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
Writing my last post give me another idea about Ervin Nyiregyhazi...

Something new about his style of playing...

He plays like was playing Lizst itself....And Liszt is the first pianist who become famous "interpretating" the music of other pianist live and "possessed" on the scene.... Before Liszt all concert was with a pianist playing his own composition in a very intimate way and with a more intimate public generally, like Chopin did because the piano was a recently invented new instrument......

E.N was pupil of Frederic Lamond a pupil of Liszt itself....

Then something of the FAUSTIAN Liszt playing has crossed through Lamond into E.N.

And this something is the total freedom for the WILL to create or recreate any works and any cosmos.... The great philosopher of the WILL is Schopenhauer after Nietzche...

This is the style of playing i will describe associated with the playing so powerful and more telluric than only refined of Ervin Nyiregyhazi...

I apologize here because i realize my post is in the jazz section...

Sorry for that mistake.....
I have to say that ‘Moanin’ by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers is my favorite jazz song of all time. The whole album is a fantastic piece of art. The album is over sixty years old, but sounds better as a high resolution 24 bit/192 KHz download than anything I’ve heard recently. 
 I say the same for many older jazz albums from the later 1940s through the 1970s. Along comes the advent of digital CDs. It was like an overnight hit to good sounding, well engineered music. Digital is distant and cold. All hope is not lost  because things are changing. Now that there are DACs as separate components or factory installed in decent gear, digital sounds a whole lot better. I predict this is the decade where high resolution digital streaming and downloads kick CDs to the curb. Well recorded, amazing sounding jazz albums may not be dead after all.