When it comes to late night music that a person can get lost in, it's hard to beat this.
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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.
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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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 |
mahgister, in these stressful times, music is our drug of choice to relieve that stress; not just any music, but the best music for us. Back in the old days before "you tube", no matter how carefully we selected our records, occasionally we bought records we could live without. Now we can review the music on "you tube" before we buy, and it's a good idea to do just that. Another important item is to do what you're doing right now, taking note of the records you like that you heard here, and might consider for future purchases. As of today, I'm going to keep a notebook by the computer, and write down the records each day that I have selected from here to purchase. I haven't done this in the past, and when I tried to go back, somehow I couldn't find the record. I hope these tips help in making your musical selections. Enjoy the music. |
rok2id: "I wish I could like the current stuff. The technology is better. That should result in better recordings. But what's missing is the essence of Jazz music. They improvise, but they are not improvising over the blues. They are trying to be too 'cerebral' or 'intellectual' too 'deep'. It's a happy party time music. Played is speak easys and cat houses. It's about women and love and sex. The boys from New Orleans would not even recognize this current day stuff as Jazz" I assume this is meant to be tonque-in-cheek. . . |
Some of my "must have Jazz"... "The Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968" box set "My Funny Valentine" by the same group with George Coleman instead of W. Shorter W. Shorter's Blue Note recordings Andrew Hill's Blue Note recordings Bobby Hutcherson's Blue Note Recordings Jackie McLean's Blue Note recordings "Extrapolation" by John McLaughlin and John Surman BIll Evan's live Vanguard recordings with LaFaro, Motion. Chick Corea: "Now He Sings; Now He Sobs" Chick Corea and Gary Burton: "Crystal Silence" Grany Green: "Idle Moments" H. Hancock: "Maiden Voyage" Pat Martino: "Footsteps, "Exit" Dexter Gordon: "Go" Helen Merrill: "A Shade of Difference", "The Feeling Is Mutual" Sheila Jordan: "Lost and and Found" Sarah Vaughan: "Live in Tokyo" Jackie Ryan: "You and the Night and the Music", "Doozy' Betty Carter" : The Audience with Betty Carter" Johnny Griffin: "Way Out", "The Little Giant" Woody Shaw: "Little Red's Fantasy", "InMy Own Sweet Way" John Coltrane: "Coltrane's Sound", "A Love Supreme" Joe Henderson: "So Near, So Far-- Tribute to Miles" , "Inner Urge", "State of the Tenor" Clifford Jordan: "Spellbound" Harold Land: "Xocia's Dance" Serge Chaloff: "Blue Serge' Cedar Walton: "Eastern Rebellion" (the first one, with George Coleman) Art Farmer Quintet: "Blame It On My Youth" Art Pepper: "The Art of Pepper" Michel Petrucciani: "Au Theatre Des Champs-Elysees" M. Tyner: "Time for Tyner", "Soliloquoy", "Sama LaYuca", "Focal Point" David Murray: "Ming's Samba", "Ballads", "Lovers" Booker Ervin: "That's It", "Booker and Brass" |
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