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

Ghosthouse, it's important to me personally in regard to any selections you make from that 100 top jazz LP list. It will help me select albums from my collection that I have enjoyed a lot over the years.

Fellow Aficionados, I believe that this exercise will help juice up our present collection; now we'll catch those albums that got by us in the past.


Enjoy the music.
Hola O -
I PM'd you this AM.  Please advise if you have not seen that.

Best regards.
O - These are CDs only. Equal number of titles (if you want to see them ) saved in Spotify and Tidal. Haven’t inventoried my LPs yet.

Key:

No X = very infrequent listening; in a few instances, never played

X = have spent limited time listening to this recording

XX = have listened to this repeatedly and like it

XXX = listen to this frequently - a favorite

XXXX = most favorite music


Title Musician Status

Invisible Cinema Aaron Parks XXX

The Awakening Ahmad Jamal Trio XXX

The Antisocial Club Alan Pasqua XXXX

The Bright Mississippi Allen Toussaint XX

Charming Snakes Andy Summers XX

The Golden Wire Andy Summers XXX

Mysterious Barricades Andy Summers XXX

Synaesthesia Andy Summers XX

The Last Dance of Mr. X Andy Summers XXX

Green Chimneys Andy Summers XXX

Earth + Sky Andy Summers XXXX

Rheomusi Araujo, Andersen, Vasconcelos XXX

Impulse Art Blakey Jazz Messengers

Portrait in Jazz Bill Evans Trio X

Sunday at the Village Vanguard Bill Evans Trio

Waltz for Debby Bill Evans Trio

Anatomy of a Groove Brazilian Groove Band X

CAB4 Brunel, MacAlpine, Chambers, Auger XX

Momentum Bunny Brunel XXX

Quartet Carles Benavent XXX

Northwest Christoph Oeding Trio XX

Never Too Soon Christoph Oeding Trio XX

Time Out Dave Brubeck

Bent Gary Willis XXX

Going Back Home Ginger Baker Trio

Beyond the Missouri Sky Haden & Metheny XX

Special Treatment Jazz Pistols XX

Live Jazz Pistols XXX

Soultrane John Coltrane

Blue Train John Coltrane X

Giant Steps John Coltrane XX

One Down, One Up - Live at the Half Note John Coltrane XX

A Love Supreme John Coltrane XX

Lush Life John Coltrane

A Go Go John Scofield X

The Sidewinder Lee Morgan

On Time Les McCann Ltd. XX

S/T Lyle Mays XXX

Street Dreams Lyle Mays X

Fictionary Mays, Johnson, DeJohnette X

Fly With the Wind McCoy Tyner

Shack Man Medeski, Martin & Wood X

Combustication Medeski, Martin & Wood XX

As Falls Witchita… Metheny & Mays XXX

Workin with the MD Quintet Miles Davis X

Sketches of Spain Miles Davis

Ballads & Blues Miles Davis

Kind of Blue Miles Davis XX

Bitches Brew Miles Davis XX

Joyous Lake  Pat Martino  XX

Watercolors Pat Metheny XX

Letter From Home Pat Metheny Group XX

The Road To You Pat Metheny Group XXX

Solstice Ralph Towner XXXX

S/T Rypdal, Vitous, DeJohnette X

S/T Sao Paulo Ska Jazz X

We Like It Here Snarky Puppy X

Albums #3 - #7 Soft Machine X

Come On In Steve Smith & Vital Information XX

First You Build A Cloud Summers & Verdery XX

Straight No Chaser Thelonius Monk

At Carnegie Hall Thelonius Monk Quartet w/John Coltrane

Believe It & Million Dollar Legs Tony Williams Lifetime (2) XXX

Five Years Later Towner & Ambercrombie X

One Night With Blue Note Various Artists XXX

The Incredible Jazz Guitar Wes Montgomery X