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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
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rok2id
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The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz

CBS Records 1987

CD #2

Moten Swing -- Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f2YIl-IpPg
recorded   12/13/32, Camden N.J.
Ben Webster(ts), Count Basie(p)

Dinah - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLgQg76NWE
recorded 4/18/29
Benny Goodman(cl),  Jack Teagarden(tb), Gene Krupa(d)

THE MAN I LOVE Jazz by Coleman Hawkins Swing Four
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SxkDBEYWOY
recorded   12/23/43
Oscar Pettiford(b), Shelly Manne(d)

Art Tatum, piano solo: "Willow Weep For Me" (1949)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyDTtmlbeaY
recorded 7/13/49, Los Angeles

Ella Fitzgerald -- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUxA0P4Z_Y8
recorded  7/64, Antibes, France

Benny Goodman And His Sextet - Breakfast Feud
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDgHLcx9oGg
Cooti Williams (tp) Benny Goodman (cl) Georgie Auld (ts) Count Basie(p) Charlie Christian (el-g) Artie Bernstein (b) Jo Jones (d)
recorded 1/15/41 & 12/19/40

LESTER LEAPS IN Count Basie Kansas City 7 FEATURING LESTER YOUNG
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f60JYoHdfVM&list=RDf60JYoHdfVM&start_radio=1
recorded  9/5/39

Cheers
frogman
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Schubert, yes, as a musician…..in large part, but still only part. That part of the mix is but one piece of the pie; not the least of which is to be a better person. The two ways of “seeing” music don’t have to be mutually exclusive and each feeds the other. One could put all modesty aside and make a case for why there are few better ways to be a better person than to give the joy of music. I would say that all normal human flaws aside, the gift that Bach and Monteverdi gave the world made them pretty darn good persons.


schubert
7,386 posts
 
IF, you could I would agree .In general I do ,my age makes it hard to say
what I will . 
frogman
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It is obvious that you do.  You have a tremendous passion for music and are committed to sharing it.  
keegiam
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@schubert and @frogman

Nice philosophical exchange on the meaning of music, thanks.  Schubert - my POV is that frogman doesn't "see" the music, he hears it and feels it.

If music is "seeable" for you, you may be stuck in the European sheet music convention.  That's how I was trained: read the music and play it.  But the best stuff comes from the soul, not sheet music.  That's why we're all here on JFA.
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