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
The Frogman:

Great point about religion, or more to the point, Christianity.   We all  know of examples of what happens when it was banned / absent.  Red China, Communist Russia, Eastern European  Bloc, North Korea, Nazi Germany and any number of countries in the middle-east.

Cheers
Frogman, we obviously come from a very different background. It is interesting for me to read some of your thoughts, believe that they are said in good intention and spirit, but fortunately (if i may say that without any offense to you or to anyone else) the secularization (at least in Europe) has become constitutional standard.
We may share some thoughts for pro and con, certainly I would be curious to hear more from you, as you seem to be educated person, so in a way it is surprise to me.

Rok, please do not feel that I try to patronise you in any way or form, but its kind of difficult to discuss ethical principles if you put down the conversation as a ’conflict’ between the ’Germans’ and ’Americans’.

I assure you, that fact has no influence on substance we are trying to talk about.
Furthermore, my comments about certain ’injustices’ are pointed toward the system ( read money and power) that are creating them and I realy cant understand why any citizen ( you) has a need to identify himself with everything american when in fact he has nothing to do with it, except for the fact that you share same geographical origin.

Wrong doings are not ment to be compared or justified, no matter from where they come from. Just take a look on the list of all american foreign interventions in last hundred or more years, or at least try to imagine what could be done for your society if all that money was spend or invested otherwise

I'm gonna tell Frogman on Yall! This is definitely an "off topic" conversation. Is that you over there Frogman, I know you're not joining in this off topic conversation?

And to think, I just heard there was a herd of aficionados coming this way; no, they don't come in herds, but there was a bunch of em. Now I got it, there is a posse of aficionados riding on a herd of horses coming this way. Should I head them off at the pass, before they see you right in the middle of that "off topic" rig a maro?

What should I do Frogman?


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