Good for you. Nice Terrence Blanchard clips. I like them and very timely to the previous Blanchard "issue" and they go to the heart of the matter. Personally, I find the clip that O-10 posted infinitely more interesting. While I like the clips that you posted I don't see (hear) the point. Why should I listen to a hard-bop performance that offers nothing new compared to much of what Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw did decades previously and did it at a much higher artistic level; while I liked them, Blanchard is saying nothing new on the clips you posted. When I have dozens of Hubbard and Shaw recordings would I pull the Blanchard off the shelf? Unlikely. What O-10 posted held my interest if only to see where he was going and there were many truly interesting moments. Not once, while listening to the clips you posted, did I not know where he was going. What's the point of that?
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.
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.
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All these new members we're suppose to gain on this thread is beginning to remind me of a "snipe hunt". The snipe only come out on a moonless night when it's black dark in the hinterlands beyond the edges of the woods. My first time in the "country", Bill, Dave, and the fellows invited me to go on a "snipe hunt"; since they didn't invite just anybody to go on this hunt for the elusive snipe, I considered it an honor. One dark night, they told me the snipe should be running on a night like this; we went out in the woods, way out in the woods. "Say guys, just how far do we have to walk to get to the snipe hunting ground"? "we're almost there" Dave assured me. "Since you have been elected to be the one who bags the snipe, you take this "snipe bag", and hold it open when we tell you we done spotted one, and chasing him your way". There I was, in a small clearing way out in the middle of the woods, when Dave yelled out "Snipe on the run". I had the big bag open, just waiting for the snipe; I was listening too, because he had to make some kind of noise coming my way through the woods. That's when I remembered I forgot to ask how big the snipe was? "If he's too big, the fellows will come and help me", I told myself. I waited, and waited without hearing a single sound; before I had heard them beating the bushes running the snipe out, but now there wasn't a single sound. After about a half an hour, I began to have serious doubts about the snipe. I know they wouldn't leave me out in the middle of the woods on a dark night holding a bag waiting for the snipe, or would they? Now, those new members to this thread that Frogman assured me of, are beginning to remind me of the snipe; the only difference is, I'm not in the middle of the woods on a dark night. |
Don't know what happened to the post. Agon gremlins I guess. This was it (one Goodman clip): New, old, current, classic ...... whatever. Is it sincere and at a high artistic level? Is it say something fresh? Just a couple of things that came to mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gzvLf9O6X0E https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gjHpm7EzEkA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tKL-RJDPH3w https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uGiQr7ChunA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_KINMr7OODg |
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