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

"The spirit of the drum is something that you feel but cannot put your hands on,"

Babatunde Olatunji, had the spirit of his Nigerian ancestors; that says it all; "Drums of Passion " is my favorite.


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Short on time so apology for the short response....for now (Alex).  Re players’ tones and descriptions of them, something to keep in mind that may help.
It is impossible to separate tone and its description from how the player initiates the note (the attack) of the note and the inflections of the tone that the player uses.  A fascinating study was done of players’ tones which demonstrated that if several players with very different tones are recorded playing one note and sustaining it, if the the initial attack and end of the sustained note are edited out the different players’ tones become almost indistinguishable from each other.

Eddie Lockjaw plays with an extremely inflected tone. 
pjw, not a casualty of war , a planed war crime .

Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris aka " bomber Harris" , talked the Americans into bombing civilians as a matter of course.
After the war he said " If the Germans had won I would have been hung as a war criminal, and rightly so."
schubert I understand what you are saying but you already know that Nazi Germany was the undisputed world leader when it came to war crimes (with Imperial Japan second).

Besides the Holocaust the Germans bombed many more cities with innocent civilians in Poland, Holland, Belgium, France and England.

Even as Nazi Germany knew the Thousand Year Reich was finished (it lasted 12 years) they were shooting many of their newly developed "wonder weapons", The V - 2 rockets (the worlds first long range guided ballistic missile) at London as revenge for the Anglo American Allies bombing of German cities.

I’m not saying any of it is right. Its why there should never be another World War.