. not everyones cup of tea but I love it - (the sound quality here is poor)

[Valeria Victrix]

Merzbow - "Noritsukehousei" (from Japanese Birds, No. 2)

Incredible stuff - he's featuring live drums a lot more lately, and a lot of guitar-ish feedback. This is the heaviest track off an excellent album. The whole series is fantastic and stands as one of the best things he's ever done IMHO.

[NIS]

Video of our 20 month old granddaughter pounding on her toy xylophone and singing the alphabet song. Limited audience oviously but good stuff for me.

[Neal Pomea]

La Misère à Mon Beau-Pére (My Father-in-law's Misery). Bingo!

(Sidney Brown & His French Accordion, on the 10th anniversary of my Cajun French music website!)

http://npmusic.org/05Sidney_Brown_and_his_French_Accordion_La_Misere_de_Mon_Beau_Pere.mp3

Edited May 27, 2012 by Neal Pomea

[cih]

La Misère à Mon Beau-Pére (My Father-in-law's Misery). Bingo!

(Sidney Brown & His French Accordion, on the 10th anniversary of my Cajun French music website!)

http://npmusic.org/05Sidney_Brown_and_his_French_Accordion_La_Misere_de_Mon_Beau_Pere.mp3

like it - I need to get more of this stuff

[JohnS]

I've not herad Bill Frisell for years but I came across this on NPR. He can still take my breath away.

My link

Edited May 31, 2012 by JohnS

[Matthew]

I was listening to Stanley Turrentine / Milt Jackson's album Cherry this morning, and absolutely loved this version of I Remember You

[BillF]

I was listening to Stanley Turrentine / Milt Jackson's album Cherry this morning, and absolutely loved this version of I Remember You

Beautiful! There aren't as many covers as you'd expect of this - one of Bird's favorite ballads.

[David Ayers]

Title track from Foxes Fox. Had this since it came out. Suddenly warmed to it.

http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4035.html

Edited June 18, 2012 by David Ayers

[Head Man]

I heard being played during an interview with Elizabeth Frazer and was knocked-out by it:

Massive Attack - Teardrop