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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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rok2id
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@orpheus10 :

Two more songs with a story.  When this movie was released in 1956, I had a little kid's job as ticket collector at the town's movie theater.   This movie, 'Rock Around The Clock', was shown on a Saturday night, a special midnight showing, and ADULTS ONLY. :)

Such was the mind set in Mississippi.   And I lived in the most progressive part of the state!!

Of course as an employee I saw it.   I thought for a while it would be the real deal.   My imagination was running wild.   I was gonna see the good stuff.

You can imagine my disappointment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwgnL7V1ugo

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

Cheers

pryso
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rok, would that have been in or near Oxford?  I had a good friend who was on the faculty of Ol' Miss there for several years and I visited once.  I liked the town.  I thought it was one of the best in the South.

But I can't imagine how you would have been disappointed in a "scrubbed up" Hollywood version of rock and roll .  .  .   ;^)

The Platters caused me to search for a link to the parody of their "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" but I couldn't find it.  It came out after they were busted for drugs.
orpheus10 OP
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Rok, I knew Mississippi was backwards, but that's stretching it, even for Mississippi.

When I went down there in 67, I thought I was in "The Twilight Zone". I am not exaggerating, the closer I got to Hattiesburg, the farther back I went in time; the gas pumps were the kind in old movies, my toy filling stations as a child were more modern.

The first thing I did when arriving in town was to get the bugs off of the "Deuce". Someone at the car wash upon observing the Illinois plates, remarked "Yall must be from Chicago" "How did yall guess" I responded.

Needles to say, riding in a new "Duece" with Illinois plates, in Hattiesburg, in 67, earned me a warm welcome.
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rok2id
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***** I knew Mississippi was backwards, but that's stretching it, even for Mississippi.*****


Well this was 1956.  Mississippi was probably no more backwards than any other rural state at that time.

I have always felt I had the most wonderful childhood.

Cheers

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rok2id
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*****rok, would that have been in or near Oxford*****


No, this was in the delta area of the state.   Land of cotton and the blues.

I think the Mississippi intellectuals, folks who could read, write and figure, lived up around Oxford. :)

Cheers

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