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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
frogman
7,487 posts
 
Davis twice is a good thing (great minds think alike 😊).  Did somebody say soul?

https://youtu.be/V323NXXd3ow


schubert
7,386 posts
 
Pushing Getz on this ?https://youtu.be/lmFuEispUUk

Not fair with McPherson , he was using Japanese air !
frogman
7,487 posts
 
That’s very funny. Davis sounds fabulous on Voyage. Love the sound. Was surprised he was using that Selmer metal mouthpiece on the clip with Woods. Very unwieldy style of mouthpiece; doesn’t allow a lot of agility in the playing, but unique sound some players like (sometimes).

https://youtu.be/FoxBWLwxcdk
schubert
7,386 posts
 
Straight up, McPherson on tone , Jesse on melody and swing . A tie .

I saw Davis had a different mouthpiece but I thought it was the double lip thing NO players use . Never seen either in real life . Lousy sounding clip on Voyage for Davis , seems to be only one extant .Woods is great but to use a classical analogy , to me he's Heifetz, Davis is Menuhin. But that IS ONLY me .
frogman
7,487 posts
 
About twenty years or so before he passed Phil Woods, suffering from emphisyma, switched to Yamaha altos, a much freer blowing horn than the Selmer he had played all his career. As always, there are no free rides. The Yamaha is less resistant and freer blowing, but doesn’t have the color in the tone that the Selmer has; sounds a little bleached out like in the Vayage clip. Classic, pre-Yamaha Phil Woods tone, 1974:

https://youtu.be/t0DPCG_enHc

Good analogy.  To use another Classical analogy: I sometimes get tired of Woods’ effortlessness in his ideas and total command; I want to hear a little struggle.  To me it’s like Richard Strauss operas.  One asks oneself “how much dessert can one have?”.  One impossibly gorgeous and perfect melody after another and it becomes too much.  

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