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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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ghosthouse
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Hello pryso - I have not made it through Gottlieb’s LOC collection either! In fact, only part way into page 2 after quite a bit of time invested. It is fun though. Yes...saw the record shop photo with Jack Crystal. Another noteworthy photo is on p.2, 13th row down, left hand side. A very young Miles Davis is looking up at Howard McGhee who is playing trumpet. Someone named Brick Fleagle is on piano. Thanks to the LOC archivist for identifications.

I’m not that much younger than yourself. Remember when jackets were required at dinner in the student dining hall.

O - don’t know anything about Nica Rothschild. Seems like some interesting reading to catch up on.

Looks like another photo where eyes are telling a story...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/apr/22/hannah-rothschild-nica-jazz-thelonious-monk-interview
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Donald Harrison
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Ghosthouse, there is one word you must never leave out when covering Nica, and that word is "Baroness". While she never mentioned it, her presence never left it out, and in the clubs, she was referred to as, "The Baroness".

"Aristocracy" was inculcated in her being; she was, what she was.


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ghosthouse
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Huh...okay, O.    

I guess referring to her as a "classy dame" would be déclassé in the extreme.  
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You certainly got that right Ghosthouse, but she did it her way; if you saw a half parked Bentley, in the worst part of town, (where there were jazz clubs) with a couple of winos lolling around on the plush leather back seats (her guard dogs), you were sure to find Nica.

She would be the lady with the British accent wearing a mink, and sporting a long cigarette holder, nodding to the hard-bop; and when the musicians announced a song dedicated to "The Baroness", you knew you had struck gold.
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