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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
 

Pryso, that Monk is an absolute winner. I've got a funny story about Miles and Monk.

Miles was making a record, and him and Monk had an argument over next to nothing; Miles said he didn't want Monk's plinking and plunking. Now here's where it gets real funny; I have this record of Miles, and I always think the piano is Monk, but it's Horace Silver. After all these years, if I put that record on, I would still say it was Monk, and I bet in a blind test, that you, Frogman the musician would say the same thing.

After the argument, Monk walked out, so now there's no Monk, and his plinking and plunking was what Miles needed on a specific cut. Miles told Horace Silver to do that "Monk thing" on that cut.
frogman
4,637 posts
 
C’mon O-10, no need to get defensive and no technical game playing here. You said "fewest notes"; no?  That's technical; no?  Now, are you saying most aficionados won’t recognize "Naima"? It’s one of Trane’s best known. Seems to me that feeling backed by facts is always best. Here, I’ll try it again; hope it works better for you:

Even fewer notes than "Moanin"; one of Trane’s best known:

https://youtu.be/QTMqes6HDqU



orpheus10 OP
5,988 posts
 

Frogman, this is the second time you posted that.  I was just hadn't gotten around to commenting on it, but it's a winner.

Although I'm the OP, this is not an autocracy; all the members of this thread have a say in how things work.  Music, and jazz especially are quite abstract, consequently it takes back and forth chatter for things to be settled.
pryso
1,501 posts
 
o10, complying with your "revised" rules -- ;^) -- I offer this.  If jazz aficionados of a certain age don't recognize the drum intro then the fist four notes on the piano should do it.  And yes, it is pretty spare all the way through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkH-d0IoAU
pryso
1,501 posts
 
Also, that Miles/Monk story sound familiar.  Which album came from that?
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