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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
pryso
1,950 posts
 
To resume the short series of jokes involving jazz musicians, I just thought of this one, one of my favorites.

It was from a comic strip panel of a Viking war ship.  The leader announces to the rowers, "I have good news and bad news."

"The good news is we're going to the Bahamas."  The rowers cheers.

"The bad news is Buddy Rich will be our drummer!"
mary_jo
1,525 posts
 
:)) pryso
mary_jo
1,525 posts
 
I am sorry to hear about Roy Hargrove. 
frogman
7,478 posts
 
WKCR (NYC) will be featuring Roy’s music all day long today.  

https://streema.com/radios/WKCR_Columbia_University
wolf_garcia
6,735 posts
 
I love jazz, have for years...unlike seemingly 90% of everybody else including nearly everybody I know except fellow musicians who at least claim to like "some of it." Oh well...example: I was at a guitar talk-concert thing at a famous Lexington MA guitar store, and asked a few attendees if they’d seen a recent concert at a nearby (in Lexington) concert venue the previous Tuesday...at some sort of Scottish Right Masonic Temple and Museum (!) I’d not known about until the concert. Nice concert hall by the way. In any case, none of the people I talked to at the guitar shop thing had even heard about the show (maybe if I’d asked more people)...a world class mind blowing dual piano show with Vijay Iyer and Dr. Lewis Porter. Cost 20 bucks...maybe one of the top 3 acoustic piano shows I’ve seen, or the best ever maybe...I think Vijay is possibly one of the greatest musicians who’s ever lived, period. (Porter is also real, real good) Maybe 75 people at the show? Man...there should have been 10 thousand...I’m still dazed from the show, or from cough medicine maybe, but hey...that’s the way it is.
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