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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.
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"That was a time where jazz music was a four-letter word in Cuba – literally! After many years of that thought, in 1967, they decided to create the Orquesta [Cubana de Música Moderna]. There were a lot of left wing people going to Cuba, attending congresses and visiting. So the government decided to create an image that jazz was not forbidden and that nothing was forbidden there. So they created the Orquesta to play American music – that is incredible. It was to create a different image than what they had created all those years. So they created the Orquesta. I directed the band for two years. . . . When I decided that I wanted to play only jazz in the Orquesta, then I got fired . . . . and after a while, the Orquesta ceased to achieve the function that it was created for and it disappeared—D’Rivera 2011

What better symbol of freedom and individuality than jazz?
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The Frogman:
Have you ever been involved in, or watched a performance of Ravel's Bolero, where the snare drummer dropped one or his sticks?   I was watching this and thought what a disaster that would be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9CMPOz1SaQ

Any 'disasters' you can share?

Cheers
frogman
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Rok, that would certainly be a disaster and one which I have thankfully never witnessed. I have been involved in probably 30 plus performances of Bolero over the years and the most memorable disaster, was a performance with a major orchestra (which shall remained nameless) while on tour in Spain during the World’s Fair in Seville (hint) in which the trombone player (substitute) got off by a beat during his solo. The headline in the following morning’s newspaper review read "A derailed Bolero" ("Un Bolero descarrilado"). Poor guy.
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