The Best Music You Have Ever Heard?


To be specific, what three pieces of music are guaranteed to put a smile on your face and make you feel happy and relaxed? Plus, needless to say, happy with your system. I know the answer to the question is highly subjective and personal. Here are my three choices (in no particular order):
 
1. Sunshine In The Rain, by Ryan Farish  - From the CD Beautiful.
 
2. Summer Wind, by Frank Sinatra - From the album Strangers In The Night, streamed via Qobuz.
 
3. Samba Pa Ti, by Santana - From the MFSL UltraDisc One-Step album Abraxas.
 
Please share your thoughts on your selection and feel free to nominate more than three choices.


 

mgattmch

Voodoo Child (slight return) - Jimi Hendrix 

Baba O’Riley - The Who

Day of the Eagle - Robin Trower

I could go on but the power of 3 is enough for me.  

Very hard to say, but any of the three mentioned in each category, will be a pleasure to hear at any time:

Classical:

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto (particularly the adagio movement

Schubert: D 856 String Quintet

Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2

 

Jazz:

Sonny Rollins:  "St. Thomas" (from "Saxophone Colossus")

Coleman: "Lonely Woman" (from "Shape of Jazz to Come")

Gillespie:  "Things to Come" (from "Reunion Big Band" (live performance))

 

Pop/Rock

Morrison:  "Into the Mystic" (fromn "Moondance")

Orbison:  "Blue Bayou" (from "In Dreams")

Mott the Hoople:  "All the Young Dudes" (from "All the Young Dudes")

 

Kansas - Carry on my Wayward Son

Norah Jones - The Nearness of You

Pink Floyd - WYWH

One recent extra addition - Archie Shepp, Horace Parlan - When Things go Wrong.

greetings & kind regards

"Sweet Judy Blue Eyes"  - Crosby Stills Nash & Young

"Fly Me to the Moon"- Frank Sinatra

smiley "Happy" - Pharrell Williams

cheers

 

Josquin Des Prez then Bach then Scriabin....

 

I feel guilty of forgetting easy  Vivaldi,  sophisticated Monteverdi, and sublime Gesualdo... 

What about Liszt? and Bruckner? 

I apologize to Beethoven Quatuors master and to Mozart writing  piano concertos before the Requiem....

How in the world could i dare  to pass over madness of Sorabji ?