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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
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I like this one better;

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



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ghosthouse
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Thanks for sharing that bio., Frogman.  You have my admiration.  

Thanks also for getting me to listen to the Herbie Hancock.  I've known of Headhunters for years but never owned it or listened to it recently.  '73 would have been junior year in college.  I do recall it made some waves.  

His solo is fantastic.  Just amazing.  It really soars.  The drumming and bass work are great too.  So precise. I can't imagine how complex the times are on this stuff.  

One fly in the ointment...more of an oddity, maybe.  There is a repeating riff under Hancock's Rhoads solo.  Clavinet, possibly.  It actually starts right after the first break at the 2:00 mark and accompanies that reedy sounding soloing instrument (can't decide if that's a sax of some sort or something electronic/synth).  Hancock's solo starts after the second break at 5:20 or so.  That same riff is non stop in the right channel (listening to headphones) and much lower volume than the Rhoads.  Sounds like a chicken squawking in a barnyard.  What's weird to me - it doesn't always seem in time with anything else!  Like it's a tape loop running fixed to one (time signature?) and doesn't keep up.  THAT was a curiosity to me.  What's up with that?  Let me know if you can interpret!  

From the sublime to the ridiculous maybe...this was pretty fun.
(though I think they got it wrong about that track by The Band)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLxAULuq9Y&ab_channel=PhunkyPhil   
inna
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Blues, perhaps? You got to be fast to follow him. The man was not far from death at the time of the performance, and he knew it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpzLTJ_9twc
inna
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And this is a nice romantic slightly masochistic tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up6K4bmfaA0
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ghosthouse
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So, you got me reading about Herbie Hancock. Yeesh. Talk about prolific. Not to mention Wiki says he graduated from Grinnell College with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Music. Maybe the EE degree explains the cover of Headhunters a little.

A little over a decade before HH there was this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J5riMnfsj0&ab_channel=HerbieHancock-Topic

...and 12 years later, THIS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VN8zH366M8&ab_channel=MacFalko

This might be the best video ever posted to this thread!  Kidding of course - but it is a pretty great performance.

By the way -
Have you discussed Freddie Hubbard much on this thread? (It’s all new to me...more or less). What a sweet sounding trumpet...more so in ’62 than in ’85. But his ’85 solo really is killer.

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