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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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Frogman, when something "was", but is no more, what is there to prove? So far you and your henchmen have attacked me instead of giving proof that something that existed when slaves landed on these shores, did not just mysteriously vanish. Did they just overnight become "Cotton Picking Negroes"? Like in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

This is the history you have presented. The question still remains, why was African Culture so evident in the Caribbean, and South America but not here?

Simply tearing a few pages out of the book of history won't work. It was there when they got here but it just mysteriously vanished; what happened to it?


I don't want to talk about that anymore. We don't want to talk about that anymore; you brought it up.



"It" seems to be relevant to the jazz musicians we are discussing, why shouldn't it be relevant to us?
frogman
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“henchmen”. Nice. In my universe it says it all.  Sad.
pjw81563
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O10

Did you actually listen to the whole album I posted by Mtume Foreman Heath??

There are a plethora of rythm's spread throughout the album from slow to medium to fast and to my ears many of the rythm's, which are played with a plethora of percussion instruments, sound a lot like the rythm's of the 1960's African village video I posted a couple pages back.
orpheus10 OP
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Did you listen to the Art Blakey I posted?


Neither one of them is remotely related to discussion.  I'll post the Art Blakey again for your reference.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di7ko6eST40&list=PLEyxWPyoryRIkGcgMLBVUOhCyiqdTVyh3


   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pOOnPH9qQ8&list=PLEyxWPyoryRIkGcgMLBVUOhCyiqdTVyh3&index=2


This sounds a lot more African than what you posted.
orpheus10 OP
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That's right Frogman, "Henchmen". When more than one gangs up on me, I call it a mob, and since you are the leader of the mob, they are your henchmen.

Tactic #1, when you have absolutely nothing substantial for an argument, go off on a tangent, your favorite tactic.


Neither you or your (what ever you want to call them) have addressed the question of what happened to the African Culture after they landed on these shores, and you won't because you can't. You and your (whatever) can only go around in endless circles of "Pontification".
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