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

Rok, that book has been in my jazz library for some time. Specifically, what is your complaint, since Frogman has the book as well, it might be worthy of discussion.
Not a complaint, just an observation.   I have just started on the book. After just reading the prelude to the revised edition, dated 2013, and getting as far as page 7 in the main text, I can see that this guy is more into showing off his use of the English language,  than he is in Bird.

More later.

Cheers




in the fifth grade:
"when, mulishly trying to make sense of opening chapter of "The Brothers Karamazov", I twigged that Alexei and Alyosha were the same guy, ditto Dmitry and Mitya ---ditto maxima, Parker and Bird".

as a music teacher:
my students had "followed me through Armstrong and Swing, and never blinked when we got to Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, but the volatile 1945 Savoy record of "Koko" unnerved them.

Unnerved them?? The only folks that should be unnerved by Bird are the guys on the bandstand with him. --- Rok

"But where’s the pedagogical fun in that" -- speaking of messing with his students.

I continued to start the class with "Koko" without preface, enjoying the general alarm, ’wtw’

His style of writing was influenced by his reading Satrtre’s "Prisoner of Venice".

"By the 1980s, I had read Johnson, Boswell, Strachey, and Sartre’s longer ’Saint Genet’, and I knew what I wanted to do, if not how to do it."

Rok’s Take:
The ravings of a person full of himself. This is an example of the type of people teaching young people about Jazz.
And this is just the Prelude, to a book about a Jazz player.
Stay tuned.

Cheers





I'm not sure we're talking about the same book, but when it comes to Hugh Masekela we're on the same page; I like that.