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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
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That is a very good question; she deserves much more recognition. That clip is beautiful! Here she is singing one of my favorite Kurt Weill songs:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oqJXBL8KDwg

And a favorite vocal rendition:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nsecJqW-wdg
frogman
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Of course, I meant "here she is PLAYING one of....."
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rok2id
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Comments Anyone?

Beethoven’s Last Piano Sonata: Does it Anticipate Jazz?
This epic Piano Sonata in C Minor, Opus 111, isn’t the last piano work Beethoven published (his staggering Diabelli Variations, Opus 120, arrived a bit later), but it’s his last piano work in the sonata form,........Jeremy Denk, among other contemporary pianists, has described elements of the second movement as “proto-jazz” and “boogie woogie.” Okay, point taken, but there’s so much more.
-Nick Moy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ljq4MwzAbo

Speaking os Sonatas, listened today to:
Mozart -- THE VIOLIN SONATAS with Perlman and Barenboim. Ain't got it, git it.

Cheers
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rok2id
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O-10:

You are right about all the 'Filler' on current day CDs. The increased time is difficult for a lot of players to fill with quality music.

Lee morgan? I thought I had all of his 'must-have' stuff, but "The Procrastinator" is currently in my CART, Along with the recommended, Dinah Washington's "DINAH JAMS". Thanks.

Cheers
frogman
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****Beethoven’s Last Piano Sonata: Does it Anticipate Jazz?****

In a matter of speaking; probably. More importantly, and important to this thread, a better way of looking at this is, as always, perspective. The facts have a way of always rising to the top; even if slowly:

Consider all the drama and resistance that was put up early in the life of this thread to the idea that jazz is NOT a "purely American" creation; that music, like all art, does not happen in a vacuum and is constantly evolving while being influenced and shaped by what came before it. Jazz is a melting pot of many different influences from different cultures and anyone interested can easily research this well established fact; or go back and read early posts here.

What does one suppose some boogie-woogie pianists played when learning to play the piano? Probably, and among other things, Beethoven sonatas. So, is it so far-fetched to think that a young future boogie woogie piano player, after playing and studying the second movement of the C Minor might think: "Hmmm, I wonder.....let me try this....!"

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