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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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Excellent Cannonball links rok. All of them.
I have the Hermosa Beach disc and it gets a lot of repeated listening over here. I have a lot of live Cannonball. Here is one song from each of the live Cannonball discs in my collection.

(5) Fun (Live) - YouTube

(5) Cannonball Adderley & John Coltrane - Limehouse Blues - YouTube

(5) Spontaneous Combustion - Cannonball Adderley - YouTube

(5) Scotch And Water - YouTube

(5) Hippodelphia (Live) - YouTube

And here is an awesome Cannonball Sextet set live in Germany;

(5) The Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Germany 1963 - YouTube

I agree Cannonball and cool go together like peanut butter and jelly.


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rok2id
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pjw,
Great stuff by Cannonball and Lateef, from the Fatherland.  The uber-mensch went from goose-stepping to be-boping without missing a beat.   Amazing!

Cheers
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rok2id
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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY AND THE POLL-WINNERS

Cannonball(alto sax), Wes Montgomery(guitar), Victor Feldman(piano, vibes), Ray Brown(bass), Louis Hayes(drums)
The 'Poll Winners' refers to Brown and Montgomery.  Playboy, Downbeat  etc....
Riverside / Capitol Jazz       1960 / 1999

the chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdxRHctXxM

never will I marry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmyx41ld4Ko

au privave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFG13Cqz5g

Cheers
pjw81563
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Great stuff by Cannonball and Lateef, from the Fatherland. The uber-mensch went from goose-stepping to be-boping without missing a beat.  Amazing!
And to know that just 20 years before that jazz music was on the Nazi's list of forbidden pleasures in Germany. If the SS came to your house you had better have a framed picture of Hitler on the wall, a copy of Mein Kampf on the coffee table, and all your Jazz LP's hidden away.

It was also a good thing to have an LP set of Wagners orchestrations next to your phonograph.

This was one year after Hitler became dictator of Germany

(5) Swing in Nazi Berlin - James Kok Tanzorch., 1934 - YouTube


alexatpos
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Eliot Zigmund  legendary American Jazz Drummer known for playing with Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Chet Baker, Stan Getz (and so many others), is on this week's episode of Gone In 30 Minutes,   describes auditioning for Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard in front of a live audience, the experience of gigging 5-6 gigs nights per week, and the art of playing with the incomparable Vince Guaraldi...

https://youtu.be/66q3U2Bcfu4
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