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

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 ?

I’m all over the place with the music that makes me smile. Every time I hear Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, by the Stones, I crank it up. But I do the same with a bunch of Jazz artists, Show tunes, movie soundtracks and classical.