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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
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.



schubert
7,386 posts
 
Never quite Noticed how good the USAF jazz band really is !

https://youtu.be/QXSQtP4mxPs?t=2

https://youtu.be/X-KjBPmwxWU?t=4
If you know what those stripes mean these guys make more money than average jazzman with medical care and housing for them and family and a good pension for life .
schubert
7,386 posts
 
I should ask frogman about how much average Jazz  player makes .Those Airman , all things considered , get 80k to 120K with around 60k
pension at 25 years .Lot of them teach at music schools like North Texas after that .
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Originally from Africa where it receives different names, the berimbau was eventually incorporated into the practice of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira, the berimbau leads the capoeiristas movement in the roda—the faster the berimbau is playing the faster the capoeirista moves in the game.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uuSaOZg8hI

 
The berimbau originated in an early nineteenth-century Brazilian slave culture.


How often do you hear this instrument used in the music from the continent which it originated? Who knows how many things that left that continent for good on those slave ships. Reality is what it is, not what it ain't. History can be written any way those who chose to write it wish, but reality can not be altered.

 
“The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4bZnmtCcs



orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cHTXrW3J8



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTKSoF2Vr14
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