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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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Rok, that music sounds just like the music my newly acquired friend in the Air Force would get on his transistor radio and turn up real loud when he wanted me to pay him a visit.

He knew I would come charging down the barracks and make a kind request; "If you don't turn that %^&* music down, I'm going to shove that radio where nobody will hear it"

He would just laugh his head off, and I would ask him, "Now that you got me to come down here, what do you want?"


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rok2id
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I suspect Brazil popular music NOW, is Western style (nuts and bolts) pop music sung in Portuguese. Like the rest of the world.

In any event, not enough there for all the fuss. Take away Herbie, and there is even less.

I realize Mendes is lite, fun music, but that is how Brazil markets itself.
After all, i’m sure they don’t want to be known for burning down the Amazon rain forest. Or cops shooting people from helicopters.

But, Babes, Butts and beaches?? Rio, here I come.

Cheers

Of course you are right, in a sense.

frogman
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**** I suspect Brazil popular music NOW, is Western style (nuts and bolts) pop music sung in Portuguese. ****

You’ve got it completely backwards. Brazilian record producers did not go looking for Stan Getz to record Girl From Ipanema. Other way around. Nascimento didn’t go looking for Wayne Shorter to collaborate with. Other way around. I’m surprised (not really) that you have no clue just how sophisticated Brazilian music is.
trentmemphis
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Umm, how big a desert island are we contemplating?

This is *a* Desert Island List, anyway. I wouldn't call it definitive, even just for me. 

In no particular order, just scanning through the jazz portion of my Roon favorites list and jotting down what jumps out at me:

  • Bud Powell / Jazz at Massey Hall, Volume 2
  • Grant Green / Idle Moments
  • Stanley Turrentine / Up at Minton's
  • Melody Gardot / Worrisome Heart
  • Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers / Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band / A Tuba to Cuba (Original Soundtrack)
  • Joshua Redman / Freedom in the Groove
  • Ray Brown Trio / Soular Energy
  • Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers / Moanin'
  • Bela Fleck & the Flecktones / Tales from the Acoustic Planet
  • Wynton Kelly Trio & Wes Montgomery / Smokin' at the Half Note
  • Wes Montgomery / Bumpin'
  • Wes Montgomery / Full House
  • Arne Domnerus Group / Jazz at the Pawnshop
  • Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker / Carnegie Hall Concert
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis
  • Bill Evans Trio / Live at the Village Vanguard
  • The Quintet / Jazz at Massey Hall
  • Jim Hall / Concierto
  • Sonny Rollins / Way Out West
  • Miles Davis / Kind of Blue
  • Hugh Masekela / Hope
  • Buena Vista Social Club / Buena Vista Social Club
  • Louis Armstrong / The Great Chicago Concert
  • Tommy Flanagan / Flanagan's Shenanigans
  • Lionel Hampton / Lionel Hampton in Paris
  • Hank Mobley / Soul Station
  • Wes Montgomery & Milt Jackson / Bags Meets Wes!
  • Lee Morgan / Search for the New Land
  • Oliver Nelson / The Blues and the Abstract Truth
  • Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau / Nearness
  • Dianne Reeves / Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Sonny Rollins & The Modern Jazz Quartet / Sonny Rollins With The Modern Jazz Quartet
  • McCoy Tyner / Live at Newport
  • Dinah Washington / Dinah Jams
  • Ben Webster & Tete Montoliu Trio / Gentle Ben
  • Nina Simone / In Concert
  • Miles Davis / In a Silent Way

Like I said, I really like live recordings, be they in front of an audience or live in the studio or, in the case of the Dianne Reeves soundtrack, live on the set.
orpheus10 OP
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpP5poqFq4E



This rhythm is from Africa, but you won’t hear it in Africa;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5P-aIWZk2A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ORkB1eKWE
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