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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
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Music takes me to places that I've never been, or places that I have been but just can't quite remember when. This music takes me to someplace not far from the river, between the hours of midnight and daylight when there's a misty light fog that makes the glowing neon beer signs kind of hazy; the kind of night that you might see a Mickey Spillane detective stepping out of the mist.

Maybe that's a memory that never happened; music does things like that to me.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7JXzsyDhI
pjw81563
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orpheus10 that zoot sims ballad is sublime as was your description of a place the mood of the music takes you. I looked through my extensive zoot collection and could not find that song. I shall have to remedy that.

Here are the Zoot Sims albums in my collection with notables in parentheses then recording dates.

"Blues For Two" (with Joe Pass) 1961

"Choice" (Zoot plays tenor with Gerry Mulligan on baritone. Jim Hall and Billy Bean on guitar) 1954, 1959

"Down Home" (Hard swinging quartet with Zoot on tenor) 1960

"Either Way" (Zoot Sims and Al Cohn on tenor, Cecil "Kid Haffey" Collier vocals on tracks 2, 3 and 7) 1961

"In Copenhagen" (with Niels Henning Osterd Pedersen) 1978

"Jazz Alive! A Night at The Half Note" (Zoot Sims Al Cohn tenor, Phil Woods alto and Paul Motian drums) 1959

"Live At Ronnie Scott’s" 1961

"The Modern Art Of Jazz" (Milt Hinton bass and Bob Brookmeyer valve trombone) 1956

"New Beat Bossa Nova volume 1" (Phil Woods alto sax clarinet Jim Hall and Kenny Burrell guitars) 1962

"New Beat Bossa Nova Means the Samba Swings" (Milt Hinton bass, Sol Schlinger bass clarinet) 1962

"Plays alto, tenor and baritone" (Zoot sims vocals track 11) 1956

"Quartets" (Art Blakey drums) 1956

"Solo for Zoot" 1962

"The Zoot Sims Quintet" (Wilbur Ware bass, Osie Johnson drums) 1960

"Zoot Sims with Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Oscar Peterson Meets the Tenor Giants" (Oscar Peterson piano, Niels Henning Ostard Pedersen bass and Louie Belson drums) 1975

"Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers" (Oscar Peterson piano, Joe Pass guitar, George Mraz double bass and Grady Tate drums). 1975.

"Zoot!" 1957
orpheus10 OP
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Thanks for the compliment Pjw; I'll look into your Zoot collection and get back to you.
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Another rarely mentioned artist is Ike Quebec; he's one of my absolute favorites, and here is my favorite tune by him.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYaSGxDJPw8


Ike had been given a diagnosis of terminal cancer before they made this recording, hence the title; all the musicians had "Heavy Souls" on that day.
pjw81563
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I cannot believe no one mentioned this colossus album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fLnT0KwJTI

I would put Tenor Conclave in what our OP says every jazz aficionado should have in their collection.


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