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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
orpheus10 OP
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Thanks to you Rok, I'm going to give Randy Weston the attention he deserves.

Randy weaves jazz and African rhythms into such a complex fashion that jazz becomes one with the music of Africa; it becomes "Jafrican". Well anyway you get my drift.

After thoroughly establishing his jazz credentials, he traveled throughout Africa with a U.S. cultural delegation and toured Morocco, where he decided to settle, running his African Rhythms Club in Tangier for five years, from 1967 to 1972. He said in a 2015 interview: "We had everything in there from Chicago blues singers to singers from the Congo.... The whole idea was to trace African people wherever we are and what we do with music. (he lived there with his entire family)

"Blue Moses" is just one of the albums that resulted from that stay. The "Spirits of Our Ancestors" is another album that was influenced by that stay.



I am posting those two album for our listening pleasure;


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Ij_vCU3WM


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o7Ecfwrbzs&list=OLAK5uy_kD5pgH3UxFUeEraPzIjbhsu3DWm7d4jtc

orpheus10 OP
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Mary_Jo, I realize you are one Aficionado that I have neglected; I have an offering for you, I hope that you like it.



          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4A2ieV-5g4&list=PLBIiojdRsFPCa3fBiEbxRkPpUtaZYRzJ8
pjw81563
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mary_jo I liked roks link to the Harris and Kellaway rendition of Senor Blues as well.


Horace Silver composed that tune and here is his version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8jFGFwOm7k

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rok2id
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Nice Weston clips.   Lest any aficionado becomes confused, Mr Weston was born in Brooklyn New York.   The references to Africa and the costumes notwithstanding.

I will never understand the silly compulsion some  Jazz players have to try and connect Jazz with Africa.   There is no connection.

For the life of me, I can't understand why they would even want there to be.

Cheers
frogman
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More than one way to skin a blues:

https://youtu.be/cxeihQrj_uY

Silver wrote the lyrics:

https://youtu.be/DpPXgjsjgAw 

https://youtu.be/I0lkGhMqBls
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