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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
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

There could not be a better time to be a "jazz aficionado" than the present. This is a good time to be in "Lock-down"; plenty of good music, and my rig is sounding better than ever; that's because of the quiet "grid".

Some of you may not know what that means. When commercial and industrial activity slows down, the electrical grid gets quiet, this gives you better electricity AKA "power supply". Expensive equipment is expensive because of the power supply; when the grid is exceptionally quiet, you get that benefit for free.

I find it humorous that people are complaining about "lock-down"; they should become "jazz aficionados" and enjoy it.


Happy Lock-down!
alexatpos
1,249 posts
 
Orpheus, the content of your previous post remind me of this album.

Ray Brooks, long time drummer with Horace Silver.
His ’Free Slave’ album from 1972., one of few that he made as a leader...

https://youtu.be/2HnUNNiTn9k

...an earlier one ’The Beat’ from 1963.

https://youtu.be/_NnMVeCBleg

https://youtu.be/wK8WGDuJV-k


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rok2id
7,859 posts
 
Wynton makes anybody sound good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M7sXYdrP1U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkt2IvpWY1c

Cheers
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Alex, I don't know how you always happen to have the albums I never heard of but wished that I owned.
frogman
7,561 posts
 
Chucho Valdez:

Rok, I can’t take credit for that 😊. “Originated” is an overstatement. “One of the ingredients” is more like it; but, then again, you know all this.

Don’t worry, your favorite “Bolero” (by Ravel) has nothing to do with Chucho’s “Bolero” which in this case is just the generic use of the Spanish word for “ballad”. Not a single trace of Ravel in that one. I did like it very much.  Great player.

“Rhapsody” is a different story. It has become “de rigueur ” for Jazz piano players to put their own spin on Gershwin’s “Rhapsody”, with varying amounts of success. Chucho simply uses some of the melodies and incorporates them into his own thing as opposed to keeping the composition fairly intact and improvising “extensions” of the solo piano sections as Jazz players usually do. Didn’t work too well for me.



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