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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
pryso
1,956 posts
 
o10, so was Miles about 15 years older than you?  You've shared a few stories about common experiences growing up.  But it must have been frustrating to never meet the man, given your love of his music and so much from that time.

On a different track (so to speak) on another site someone mentioned not liking any jazz recordings with a full string section.  I agreed and this is the only exception I can think of --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXxybiV4Pxs&list=PLfOleD7-7Oj90W890D0puroQgM7yTR-0P
alexatpos
1,227 posts
 
Schubert, I believe you might like this song...

https://youtu.be/_cm816WvFx8

By the way, just recently  got that album, apparently the only live one Nat King Cole made, ' Live at the Sands'....nice one...

https://youtu.be/g5TIPI3k5Bc
https://youtu.be/j6sGEOhZJPM

As for the walshman....here is one with famous tv doctor who can play and sing too...

https://youtu.be/AAngTtXxD8M

Hugh Laurie (Dr.House) speaks about blues and his idols (Howlin Wolf as well)
https://youtu.be/T6QIkq_lGaI

two from Hugh Laurie

https://youtu.be/AzEBH6DZJVk

https://youtu.be/8HrmAgYE-6k


I would say that this lady can sing too...Gaby Moreno

https://youtu.be/HJIJKgnXW2g


Hugh Laurie & Gaby Moreno - The Weed Smoker's Dream
https://youtu.be/sMMwgy3GXV0
schubert
7,386 posts
 
I would say Gaby Moreno can sing as well.
I knew Hugh Laurie was a player . IMO he is just another pot-head
who thinks he’’s 10 times as good as he really is . If that. He did know how good Tom Jones is though.
Anyone who likes music likes Nat Cole .Never heard that song but he says what I think .You are making some good posts alex !


I don’t like rock because it replaced a form of jazz with junk.
It also gave the human race a bad blow
in that when boy meets girl,it replaced music that made romance first with music that makes lust first .
BIG difference when a man looking for a wife dances cheek to cheek and when the two dance all night never touching and are not thinking of the other but how their display looks .


A sweet dance night at college vs an orgy at Woodstock .
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Pryso, it was not at all frustrating because I never knew what I related to you until I read his autobiography, and he had gone to that big band in the sky by that time.
mary_jo
1,525 posts
 
I would say that this lady can sing too...Gaby Moreno
She looks nice, she can sing but she does not have this:

What I like most about Shirley Bassey is what I call the "believability" factor; instead of singing a song, she is actually sharing an episode of her life with you, and you experience her emotions.
That is why I like Shirley. 

here is one with famous tv doctor who can play and sing too...
I like Hugh in a Dr. House role. I do not recall telling you that you have some resemblance, with the way you act, with that picture of Hugh being House. I hope you will never lose that. Just do not exaggerate with it, what you tend to do. So I like Hugh being House and you being you but Hugh can't sing. Can play though but can't sing. I might be wrong of course. In Hugh I mean, not in you.

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