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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
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Dave Brubeck Quartet "Take The A Train" live and what a terrific rendition. Is it just me or is Joe Morello one of the best at "keeping time" ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVwkRU-iYg4

Morello was the recipient of many awards, including Playboy magazine’s best drummer award for seven years in a row, and Downbeat magazine’s best drummer award five years in a row.

As a subject for discussion, did Morello win all of those prestigious awards for truly being the "best drummer" or was his being a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet part of the equation?


Dave Brubeck’s band looked like a bunch of ordinary joes with a touch of "cool" and the music as well as the band leader was easily accessible and liked by the masses all over the world. I have the live Carnegie Hall disc and the audience is LOUD to say the least. The audience in the above video is just as LOUD.

Take Five is, after all, the greatest selling jazz single of all time. The Bossa Nova hit sensation "The Girl From Ipanema" , while selling more singles worldwide was in different categories including pop and adult contemporary.

As far as "pure jazz" Take Five is still the most known song worldwide.

Merry Christmas to all!

orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Acman, when I was preschool, my Grandmother lived so close to the railroad tracks, that big steam locomotives pulling a mile of freight cars, shook the house when they passed.

I recall playing on the floor with my little toys, when I heard this loud rumbling noise, and the whole house began to shake. That's when my child mind wandered WTF, I thought the world was coming to an end.



Sorry that your only experience on a train was bad, but I been there and done that, so I know how bad that experience was.

On the way back to St. Louis from San Antonio, although the Air Force gave me enough money to get a "roomette", I decided to ride like you rode, and pocket the difference; that ranks among the worst decisions I've ever made.
alexatpos
1,228 posts
 
When I was child we would visit relatives that lived in the country (we live by the sea), sometimes with train and very often during winter holidays.
First, the snow is always great sensation for kids that are not used to it and coming into snow covered parts of the country was always exciting and sort of romantic.
Remeber looking at the mountins and small villages that had no street lights, with so many snow covering everything that only the yellow light shined thru windovs.

’Lonesome traveller’ Ray Bryant
https://youtu.be/d0zN0mkhgjY

Edward Hopper ’compartment c’
https://www.edwardhopper.net/images/paintings/compartment-c-car.jpg

Edward Hopper ’railroad sunset’
https://uploads8.wikiart.org/images/edward-hopper/railroad-sunset.jpg

S.Leone 'once upon time in the west'
https://youtu.be/8XkHsinz7oU



Merry Christmas to all
acman3
4,279 posts
 
I went to a Jazz on the Lawn, at a museum once, and Sonny Fortune was there that night. From the moment he started playing, a guy up front yelled Blue Rondo Al A Turk, over and over, until Sonny said, " I think you may have me confused with someone else. We don’t play that song".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB1PH9mLswA
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78yQbcppNdw&t=197s
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