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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
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Rok, I have an affinity for Mary Lou's music that goes beyond anything I have ever experienced; it's a kind of nostalgia thing that goes back to a time before I was even born. Have you ever looked at an old black and white photograph that was so old that it was turning brown, and been drawn into it? I'm drawn into the sound of her piano; on "Willow Weep For" for example, this sounds like music I heard at a time before I could even remember.

on "It Ain't Necessarily So", I've heard this a thousand times by a thousand people; why should Mary Lou's sound so different; it takes me back, way back; so far back that I wasn't even born. Could there be something to reincarnation? Maybe I heard her before I was born in a "speakeasy" in Kansas City when I was somebody else?

Music is so mystifying; I mean how the very same music can have so many different, and unusual effects on different people.


[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4THBVc47ug>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8AOox_prE[/urk]

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4THBVc47ug

Enjoy the music.
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rok2id
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O-10:

Both links go to 'Willow'. It was beautiful. Check out some of the comments from musicians. Dare I say it? She was well versed in the N&B's. :)

I tried to listen to my CDs of Williams, but the sound quality was just too awful. They were recorded in 1974 & 1945. The clip you sent had great sound. They did a good job of cleaning it up.

The notes on the clip said she 'tutored' Monk!! Damn! I think if she had been a man, she would have been up there with the best, in the public's consciousness

Send 'necessarily so'. I suspect You didn't hear it in Kansas City. It just sounds so refreshing in this current sea of noise, you think you had to have heard it in a former life.

Thanks for the clips.

Cheers
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rok2id
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****Have you ever looked at an old black and white photograph that was so old that it was turning brown, and been drawn into it? I'm drawn into the sound of her piano;*****

Solo piano can do that. Esp if it's being played in an airly room with a wooden floor. Nawlins? As my family's historian, I have a zillion black and white photos. Sometimes I wish I was back there. :) I have two of my Great Grand parents that have turned brown. 19th Century stuff. But they are a lot clearer than this modern stuff. Just like Mary Lou's piano.

Cheers
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rok2id
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O-10:

*****you didn't buy "Dinah Jams" for Dinah Washington, you bought it for the musicians backing her, so do not miss one single solitary note.*****

You are absolutely correct. Great playing all around, but 'Lover come back to me', that tune, at that tempo, cried out for Ella.

Thanks for turning me on to it. Great Disc.

Cheers
orpheus10 OP
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Rok, here's "It Ain't Necessarily So";

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4THBVc47ug&list=RDz4THBVc47ug

I could listen to her music all night and never get bored; the more I listen the more I want to hear.

Our job is to "separate the wheat from the chaff"; meaning she had to make a living, which means whatever was popular at that time, plus there's the matter of recording quality. I'll have to do a lot of searching before I can make recommendations on which CD's to buy.

Enjoy the music.
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