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

**** All I saying is Classical has thousand times more music than jazz ,****

This is true; as is all you wrote. Important to keep in mind that Classical music has been with us over one thousand years if one includes its earliest forms while Jazz is barely one hundred years young.

Very interesting post! thanks....

 

Classical for me is like Tai-Chi....Jazz is like real martial art....

In Indian music the mix between improvisation and planning is balanced , it is why this style is so deep....

None is inferior though in any musical styles......

 

Each musician is a personnality and the life of a classical musician is not the same life than a jazz one in any written novel....

Chet Baker or Miles Davis dont look like the usual classical musician ....

How Baker or Miles did their practice? They play all night in a bar drinking ....

How did Murray Perahia did his practice? Alone in a room....

And between our two hemispheres one goes looking his internal map, the other one wait for the unrecognized around him....

Any musician can chose to be anything he want , he is free but habits are also masters....

We are programmed by ourselves...

This is at the same time our freedom and the limit of our freedom...

Our brain obey our heart, but when the heart has set his choice the brain take the habit seriously....

Any jazz musician can play jazz, or the reverse, but they win usually at one game or the other....Keith Jarrett being an exception....

 

But remember like said frogman that the greatest musicians were master at improvisation....The crowds came to see them improvising and were amazed... For example Bach walking kilometers to listen Buxtehude improvising, or Bruckner so amazing at organ improvisation that people dumbfounded claimed that he was Bach reincarnated....Bruckner was born the greatest organ improviser before learning how to compose... Remember Paganini mesmerizing audience in a trance by violin improvisation so flabbergasting people thought he was possessed by the devil.... Listz and Scriabin after him founded modern piano music by improvisation on the spot also.....

 

For example the Vivaldi phrasing style is so remarkable, that we know right on the spot that this priest with a special permission from the pope to interrupt a mass to play music, improvized so easily, that he said that he was "able to compose more speedily than for someone to transcribe anything written "....

 

Reality is a complex matter, the brain, too and the heart only is simple because he is the master of his two slaves hemispheric servants...

Musicians improvise or play a written score because their heart said so at the times they chose....

 

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