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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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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


orpheus10 OP
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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.
orpheus10 OP
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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.



acman3
2,267 posts
 
Still in 1976….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VxvMLz1kI
orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

Rok, I was going to a class in Chicago with a guy from Bedford Stuyvesant, and when we rode past some of the worst slums in Chicago, he said they looked like the high rent district compared to Bed Sty as he called it. I'm sure he was exaggerating, but we wont know for sure until the Frogman weighs in.


Enjoy the music.
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