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.
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.
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One of my favorite pastimes watching ’Urban walkers’, guys who walk around major cities while holding video cameras. My favorite city is London, and quite often these guys pass by Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. Not very impressive from the outside, and not in a particularly nice area of the city. But, that may be the norm for Jazz clubs. Cheers |
My journey with Nina Simone, began after I listened to the first record I bought by her in 1960; that's still my favorite record by her. While everyone else was most impressed by her singing, I was most impressed by her piano playing. She's a gifted piano player, and I'm a gifted piano listener; I knew I was hearing something different when I first heard her piano; a natural blend of classics, gospel, and jazz that can never be duplicated. I only saw Nina live once, that was in a huge auditorium in Chicago. Our seats were the highest I had ever been inside a building, I almost got airsick looking at the tiny people at ground floor level. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on the perspective; they had the worst storm ever in Chicago, and many people who had good seats in front of the stage didn't show. Not wanting those seats to go to waste, we went down and occupied them. This was a show with Nina, Herbie Mann, and Miles Davis; Miles was first, and he was on when we were sky high, but when it came time for Nina, we were front and center. I hope everyone gets a chance to see their favorite artist up close and personal, there's nothing like it; these people would not be famous if they did not project an "Aura" of greatness, and you experience it when you're up close and personal. I'll call that time "The Aura of Nina". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoWaOT7Rvc0 |
When it comes to late night music that a person can get lost in, it's hard to beat this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2hqgJGVMEk&list=OLAK5uy_lMohm_r1yg0OQ7yheNkTCEtZTscCkn6Qo&i... |
This is one of the best jazz albums ever recorded, and like so many of the best jazz albums recorded in this time period, Curtis Fuller is on the playlist. I go on with this suggested album, which is indeed very well recorded and very good...Thanks very much for this great album.... I love Curtis Fuller singin’g and voicin’g his trombone... I particularly like musician able to make their instrument speak intimately more than making even magnificent sounds sessions together.... They are great musicians that plays witthout making their instrument speak like a human voice...My point is not to make some superior and other inferiors...Not at all.... But i prefer an intimate inner speaking coming from jazzmen especially....Anyway i can appreciate any great musicians for what they truly are: souls in the making and coming together... Coming back to this intimate speech, like the one of Chet Baker or Bill evans, or Curtis Fuller, when they forget to make only music with other musicians but spoke spontaneously for themselves, i discovered this magnificent album of Grant Green with Sonny Clark.... Grant Green spoke with a guitar sound characteristical of those years imbued then for me with some nostalgia.... The style of Clark pianist and Green wed well together....They speak more than plays...They succeed speaking with one another here.... One thing is sure Grant Green is a very great musician....Not only a very great guitar player and not mostly just that...His tone extreme sensibility and his sticking to his internal speech make him an artist living in his own world.... It is less jazz then, when we listen to him, than Grant Green music.... Grant Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDDQsIu9FFE |
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