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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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I concur.
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rok2id
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Everyone: Which Jazz records do you play most often?

My top five CDs is no particular order:

Marsalis -- Marsalis and Clapton play the blues

Mingus -- Oh Yeah

Ellington -- At Newport

Masekela -- Best of: Grazing in the grass

Gene Harris -- In His Hands


Tunes I play most often:

Coltrane -- My Favorite Things (mainly to hear McCoy)

Lester Bowie -- I only have eyes for you


Keeping in mind that Jelly Roll said Jazz was a way of playing music.

Cheers


acman3
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Jellyroll died in 1941. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVrqM6QmLVA
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

While there are many divas, there's nothing like a hometown gal; I present to you Mardra Thomas, "All Blues";


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBPuaYy9tlU
pryso
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o10, many great albums on your list, even if several of them are repeats. ;^)

And while I don't feel qualified to identify a "X best list", I'll further admit my own personal favorites could change from one day to the next.  How's that for confusing the issue?

Regarding Detroit, while I never lived there I did grow up in Michigan.  Like so many others in souther MI the majority of my family had jobs related in some fashion to the auto industry.  It's clear the downfall of Detroit can't be separated from the downfall of the American automotive industry.  There were two major factors in that.  First was the oil crisis in the '70s and the Big Three's* failure to adapt quickly with more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly models.  The second was the change in Big Three management to MBA "bean counters" in place of the experienced engineers and sales people who had traditionally evolved to top management positions in all three companies.  So for those reasons efficiency and quality suffered and European and Far East companies filled the gap.

Once Detroit's (automotive) dominance was lost it has not been able to reclaim it.  As o10 suggested, other US cities also suffered loss of population and economic strength.  This has been a result of evolution in technological change.

There is though an interesting aside.  Two years ago I visited to attend the Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise, possibly the largest non-racing automotive event in the US.  That took me not only to the City of Detroit but to several of the suburban cities.  They looked prosperous and healthy.  But we don't read about that, only of the bad times and decay in Detroit.

Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast.

* GM, Ford, Chrysler for aficionados who are not also automotive buffs. 
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