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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
mary_jo
1,525 posts
 
p.s.
Talking about The girl from Ipanema, it's bossa nova, right? And that's mix of samba and jazz? Because I see people on YT arguing about
(below) what music genre that song is and under which umbrella should be placed.

schubert
7,386 posts
 
Only fools argue over that .

Funny how those old American masters spend so much time in Deutschland.
https://youtu.be/sW6LnsO542g


My guess its a combo of gigs and love .And they are loved . .


In WDR land .
https://youtu.be/lhDcb9YaliM               In my humble opinion , and it is that, Sanders got to where Coltrane was headed and Miles could never reach ..
schubert
7,386 posts
 
I don’t know about that "pretty" girl.
I tend to lean to what the brothers used to say in the Army.

"The only thing a skinny girl can do for me is show me where a big girl lives".

One like this is what I’m talking 
"bout !https://youtu.be/3ubjaj_QYdc











pjw81563
1,835 posts
 
mary jo yes I have to many Art Pepper discs to count.

As for Bossa Nova:

 

Bossa Nova began on the tropical beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1950s, when a small group of mainly middle-class students, artists and musicians came together to create a new sound. Bossa Nova was a soft samba based on traditional Brazilian music and rhythms, American jazz, and a new style of Portuguese lyrics. It was a youthful celebration of romance, beach culture and sensual pleasure.

Bossa Nova's twin figureheads are Antônio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim), a gifted composer, also blessed with classical good looks, and João Gilberto, a guitarist and singer who came to Rio from the poorer Bahia region.

The rest of the article is here:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/features/bossanova/about.htm


I like this part which is really unbelievable!

""The album Getz/Gilberto spent 96 weeks in the US charts and 'The Girl from Ipanema' would become the world's second most played song behind the Beatles' 'Yesterday'.""

pjw81563
1,835 posts
 
Another great Art Pepper session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16OoypHXcps

It his autobiography "Straight Life" he recalls the day the photo on that album cover was taken. The producer of the LP, Lester Koenig, sent a photographer to the place Art was residing at the time. It was about mid morning and Art had run out of Heroin and couldn’t locate the dealer so he was all strung out. Art had to stand around for about an hour while the photographer clicked away not knowing that Art was feeling like death and was in need of a "fix"

Anyway the photo chosen from the shoot is on the cover of the LP and Art feeling sick as a dog but he got through it like a trooper!
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