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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
frogman
7,561 posts
 
Keegiam, classic Chick Corea tune.  I think I know what you mean, but “Spain” has no time changes at all. After the slower introduction and the tune starts there are no time changes at all. It stays in 4/4 the whole time. The feeling of time changes is due to the very syncopated and “choppy” melody. If you haven’t heard it, the original is classic.

https://youtu.be/sEhQTjgoTdU

Here it is:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/217761461/chick-corea-spain-pdf




orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Rok, I recall whenever my newly acquired friend in the Air Force wanted me to come down to his cubicle, which was all the way at the end of the barracks, he would find this hill billy country music on his transistor radio, and turn it up real loud. He got the biggest kick out me charging down to his cubicle and telling him to turn that &*%^# music down, or I was going to put that radio where the sun don't shine.

He would just laugh his head off, and I would ask him; "Now just what do you want?"
frogman
7,561 posts
 
O-10, even after all this time it is a mystery to me why it’s not possible to have intelligent disagreement with you, without you feeling that you have to respond with at least some degree of personal negative comment. So you think it’s Jazz and I said, I’m not so sure. You draw the genre line at a different place than I. SO WHAT! Did I say it wasn’t good? No. As usual you miss the forest for the trees by leaning on the “label” aspect of it all; something that ultimately doesn’t matter. Who cares?! Regardless, let’s see......hmm....

Wynton?, O-10?, Wynton?, O-10? Wynton?, O-10?, Wynton?..........
yup!

Btw, Donny McCaslin “stereotypical”? Seriously? Give me a break. 
https://youtu.be/cWGvsyeayFk
keegiam
731 posts
 
frogman, it definitely settles into 4/4, but the beginning is way over my head time-wise.

I did get into Return to Forever way back when but soon stopped putting it on the platter.  I think I relegated it to the fusion category, which, while I respected the levels of composition and musicianship, was so frenetic I didn't often play it.  (You may recall my fondness for Larry Coryell, but I never listen to 11th House).

When I get my SOTA/SME back online, I'll have to revisit my ECM Corea vinyl.
frogman
7,561 posts
 
Slower tempos are always much harder than fast ones.   Still just 4/4.
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