Jazz for aficionados

The stars were aligned for me today...

After my 3 hours listening of this 6 cd box...( i am lucky to have almost another 4 hours to go)

Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan "The complete Vee Jay sessions"

I really think that it is one of the greatest jazz album series of all time...

Shorter is not less than pure genius on the saxophone, and believe me i am particularly "picky"
for ANY sax part.... Lee Morgan is abolutely one of the more gifted trumpeter there ever is...What is miraculous
Is that these 2 plays at the same level AND in absolute symbiosis and complementarity.... Which is not so much common to begin with.... And their lever of playing is indeed of the highest order.... I am breathless...

The other many various musicians are absolutely top one also, at near the level of the two masters....

I cannot wait to explore these 2 genius.....

This compilation through many years, Of Shorter and Morgan together or not is one of my most loved album already...

All the numerous musicians are good but my personal discovery are really Shorter and Morgan...

I am very difficult and picky with sax players.... I love Shorter... Some other sax players like Clifford Jordan also...

And Morgan for me own something very light and heartful from Armstrong and something which is the brain of Miles Davis....

A truly great trumpeter....One of the greatest....

And i love trumpeters like i love pianists....

Interesting comments, mahgister. I share your feelings about these two masters. Shorter in particular is a favorite. He is also one of the greatest and most interesting Jazz composers. A true genius. One of the most interesting things about Shorter is how much his playing changed over the course of his career. Not necessarily in overall concept, but in how his playing became more and more economical; as if he found ways to say what he had to say with fewer and fewer notes. One of the most expressive of saxophone players, he could express so much emotion with one or two notes. 

https://youtu.be/CYg_3pQN-LU

https://youtu.be/ydsqGRYqW88

I don’t feel there is a “greatest” among the very top trumpet players. Morgan was certainly one of the greatest.

**** And Morgan for me own something very light and heartful from Armstrong and something which is the brain of Miles Davis.... ****

Exactly! Great comment. The “light and heartful” is what I hear as the infectious swagger in his playing.

https://youtu.be/uHd0qP4UKX4

https://youtu.be/eRA8EOR7Nm0

Not necessarily in overall concept, but in how his playing became more and more economical; as if he found ways to say what he had to say with fewer and fewer notes. One of the most expressive of saxophone players, he could express so much emotion with one or two notes.

It was my impression but having not your knowledge and experience, i miss the "word" economical... Thanks...Minimalistic but powerful expression yes.... Controlled in a mysterious way....

It is the first time in my life that a sax player induce in me the same love some trumpeter do...( i am excessive in my love or dislike or neutral gesture yes )

This 6 albums series is now one of my favorite one....

Jazz Giants....

Thanks for the recommendations.....I will swiftly look for them....

I listen the 2 short Wayne Shorter clip.... This guy play sax like i ,at the end, love the instrument at the level of my appetite for trumpet playing...I was ready to discover it....Timing is important in life....
I am in paradise....

I am passionate yes, but only hyperbole can convey my surprise listening their playings... And my surprize that jazz can hide jewels and gems like these...

Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter are a "musical deal squad" made in heaven for sure....Like Coltrane and Davis in "Kind of blue"....But these two ressemble more each other for me and they integrate deeply their playings in one another, not one beside the other at all...It is not criticism of the 2 other geniuses only my way to describe my impression of their playings...I am not a musician tough feel free to correct me....

Lee Morgan is stupendous in his easiness and fluidity always meaningful chords....He play to surprise us with some chords inscribed in the "great musical book" already there and now here forever... He is so great that no showmanship is needed....





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WAYNE SHORTER QUINTET (Live! with Larry Coryell) - Bing video