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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.
orpheus10
schubert
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It's hard to follow all the nonsense but as far as I can see the root cause of the differences being expressed are in fundamental value systems set in concrete before the brain was fully developed.
To whit, frogman attended an institution of higher-learning where  intellection
 was/is highly valued , rok one where it was not .
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chazro
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"Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.

This is triumphant music.

Modern jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument. "


Martin Luther King
frogman
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Chazro, I am humbled.  Beautifully concise, to the point and timely. Thank you for that.
jafant
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I can hardly await the next great Jazz CD of 2016.
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rok2id
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MLK's comments were made to say that Jazz serves the same purpose for urban black folks as the Blues did for Blacks in the rural South.

What did he mean by 'modern Jazz'?   MLK died in 1968.   Just to name a few of the many guys playing then, would include:
Miles,Monk,Coltrane,Rollins,Mingus,Hubbard,Morgan,Cannonball, Basie, Ellington and too many more to mention.

Now the question is, was he speaking of folks like these, or the grads of Julie-art.   Think people, Think.    

@jafant ,  Me too.

Cheers
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