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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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frogman

Awesome Sonny Stitt selections. Here is Miles proving that you can "evolve" while still sounding awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN0rvZwTwRI

The change of pace around 18:30 is, IMHO, awesomely great.
acman3
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMCAPm-q2Jg
orpheus10 OP
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New York Jazz could have been titled "Stitts Best Bop"; that album featured "Bop" almost as good as the man who brought the "Bop" game to town, Charles "Yardbird" Parker.

My collection is loaded with Stitt contributions, and I enjoyed the one's Frogman contributed.
orpheus10 OP
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The best sax solo ever, is the one by "Joe Henderson" on Grant Green's "Idle Moments".

The cut "Idle Moments" was supposed to have been only 7 minutes long, but when Joe Henderson got in his groove, and it was apparent the cut was going to go over, Rudy Van Gelder, the recording engineer, who was also in the groove, decided that there was no way he was going to stop this, so he let Joe blow until Joe stopped.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq0m0hbCjFQ


       


orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Sometime when I hear Grant Green, I almost break out in tears. I knew Grant Green, I can't say I was a friend, but his best friend and fellow musician was a close friend of mine.

Some of the reasons I break out in tears are too personal to reveal, but one of the reasons is how tragic his personal life was, and the fact that he should have been rich.

Grant Green was a man of the streets, and as such, that was the way he lived. I knew and heard him even before he made his first record. He was a star in and around St. Louis before "Blue Note" came and got him. Grant's music that I heard isn't even recorded, except in my mind, I heard Grant Green play for Grant Green; it sounded like he was crying on the inside and trying to soothe his tears.
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