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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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Chuck Berry 10/18/26 - 3/18/17.
Looks like 2017 is going to continue apace as 2016.
Nobody getting any younger.

Back to Memphis - Chuck Berry
I’ve been struggling up here, child, trying to make a living
Everybody wants to take, nobody like giving
I wish I was in Memphis back home there with my Mama
The only clothes I got left that ain’t rags is my pajamas
No brotherly love, no help, no danger
Just a great big town full of cold hearted strangers

I went hungry in New York and Chicago was no better
But today, my dear mother wrote and told me in her letter
Son, come back to Memphis and live here with your Mama
You can walk down Beale Street, honey, wearing your pajamas
You know home folks here, we let do just what you want to
And I born you and raised you right here on the corner

I’m going to leave here in the morning and walk down to the station
I’ve got just enough money to pay my transportation
I’m going back to Memphis, back home with my Mama
If I have to ride that bus barefooted in pajamas
Back home in Memphis, no moaning and groaning
I know everything will be all right in the morning

You can walk down Beale Street wearing your pajamas....
Now THOSE are some great lyrics. Always put a smile on my face hearing them.

Thanks, Chuck. RIP
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***** Only question about any rightwingnut is whether they hate reality more than truth or vice-versa .*****

Well, I guess The Wiki-man understood that nugget of wisdom.

What time does that plane to France leave??   Perfect country for this guy.

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"Teenage romance and big, fast, over the top American cars. I will always be thankful I was young during those days."

You got that right, I was just thinking of the beautiful "Venita"; those girls will always stay ever so beautiful in your memory; I feel like I can go back there and she will be no less beautiful, still 16.

But I want a different car every other day.

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***** Just a thought, I believe that nobody thinks that 'bop' or any other art form 'came out of the blue' ?
Or do you?*****

Black people are in this country since before 1619.  First birth of African child around 1613.(wiki)    Bop started around the mid 40's.   That' a span of 326 years.   That's longer than the USA has been a Country.

'Out of the Blue' Indeed!!

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Wikiman, you really must demand that your minions do their home work before they weigh-in.

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