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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
pjw81563
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frogman are you enjoying the fine weather we are having today?

Great live clip from  Montreux Switzerland 1988. I have just 6 albums with Brecker as a leader but at least a dozen or more with him as a sideman or co leader.

Brecker's recording sessions as a leader/co leader/sideman prove just how talented the man was and I know he would have kept on giving us more of it if not from his early departure from this place.

(23) John Abercrombie & Michael Brecker - Hippityville (1986) (Fusion) - YouTube

(23) Michael Brecker, David Liebman, Joe Lovano - 1999 - YouTube
frogman
7,564 posts
 
Thanks for the clips, pjw.  Nice!

Amazing amount of snow today (and tomorrow).  Will get very heavy when the sun comes out on Wed/Thurs,  
mary_jo
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Where is Orpheus10?
Oh, that' s easy question.
Last time they saw him having a snowball fight and making a snowman. So my guess is that he is now warming himself up by sitting in the front of a fireplace wearing big merino wool socks and drinking hot black tea.
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rok2id
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Today's Listen:

Hampton Hawes  --  THE GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER
with / Monk Montgomery(bass), Steve Ellington(drums)

Notes:"I think Hampton Hawes is a marvelous pianist...an awful lot of pianist who have been categorized in print as being influenced by Horace Silver or being Horace imitators, really come much more out of Hamp...-Andre Previn

Recorded 1964

vierd blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAvU7uLUmjY   

secret love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezneOns7hDo  
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st thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMoVmfLH9UU  

ill wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrLsUJejZTM 

Cheers

keegiam
731 posts
 
Thanks pj, just caught up to your latest stuff.  That 1999 Brecker/Liebman/Lovano is priceless.  Whew.  I think it melted some of the snow outside the house.
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