Gregory Porter - “1960 What”
This is pretty powerful stuff, which sadly has lost a little something in the compression. If you like the track, buy it. It sounds fantastic in high quality.
Gene Russell - Get Down
The bassline from this track was used in one of my favourite tracks of the nineties (coming soon), and I love how the whole track is really lazy and sounds as if none of the musicians can be bothered to play.
Bob James - Take Me to The Mardi Gras
Sampled to death by hip hop producers old and new, the original still takes the cake (the cheesecake, that is).
Buddy Rich - The Beat Goes On
I’ve never heard the original Sonny & Cher version, but I don’t imagine it’s as good as this one.
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman - You Are Too Beautiful.
“Though Coltrane and Hartman had known each other since their days playing with Dizzy Gillespie’s band in the late 1940s (Hartman had been with the band on an on and off basis, and Coltrane played (third) alto with the band in 1949), Hartman is the only vocalist with whom the saxophonist would record as a leader. Initially when producer Bob Thiele approached Hartman with Coltrane’s request that the two record together Hartman was hesitant as he did not consider himself a jazz singer and did not think he and Coltrane would complement one another musically. However, Thiele encouraged Hartman to go see Coltrane perform at Birdland in New York to see if something could be worked out. Hartman did so, and after the club closed he, Coltrane, and Coltrane’s pianist McCoy Tyner, went over some songs together. On March 7, 1963 Coltrane and Hartman had decided on 10 songs for the record album, but en route to the studio they heard Nat King Cole on the radio performing “Lush Life”, and Hartman immediately decided that song had to be included in their album. The legendary compilation was made that same day at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Each song was done in only one take, except for “You Are Too Beautiful”, which required two takes because Elvin Jones dropped one of his drumsticks during the first take.”
Mp3 - John Coltrane [ft. Johnny Hartman] : “Lush Life”
Well this one is definitely going out to my wife, the Too Beautiful Sarah Brown.
