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

@yyzsantabarbara 

It seems fitting that it's a titan like Sonny who is still standing.  

Hard not to feel nostalgic and wonder whether Jazz will ever enjoy a resurgence. 

 

Not a chance. If, by “resurgence” you mean the level of popularity that Jazz was enjoying when that pic was taken. Jazz had already started to wane in popularity by then. During the decades preceding the date of that pic, Jazz was THE Pop music of the time. R&R and related Pop genres changed everything. The culture changed, the music changed. Having said all that, the “demise” of Jazz has been exaggerated in more recent times. Jazz has been alive and well, but as a (much?) smaller percentage of the total music consumption by the general public and certainly different in many cases.

Jazz is no more just American. It is a world wide phenomenon.

It does not disapeared , it metamorphosed itself because it is a deep language able to be spoken on many levels..

Jazz was a caterpillar in the beginning so beautiful it was. it became a butterfly...

Now no musicians on earth can ignore jazz...None...

The fact that consumers dont buy jazz a lot is like lamenting that most readers dont read Dante or Rabelais or Dostoievsky... They need an education...

Who buy choral works from the Franco Flemish school ? It is so deeply genius words fail... But without education no one will discover it...