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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.
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.
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bluesy41, you’re right, Joey DeFrancesco is a bad man! Great clips all. Some of my favorite work of his is with the great Pat Martino; very complimentary approaches and they burn! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O15Xmzn6T1Y |
pryso, re your “challenge” and to use some of your examples: Bill Evans. Instead of “Waltz For Debby’ which, although deserving it, gained increased popularity from the relatively new wave of audiophile reissues, my choice for an introduction to Bill Evans would be “Everybody Digs Bill Evans”. A little less “moody” and itrospective than WFD with an overall more upbeat feeling and still with that beautiful suave sophistication. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRh9kGdYB9I Cannonball Adderley. We discussed “Somethin’ Else” here quite a while ago mostly in comparison to KOB for overall merit. For me there is no contest with KOB being the most important of the two. O-10 and Rok disagreed, feeling that KOB was too much of an “audiophile darling” (?). However, I also argued that I felt that “Somethin’ Else” was really, more than anything, a Miles Davis date. Not to go there again, but for an introduction to Cannonball I would pick his album with a most fitting name, “Presenting Cannonball Adderley”; and not because of the title: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SN7ajvau50E Miles Davis and speaking of KOB. You’re right, it would be difficult to argue against KOB being the choice, but I’ll play Devil’s Advocate and suggest that a better choice for an introduction would be “Round About Midnight”. Miles’ overall scope of styles is huge and amazing as we know. KOB, with all its greatness is a record that clearly defines a dramatic move to a style (modal) that would help shape just about everything he did afterwards. In some ways what came before might get lost a bit to someone new to Miles.. I would pick the record that hints at the more modern style of KOB and beyond, but is still more obviously rooted in the pre-modal tradition. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6FD0274FA2A10567 Interesting topic. |
frog, thanks for your contributions (as always). I think you touched on an important point when you mentioned the new wave of audiophile reissues, with "Waltz For Debby" as a good example. The availability of those as LPs, CDs, downloads, whatever, may influence newer jazz buyers. And some, such as "KOB" and "Take Five" have now been audiophile reissues several times over. But they are at the top for sales of all jazz albums so there have been other influences than simply recommendations by audiophile publications like Stereophile and TAS. More general readership of newspaper, magazine, or online articles also identify mainly the same war horses. It's fun to expand things once in awhile. |
Wow so much great music posted las http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tvx2cDazifs t night and today it's hard to keep up. orpheus10-what a nice mix of rhythms with Oran Etkins clarinet(s). It's more proof that jazz is a world music. I liked his story about light being spread all over the world and trying to bring it together with music.Maybe music can be used as a healing force in this crazy, mixed up world we live in. Here's a horn player I feel has something to say with his trio on an old Lester Young tune: |
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