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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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Daniel Herskedal :

Listening to this, I thought I was in a big black pot, filled with water and veggies, in the middle on a village in the Congo.  Around supper time.

Cheers

I like to listen to stuff like this, but would never actually buy it.
frogman
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Thanks, Ghosthouse.  Right back at you:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zPQdXN7wZcM

Hey, could this be traced back to Africa? 😉:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Acc_QHJ9Rvw

Rok, what did you think of the Billy Taylor, Duke (2:40) and Wynton comments?  In case you missed them the first time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qteYQy_8qk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmvaZqr6RFY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p5nU82xdMjA

Btw, I hope they don't forget to put some hot sauce in the pot 😛


frogman
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More interesting reading for the inquisitive:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gioia-jazz.html
orpheus10 OP
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Ghosthouse, that reminded me of when I was on this old steam locomotive puffing across the Congo; I can still see the natives waving as we pass and elephants screeching in the distance.
orpheus10 OP
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"Wikiman" I have lived jazz for my entire life, I don't need any musicians to tell me about it; especially bourgeois musicians, regardless how accomplished. I knew African American musicians who could not even read music, but they were able to express the deepest pains of a race of people who at one time did not even belong to themselves.
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