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
Maybe you post too much 'personal' stuff.   You can't expect people on this thread / forum to relate to things and / or people with whom you have a personal relationship or attachment.

As Acman3 said, he likes stuff that some people don't even consider music, elevator or otherwise.

Be secure in your own musical values and taste.

Lastly, it's like not someone called the music of Silver or Mingus music elevator fare.   It's only Previn.   I could talk about Jazz for a hundred years and never mention the guy.  

BTW, if you ride on enough elevators, I bet you will sooner or later hear the music of Ellington.  Just a little context.

Cheers
Maybe you like to start forest fires?  maybe you're bored and want some more excitement?  Edger Allen Poe called this "The imp of the perverse"

"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Beginning as an essay, it discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the symbolic metaphor of The Imp of the Perverse. The narrator describes this spirit as the agent that tempts a person to do things "merely because we feel we should not."


Now you're getting the precise action that you knew you would.  Well done.



Enjoy the music.


I find it truly incredible how a person can continue to delude himself and continue to accuse others of the very things that he is doing. I really don’t derive any satisfaction by saying or even thinking these things, in fact I find it disturbing; but, sometimes there is no other way of saying it: Either there is some bizarre deliberate plan at work here, or there is some sort of deficiency of mental faculties. THE ISSUE IS NOT THAT THE f$&*#%g tune "Like Young" IS OR SOUNDS LIKE ELEVATOR MUSIC, IT IS THAT PREVIN’S VERSION SOUNDS LIKE ELEVATOR MUSIC. I explained this before and asked what on earth does Ella’s version have to do with Previn’s? How does the fact that Ella’s version is good make Previn’s good as well; or, less bad? Boggles the mind.

Rok, you asked for help in figuring out what is going on here; and, in keeping with my prior promise to not address the OP directly about these things unless he decides to be more reasonable, I am offering my takes only because you asked. Your two questions, why is he doing this, and would he react the way he does if it were you making the comments are connected. This is how I would answer them:

It is no secret that you and I have had our vehement disagreements and "spats" here. I suspect we will butt heads again, but I do think that there is a better understanding between us as of late and I welcome that. But, for me there has always been a very significant difference between your motivation in participation here and the OP’s; it’s really quite simple for me. I have always sensed that for you the love of the music is foremost, I respect that and is why I appreciate the opportunity to interact, share and answer questions, etc.** Imo, for the OP, it is the love of the idea that he loves the music that is foremost and this seems to be an unhealthy part of his persona and identity; and, why he can’t bear the idea that he might be mistaken about something related to the music, that someone else may not like what he likes, or that he doesn’t know nearly as much as he thinks he does about it. It is all about him, "the one and only O-10" to quote him. Or, the holding on to the idea that someone would post a differing idea only because it is in response to HIM. Something very strange going on here; if it weren’t laughable.

I think that your phrase "falling on his own sword" is very appropriate. I think he feels he is losing the control of the thread; control that he wants very much ("My thread"). There have been several other comments made that point to this; most telling, the one about the participants having to make a decision between he and I (!!!!) "if the thread is to continue". As if the life of the thread depended on his participation , or mine! Talk about self-deluded arrogance.

Words to to live by:

****Be secure in your own musical values and taste.****

I seem to recall someone else making that very comment about three years (!) ago 😉.

Anyway, still hopeful that things settle and that he comes to his senses.

Cheers.

** btw, how’s that for "sucking up"? ☺️

Frogman, you don't boggle my mind, I'm sorry that I boggle yours; you're motives are as clear as a mountain stream, and their all EGOTISTICAL.

Reviews of the album We like Previn - Volenza.se
www.volenza.se/en/reviews/we-like-previn
In terms of his mastery of so many disparate musical areas, Andre Previn ranks with Duke ... In "Like Young", which also Ella Fitzgerald recorded, she is grand.

I can go all day with superlatives that others have to say about "Like Young" by Andre Previn; yet I'm the only person on this thread that appreciates it. That says a lot about the people on this thread who call themselves "Aficionados".




Enjoy the music.

Kindly post some of those "superlatives" about "Like Young" by Previn; I don't see a single mention of it in what you posted.