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.
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.
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mahgister the LuteMarvellous album.... I already own it but others here may not know it... The video is interesting , she is very expressive, this lute like many others in the lute family is a work of art in itself, even mute suspended on a wall... Bach waves are like waves in the sea... How comforting!.... I wait for my jazz ordered last album but this is jazz in the german way centuries ago... After all , all the best in music is jazz....Improvising Musician....And what is an interpretation: a micro dynamically controlled improvisation around one note or one chord, each one at a time.... 😁😊😊😊 With a continuity here nearer of the Glenn Miller style than of Sun Ra though .... If we listen carefully enough, this woman is "Jazzing" .... Anyway i own all albums of Jacques Loussier...My first Bach ectasy was out of the pharmacy window at 12 years old , listening Jacques Loussier jazzing Bach.... It introduce me so to speak..... |
Frogman , you see the music as a musician , I see Music as what it does for me to be a better person . A hard job . As a Christian, if only a fair one, if Bach and Monteverdi were the only music in the Universe I would thank God for his greatest gift, save his Son, to me and mankind each and every day . And I know you are both Musician and Christian . |
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz CBS Records 1987 CD #2 Moten Swing -- Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f2YIl-IpPg recorded 12/13/32, Camden N.J. Ben Webster(ts), Count Basie(p) Dinah - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLgQg76NWE recorded 4/18/29 Benny Goodman(cl), Jack Teagarden(tb), Gene Krupa(d) THE MAN I LOVE Jazz by Coleman Hawkins Swing Four https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SxkDBEYWOY recorded 12/23/43 Oscar Pettiford(b), Shelly Manne(d) Art Tatum, piano solo: "Willow Weep For Me" (1949) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyDTtmlbeaY recorded 7/13/49, Los Angeles Ella Fitzgerald -- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUxA0P4Z_Y8 recorded 7/64, Antibes, France Benny Goodman And His Sextet - Breakfast Feud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDgHLcx9oGg Cooti Williams (tp) Benny Goodman (cl) Georgie Auld (ts) Count Basie(p) Charlie Christian (el-g) Artie Bernstein (b) Jo Jones (d) recorded 1/15/41 & 12/19/40 LESTER LEAPS IN Count Basie Kansas City 7 FEATURING LESTER YOUNG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f60JYoHdfVM&list=RDf60JYoHdfVM&start_radio=1 recorded 9/5/39 Cheers |
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