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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
frogman
4,637 posts
 
Totally agree re Lester Bowie; and all great clips. On the hunch that acman3 had posted “I Only Have Eyes For You” previously I did a little search of the “archives” and came up with this, one of the better exchanges of opinion (this time about Bowie) and one of Rok’s more memorable comments about his own trumpet playing background.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/jazz-for-aficionados/post?highlight=Lester%2BBowie%2B&pos...

**** don’t know why I put them in the noise maker box. ****

In my book that’s what it’s all about. Not so much the why then, but the why not now. I appreciated the Bey sisters a lot more this last time around.

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rok2id
4,494 posts
 

The Frogman man is amazing.  How did you find that old clip.   I don't remember it, but I think my comments were very consistent after 4 years.

It also reminded me why I put them in the Noise Maker box.  Based on that clip, that's where they belonged.

Maybe Roscoe and Malachi were the problems.

Bowie's music that was recently posted was good.

I think I will purchase two of them.

There is a whole treasure to be found is redoing old classic R&B and and Soul music.

The BEY sister will not be denied their just place in Jazz!!!!

Frogman,  Thanks for the history example.  I Liked that.   I always wondered if any of us could withstand looking at our past comments.  I think I passed this one.    whew!

Cheers

frogman
4,637 posts
 
You know how the audio rags do “retrospectives” of old reviews of classic audio equipment? It would be interesting to occasionally go back to old comments and exchanges. Some of the “exchanges” we can probably do without revisiting, but that’s a different story. It’s really not hard to do. You go to the “Search Forums” window, type in the name of the artist or whatever, then select the “topic” (music) and it’s fairly easy to then narrow down all the hits according to the thread’s timeline.
acman3
2,267 posts
 
Have to admit I was having a little deja vu moment while playing those clips, but after all these years, we do tend to loop a lot.

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