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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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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.
orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

Rok, I can certainly understand why you have so many CD's by Randy Weston. I can also understand how so much jazz has bypassed me in St. Louis. The only time I was really up to date was in the 50's when all those jazz giants were still alive and the record stores had all their music.

As time went by New York was one of the few places that kept up with the top jazz musicians; St. Louis was a blues town.

Now that we have so many different ways of discovering the top jazz musicians that we missed, I don't have the money or the time to spend on fusion; nothing personal Frogman.



Enjoy the music.




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rok2id
4,494 posts
 
Weston  said in the notes that the South Bronx or Bed Sty, where he lived,  reminded him of an African village!!   YIKES!!!!   Hence the name of the tune.

Cheers



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