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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
rockadanny
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Bass Clarinet -->> Eric Dolphy
Check him out with (Village Vanguard and Africa/Brass) and without Coltrane (Outward Bound, Out There, and Out to Lunch!). But be prepared ... as Miles said, whenever Eric plays it sounds like somebody is stepping on his foot. Or something like that.
nsp
654 posts
 
pjw
  the seven Cuts listed on your seven song version are the ones on my first LP. in the liner notes it states that those seven Cuts were the original ones issued when the album first came out a time and a place.
 on the 8th song version you listed the cut Far away lands is not included anywhere on my double album.

My second album includes three additional live cuts blue bossa is that so and Dailey Bread. It also includes two more Studio cuts satin doll and Misty

  my album is listed as being recorded at the Museum of Modern Art. I believe Columbia screwed up on the recording date and the personnel
pjw81563
1,835 posts
 
nsp 

I think you have a rare album. I think the first LP is with the dubbed over applause and the second LP is 3 live tracks recorded at the Museum Of Modern Art plus 2 additional studio tracks.

Anyway if the music is good does all this really matter?

Maybe your double LP is a collectors item.


JMHO

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rok2id
7,859 posts
 
We don't need no stinkin' Bass Clarinet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-b6I1ihh2s

Cheers
frogman
7,561 posts
 
That’s my good friend Dr. Paul Cohen. I posted that clip a while back in (I think) another thread (maybe here?). During the ‘20s there was literally a “saxophone craze” in this country with a huge variety of different saxophones manufactured for a public that just couldn’t get enough of the saxophone. There probably wasn’t a Vaudeville act that didn’t feature at least one saxophone player and most families had a member who played the saxophone. Most of those saxophone variants would be obsolete within a couple of decades.
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