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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
orpheus10 OP
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Ghosthouse, it seems everyone is turning to you, including me. I'm glad the musical conversation is continuing without me. My thoughts are consumed with the realities of the middle class.

Southerners think and vote with the rich, even when they're poor. Rok, talks about people on food stamps like their less than dirt, and how poor people are misusing his tax dollars, when that much is wasted everyday in Washington on defense somewhere. He doesn't even know about the "Black Budget"; "That's some kind of a conspiracy".

When people who are in my economic class think like that, we are doomed forever.



Enjoy the music.
inna
7,141 posts
 
Ghosthouse, I understand. Connecting on emotional level is very subjective, and we all know it very well.
McLaughlin's music, whatever he plays, if you listen carefully, is very unusual and complex, as is his personality. He is not easily accessible. Nor is Miles Davis.
jafant
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Not for the novice- Sun Ra.
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ghosthouse
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Frogman - I thought I understood your comment as applying to results of the last election. I might well have missed your actual point though (and that’s not to draw you out for elaboration!).

Inna - I’ll be very interested if any of those suggestions work for you. Likewise, if you independently come up with some M.Orch. "surrogates" - please share. Somewhat apt comparison to Miles...well, at least (for me) some Miles. I don’t think JM can be afforded the same regard as MD, however...Miles was forging major new musical paths (as I only vaguely appreciate). JM’s legacy as an innovator is less significant, I think. Regardless, that’s not really the point of your comparison, though, and it is in fact a helpful one. FWIW - I can connect to Bitches Brew and In a Silent Way. Sketches of Spain, however, I just don’t get. Not sure I’ve ever been able to make myself listen to it all the way through. And Sketches pre-dates those other two by a good bit. Go figure.

O - I half expected my post to be removed. Thanks for your tolerance. I’ve no wish to be the focus of conversation here. On to music.

jafant - good reminder about SunRa. A name I know and might have heard a few tracks by him way back in ’73 or ’74.  Have not listened to him in a LONG time.  Might be something Inna likes.  Will have to explore him. Didn’t he have something going called The Arkestra?


acman3
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Agree with everything Ghosthouse said. The problem is bigger than government. It is us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTZR95os984
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