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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
frogman
7,566 posts
 
**** First, the Miles Davis cult stated that KOB was better than "Somethin Else" ****

No, O-10, that’s not how this silly argument started. No one stated that KOB was “better” than SE.  YOU went out of your way to put down KOB and stated that SE was not only “better” than KOB, but that “there are more records than one can shake a stick at that are better than KOB”. The whole concept of “better” being a silly notion when speaking of two records representative on two entirely different periods in the life of an innovative giant like Miles and a ground breaking record like KOB which is entirely different from SE conceptually.

You like SE’s more traditional vibe more than KOB’s modal sound. That’s fine and no one is trying to make you change your mind. Can we please move on now?
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 
Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. It was recorded on March 2 and April 22, 1959, at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City, and released on August 17 of that year by Columbia Records.
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 
 Somethin' Else is a jazz album by saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, released on Blue Note Records in 1958. Also on the session is trumpeter Miles Davis in one of his handful of recording dates for Blue Note.

pjw81563
1,837 posts
 
orpheus10,

Do you realize that you have spent the better part of 4 days now making sure everyone is aware that "Somethin Else" is a Cannonball Adderley album?

The thing is we all know this so why keep at it?

By the way I have "Somethin Else" on 3 separate discs. SACD hybrid, 24/192 pcm HDAD, and a RVG remaster. All 3 sound different yet all 3 are good. 

Of course the SACD and HDAD sound better then the RVG RM. I'm happy I bought the DSD versions when they came out as they are selling for ridiculous prices now.
pjw81563
1,837 posts
 
frogman,

That KOB was a seminal recording that ushered in the "Modal Jazz" with such a unique and beautiful body of work, but yet still "accessible" to the masses is a testament to the fact that Miles was always evolving and not afraid to lose some of his fans to try new sounds.

In 2019, it was certified Quintuple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of over five million copies

in 2003 it was ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was voted number 14 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.

Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged standard of excellence. Why does Kind of Blue possess such a mystique? Perhaps because this music never flaunts its genius. ... It's the pinnacle of modal jazz — tonality and solos build from the overall key, not chord changes, giving the music a subtly shifting quality. ... It may be a stretch to say that if you don't like Kind of Blue, you don't like jazz — but it's hard to imagine it as anything other than a cornerstone of any jazz collection.

Seminal - 1(of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments
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