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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
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rok2id
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Awesome clips. The entire quartet is gone now. End of an era.
They were always so professional and serious. In fact, I don’t think I ever saw a photo of Coltrane even smiling.   Dressed the part also.  :)

Thanks.

Cheers
frogman
7,370 posts
 
Feels kind of silly to go from McCoy to Rudy Wiedoeft, even if it is the legendary Wiedoeft.

Pryso mentions his dad’s C melody saxophone. Now obsolete (Dr. Cohen has three) it is an unusual sounding saxophone due to a range that sits smack between the alto and the tenor. You aficionados may not realize it, but you have probably heard both Wiedoeft and the C melody saxophone many times:

https://youtu.be/nkM0m-fB2Uw

Maybe not this: 

https://youtu.be/3yMwc8olTLE



pjw81563
1,829 posts
 
In memory of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmRVXDCoS0


pjw81563
1,829 posts
 
The real McCoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpNnhBMEdZk&list=PLHlcpNxyojhFStR2pUzMsxZmcYE_OTu2r
mary_jo
1,525 posts
 
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.
It's hard to resist these people O10. You wake up in the morning or you wish to have a good night sleep and you have a need to check what the gang posted...

About living in the past, if you, by any chance, bump into 90s, I am sure you'll see me somewhere wandering around. I was little girl back then, but for some reason can't resist the smell of that time, wonderfully captured in this movie:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnsmEWzakEw







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