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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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I'm convinced that our sense of aesthetics in music is dependent to a degree on who our ancestors were 200 years ago maybe, and for many of us that's unknown, but known or unknown, you still have those genes.


When I was child, my parents took me to the museum; I looked at a painting and asked them when did we go there. It was a painting of a castle on a lake in Switzerland.

They looked at me strangely and explained we had never been there. The more I looked at this painting, the more I was certain that I had been there. The older I got, the more that memory faded, but I still felt that I had been someplace that looked identical to that painting.

I'm saying that you are born with memories of places that you have never been before. If that's so, it also means that you are also born with your ancestors sense of aesthetics in music. Of course there are also a multitude of sociological factors that determine our taste in music.

The bottom line is that it is foolish for one man to argue with another man in regard to his sense of aesthetics in music.
alexatpos
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https://64.media.tumblr.com/1273e7a304d12108bc0b04a777d28af2/tumblr_mydt5iPFJj1r7r8e0o1_400.jpg

Illinois Jacquet, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown with friends, Bop City nightclub in New York, 1947


https://youtu.be/XWj_a4NGS_I
Paris Blues Call and Responce with Louis Armstrong, Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier
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rok2id
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If that’s so, it also means that you are also born with your ancestors sense of aesthetics in music.

Primitive thinking. Think of all the musical greats whose off spring can’t play a lick. DNA transmits potential, and that potential is not the same as the parent’s. May be greater or much less.

Cheers
keegiam
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@acman3

Have you jotted down the time changes in that Chick Corea number?  I'm not even sure having the sheet music would help me navigate that one.  And yet it swings and thrills.  Impressive.

orpheus10 OP
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Rok, I was only referring to music that we like and dislike; how what one person thinks is beautiful, is very unattractive to another; Classical music affects me like someone scratching on a blackboard most of the time, And I will never forget when our rich cousin decided there should be culture in the family and took us to the opera; I was in pain the whole time we were there, my genes just were not right for that sort of thing.
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