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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
frogman
7,561 posts
 
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. 
pjw81563
1,835 posts
 
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.
pjw81563
1,835 posts
 
O10 thanks for the Amazon link for that CD. Already ordered.
schubert
7,386 posts
 
pjw, What your enemy does is on him, what you do is on you. Killing innocent women and children is a crime of the highest order with no excuse .
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I had an uncle who flew the bomber runs in the last 6 months over Germany . In almost every flight 2-3 crews would drop their bomb load
in the ocean knowing there was no military targets left .He said as long as you stayed in your place and fought German planes nobody said anything.

Yellowjackets have decided to play with the Germans on their new CD.

https://youtu.be/vfZttpqsy68?t=3

If anyone wants to know what WDR  means it's West German Radio  Big Band .
keegiam
731 posts
 
@frogman

Your Cliff Notes version of that study is a great explanation for the difference between "thick" and "husky."  The player's initial attack on blowing each note does seem to be the difference between a raspy "edge" and a smooth, rich "thick" tone.

Can "husky" be extended beyond the initial attack and maintained through the entire note?  I doubt it, but I need to listen more to focus on that.  Seems we always learn that we have much more to learn.



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