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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
orpheus10 OP
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Carlos Santana is one of my favorite artists, and when I mentioned him before, I was trying to establish the mood of the early seventies by naming other artists in different genres who were popular. I know when I visited some of my other friends who were jazz aficionados, they also had the latest "Carlos Santana". Here's another Santana I like a lot;


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_YsoCDrnH4


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrWqli5cq1E



Enjoy the music.
orpheus10 OP
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Rok, I forgot, you never met Miles aunt Corine.


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orpheus10 OP
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Now the 70's are really coming back to me; Jazz, what's that? How about this;

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ouMaLRth-s


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3Al6CdmUQ



Git down Charley Brown



          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihDYK12WMG4



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rok2id
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If you guys insist on straying off the R-Word, at least have a little fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_LN3XEcnw

Cheers
orpheus10 OP
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During the 70's, there was no "you-tube" to help you decide what records to buy,consequently, you depended on music reviews, or recommendations from other people; the music reviews could explain how I got all these ECM records.

I had gotten tired of buying "crappy" records I didn't like by known artists even; it was a real crap shoot, because you couldn't take records back. That's when I began going with what I had heard, or the most consistent artist. Santana was certainly consistent, and sometime he included known jazz artists, like Alice Coltrane, but today I'm more in the mood for something more current by Santana; like "Blues For Salvador".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xxr3-CBams&list=PL5wKk_oSFx1VL0aYDSHiOSOSRtQikam9Y&index=2



  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVeFsfOwCa8&list=PL5wKk_oSFx1VL0aYDSHiOSOSRtQikam9Y&index=5



Santana was a heck of a lot more consistent than jazz at that time; I had spent too much money for saying WTF after the first cut.



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