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
Inna, since I don't speak French, I could only go by the picture; why don't you explain it?
Orpheus10, I don't speak French either, and the translation is in Bulgarian, another language that I don't understand. And I was not referring to picture, only to the music and singing. It conveys intense and not simple feelings of a loss experienced by a woman.
So, in this sense it is not romantic but these things can be romanticized, true, that's why I said "not exactly".
French are complicated.
I’ll give it a shot.

Ce soir je t’ai perdu, perdu
Je n’avais plus que toi
Ce soir je t’ai perdu, ô perdu
Mise à nue, j’ai froid sans toi, sans toi
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Tonight I lost you
I had nothing else besides you
Tonight I lost you, lost you
Laid bare, I am cold without you, without you

Inna, I think you are more of a romantic than I thought 😍
nsp,
I liked that version of Eight Miles High. Edgy jazz/rock fusion.
Steve Marcus sounds good on the sax. And Larry Coryell was a great fusion guitarist. Just passed in February 2017. R.I.P.

I have seen the Allman Brothers at the Beacon Theater NYC (minus Duane). They always take no prisoners live and stretch a lot of their songs out on extended jams. "Mountain Jam" comes to mind.

rok & inna, Where does it say, in any of my posts, that I love everything?

My daughters along with much of the "me" generation like hip hop. I don't like hip hop but I am not going to belittle them because they do. 

rok, your avatar suggests you were Air Cavalry. Did you serve in Nam?