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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
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rok2id
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@frogman 

my, my aren't we touchy today.

@orpheus10 

if you were in Hattiesburg, you were no where near Tallahatchie County.

don't live long if they move to Europe, even as nice as the people treat them

nice as who treats them?  you along with a certain other poster, need to make yourselves smart on Europe.  It ain't what you think it is.

Cheers

The Lord would not put more on me than he knew I could handle.
keegiam
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O10, his "Blues in the Closet" sent me on a binge:

1.  Like a little kid, I listened 4 times, spellbound by the playing and sound.
2.  Remembering Chet Baker's version on my #1 CB ("The Italian Sessions"), I played that next.
3.  Back to YT and tracked down 10+ versions by many of the greats, a few with Pettiford himself.

Wonderful way to spend my late afternoon.  From what I've heard so far, the one you shared is unsurpassed.  Just wow.
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Thank you Keegiam.


You're smart Rok; I'm a slow learner but I've had about 50 years to discover that fact.
trentmemphis
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@jafant 

Incredible that there is not an Audio shop in East Memphis or similar? I suspect customers drive to Nashville.

I moved here in my 30s, and I find [white] Memphians have a strange fascination with Nashville.  I think it's a grass-is-always-greener thing.  Memphis is not without serious problems, but the struggle with them is out in the open here.  Memphis wrestles with its history pretty honestly, unlike Nashville and, frankly, most other Southern cities.  You can feel history at work here.  Maybe that, along with the mashup of cultures, is why it's produced so much remarkable music.  (Nashville has produced a lot of music, too, obviously.  Some of it wonderful.  Most of it unremarkable, though, in my opinion, and much of what *is* remarkable is remarkable for its dishonesty and bad taste.  In my opinion.)

Anyway, yes, there's enough money in various parts of Memphis to support a good audio shop.  Just not enough of it belongs to audiophiles, I guess.

Tierney Sutton / Blue in Green
trentmemphis
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@rok2id 

The Lord would not put more on me than he knew I could handle.

My man Jim White would beg to differ:

Now dreams are just prayers without the put on airs
And though my history of dreams is a scandal
Of back-assward schemes and romantic disasters
Where Lord, you dealt me more cards than I could handle

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