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.
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.
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My first Tom Harrell disc. I bought it when it was released in 2012 and I like it a lot. Still filling out my Harrell collection. Any recommendations? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU71pXt2Nyg |
Lot’s of fantastic links from you guys, thank you. You made me google about Bill Evans again. Seemed like very introspective man (agree with frogman) and musician. So was his music just like that, gentle, soft-spoken and in a way, shy but with complete absence of anything resembling compromise - which is quite stunning - to be able to reconcile the strong and the weak in the same phrase in a way to make it sound compact and matching. Imho, it looks like he definitely haven’t received the credit he deserved. Thank you pjw for the lessons from boxing. Now and then, like to observe of what is expected to be a "big boxing event". Last time that was a fight between Andy Ruiz and Anthony Joshua, that ended in a quite unexpected way. What the hell happened there? Curious to know... Boxing and jazz by Matthew Shipp "To an untrained ear jazz can sound crazy, to an untrained eye boxing can seem mad - as the ear and eye becomes trained one learns the complex patterns that underlie the boxing match or the jazz solo - the theater of Kinetic Gesture - a kaleidoscope of intelligent quicksilver action generates a structure of intense beauty. For the body becomes poetry in motion whether through a keyboard or in the ring - complex patterned action generates a poetic time and space - violent yet dancelike, uncivilized yet graceful, raw yet sophisticated." |
Loved the quote, mary_jo. Fantastic live Woods/Harrell clips, acman3. Hadn’t heard those. Besides the great playing one of the things that they remind us of (again!) is what a brilliant composer Phil Woods was. Great tunes. Interesting and complex without becoming inaccessible. Great stuff. pjw, some favorite Tom Harrell recordings (great composer in his own right): “Sailaway” with a favorite saxophone player, Dave Liebman. https://youtu.be/iDp-Fz3CA0A https://youtu.be/27V8ylNNKSo ”Form”. With Joe Lovano. Hard to find although available as a download. Took me a couple of years to find an lp copy, Fyi, I just noticed that there are two copies available on eBay currently. https://youtu.be/6KfdupfAD_0 “Upswing” https://youtu.be/j-LIXh0NElg As as sideman he has made many great recordings. Speaking of great composers, I like his playing on the Horace Silver “Silver ‘n....” series. Love the bass line on this: https://youtu.be/2Jwu2PHq6r4 |
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