3rd Force, 3rd Force.
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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Wow thats going back a half century. I was listening to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull, among many other rock bands that were popular in the 70s. Seeing RTF was a great experience for me and I hope it was for you back then. I just turned 60 and did not start listening to jazz until my late 30s. When I was in my early 20s I met The Modern Jazz Quartets bassist Percy Heath through his son Stewart. Stewart and I was working at the same construction site. Anyway I was still heavy into rock and when Stewart told me of his father and his uncles Jimmy Heath and Albert "tootie" Heath I kinda brushed him off having no interest in jazz at that time in the mid 80s. If I only knew.... I have made up for my ignorance as a young man the last 3 decades and am much the better for it. I saw the Heath Brothers Band live in NYC 1n 2011, minus Percy who had passed on in 2005 and I loved it. Jimmy passed in 2020. Albert is still with us. Percy Jimmy UNT Jazz Faculty: Jimmy Heath - The Rio Dawn (1995) - YouTube Albert aka tootie Emmet Cohen Trio W/ Tootie Heath | Live In New Mexico - YouTube Sonny Rollins on Jimmy Heath |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONNY ROLLINS 93 TODAY GOD BLESS!! 50s Sonny Sonny Rollins Live in Europe 1959 - YouTube 60s Sonny Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas - YouTube 70s Sonny 80s Sonny Sonny Rollins: Live in Tokyo, Japan, March 30, 1988 - YouTube 90s Rollins Sonny Rollins live in Belgium 1993 Part 1 - YouTube 21st Century Rollins Sonny Rollins, Class of 2006 - Summit Performance with Savion Glover in Los Angeles - YouTube Sonny Rollins - Jazz à Vienne 2011 - LIVE HD - YouTube Interview with Aiden Levy, author of Sonny's biography Saxophone Colossus (I'm almost finished reading it and its one of the best bios I have read) Sonny Rollins - The Untold Story: Sunday Night Live - YouTube |
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