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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
orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

Lou Rawls seems like an old friend because he sings about the Chicago I knew as a teenager; girls, girls, and more girls, pretty girls up and down that long Walgreen soda fountain counter.


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


There are so many songs I like by Lew, that I can't think of a favorite, but I like this one a lot;



          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hqcKul3cnk


I can't think of any other vocalist I like better, but I'm trying. For me, it seems that memories have to be attached to vocals, unlike instrumentals, that I can evaluate immediately.

Oscar Brown is well represented in my collection with a lot of appropriate memories.

I liked Kurt Elling scatting on "Nature Boy", plus that was a driving arrangement; "Did the drummer get too much"? I'll have to get that. What do you think about him and Rachelle Ferrell on the same show?


Enjoy the music.
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rok2id
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***** What do you think about him and Rachelle Ferrell on the same show?*****

I would rather see and hear Lou Rawls by himself.  My vote for one of the all time greats.

I did see him once in D.C.    A lifetime ago.

Cheers
orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

It's for sure that "Lou" was our favorite male vocalist; I had gotten so use to his voice that it seemed like an old friend was singing to me, plus I could relate to the songs he sang; "Street of Dreams", is one of them.

This place was my last "hangout"; that's when your nights for hanging are coming to an end, and the other folks in the joint were in the same boat with me; they knew that the good times for enjoying the night life would soon be over, but it was on the street of dreams.


                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kw6khrGLr4


 


Well folks, I'm having fun doing my thing this morning, which is choosing records to down load to the PC library. Yesterday it was "The Man With The Sad Face" by Stanley T; I thought it was pretty good. If I find it on "you tube", I'll post it for your approval.


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzpe5XD-RMg


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzBEvR7wa-0


This might be one you can add to your collection if you like it. "You Tube" is a life saver; no longer is it necessary to be disappointed if you can't find current jazz you like, that's because there is more good "old jazz" than you got time to hear that you haven't heard before.


Enjoy the music.
frogman
4,637 posts
 
Nice Lou Rawls,  All around agreement re Lou Rawls.  What a voice and what style! I'm sure Rok would approve of the impression that whatever he sings has the feeling of the blues.  Great singer. 

I love Stanley Turrentine and have posted quite a bit of his stuff.  I'm afraid that "The Man WTSF" doesn't do it for me.  Beautiful and very distinctive tenor playing style; sexiest tenor sound ever.  I'm afraid that "The Man With The Sad Face" just doesn't do it for me.  IMO, this was the  low point in his recording career and the reason that there was so much criticism around that time of the move by him, Benson and others to that style of over-produced "disco-jazz"; in a word, saccharine.  Everything that I don't like about much of the CTI stuff,  on steroids.  Might there be some hidden meaning in that title? 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rtDIbCZTk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GLP9osh3Z1g

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HWKdQEnfcI



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