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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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Haiti has no culture.   The word 'Culture' has to be the most misused word in the history of man.

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frogman
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Food for thought:

If “there is no past”, how can there be a future?  So...why the “doom and gloom”?

VERY nice alto player in that Wynton clip; very inventive.  I enjoyed that clip.  Thanks.  Now, I hope this is not taken the wrong way and I hope it simply points to why it’s important to be careful about how perception influences us all in our reactions to music sometimes.  I have a strong suspicion that had Wynton not been sitting there next to that alto player, given that young player’s style of playing which is clearly harmonically very modern and had the tune not been “A Train”, that he would have been lumped into the “noise maker” category.  
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I just know the Lord is testing me.  Otherwise he would lift this burden from my mortal shoulders.
 *****If “there is no past”, how can there be a future?  So...why the “doom and gloom”?*****

I meant that, in the sense that ALL GOOD and TRUE JAZZ, is always in the present.   Just like Classical Music.    A conductor can have a 50 year career, and never conduct a piece of music composed by someone still living.

BUT, Jazz music has to be  created yesterday, or it's old.    WTF!!!

Cheer


schubert
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"Haiti has  no culture " .
 More like you are testing God .
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