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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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"Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”


Ghosthouse, the song that makes me most aware of time is "Speak Low".


Speak low when you speak, love
Our summer day withers away too soon, too soon
Speak low when you speak, love
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift, we´re swept apart, too soon
Speak low, darling, speak low
Love is a spark, lost in the dark too soon, too soon
I feel wherever I go that tomorrow is
Near, tomorrow is here and always too soon
Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold and time… More



I relate many songs to my personal experiences, maybe this song more than most.


"Time is so old and love so brief
Love is pure gold and time a thief"


Does anyone think of that fact when their young?


We´re late, darling, we´re late
The curtain descends, everything ends too soon, too soon.


My one regret is the fact that I was not more aware of all of those things.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxB2hZ8tB8M


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iWHd1n1s8E



These ladies were aware of those facts.

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rok2id
7,859 posts
 
Za Kraljicu Jazza

It is Saturday night.

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

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

takes me back to ( Uijeongbu, Korea, 1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOPYn1l1pvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyxKtz6Z07Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFZ2n2xvQE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgG6SU8L-dI

Cheers


keegiam
731 posts
 
O10, I know you had a slight grin as you wrote that last post.  "Letdown" may have been too harsh, but it was just that that first piece had been so fabulous.
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Now that you put things into perspective, I’ll see what I can do, but as you noted, after that cut, it won’t be easy Keegiam.
mary_jo
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Have you ever been in a field of the almond trees in the blossom? It brings smile on the face, as if you breath in and breath out an air full of joy and life. One cannot but smile.

I said last goodbye to my dear old friend, today. Old in heart but so young in age. I stood there, watched the almond trees, I could swear everything was more vivid than usual, bursting with color. Greener. Life.

Few of us gathered there, to remember life. But one of us was not there any more. Somebody said: We should treasure life.

We always remember to say that in the moments like these. So will not moan, although there is even a proper jazz song for moaning.

Will remember the almond tree and me smiling with a friend because that was the most important thing we had. It says everything about our lives. It says who we are.


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