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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
mary_jo
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The OP is alive and well and posting on other threads.  His way of pouting.

:))))) 
pryso
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Thanks frog, I expected you would come through with good information. I'd wondered why the flute was included with the reed instruments since it doesn't have a reed.  But that was my mistake, it belongs to the broader woodwind family.

For instrument families the real confusion comes with the piano.  Some define it as a string instrument while others label it percussion.  Guess it can be either.

After listening to that Herbie Mann album again after many years absence I think I understand why I no longer have it.  I liked the "sound" of the bass clarinet, but agree the playing was kind of insipid.  That's interesting that something can sound pleasant, meaning nice to hear, but not all that enjoyable or stimulating, meaning I want to hear it again, if that makes any sense.

Yes, Dolphy's examples are a whole other ballgame.
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ghosthouse
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pjw81563

I've had more time to listen to Cedar Walton's Eastern Rebellion.  I'm very impressed.  Virtuoso playing.  George Coleman's work on Naima is incredible.  I'd like to see a transcript of his solo(s) on that...probably look like a blur of black across the ledger lines.  ("Yes", I realize it's a Coltrane composition.)  Also like very much Coleman's composition "5/4 Thing".  That's a good example of the kind of music I'd like to find more of.  

Thanks again.
pjw81563
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My pleasure ghosthouse!
orpheus10 OP
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I had planned on going on a permanent "hiatus", but those plans have changed; after listening to some of the best music that I've ever heard in my entire life, the least I can do is respond to it.


Mary_jo, I had forgotten how good "Mr. Magic" by Grover Washington sounded; maybe that's because 76 was a magic time for me. It is not written that I have to live in the present, and I wont. As long as there is music that can take me back to a better time, I shall live in that time.

Never heard of "Nino Ferrer" but I liked his music, and I would like to blow that album cover up to life size.

Michelle Gurevich; what planet is she from? It seems that I went there in a dream; her music reminds me of a time when there were places called "head shops" that smelled of many different kinds of incense, and had wild and unusual "psychedelic" posters on the wall, plus a multitude of pipes to choose from which to smoke the rarest blends of Turkish tobacco. I absolutely must have some of her music.



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