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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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Killer Joe:

I first heard this on the 'Walking in Space' LP by Quincy Jones.   I always thought it was his tune.

Reminds me of the time when I didn't know the word Jazz, but I heard artist such as Sarah Vaughan, Cannonball Adderley, Jimmie Smith, Quincy Jones, Dinah Washington and Ramsey Lewis etc..... on the Jukebox in the local bar.

Loved the pictures of the musical instruments on 'Along Came Betty'.   What's more beautiful than a closeup of a new Tenor sax.

The Jazztet sure dressed 'funny'.   I guess they didn't have time to get their cutout jeans and tank tops out of the cleaners.

Great Clips.

Cheers


frogman
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It boggles the mind how someone who professes to be such a "protector" of jazz is blind to the fact that he lets his own need to be "right", not only abandon all logic and reason, but lets that need undermine the very thing that he claims to love so much. To dismiss or, at minimum, downplay the accolades directed at one of the greatest practitioners of the art form (Flanagan) in order to somehow gain some personal validation is pathetic. Not to mention the harm that is done when interacting in this way, instead of keeping things positive and forward looking, with other listeners and especially with eager and thoughtful new explorers of the music. I am sorry to say that, as far as I am concerned, the only "protecting" that jazz needs is from "fans" like you, Rok.

Cheers, indeed.
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We are not talking about Flanagan.   We are talking about the meaning of the word 'elegant' as used to describe a musician's style of playing.   The word as it would be used in a music review.

I bet no one ever 'accused' Art Tatum of being 'elegant'.  Mingus?  But I'm sure you will find a NYT's article from 1940s that does just that.

Please try to stay focused and stop it with the Straw man stuff.   I speak English.   If I want to say something, I will say it in plain English.  No?

Cheers


randy-11
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Make a jazz noise here
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I am not now, nor have I ever been, a 'protector' of Jazz.  Impossible task and very presumptuous.  

The music has passed me by.   I accept that.   Thank God for LPs and CDs.  Although all the players are long gone, most anyway, I can still enjoy their music.

When one of my Aunts passed  away several years ago, she was in her 90s, she wanted me to have her music player because she knew I liked music.   It was one of those big consoles with built in single speaker with Radio and a 78rpm record player under the  top lid.   As much furniture as anything.

When I opened the top, there, on the platter, was a 78rpm record by Duke Ellington.  I just smiled.  The music passed her by also.   Her music was Ellington, Basie, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller,  The International Sweethearts of Rhythm   etc........

I have many pictures of her and my mother at dances while Big Band groups played.   Everyone dressed to the nines.  Probably was not even aware that people like Coltrane and Miles existed.

My point in all this?  She stayed with the stuff she was exposed to during her young days.   I do the same.   We all do.

There is nothing to protect.   The young can no more relate to my music than I can to theirs.  

Cheers
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