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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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mahgister the Lute

J. S. Bach - Partita in C moll BWV 997 - Evangelina Mascardi, Liuto barocco - YouTube
Marvellous 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.... šŸ˜šŸ˜ŠšŸ˜ŠšŸ˜Š 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
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****Ā a micro dynamically controlled improvisation around one note or one chord, each one at a time....Ā ****

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schubert
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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 .
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rok2id
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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
recordedĀ  Ā 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),Ā  Jack Teagarden(tb), Gene Krupa(d)

THE MAN I LOVE Jazz by Coleman Hawkins Swing Four
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SxkDBEYWOY
recordedĀ  Ā 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
recordedĀ  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
recordedĀ  9/5/39

Cheers
frogman
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Schubert, yes, as a musicianā€¦..in large part, but still only part. That part of the mix is but one piece of the pie; not the least of which is to be a better person. The two ways of ā€œseeingā€ music donā€™t have to be mutually exclusive and each feeds the other. One could put all modesty aside and make a case for why there are few better ways to be a better person than to give the joy of music. I would say that all normal human flaws aside, the gift that Bach and Monteverdi gave the world made them pretty darn good persons.


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