What are some of your favorite collaborations in music?

Say Say Say by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

Something which crosses genres:

Masters from different eras:

Lemmy and The Damned.

Let's make some ******* noise.

George Szigeti, Benny Goodman& Bela Bartok

I like the old collaborations, fifes fashioned from birds bones and drums of hide in the flickering, paleolithic light.

Transatlantic

Stevie Nicks did a few duets. I suspect this is one of the lesser-known ones.

I guess my two favorites of occasional collaboration were

Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler

The Travelling Wilburys.


Weve Posted these bfore so Ill not dig m up gain.

Non Rock (kinda Spyrogyra stuff) would be

Ry Cooder and VM Bhatt "A meeting by the River"


Jazz? Im not a collector of a few, Im a jazz omnivore. I keep it in my studio allday. Most pf the really gret stuff is solo (like Take 5) and "covers" (Like Jimmy Smith )


Classical, Baroque, and Romantic. I like to hear the notes as written. Maybe a little Bach or Vivaldi "Jazz" the rest needs to be played as a great interpretation and while their are some really great "Sit ins" , I dont consier them real collaborations

Willie Nelson and a string of people

Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble's Radioaxiom

Also have a soft sport for Eddie Vedder and Nasrat Fateh Ali Khan's "The Long Road"

And of course Iggy Pop and Kate Pierson's 'Candy'

Crikey, now you've made me think of a bunch of others!

David Sylvian and Ryiuichi Sakamoto's 'Forbidden Colours'

I've never understood why this isn't namechecked as one of the great songs

Kristin Hersch's 'Your Ghost' with Michael Stipe guesting.

This great album was a collaboration of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones and Ralph Burns. Charles is accompanied by two groups drawn from members of The Count Basie Band and from the ranks of top New York session players.

Back to my original reply (a musical collaboration as opposed to just a vocal duet).

I want this played at my funeral.

David Sylvian and Robert Fripp's 'Darshana' reconstructed by the Future Sound Of London.

Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo ........"Graceland" practically perfect.

U2/BB King. When Love Comes to Town
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