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

As much as I am into recording quality, I can hear through bad recording quality with "Bird".


When I was a child of maybe 7, there was a candy store a half block from our house, and between our house and the candy store, lived a young man who was an alleged "pot head".

No one had air conditioning, and there was only the screen door between the outside and the occupants of each house. When I passed the house where the "alleged pot head" lived, I heard music like I had never heard before while he was entertaining his friends.

I always "accidentally" dropped a dime in the grass in front of his door, on my way to the candy store, that way I could hear this music while looking for my dime.

Although I didn’t know it at that time, I was getting hooked on "Bird", and I’ve been hooked every since; consequently, "Bird" isn’t exactly new to me.
Rok, glad you are enjoying the show. Amazing stuff. Check in on that station as a regular part of a Jazz regimen 😊. They have great programming.

**** or, is it that I just need to make myself smarter on Bird. ****

We all do. There’s a whole lot to absorb with Bird. A true genius. He really was like “a brilliant nomad”.

Every movement in every art form shares some things. There is a constant push toward something different and new; it’s the nature of the beast. In Jazz, players absorb what came before and weave it into their own personal vision of the music. Occasionally an artist comes along with such a degree of talent that they can make a much more dramatic move in that new direction and is able to establish a fully developed and mature style. In a way, the music itself has an inevitability about where it goes. It’s a never ending process. Bird was a genius, but even he built off what can before. Therein lies the answer to the question about Hawkins and Bebop; what he did with harmony in the music.

Rok, that music you submitted sure sounds good. I don't have any of it in my collection but I recall listening to it with other people; it's that kind of music.
Today's Listen:

Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans --  KNOW WHAT I MEAN
with Cannonball Adderley(alto sax), Bill Evans(piano), Percy Heath(bass), Connie kay(drums).

Sort of like Miles merged with MJQ.   Riverside Label, 1961.

Notes talk about how Heath and Kay were brought in because they are used to playing 'difficult and subtle music', as part of MJQ.   And Bill Evans is unexcelled when 'moody delicacy'  is called for, and  how Cannonball was burdened with the "The New Bird" label, until he was anointed, "The New Benny Carter". :)

It could have been worst, "The New O-10"??

who cares   ---  george and ira gershwin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5yRYTzkuzY  

waltz for debby   ---  bill evans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acX3MhM_dpw   

know what I mean    ---     bill evans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vp-Z0odHTM

toy   ----   clifford jordan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRTvayMkaKg

Cheers