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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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Literally just landed back in NY after a 15 hr flight from Taipei. I will offer some thoughts on the conducting question and others after I regroup and get my inner clock turned around. As wonderful and interesting as traveling always is, and speaking of great singers, I will let this clip say it all for me:

https://youtu.be/TRUjr8EVgBg

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rok2id
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HE IS RISEN!!!!!!!
acman3
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqL5fhU0lZ4
orpheus10 OP
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I might as well play the game, since I started it.

Right now I'm grooving on a double LP by Lucky Thompson;

by Ron Wynn
Lucky Thompson creates a host of spectacular improvisations on the 16 songs on this wonderful CD reissue. It is comprised of two 1956 sessions; one features Thompson heading a trio backed by bassist Oscar Pettiford and guitarist Skeeter Best, and the other has him heading either a quartet or quintet including the great trombonist Jimmy Cleveland. Cleveland's smooth, superbly articulated phrases and statements rank alongside Thompson's gliding lines in their brilliance, and pianist Hank Jones (on three cuts) also sparkles with some marvelous solos. But Thompson is the star on this date, his elegant yet robust and exuberant playing demonstrating again what a loss his voluntary departure from the scene has constituted


Lucky Thompson is the tenor that put Miles "Walkin" on the map;


  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMW3RloxEyA



This is the double LP Ron Wynn has written about;


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGaWgGaNg2Q
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