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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
7,487 posts
 
Today is the great (!) Hank Mobley’s birthday.  To say that he was underrated is an understatement.  I suppose it is to be expected when a tenor player lives in the shadow of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane.  Not exactly an innovator like Rollins and Coltrane, but always very distinctive and I love the beautiful logic of his story telling.  Very prolific with twenty six (!) Blue Note records as a leader.

Someone here 😄 likes to proclaim “No blues, no Jazz”.  Never a problem with Mobley.  It could be said that he was a Jazz conservative.  During the 60s’ big move in the music toward the kind of “progressivism” that would see Trane’s intergallactic travels and Miles’ fusion, Mobley stuck to his Hard-bop roots.  Sadly, in spite of his huge talent he was a bit of a social misfit who couldn’t manage money and suffered from bad health.   At the end of his life he was living at the Amtrak station in Philadelphia.

Probably his most highly regarded record:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGSxK-_xeRIaaa2pVu1eBD3GGmRmTASsq

Another great one:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGSxK-_xeRIbM-BIcbbe7Q59QztHpCTJf

One of my favorites and one with one of the best album titles in Jazz:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFBADE21A3C6C7A53




schubert
7,386 posts
 
Outed on what? Is you real name kenji suzuki ?

I’ve listened to the Brit Guru a few times , worthwhile .

There are a bunch of excellent musicians in the military bands just because they always have a gig and three hots and a cot .Those Master Chiefs  on that great Navy Band. I  put on and nobody looked at, make about 7,000 bucks a month. With health plan for him and his , with other little and that's , 10, 000 $$ .

George Mason U near DC has built a thriving Music School hiring them as they retire . Good military  Pension , health care and another  good paying job, you could do worse , a lot worse ..
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rok2id
7,859 posts
 
 
At the end of his life he was living at the Amtrak station in Philadelphia.

So sad.  I will never understand how these things happen.  There should people whose job it is to teach people who come into a lot of money, what to do with it.  Esp in the entertainment business and sports.  The first lesson should be, whatever you do now to make money, there will come a day when people will no longer pay you to do it.

If I were just starting out, I might go into that business.

Very prolific with twenty six (!) Blue Note records as a leader.

I only have six of those, including the three you listed.   No Room for Squares was the latest one.

Great Player.

Cheers
schubert
7,386 posts
 
rok , my spy’s tell me the Army is thinking of closing its Siberian base
in Upstate NY , Ft Drum, home of the 10th Mountain Div .

Reason ; The rate of Lyme Disease is so high more guys end up in the hospital than did in Afganistand .Training is almost impossible , on base or off !

Is there Lyme disease at Hood ?

Folks who grew up in abject poverty often can’t handle money for emotional reasons .
I wince when I see a newly drafted athlete buy his mama a 800 , 000 house , knowing if I was he , so would I .

And I’m noted for taking care of cash .
Crucial word is ABJECT . Very different than poor .
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rok2id
7,859 posts
 
Yup, you are turning into an audiophile!

Owning Polks and Blue Jeans wire, they would not let me in the door.  I never separate the gear from the music.  For instance, a person would have to explain to me how Coltrane playing Giant Steps would sound different, with different wire / gear.   Speakers excepted.

And since my objective is to obtain sound that faithfully represents a good RECORDING of a musical event, high end gear would be wasted on me.   As one wit at Stereo Review once observed, "Who would want the New York Philharmonic in their living room".  Excellent point.  I suspect we all just want our systems to sound like  flawless recordings, not sound like 'LIVE'.

Cheers
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