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

@mahgister,

You are such an avid reader of books, even of different languages I thought you were a professor.

In fact, I wanted to share with you a book I have read that was originally written in your native French language by Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop ’Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology’.

 

 

Pepper Adams, Walter Norris, George Mraz, Makaya Ntshoko – Julian (1975)

https://youtu.be/MnMi-8_W-JU

I love this record. Great live soundstage and atmosphere. Apart from the superb musicianship, it’s a nice audiophile showcase.

Thanks i will look at it...

I advised students about books and ideas for thirty five years... But i was not teaching any course, they come for me for months years and in some case decades...Mostly between 20 years old and thirty years... But here the only teacher is frogman... He is musician not me...

I read less after my retirement 4 years ago and almost got depressed because i loose touch with the students with whom i can discuss any subjects in their field and interests and LEARN from them way more than the advise i can gave them ...I even read their doctorate or masters thesis in some case as an unofficial adviser for discussion ..

Now if i made a discovery about a thinker i will not be able to speak with a student the day after...I realized that ideas motivated me way more if i can communicate them and help someone ... I was never a specialist in my life, i spoke linguistic with a linguist, or poetry with a poet, music with a musician or mathemathic with a student in maths philosophy with a student in philo. i became friend with a lawyer and spoke with him about Roman law. because he published a book about it .. etc... What interested me was the relation between field not any field in itself alone ... This is the reason why for me music is not only music, it is history of human consciousness, it is acoustic and it is brain neurology of hearing, and it is about phenomenology of the perception, it is even the way by which we enter in the most intimate contact possible with the world INSIDE of the phenomena...

For example i stumbled on a book, complete genius, which created ideas and new mathematics over neural networks andmore deep mathematics and the writer of this book is a not well known Indian scientist working in Japan : "nanobrain" his book throw the basis of A. C. artificial consciousness and not mere A. I. artificial consciousness... His idea are so deep and remind me of an experience i felt when i was younger... Now with who can i discuss that ? Only with a student in A. I. or in maths or in philosohy... Did you got why i felt depressed ? Why reading new ideas if i could not give them to a student to motivate him tomorrow and importantly LEARN from him by feedback ?

It is why i came here by despair, after my retirement being motivated by the idea to create my audio room by learning some basic acoustic ...I succeeded and spoke about here to help people to spare their money...Now i lost my house ten months ago and my room... It takes me 6 months to recreate a top audio system with headphone... Now less sad i am back again here ...

I will look for your book suggestion... Thanks my friend...

By the way do you know why i am interested by your book sugggestion?

I read a marvellous book about sound: "sound sources" by Ekpan J. Essien..

This african man takes twenty years to create his doctorate research about sound sources ...His doctorate are so disturbing for classical acoustic he was refused in London to be received as doctorate fellow and he succeded only in Paris...He used Yorumba drum musicological studies and linguistic to achieve his acoustic research on acoustic phenomenology and history of sound perception and the physical basis of acoustic ... Very interesting and revolutionary for me...

Very interesting book founded on the perceived body-image of the sound source : «The definition of sound in physics as vibrations in an elastic medium establishes a link between the sound source and the organism. Thus, it satisfies an essential psychophysical prerequisite for a theory of perception. However, over the past 170 years since Ohm’s law (1843), and some 137 years since Helmholtz’s resonance theory (1877), psychoacoustic procedures founded on air vibration have shrouded music and speech in mystery. Ecological theories have fallen short, not only of Gestalt invariance, but also of the link between the distal object and the organism. This paper approaches auditory analysis from the standpoint of sound production. It argues that although air vibration produces sound, sound is not air vibration; and that exploitation of features of air vibration can hardly (if ever) lead to accurate understanding of the principle of the auditory mechanism in speech or music perception. Evidence is provided in support of the definition of sound as the vibratory image of the sonorous body. It establishes isomorphism between characteristics of a sonorous body and auditory attributes of sound. Wherefore, a body is different from the sound it produces in much the same way as steam is different from ice ─ two different forms of the same entity. The data under consideration offer succinct insights into the way the auditory mechanism extracts from sound wave invariants for use in speech or music regardless of chaotic production and acoustic variability. Implications for future research in speech, music and all aspects of auditory analysis are discussed.»

 

 

 

i apologize for this long post not about jazz but i will include this album of jazz absolutely marvellous and Unknown  and INCREDIBLY GOOD :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNv2RxjsbWA&t=314s

@mahgister,

You are such an avid reader of books, even of different languages I thought you were a professor.

In fact, I wanted to share with you a book I have read that was originally written in your native French language by Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop ’Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology’.