Welcome Bob, look forward to further observations!
Rok, I am a big Harold Mabern fan…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMHUXiI9QbM
Rok, I am a big Harold Mabern fan…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMHUXiI9QbM
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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Frogman, I've been gone all day, and your question is a brain breaker; especially in the in-depth way you want it answered. "Diz" played "Bop" after Bird passed; that alone would seem to nullify my statement, but I don't think so. Right now, I'm tired, but I wanted to post something to let you know that I'm not avoiding or evading my statement that Bird took his patent on Be-bop to the grave. Enjoy the music. |
Rok, three excellent clips! While I have never questioned your taste in music, nor ever thought they needed to "improve" as O-10 suggests they have, I certainly think they have expanded; a perhaps subtle but important distinction. If liking that baritone solo in "Let There Be Swing" is not proof of this, I don't know what is 😎. I particularly liked the Mabern "Afro-blue". Porter sounds fantastic; and, rarity of rarities, a tasteful horn-like scat solo kept short and with no wrong notes! Eric Alexander! Man, that guy can play; amazing tenor solo. Thanks for the great clips. BTW, as you yourself pointed out the "Que Viva Harlem" band is a band of students. In many ways, given the changes in the place of jazz in our culture, the schools are the "street" of the past. There is a lot of really great stuff going on in some of today's Jazz schools and this shouldn't be dismissed. Two of the best, North Texas State and University of Miami (my alma mater): [URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUitSU5-8mQ[/URL] [URL]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_PtxehQPK3g[/URL] |
The Frogman & O-10: My Taste in Jazz-- You cats say my taste in Jazz has changed or improved, but man, you cats could not be more wrong. You see, my Jazz appreciation and understanding is so deep, and on such a radical trajectory, that you couldn't dig me at all. But I dug you, 'cause you two were coming from a more shallow bourgeois track. Dig? Frog, glad you dug the cat's wail on 'swing.' Later |
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