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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
keegiam
731 posts
 
My school orchestras (I'm 65):

Trumpet:  all boys
Trombone:  all boys
Baritone:  all boys
Tuba:  all boys
Violin:  all girls
Cello:  all girls
Flute:  all girls
Clarinet:  mixed
Oboe:  mixed
Bassoon:  all boys
Sax:  NA
Tympani:  all boys
Bass drum:  all boys
Snare, cymbals:  all boys

Given the times, I'm sure we were funneled into certain instruments according to gender.





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rok2id
7,859 posts
 
This is more like the Archie we all know and 'love'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTwssAfBgvo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_qRyVkVaaw

Cheers

pjw81563
1,834 posts
 
The A.S. songs I posted are from a few of the approximately half dozen albums he put out that were not radical free jazz. IMHO, Archie’s paying is brilliant on those sessions, particularly the one grounded in Gospel.


Speaking of Gospel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSWJxNlaww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wX-YWOr8RQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5krFNUMQHI


schubert
7,386 posts
 
O-10 , I was never that romantic , I liked Johnny Mathis because he had a lovely voice and was master of his craft . I was always a one-woman man and got the one I wanted.

That said , a lady  friend of mind once said how ironic it was that a gay man was the greatest instrument of pregnancy in the world .Could be .
frogman
7,561 posts
 
Nice Mahalia Jackson, pjw.  Wonderful singer.  I feel as nsp does re Gato.  I never found his “free” stuff credible; he never sounded quite in his element.  I think he found his niche with his later stuff which had more of a “world music” vibe with a heavy Latin Jazz/pop leaning.  Didn’t care much for it, but he seemed more at home with it.  I never thought of him as a Jazz player, but more of an enjoyable stylist.  Re recent discussion, try and find a Gato recording, any recording, with Gato playing a Jazz standard.  There aren’t any (that I can find). 
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