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

Great post! i concur with your analysis according to Buber...

Between musicians and the public there is a mystery space, where the musicians do not enter nor the public but the 2 are transformed by the felt space of meaning, spontaneously created,  by  those playing and by those listening, a space from which their consciousness is excluded .

@mahgister. Your comment that between musician and audience is very often not related I suppose could apply to any creative work! And I would agree. The in between time-space that Martin Buber speaks to in “I Thou” and his I It I think convincingly expresses that mysterious experience where both participants are changed as a result, but not in any preconceived way. Being unrelated is in my opinion not only true oftentimes but also irrelevant.

 

619 pages of aficionados’ jazz about jazz recordings with a pleasant overlap with psychological and physical links that exhibit between performers and their audience....👍

Please, carry on....I just fell in the door, and it’s easy to continue to call it a day....

Or night....*L* Or just over ’n out.... )

( No, I haven't read it all....)

Chet Baker's album, Chet, was recommended to me as truly stunning by a few members of this forum, and I wholeheartedly agree. I don't have anything close to the depth of jazz knowledge that many of you have, but I love this album and it's now part of my regular rotation. Thanks for all the new recommendations!  

@jafant 

Im thinking my days of buying of physical media might be over. I only bought one CD this year and only listened to it maybe twice.  I have close to two thousand CD’s and about triple that ripped on a NAS.  We have Qobuz and Amazon HD, so I can listen to most anything I want and if the album isn’t on either service, then I’ll buy a copy.

And Happy Happy-Merry Merry to you and yours.