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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
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rok2id
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 *****that we all like certain styles of jazz, that no one style is better than the other, and that the only consideration that is subject to intellectual analysis is the skill level of the performer; THAT is what determines what is good music or bad. ***

If this were true, we would all have thousands of CDs / LPs  full of music we hated, or did not like, but bought because of the skill level of the performer.  Just like right this minute, I am sure you can analyze Shepp and point out a hundred things he is doing correctly.   To me it is just so much sound.  Incoherent sound.   Noise?
So YOU may think this is GOOD music.  If you do, I can assure you , you are in a very tiny minority.

BTW, both are capable of playing good music, this just ain't it.   Esp for Roach.


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O-10   I listen to jazz as well , maybe 6 hours a week.

I don't know about musical taste always being a product of the culture you're in ,though that is usually the case .I never heard a note of classical
music till I was almost 30, in truth I never even knew there was such a thing. By sheer chance I heard the Great Swedish tenor Jussi Bjoerling sing a Beethoven lied on German radio and was overwhelmed by beauty and that was that .
schubert
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rok, your efforts to think "outside the box" are admirable , the sad truth though is you are the box .
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***** Rok recently commented: "the visceral always trumps the intellectual". That is simply not true******

For the listener, it is absolutely true.   In Jazz and esp in Classical.  Listen to very early Blues, R&B and Rock & Roll.   Music that changed the world.  Where is the intellectual?  At Julie-Art. :)

***** For that there needs to be, at least, an openness of mind to the reality that in order to discern skill level one has to rely on a little more than simply visceral reaction *****

Who buys music based solely on 'skill level'?  If that were true, the only Jazz Trumpet you would need would be Wynton.
 And as much as I love the guy, I can't see that.  Now we assume if the guy has a CD he can play his instrument{intellectual}, what we wanna know is, what is he saying when he plays(visceral)


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***** Personally, I find it ironic, and more than a little pathetic, just how much resistance there is to the idea that at ANY point in time there is, in fact, good music being made; that what determines whether it is good or bad is how well the music reflects the time of its creation along with the skill level of the performer.******

The best to find out how much good music  you think is being played today, is to take a look at the stuff on your shelf.  The stuff you paid good money for.   If you have no Armstrong, a few by Miles, maybe one Coltrane,  but tons of stuff from current day players, then you are true to your 'beliefs', and I can only respect that.


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