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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
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rok2id
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It depicts a typical day in the life of a inmate, or Zek, in the Soviet Gulag during the time of Stalin.

If The Frogman had lived in Russia during those times, and with his attitude, we would be reading "One Day in the Life of The Frogman".

Cheers

Btw, Solzhenitsyn served many years in the gulag himself. Crime? He criticized someone / something, while he was a Captain, in command of a Red Army tank unit fighting in Poland towards the end of the war.

You must not only obey big brother, you must also love big brother.
schubert
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If Frogman lived there during those times his intellect would have been more than enough to adapt to the conditions of that time and place .

In our time and place our the credit bureau knows more about us than the Gestapo and KGB ever knew about any German or Russian .



I was at an all-night vodka fest once back in the 70’s with 6 Russian Profs who had fled the USSR .One , a Harvard Russian Lit prof said to me "We were in danger in Russia because intellectuals are respected
in Russia , we are safe here because they are not ."

P.S . I don’t drink .P.P.S   Nothing stays the same but God .



frogman
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**** If The Frogman had lived in Russia.... ****

Easy one. Play “A Train” to a polka beat....on the sarrusophone....endlessly.  Sure to get you sent to the US as an instrument of psychological warfare. Actually, you have no idea just how much of what you describe I have actually experienced, in an offshoot of Russia. No thanks.
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rok2id
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There is a famous, or maybe infamous, true story of Stalin up late at night reviewing a list from the NKVD.  A list of names of people to be arrested and or shot.  Went to Stalin for his signature.  Thousands of names.  Stalin read them all, struck a few off, and then at the end of the list he signs it, and then adds, "six thousand more, no matter who."

With all due respect, 'intellect' and respect for 'intellectuals' does not enter into it.

Einstein's, Niels Bohr's, and Edward Teller's intellect told them to get the f*** out of dodge.

Cheers
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That story isn’t as funny as I thought it would be. Comedy is subjective.
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