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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
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
4,637 posts
 
More interesting reading for the inquisitive:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gioia-jazz.html
orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

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
5,988 posts
 

"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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rok2id
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O-10:

You are wasting time trying to reason with The Wikiman.   My Grandmother, bless her heart, used to always say,"there is such a thing as too much education".  Or maybe 'education' that was not properly understood.

This man puts his faith in wiki writers, when as a pro, he should know better.

Maybe if I posted a few 'authoritative' clippings from Castro's newspaper he would get the point.   

All this reminds me of Hank Arron and Babe Ruth.   Ruth the greatest player of all time.   Hit 714 home runs.  WOW!!    The along comes Arron.  As he closed in on the Babe, the media was going crazy.   Will he, can he??

The day after Arron broke the Babe, for the first time in my life I begin to hear the media talk about a Japanese player, last name was OH.  He had 900 or some such number of home runs in the Japanese leagues.

WTF???   Who the hell, is OH?   Where did he come from?   Well, according to the 'authoritative media', he is actually the REAL home run king of pro baseball.

Moral:   It can be ANYONE except black Americans.   This was very important to a large number of people of that era.  Can't be over stated.

Back in the 20's when white folks claimed they created Jazz, there was no mention of Africa then.

If every thing that has happened in Jazz.   I mean EVERYTHING had happened just as it did, down to each note ever played, with one exception:   All the people were white, we would not be having any talk of Africa.   The racists view is that we carry everything around in our genes.

If the wiki site goes down, The Wiki-man will be speechless and thoughtless.

Cheers
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