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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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Alex, you are always coming up with something special for me, even when it's outside the genre; "Rumble" for example, was not in my collection, I didn't even know the name of the tune, but it seemed to come on the car radio about 4:00 in the morning when I was trying to get back to the base in 59. I thought that was a bad guitar, but I never knew the name of the tune.

It's amazing how music can swirl around in your head without knowing the tune or the artist.


With all those fantastic "unknown" artists, I know you're just being modest.
orpheus10 OP
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Coldducktime, I know Rok is going to like you, that's one of his favorite tunes, mine too as a matter of fact; it reminds me of wine drinking lawn parties in the Summer time.

Out of the artists you have listed, I haven't heard too much of Abdullah Ibrahim, I'll have to correct that.
alexatpos
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I guess its better to talk about the music that we like than to argue about it. So, will use the opprtunity to post something that is not jazz, an artists that I would very much like to have seen playing alive...perhaps some of you gents did?

J.J Cale
https://youtu.be/paUjZDLLO9M
https://youtu.be/ewYHSRcQOcI

...and one concert that I would choose to see if I had a time machine...

Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and the Stones in a small club' Chekerbard Lounge' from 1981.

https://youtu.be/P3qfTk730Cw
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rok2id
7,859 posts
 

Welcome to Coldducktime.

Looking thru my stuff today and found this.  We have ignored Benny Carter for too long.  Fairly decent Saxophone section on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmOwsjS9Pek


Cheers


pryso
1,986 posts
 
alex, I've been away a couple of days visiting old friends so I'm late in responding to you.  I'll just say this.

I admit to being guilty of having one foot in the music appreciation door and the other in the audiophile door.  That can create conflicts sometimes.  But I would suggest that most folks I know who identify as being audiophiles will have a strong preference for newer recordings, whether they are jazz or any other category.  That is a major element in driving the reissue market on audiophile labels.  It is more the true music lovers who "get into" or appreciate the sonics of the original recordings from the '50s and '60s.  I don't believe it was audiophiles who drove up the prices on the original BN LPs.  So if my comments on older recording procedures suggested audiophile listening that was not my intent.  Just the opposite in fact.  But none of this is important so long as we each find recordings we enjoy of music we love.

BTW, "Rumble" was released when I was in high school and I still have than and many other classics from that time on original 45s.  That brought a smile to my face.
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