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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
schubert
7,386 posts
 
God as my witness frogman . the French National rendition was SO moving that I really and truly could not believe any human could continue playing and not just float up to heaven .


Afraid to go to "Classical Minnesota " playlist on that one .

Chamayou is French , i think you would have to be to get done to the bones
of the masterpiece like he does . Amazon here I come .
You see a lot of "secrets of life" stuff from old folks on the internet .

Mine is simple , "pay attention " .

frogman
7,561 posts
 
Remarkably similar touch and attitude.  And, he wasn’t French!  He was, however, a big admirer of Ravel.  Coincidence?:

https://youtu.be/Nv2GgV34qIg
schubert
7,386 posts
 
Maybe he spoke French .Or his mother did .
What makes me laugh is that folks think classical players don’t improv.

The SPCO home is the Ordway Hall in down-town St. Paul .Millions were spent on acoustics in what was already a very good hall.
Friend told me , 50 years a middle hall guy , you could sit front row center and still get great instrumental separation .Right, right say I , he buys me a ticket and in a 1300 hall seat he was right !
Its very subtle , but in their wheelhouse , Mozart and Haydn, from 10 feet away sometimes looks like that’s all these world class players do !

First time I heard Evans , maybe 20 years ago, you could tell he was classically trained .When I hear so and so never was trained and he's great, I say your are right and think he could have been even greater .

frogman
7,561 posts
 
Related and interesting reading:

https://www.billevanswebpages.com/french.html
schubert
7,386 posts
 
Couldn't argue with him , Except that Ken Burns has a racist thread in everything he ever did , he knows it is and always has been there in America . Couldn't expect an  Franko -Asian to know that .
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