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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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mahgister
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Jazz or classical music are created by musicians that wrote it before playing it in one case and others that improvise first and call it a "work"...

Jazz or classical music are too big dynamical machine to be classified always on the separate label where we put them...They intersect in some audible way in the works of Kurt Weill and Gershwin for example...

I do no more labelling now, jazz, classical, iranian or Persian music.... I dont listen composers so much like in my past life, i listen mainly to musicians interpretations or improvisations...And some musicians interpretations are almost improvisations...

The golden Age of classical for me is Bach.... But what will be our understanding of Bach without Schoenberg or Scriabin ?

I will take the " debatable hypothesis" that Armstrong is the Bach of Jazz then what will become of the legacy of Armstromg and others golden era musicians without Sun RA or Roland Kirk for example true uncircumscribable geniuses or those inspired nowadays by more calm revolutionaries like Miles Davis or Wayne Shorter ?


These are only my thoughts and i am not a musician by far tough.... Then feel free to disagree....


My best to all....
frogman
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Nice joke.

Not the first time that Solti has been the subject of a joke.  True story:

Solti was known for having a very small beat pattern; not to mention little sense of humor.  Early in his tenure with the Chicago Symphony, during a rehearsal one of the bass players was complaining that he couldn’t see his pattern clearly.  Apparently the bass player got to the point of getting “snarky” (😊) and set up binoculars to look in Solti’s direction.  A bit later in the rehearsal Solti held up a small piece of paper in the direction of the basses.  The bass player zoomed in and on the note was written:

”You are fired”

frogman
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**** But what will be our understanding of Bach without Schoenberg or Scriabin,,, ****

Exactly!  That says it all.  
schubert
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If Bach was the last person to compose after those who did before him 
I would understand him and easily ! 
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mahgister
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If Bach was the last person to compose after those who did before him
I would understand him and easily !
Great point! That reveal that the center of gravity of a wave is more important than the periphery if we want to understand the way a wave fall in the ocean of creativity....In this perspective Schoenberg or Scriabin make sense AFTER Bach or AROUND Bach like you rightfully suggest...

But the succession of composers is an "history" which like a river has a direction...

This direction is the result of consciousness creative dynamic mysteries way more than the results only of our individual or collective taste around any center... Only my intuition here...
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