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

It's a funny thing about dope and jazz musicians; most people think that somehow the dope helps them to become fantastic musicians. I don't know how they can think that, when the musicians themselves will tell you otherwise. "Bird" was a "junky" before he became a musician, and he told other musicians not to do what he was doing. "Lady Day" would have been a "junky" if she never sang one note because of the gigantic mental problems that were caused by incidents in her childhood.

If you have read books related to all the different reasons people use dope, you would know that none of the reasons say becoming a jazz musician will entice you into using heroin, and make you a dope addict.

Most of the jazz musicians who became junkies, would be junkies if they never blew a horn.

Now that heroin addiction is a nation wide problem, maybe people will discover there's a better way to solve that problem, than incarceration.



Enjoy the music.



If I said anything that would be contrary to what "Bird" said, I would of course be wrong.

If you think I said something contrary to what "Bird" said, you misinterpreted what I said.


Enjoy the music
Maybe so O-10.  I apologize for letting past arguments filter into the current conversation.

Kind of ironic.