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
Been absent, rough period personally, now cought up, read few last pages that I missed.
Rok, you made my smile (havent done that for days) couple of times, thank you. Keep using what ever you are taking, just tell me what is the name of the stuff.
Orpheus, saw Randy Weston alive, at the end of 90's, still I like his earlier work, like this album from 1956.

https://youtu.be/zze3gaTl8yM

Frogman, suggestion for a year 1978. I would not call it a fusion,( its stated as avangarde/fusion) and the album is called 'New direction'...
I belleive that even fusion 'haters' will like this song

https://youtu.be/YVjX1EhNbLw

Lester Bowie is certainly a fine trumpet player, maybe somebody can share if has any good albums of him?

Just to add the word to ever lasting discussion, Frogman, for me, much likings of some music depends of a tone of some particular player and the sound of his instrument.
 I would not go in details now, but there are some very acomplished players whose albums I dont have, because I dont like the tone/sound of their instrument.
From some others, I feel like I could listen random notes or accords and still like it.
 Some of the music that its been disscused here recently, just does not have the 'sound' that I might like. I dont know if somebdy else tryed to explain it this way and certainly since english is not my native language I may loose some true meaning of the words I want to say.
I can follow the idea behind the music  and I can admire the execution of it, but I very much miss the tone/sound that I might like...
Still, trying to keep the open mind for a moment in time when this could change...

Today's Randy Weston:

Randy Weston -- AFRICAN SUNRISE (selections from the Spirits of our Ancestors)

This is a CD comprised of tracks taken from the 2 CD set 'Spirits of Our Ancestors'.  But these clips are off the youtube  posting of "Spirits"

I heard more Monk than Africa.  I liked these two best, but I like it all. Dizzy Gillespie and Pharoah Sanders are special guests.  

Arrangements by  Melba Liston. She and Randy have done quite of few albums together.   She arranges and plays Trombone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie6WT8JaDfs  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URkLE6GerP0 

Cheers



Alex, these times have brought about an epidemic of rough personal problems; so common they are with me, it's how I know I'm alive.

Right now I'm listening to Randy Weston and Cecil Payne; they're so down to earth, this music is smooth and easy, the kind I could spend hours listening to.

The most interesting thing about music is how it takes on a life of it's own each time a different person hears it. While the original creator intended for it to take on a particular meaning, when someone else hears it, the music can take on a different even more interesting meaning than the original creator intended.


Enjoy the music.

Rok, this is my kind of jazz, it resonates with me totally. Frogman never understood how important my bright yellow double knit trousers with the low waist and very wide cuffs were in relation to the music at that same time. I thought those trousers were hot stuff at "that time", and there is a possibility he could have thought the same thing at "that time". I'm certain I thought the fusion he presented was hot stuff at "that time", because I bought it; but now his fusion and my bright yellow, double knit trousers with the low waist and wide cuffs, occupy the same place in my opinion WTF. (maybe his fusion rates higher than my trousers)




Enjoy the music.