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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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Fourwnds, me and my wife went for a long drive on a beautiful fall day, when the colors were at their peak, with another couple, and they played nothing but Kenny G, all the way there and back. I found his music so relaxing, that I nodded off four or five times; his music, and the red. green, and rust colored falling leaves, were like a tranquilizer of the highest magnitude.

In order to enjoy Kenny G., you just have to be at the right time and place.


Enjoy the music.
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***** "Everybody is right" because music is so "subjective". With a stance like that, what is there to argue about?*****

Wrong, wrong and wrong.   With a stance like that, what is there to talk about.   Music is music, and noise is noise, and never the twain shall meet.

Cheers

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*****  I can understand why some need to keep analysis out of the equation and don’t want to be "hampered" by it and want to keep the listening experience as "simple" as possible and not be "challenged" as a listener;*****

I don't understand what an analysis of music is  suppose to achieve.

Show of hands:  How many of you fellow posters have ever heard music that you hated, that is, until The Frogman 'explained it', and now it's your favorite music to listen to.   Write in with chapter and verse.   And of course the opposite also:  Music you loved until The Frogman explained it to you, now you hate it.

What effect does analysis have on your love of music?  None I say.   I was listening to, and enjoying music before I could even spell music.

The Frogman just wants to strut his stuff, so to speak.  It's Interesting and informative, and I really believe everything he says because he's a pro, but it does not change musical taste.

Cheers

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***** One of the most curious aspects of all this as concerns subjectivity/objectivity and as it relates to the old jazz/new jazz debate is the simple fact that it is the staunch old jazz devotee(s?) who seem to like ONLY old jazz while I don’t think there has been a single fan of new jazz to post here that has not posted or expressed liking old jazz as well*****

Old Jazz is Jazz, and that is not in dispute.   The definition of the current music is in dispute.

Surely you don't expect a person to come on board saying something like, "I like Jazz except for that noise made by Ellington, Armstrong, Mingus, Miles, Monk, Adderley, Silver, Morgan and folks of that ilk".  Do you?

Cheers
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Objective / Subjective:

Think of the most god-awful piece of noise/trash you have ever heard, then consider this:

Some one wrote it, some one played it, some one recorded it.   All professionals. All  more knowledgeable than us, save The Frogman.   All took time and money.   And all concerned must have thought it was pretty good stuff.

So, instead of this objective / subjective, old / new debate,  let's
just say, there is no accounting for taste, and be done.

Cheers
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