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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
4,637 posts
 
Let’s keep the games going. This one a little different.

As we all know, it has been established and declared by a well known jazz authority that there is only one single drum solo in all of jazz recorded history that is not boring 😊. Before we get to the painfully boring drum solo by, what was that amateur’s name?....oh, yeah, Philly Jo Jones we hear Lee Morgan play a wrong note. Can you tell where that wrong note is?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7Yl7v9RIU

No copouts about how “there are no wrong notes in jazz” allowed, and yes, of course I was being facetious about Jo Jones; he kills on that tune.

Hint: it happens in the first minute of music.
orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

I know that Frogman, but not on this cut, plus I'm almost certain that's the album but I will check and get back to you. If Horace Silver intentionally sounded like Monk because Miles told him to, could he fool you?
orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

He flubs a note at .52
frogman
4,637 posts
 
Final answer, O-10?  At :52 it’s Hank Mobley that is playing?
pryso
1,501 posts
 
frog, if I’m the one you had in mind when teasing about the "one single drum solo" that was not boring then I need to correct two points.

First, I’m just an average jazz fan, not any sort of authority. Second, the Morello example I promoted is not the "only" drum solo which I don’t find boring, just the best example for me of those which are not. That Art Blakey guy wasn’t bad either, or Philly Jo, or Shelly Manne, or DeJohnette, or . . .

Now if that was intended for someone else, forget all this. ;^)
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