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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
pjw81563
1,835 posts
 
I don't know about the frogman but the only chicken I have are either in the freezer or cooked and on my plate
pjw81563
1,835 posts
 
Here is a really great piece on Art Blakey and in particular the Blue Note album "The Freedom Rider". The contents are to appear as the liner notes for a new reissue of that great album.

https://magazine.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/art-blakey-liners/
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Pjw, thank you very much for that information; I don't know why I don't already have that album.

The story told is just the tip of the iceberg; Black people who lived in Mississippi and took no part in the civil rights movement caught hell just for being Black while the movement was going on. Which reminds me; "You might as well die for a cause, cause you gonna die anyway".


frogman
7,562 posts
 
Re Brooklyn and chickens:

Know all about it; I live in Brooklyn. I am in no way suggesting that I know for a fact that there is a connection, but I am well aware of two factors that in my experience living here since 1983 may have contributed to the chicken phenomenon.

Brooklyn has become very gentrified over the last four decades or so. Its proximity to Manhattan has made it a very desirable place to live. The current joke is that people are moving back to Manhattan from Brooklyn since Brooklyn, because of gentrification, has become more expensive to live in than Manhattan. The large Latino and Caribbean population in Brooklyn meant that there was a not insignificant demand for live chickens; for traditional cooking and for Santeria rituals. There was also, until recently, a sizable underground cock fighting scene. All ethnic traditions of the Latino/Caribbean population. Live chickens featured mildly prominent in Brooklyn life. 

My neighbor two houses over, successful corporate woman, has two pet chickens. Surprisingly beautiful birds. However, what this woman finds as far as companionship or anything else that pets typically offer is a mystery to me. A pet capable of minimal interaction with humans and which crap when and wherever that feel like it is not my idea of pet. She walks them on a leash. Kid you not.


schubert
7,386 posts
 
The digital age has brought the evil of alienation with it . Good read on it is
"Bowling Alone" .
Anyone who has heard the "Star Wars" music had heard this composers
music .
He also wrote an excellent Christmas Carol which is sung by a fine
Cleveland Church Choir practicing community .
https://youtu.be/SE0aIQp9V4s


About 1:03 in back row a Asian male chorister has a lovely choir solo .
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