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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
frogman
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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......
alexatpos
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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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rok2id
7,859 posts
 
Today's Listen:

Duke Ellington -- JAZZ PARTY

Malletoba Spank- includes nine classical musicians on percussion instruments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_enr0nOZX8


Hello Little Girl- features Jimmy Rushing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2_yjHDPsGo

Cheers
frogman
7,547 posts
 
All jazz based or jazz influenced scores:

 "Shadows", very interesting film by John Cassavetes with music by the great Charles Mingus. Particularly appropriate for this topic since Cassavetes was known as a director who encouraged actors to improvise and who were given broad plot themes to build on:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Fjpx5kxzs

Beautiful and very evocative music that was cut from the film for some unknown reason:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3fZux3tczAA

A Roman Polanski film "Knife In The Water". Music by Krystof Komeda.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4f1DpoYLBTc

And, of course, one that I am sure the OP likes the music from, "Last Tango In Paris" with the classic theme played by Gato Barbieri:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5oYOquQPM

frogman
7,547 posts
 
Alex, thanks for those clips. Very nice music! I particulaly enjoyed "Le Cercle Rouge".

Here is one of my all time favorite scores. Written by the brilliant Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu for one of Akira Kurosawa’s epics "Ran". I’ve always been a fan of Kurosawas’s samurai epics; this one is amazing. The score is gorgeous, haunting and violent at various points:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xOeauXqEF-A


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