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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
schubert
4,867 posts
 
Tubegroover, your last paragraph is as true as true gets and EXACTLY why I dislike him.
Chasing the American Dream makes the American Nightmare.

P. S I don't have to imagine the Paramount in the 40's, I was in it then.
schubert
4,867 posts
 
Frogman, thanks for the link, I don't even know how to do it.
And he was an old man then. There was another clip on the right of Mel singing with his quartet decades earlier.
At one point his piano player gets slightly ,and I do mean SLIGHTLY , behind and Mel instantly synchs to him , It was so fast I had to watch it 4 times to be sure I was hearing what I saw.
IMO, Torme could constantly improvise without changing the intent , either in lyrics or tune, of the composer in a way I never heard anyone else do.
I fully understand why folks think of him as just another crooner. you have to listen to him as closely as you would a Mozart concerto to grasp just how great he was.
tubegroover
2,279 posts
 
"P. S I don't have to imagine the Paramount in the 40's, I was in it then."

Schubert I hear you, my father loathed him for exactly the same reasons you do and I certainly get the why of it but probably not to the same extent as someone who witnessed it first hand. The one thing I admire in Sinatra if little else, is his tenacity and belief in himself but conversely his pettyness. He was a very complex individual, generous on one hand, unforgiving and a bully on the other and I suppose this just adds into the equation of the enduring facination with his persona maybe even more so than his singing. I personally don't believe the two can be separate. If you take away the personality from the singer he, at least in my estimation, would have fizzed out long before his remarkable comeback.
acman3
2,267 posts
 
For those of us who were not there…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_wus1KL6Q
schubert
4,867 posts
 
Tubegroover, no wonder you turned out so well with such a brilliant dad !
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