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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
alexatpos
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I would dare to say, at least from my own personal experience, that jazz music is, for me, a state of mind and in a same time an estetic preference as well as an emotional experience.
I do not necessarily connect it with outside world (for obvious reasons as it almost does not exist in my near surroundings except when I ’play’ it) so I have to keep it and carry it with me almost as an accomplice.
To be able to sing or to play must be very comforting, among many other things...

https://youtu.be/zWuFcRBLCSA

https://youtu.be/GnUsr7Wia6U
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Alex, I don't know how you always post records that should be in my collection but they aren't. I will get that ASAP. What a combination.
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 
Frogman, post just one record where I can hear this African influence.
frogman
7,533 posts
 
You just did. Actually, you first heard it three or four years ago when I posted it. You liked it then and I’m glad to see you still like it. Whether you, O-10, can hear it or not is not an indication that it is not there. Maybe 120,000 of anything is just too much to handle; confuses one’s brain. Great record. Pepper kills.
pjw81563
1,834 posts
 
The following music is proof enough to me, that centuries old African rythm is alive and well, in many different genre's of music in North America. It is an album by the son of the recently departed NEA Jazz Master, writer, composer, arranger and master saxophone player Jimmy Heath. R.I.P.

Jimmy's son James was born in Philadelphia in 1946. His father Jimmy had an addiction problem at the time which caused him to end up in prison and James was raised by his mother and stepfather, a jazz pianist named James "Hen Gates" Foreman. Young James took his stepfathers last name and was known as James Foreman.

In 1966 James Foreman, now 20 years old joined a black empowerment group and its leader, Maulana Karenga, gave James the name Mtume which means messenger in Swahili. Here is Mtume's live album release titled  Mtume Umoja Ensemble - Alkebu-Lan: Land of the Blacks

Listen to the whole album including the 4 plus minute spoken introduction if this subject interests any of you. I am posting it because there has been a lot of unnecessary debating creating a negative vibe on this thread for quite some time now about the subject of African rythmic influences transported to other continents. Every one is entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts. Since I wont pretend to be an expert on deciphering rythm patterns this is just my humble opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8WmWaIn9kU

 
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