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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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Frogman that was fantastic; I'm a scat aficionado, and that's the best I've heard; not only that, but he's singing one of my very favorite tunes.

This is the very first time I heard "Mark Murphy"; it just goes to show how much music is out there from the past, that aficionados have not heard, which means there is so much more music I have yet to hear, that's from my favorite era in music.
orpheus10 OP
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I'm not a classical expert, but I found something I liked;


  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkM71JPHfjk


this is too tough, and it exemplifies how all the various musicians in a symphony contribute to the whole better than anything I've ever seen.

I can't decide who is the most attractive, the wa wa girl or the conductor;


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4niv522mbtM


She can Wa Wa and whistle to.


Nothing has ever explained a symphony to me like these two clips.


alexatpos
1,216 posts
 
Italian (Leone) creating one of the best westerns ever, filmed in Spain.
Everything is connected?

One of my favourte all time crime (french) movies. A hommage to the genre, but it became known as such creation, that future artists continued to create hommage to it.

J.P. Melville's 'Samurai' from 1967. with Alain Delon

https://youtu.be/rzDM20dU4Zk

Isn’ it the same with jazz or any other music?
pryso
1,933 posts
 
o10, not to split hairs, but I doubt many would consider that "classical".  It simply utilizes a full orchestra.  While it's true that several classical composers wrote scores for films, "soundtracks" seem to have developed their own category of musical classification over the years.

Not having a technical background in music I can't offer a good definition for classical, hopefully friend frog will chime in and enlighten us.
nsp
653 posts
 
Qorpheus10
 Mark Murphy had a long career starting in the 50's and he stayed in the Jazz idiom , not venturing into light Jazz or pop. He recorded for Riverside early and then mostly for Muse records. I think he has a powerful , expressive voice , especially on ballads.  I don't like everything he has done with the right material he hits it out of the park.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=61d7PpVmfzU

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QPq3d27n0-Q

BTW-I went back to listen to the Eddie Jefferson cuts you posted as I want more exposure to singers. He has a really excellent sense of swing . I will seek out a  recording by him. I read a bio of him giving him credit for putting lyrics to Jazz songs before anyone else , including "Body And Soul"?


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