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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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Speaking of rehearsals, the "greats" would meet at Rudy's, discuss what they were going to play, and jam for the recording; you might have one of those records in your collection.

Ray Charles hired a new musical director, who complained because David "Fathead" Newman didn't come to rehearsals. Fathead said "Talk to the man Ray". When Ray sided with the musical director, Fathead walked.

The "greats" don't think too much of "Rehearsals"; unless of course you're talking "Big Band", and my collection doesn't talk much big band.


Enjoy the music.
frogman
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Sorry, not the way it was or is, O-10; and, certainly not for recordings. When hired sidemen show up to a recording session they have to rehearse and learn either new material (if the record will be of new original music), or new arrangements of standards. The rehersal takes place in the studio before they do a "take". Even if the recording is by a working band they usually rehearse before a recording session so as to be very sharp and not waste studio time. The sometimes maligned "alternate takes" were often nothing more than rehearsals.

btw, that clip was kind of interesting.
orpheus10 OP
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Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a 1957 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper with Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, who at the time were the rhythm section for Miles Davis's quintet. The album is considered a milestone in Pepper's career.

According to Pepper, the album was recorded under enormous pressure, as he first learned of the recording session the morning he was due in the studio, and he had never met the other musicians, all of whom he greatly admired. He was playing on an instrument in a bad state of repair, and was suffering from a drug problem.



                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC04bkiNrlc



Ghosthouse, what people don't realize, is the fact that these are very special people, special beyond many individuals comprehension; if they are performing on a regular basis, they don't have to practice or rehearse.



                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP5YBfFZvN8





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orpheus10 OP
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It's a funny thing about dope and jazz musicians; most people think that somehow the dope helps them to become fantastic musicians. I don't know how they can think that, when the musicians themselves will tell you otherwise. "Bird" was a "junky" before he became a musician, and he told other musicians not to do what he was doing. "Lady Day" would have been a "junky" if she never sang one note because of the gigantic mental problems that were caused by incidents in her childhood.

If you have read books related to all the different reasons people use dope, you would know that none of the reasons say becoming a jazz musician will entice you into using heroin, and make you a dope addict.

Most of the jazz musicians who became junkies, would be junkies if they never blew a horn.

Now that heroin addiction is a nation wide problem, maybe people will discover there's a better way to solve that problem, than incarceration.



Enjoy the music.


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