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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Alex, thanks for those clips. I am by no means a Chaplin-file and came to his work fairly recently. For a long time I assumed, as I suspect many do, that his works were primarily caricaturish and slapstick; until I became aware of their substance and importance. My experience with his films began with my involvement in projects having to do with the recreation of their music several years ago. I have not seen King In NY but will make a point to do so. Why surprised? Is it the "NY" part, or the "King" part 😉? |
Just a thought: An incredible amount of potentially VERY INTERESTING topics and themes for discussion in recent posts. Excellent! It is MY impression that this thread tends to move away from topics to new ones without even getting close to exploring all there is to explore in any one topic (theme, music style, musician, etc.) if there isn't quick response time and posts. We all live in, not only different time zones, but different parts of the world and with different levels of free time at any given moment. Perhaps we should consider being more comfortable slowing the pace down a bit. Would love to look at Zorn and film further. Jus sayin...... |
Frogman, a good one, joke, I mean. Yes, by all means, Chaplin is great, often his later work is overlooked, he was not at all ’just a funny guy’... Acman, some good movies you have posted, some of the french ones are my all time favourits... If by any chance you have not seen any of these, I strongly recommend them... J.P. Melville’s ’Samourai’ with A.Delon...some original score, and remix included... https://youtu.be/KR-nveJx-LU Again, J.P. Melville’s ’Le Cercle Rouge’ with A. Delon some nice music and scenes https://youtu.be/8zR7S-NPzNQ Interesting to see is that Melville’s movies were in a way homage to american authors and films of crime and noir, but later new american authors choose to make films in a homage to Melville... Frogman, I agree, we should incorporate 'time out' tool.... |
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