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
To The Frogman or / and Schubert:

I have a question concerning Mozart  vs  Schubert.   The real Schubert.:)  I am thinking about how to put it.  Tomorrow.

Cheers





Amazing! Amazing how much deep knowledge and insight some have. I check in after being away for a day or two only to learn that I have been completely in the dark about my utter lack of character. That I “have been sitting on the sidelines of life”, that I have “never shared love” and that I have only been a “parade follower” all my life. Wow! Shoot me now. Please!

Also amazing how the need for that kind childish self aggrandizement at the expense of others would be laughable were it not so sad. O-10, I understand that you are going through what must be a very difficult time in your life; you have made that very clear. I am sorry for that.  It must be very difficult for it makes you not just presumptuous, but also mean spirited. I wish I could offer some words to help, but I could not do better than Schubert’s. What I can do is point out that you really have no idea about what I feel about your experiences; I assure you that it’s best that way.

I wish you well.

Frogman, I made one sentence about you " I understand Frogman how you feel when I relate in detail of seeing John Coltrane and crew on stage playing "My Favorite Things", and you add all that other stuff, but it's all true. I consider you to be a "hot house plant" you live in New York but you never write about life in New York.

How did Schubert get into this conversation? I consider you a "politician" Frogman because you always have to drag someone else into any discussion you bring up about me. If someone brand new that's never posted on this thread makes a negative remark towards what I've written, you always chime in to support them, you can't get any more political than that. Am I "mean spirited"? How many more of your attributes can you assign to me? Although I always try to stay close to a pile of the red bricks that are so abundant here in St. Louis, just in case I need to chunk a few if attacked, that's called "self defense".

Even when you talk about the music it's always something technical that relates to what musicians learn in school. I've had many musician friends and they never talked music, although they made music. It's the essence of the song and the music that you never discuss, that's an indication of the fact that you have never experienced life from that point of view. It's good to be a "hot house plant" and to be shielded from the elements.

 
0-10 I imagine I have known more classical musicians than you have Jazz musicians , most world class .

None of them were what frogman is, a walking encyclopedia of both genres and no doubt others as well . You can not become that as an act of ego.Love and extreme work at what you do and are is the only route .

He knows that because music is an instinct it would be foolish to tell anyone how they should react as I do with rock @ roll .


He is the surgeon and the rest of us are either listeners , LPN’s or like me, patients .A surgeon seldom tells the patient a story about where he lives or more than an outline about the operation .
In the 5 years or so I have been on here I an as amazed that a musician of his caliber bothers with us as I was the first time he replied to me !


We are very fortunate and blessed by his presence . Period .