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

Learsfool, you went even farther than I was inferring to in regard to "imitating" improvised music. If this music was written out, do you think the classical musicians could play it, and make the music sound as though it wasn't faked?



        [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83B1YiVcjE&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4aAPJ2Z2qXmrFfAN0GrCdBm[/url]



"Also you must remember that anything being improvised on the spot in a jazz club cannot be TOO complicated, otherwise it almost certainly wouldn't work, unless it was perhaps done by a group that was used to playing together all the time, and knew each other's musical tendencies very very well. And of course, as we have talked about before on this thread, the players all know the tune and the chord changes, so the melodic improvisation is taking place inside a very structured framework that all of the members of the group understand. And even if they don't know the tune at all, if they have what they call a "fake book" that includes it, they can use it and get through the tune."


The music I heard on a regular basis at jazz clubs was comparable to the music I've submitted on this post, and it was done by musicians in what you and Frogman called a "pick up band". In regard to "Too complicated", meaning comparable to the music I've submitted; I'll have to let you and others be the judge of that.

When "Monk" was queried what he thought was too many times about how to play something by a certain famous jazz musician, this was his response: "You a professional jazz musician, and you got a horn ain't cha". Meaning, blow the sucker, and it better come out right.

Although I was referring to a jazz musicians ability to improvise in my first post, I don't think I communicated this. (BTW, when is the last time you were at a jazz club?)






Enjoy the music.

 



Rok,


  "Naming some guy who plays locally in a club, is not a valid opinion."


Miles Davis was "Some guy who played locally in St. Louis", Clark Terry, was some guy who played locally in St. Louis. Grant Green, was some guy who played locally in St. Louis. You don't know it, but the the guy I was referring to was someone you raved about awhile ago.


So much for guys who played locally in St. Louis.





Enjoy the music.
***** Miles Davis was "Some guy who played locally in St. Louis", Clark Terry, was some guy who played locally in St. Louis. Grant Green, was some guy who played locally in St. Louis. *****


I said PLAYS, not PLAYED.

Besides, St. Louis is no longer St Louis.

Cheers
***** rok2id, Were you in combat with the Ist Cav ?*****

No. 

Since we can have Icons now, I just decided to insert the shoulder patches of the units I served with.   1st Cavalry Division was my last unit.  2nd Infantry Division (2id), my favorite.   Stay tuned.

Cheers



Learsfool, this was a play that had been made into a movie, and I had already seen the movie; that's why I was so fascinated by these guys down in the pit, where they were out of sight for the audience, because the audience looked over and past them, at the play.

Although they were referred to as "doublers", they may have up to eight instruments each. I just looked at what the reed section consisted of: Alto sax; Tenor sax; Clarinet; Flute;and Piccolo, plus an oboe.

Now this was a dramatic play, with dramatic changes, and those guys in the pit stayed glued to that sheet of music in front of them while they changed instruments. I'm impressed by a musician who can really play any instrument; I was doubly impressed by these musicians who could play a multiplicity of instruments, and never even look at the instrument they were playing. (I guess I'm easily impressed)

While they're playing, their music had to correspond with what was going on, on stage. I wonder how many "doublers" does Frogman know. Now I remember Frogman explaining that once. I was impressed then, and just the thought of what they were doing impresses me now.


Phantom Of The Opera (orchestration according to The Really Useful Group, the company that holds the license)
Woodwind 1 (Piccolo/Flute)
Woodwind 2 (Flute/Clarinet)
Woodwind 3 (Oboe/Cor Anglais)
Woodwind 4 (Eb Clarinet/Bb Clarinet/Bass Clarinet)
Woodwind 5 (Bassoon)
3 French Horns
2 Trumpets
Trombone
Percussionist
2 Keyboards
Harp
Violins (7 recommended)
Violas (2 recommended)
Cello (2 recommended)
Contrabass
Total: 27 Players





Enjoy the music.