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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
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frogman, I haven't received my check for October.  Please remit ASAP.
frogman
7,488 posts
 
Hmmmm.....I’ll have to check on that.  I hate owing money.

https://youtu.be/z9CfWuUIhvk
pjw81563
1,829 posts
 
Hmmmm.....I’ll have to check on that.  I hate owing money.
Hey what about me? Ain't I entitled to a "Henchman" check as well?
acman3
4,275 posts
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpgkDcTik2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40NQZX8PzPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQezPrCyhNU
orpheus10 OP
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Been looking at gangsters,so excuse me if I talk like one. I'm thinking about quitting this mob; first you argue with me but you give no evidence of your side of the argument, just some flimsy nothing and I throw in the towel, now you give me badly recorded music that's not really all that hot. Big time people can sometime make small time music.

What's the benefit of being in this mob? Alex was the last member to submit good music, although Alice Coltrane was OK, but that last thing that Acman submitted was out to lunch.

In regard to that argument, it's like somebody tore some pages out of a book, cause it ain't there, and you guys coming up with some "Wack" don't change nothing.

I read books that were hundreds of years old, they were about the slave trade in Africa written by the slave traders themselves, they told of things too gruesome to repeat; these were eyewitness accounts, now those books are missing; they're just like Captain Willards mission in the movie "Apocalypse Now" it never existed, and now those books never existed.

The descendants of the people who got very rich off the slave trade are still around living large in Africa; their ancestors names were mentioned, the slave trade was no fairy tale, it happened; while these people had nothing to do with the slave trade, they're enjoying the profits they're ancestors made. Could they have had something to do with the vanishing books?

I know the fact that many jazz musicians are descendants of slaves is unimportant to you, but if you were a descendant of slaves you might want to know something about what happened a long time ago. In regard to what happened in this country, Alexander Haley's "Roots" is the "only" account that begins at the shore of the Atlantic Ocean when the slaves "debarked", and follows their history to the relative present. It seems that there are some pages missing in the history books here.

I realize some people have a writing handicap, but maybe now is the time to attempt to do something about it.
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