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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
alexatpos
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Thanks, Rok and Nsp, very nice of you to say that (yes,I am from Croatia)
By the way, it seems that scottish fans are even more happy than ours, after win over England....
https://www.facebook.com/SPORTbible/videos/3021999441278901/

Aldo there is massive hysteria over football, here, now, I cant see it more than a sport achievement,(as it as) oppose to a feeling of 'identification' with 'collective national spirit', that such things, sometimes, have tendency to represent. We are still very small (but beautiful) country with lots of problems and such things are sometimes purposlely used as distraction from dealings with more important stuff...

It was one of the Frogman posts, an article, where there was a line about Griffin, not so long ago.You can try to browse his posts and find it.


frogman
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**** The difference in time was approx. 17 minutes!!

Is that possible? Or is this a result of repeats taken or not taken? ****

Sure it’s possible. Much controversy around what the “correct” tempos for Beethoven’s works should be. In recent times his symphonies have seldom been performed using Beethoven’s metronome markings in the score which would result in much faster performances. They are usually performed much slower than marked and Bohm’s recordings of the 9th are known for being some of the slowest. I have Bohm’s recording with Vienna, but I don’t know the Gardiner. It’s possible that Gardiner made an effort to, as some “purists” insist on doing, stick to Beethoven’s markings. This would result in a performance under one hour in duration vs many others which are in the 70+ min range.

An interesting factoid that you may not be aware of: the possible total length of a CD was determined by Sony execs to be 74 mins in order for a single cd to accommodate the 9th in its entirety. At the time, the slowest known recorded performance was with Furtwangler conducting which clocks in at.......74 mins.


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rok2id
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I knew about the Sony CD thing.  Seems as if Gardiner could conduct the 9th, and the 1812 overture, and still finish before Bohm finished his 9th.

You should check out the Gardiner.  The one I have is  from a set of all Beethoven's Symphonies on the Archiv label.   Released in 1994.   Was all the rage in Europe at the time.   Recording of the year etc...

Thanks for the info.

Cheers

nsp
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frogman & rok
What's with the classical ? I thought this was a jazz aficionado site (just kidding)
Now back to the blues:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z5CvmpZ7Mw
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F1m6wUHXt-o

Does SC sound a lot like Ben Webster( not saying that's a bad thing I like Hamilton a lot) just looking for input from others on his influences.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dljZEldsE
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge5vKMa4VGw
 

 
frogman
7,457 posts
 
“There are two kinds of music; good music and the other kind” - Duke Ellington (maybe) 😎.

Ben Webster? Without a doubt; although Hamilton sounds a little bit more modern. Similar feel and similar breathy tone and way of starting each note. As jazz tenor sound evolved it would have a little less air in the tone, and vibrato that is not as exaggerated; but it also lost that hard to describe singing quality in the high register. Webster had a distinctive quality in the way he would slide into a note; almost like putting a little smile on it. Broadly speaking, I hear Hamilton’s tone as being a decade or two in the direction of what most today would call a “modern” tenor sound and I would bet he also listened to players like Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.  Nice clips. I like Scott Hamilton a lot; very classy and swinging player. There are very few tenor players paying like that today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u_GfWfgytLI

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