After Tony Williams left Miles he joined together with John Mcglaughlin and Larry Young!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrlBRsS1nKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrlBRsS1nKA
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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Acman, now it's coming back to me; to the uninitiated, that sounds like noise, but, if you have special musical receptors in your brain that are tuned to "Fusion", it's music from another planet. Somehow, that music was always best live with black lights that made ladies stockings glow, when they had the right kind of pastel hot pink kind. The music was best live because no recording was ever clear enough to catch all the little sounds at high frequencies that made that kind of music work. And to be perfectly honest, I had always inhaled some kind of musical enhancement fumes; they really clarified the sound; not to be confused with what's going on today. Enjoy the music. |
Here's "Weather Report" live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bIk1Wl21Yk Here's "Black Market" by weather report; that cover looks just like a market place in Haiti. There is no way you can believe someplace as close as Haiti could be so far away otherwise. That music always took me far away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7_vNpVXubA In order to enjoy this trip, you have to turn on your time machine, and duplicate everything that went on when you were buying and listening to this music. Enjoy the journey. |
"Elegant People" by Weather Report is most certainly one of my favorite cuts of that era, and genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThF63iql478 Enjoy the music. |
****are you ready to go into fusion in depth; I mean to cover it to your hearts content, rather than just skim over it?**** Sure, and I’m glad to see that you want to cover it in depth, because all too often "skim over it" is exactly what has happened with other topics. For me, "in depth" means that, for starters, things have to be put in a chronological or historical perspective. How did it all began? Where did "fusion" come from? What are the earliest examples of it? How did it evolve? By the mid sixties traditional Jazz was considered to be practically commercially dead by record producers, while rock and pop where increasing in popularity and young musicians who were growing up with this music started experimenting with mixing elements of jazz in rock projects and vise versa. The increasing use of electric instruments was a major force in all this. Early fusion projects sound very different from what "fusion" would become, but the lineage is clear and interesting. Guitarist Larry Corryell’s band "The Free Spirits" is considered by many to be the first jazz "fusion" band (1966): https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLa7DwXF9n16EYojdIWL-PFQc_be9iUzvp¶ms=OAFIAVgG&v=Zf95lF... Formed around 1968 the band "Dreams" with the Brecker brothers on horns and Billy Cobham on drums was on the forefront of the fusion movement: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UFK_S-ILmGo In 1969 Frank Zappa released "Hot Rats" which predated much of what fusion would become: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FFNQQpsOMF4 Acman3 already mentioned and posted Tony Williams’ "Lifetime"; classic early fusion band and VERY influential. That same year Miles Davis would release "In A Silent Way", his first fusion record and first record from his electric period: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL407832509983DB72&v=AOy-pJ1xQe0 One year later (1970) Miles would release "Bitches Brew" and would blow things wide open for the fusion genre; it was here to stay. Hugely influential record: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1a1Ph-ioxoA |
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