The Frogman has gone psychoanalyst on us.
Jazz for aficionados
Jazz for aficionados
I'm going to review records in my collection, and you'll be able to decide if they're worthy of your collection. These records are what I consider "must haves" for any jazz aficionado, and would be found in their collections. I wont review any record that's not on CD, nor will I review any record if the CD is markedly inferior. Fortunately, I only found 1 case where the CD was markedly inferior to the record.
Our first album is "Moanin" by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. We have Lee Morgan , trumpet; Benney Golson, tenor sax; Bobby Timmons, piano; Jymie merrit, bass; Art Blakey, drums.
The title tune "Moanin" is by Bobby Timmons, it conveys the emotion of the title like no other tune I've ever heard, even better than any words could ever convey. This music pictures a person whose down to his last nickel, and all he can do is "moan".
"Along Came Betty" is a tune by Benny Golson, it reminds me of a Betty I once knew. She was gorgeous with a jazzy personality, and she moved smooth and easy, just like this tune. Somebody find me a time machine! Maybe you knew a Betty.
While the rest of the music is just fine, those are my favorite tunes. Why don't you share your, "must have" jazz albums with us.
Enjoy the music.
I'm going to review records in my collection, and you'll be able to decide if they're worthy of your collection. These records are what I consider "must haves" for any jazz aficionado, and would be found in their collections. I wont review any record that's not on CD, nor will I review any record if the CD is markedly inferior. Fortunately, I only found 1 case where the CD was markedly inferior to the record.
Our first album is "Moanin" by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. We have Lee Morgan , trumpet; Benney Golson, tenor sax; Bobby Timmons, piano; Jymie merrit, bass; Art Blakey, drums.
The title tune "Moanin" is by Bobby Timmons, it conveys the emotion of the title like no other tune I've ever heard, even better than any words could ever convey. This music pictures a person whose down to his last nickel, and all he can do is "moan".
"Along Came Betty" is a tune by Benny Golson, it reminds me of a Betty I once knew. She was gorgeous with a jazzy personality, and she moved smooth and easy, just like this tune. Somebody find me a time machine! Maybe you knew a Betty.
While the rest of the music is just fine, those are my favorite tunes. Why don't you share your, "must have" jazz albums with us.
Enjoy the music.
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Now, now . . . we all know that everyone has different preferences in music. Aside from my love of jazz, which my wife doesn't like at all, I love Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Pink Floyd. She hates ELP, but loves Pink Floyd. Why? No real way to explain other than I like it or I don't. Same thing here. Some people like atonal jazz, others like dixieland or swing. Doesn't mean that one LP sucks and another is epic. The only thing that is subject to intellectual analyzing is perhaps the skill of the musician, which most can appreciate regardless of whether they enjoy the music. So the visceral experience is taste dependent, while the intellectual analysis of the music attempts to impose some sort of objective framework on music, which is just not possible when it comes to one LP being "better" than another. Just my opinion . . . YMMV. :) |
"Little Niles" is another one of my favorite tunes, and any time I really like a composition, I have it by many artists; this is just such a tune. The first version I have is "Lambert, Hendricks & Ross". [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZzJUssQxbg[/url] Out of all the versions of this tune, "Bill Anschell" is my favorite; his is the longest. The other reason is that he loves the tune as much as I do, and this can be detected by the way he play's it; he goes in and out, but comes back to the main theme in a different way. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPxN1c3pnL4[/url] Share your favorite version of "Little Niles". Enjoy the music |
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