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.
Showing 50 responses by mary_jo
O-10, that Paul Desmond, Desmond Blue is extraordinary. As intended, this album presents alto sax specialist Paul Desmond as never featured before, with the backing of a string orchestra. The record, filled with such beautiful jazz standards as "My Funny Valentine," "I've Got You Under My Skin," and "Body and Soul," is very rich in texture, yet subtle and mellow overall in mood. It's unyielding purpose: to soothe the souls of its listeners. ~source elusivedisc.com |
Ella Fitzgerald - Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fzZ4l2H5-w It’s hard to survive these days...love the lyrics |
mary_ jo, I failed to "ace" your quiz, only scored 90%. So hope that doesn’t disqualify me as an aficionado. I should have known better about Jim Crow.pryso, only 90% is excellent score. I was forced to cheat after step 5, because the machine said that I would be banned if I continue answering like I was... |
I have to go backwards to listen all the songs you guys posted. Going backwards... “In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!” ~ Woody A. |
André Previn And His Pals - West Side Story [1960] (Full Album) My pals now too.. Grant Green - Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho Master... The Battle of Jericho - Mormon Tabernacle Choir You just made me surf about the Mormons...this is excellent. Bill Cosby & his drumming gig with Sonny Stitt...fro, that was funny... |
Btw, the image of Woody Allen having an orgasm is a bit much to contemplate 😬Perhaps I can help with an image... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isrd7E5nzIQ :--))) |
Pity that my android for some reason crushes each time I try to watch YT, I would love to hear those Take Five renditions since I enjoy that piece a lot and listen often - at the dramatic Take Five drum part I use my invisible blue drumsticks, pound drums in Take Four rhythm and tap my fictional cymbals. Don’t you do the same? With different drumstick colours, of course. |
Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Hihache https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ckIovZRwk Shorty Rogers - Windswept https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZQYalq7JxE Booker T. And The M.G.’s - Green Onions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjgjoSsOvi4 PACO DE LUCIA - Almoraima (Bulerias) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmps3Cc-5_0 Andres Segovia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjRLpE_TzdA Bill Evans Blue in Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_7gRH7ASE Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEWuAcMWDLY Chet Baker - Tenderly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6mfWun73vI May everyone’s holiday season be filled with peace and love. |
Mary Jo a ?schubert, with all due respect to you and other soldiers here, let’s not talk about NATO. But as for Croatian hating Serbs and vice versa, if you exclude people who were affected by the recent war very badly (small part of Croatia), I dare to say it’s more propaganda than anything else. Propaganda from the authorities - that reaches it’s peak for instance and mostly during some election period (you know how that works - it serves only to heat up the atmosphere, to bring out the lowest passions in order to manipulate with the crowd. Crowd is so easy to manipulate. Especially if the crowd is hungry, meaning being with low income and other basic things without which is one’s life unbearable) And of course, there are always people who, by the default, hate anything that is different, but generally speaking, if you put this aside, nobody hates anybody in a raw way that others might see as it. It’s a special mixture of love and hate that you could only understand if you have lived here. We have food from Serbia on the shelves of our local stores, we have people from Serbia who have their jobs here in Croatia, during summer season, we have guests from Serbia and most of all, many Croatians are crazy for Serbian turbo folk music. For instance, few days ago, Serbian turbo folk star had grand concert here in Croatia, in capital city Zagreb. It was crazy there, the interest for the concert was huge, the star had to organize one more concert the day after! Check this link - at 6:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRWGZ_giemI But, on the other side, check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBlQMVsjic The same city! Maybe even the same people. On the concert of a "patriotic singer" who promotes fascism and whose most famous song starts with the official salute of the Ustaše, the Croatian Nazi ally of the World War II Axis forces and whose concerts were banned in some European countries. So, ain’t we crazy Balkanian people? |
The city I live in... Yesterday on the street, a lady unknown to me with bunch of kids, 4 or 5 can’t say, when kids are noisy I see double, spoke with the voice that gradually led from lower to higher register: "Kids, my nose is itching me, which means that I am gonna be very, very angry soon, so run, run away from me and save yourself!" I was at the other side of the street just passing by but looking at them, when she gave me that awkward look so I started laughing. She laughed me back, after her, kids too. The street was bell-ringing. What we have all eaten? Complete strangers on the street, laughing at each other. That’s jazz and this is Betty Boop. Enjoy your Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EBSNY2UrQk |
The biggest mistake most humans make is to think we are alwaysMiroslav Krleza, a Croatian writer and important figure in cultural life of former Yugoslavia, had right expression for something like that: "Mankind is like a monkey in an aeroplane". I use this expression quite often. What does that mean? It means that eventhough the mankind is having huge technological progress, the human being is still atrophied sociologically and socially. We still have bloody wars like we had many years ago, we are still more than wolves to each other. How on earth we can call that a progress? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHdqD077yY |
I thought I should answer somethin’ on that mankind theme, but...so many posts in between. I am late. Not that I have something smart to say...:-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV53dWisQBw |
Who is Bett Harth? Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help,” Mahalia Jackson once remarked. And if anyone can relate to that remark, it’s Beth Hart.https://www.goldminemag.com/articles/for-beth-hart-is-better-the-second-time-around Beth at Kennedy Center https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fALdOkf_eCM She seems to be full of internal and external energy, like a woman that has something to say...But in a way her singing makes me nervous, I cannot place her anywhere (?) and I wonder why. Help me. |
I mispelled her name at the beginning. Not respectful thing to do. This forum waves with it’s non-editorial rule mercilessly. Cool it... Fro, I did not give up on her, it’s just hard for me to embrace her in full, can’t quite sure why. Incredible talent she has but I think I need more softness to be seen from her. Maybe she’s playing too tough for my taste. Although what yells from inside (in regards what she has gone trough) indicates something else...Anyway, thank you fro for your answer, I appreciate it. |
...sometimes I feel like "who the hell I am to talk about the way one performs". About what one should do or do not. Love it or leave it. But really, where are the boundaries, what one should comment without possibly interfering or behaving poorly towards the performer and his hard work at the same time. https://youtu.be/g0oLYCdoDC8 |
Generally I do agree, one should not think about it, I just wanna make sure that it does not sound judging. There is a thin line to that, you know... As for softness, for my own preference, perhaps I would prefer that she shows it for more. You pointed that right, do you read one’s mind (?), theatricality do bothers me. Janis had much of all that too, true, but from what I have watched of her, she was rough and soft at the same time, I could not see anything pouring out in any direction. With Hart I do. As for sexy as heck, she is interesting but not sexy to me. For instance, we recently mentioned Sade who I find to be sexy. But again, it’s the matter of preference. |
Oh. I see. Feeding the chickens on Manhattan? And I thought I saw all... Here you are. https://www.6sqft.com/raising-chickens-in-new-york-city-laws-tips-and-everything-else-you-need-to-kn... No need to thank me. |
When I visited Puerto Rico in 1993 my Puerto Rican friend also took me to an arena in San Juan. Believe it or not, in PR, there is a yearly "rooster derby" lasting a few days and the winner receives 500,000 USD. I am packing my bags... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ezoHD_FynQ Aie, aie, aie... Fro, that’s insane...I nearly fell of my chair, laughing... |
I loved trains when I was a little girl. I never dared to wish for them, thought they were for sure unreachable for me, living somewhere far away in their shiny and steamy choo choo land. When I got old enough to travel with my family for more, I would of course, always vote for the train. Enjoyed in their huge windows where I could lost myself in an outside view as if I were truly there in each fast moving picture. My eyes were hungry for the new horizons. Mother was afraid of trains and had a fear that it will somehow and surely run off its rails. Tried to help her getting rid of that silly fear and I just wish I tried for more. If somebody could give me that train whistle again... https://youtu.be/WtYvGJaIRn0 Merry Christmas boys! |
Meanwhile in Croatia. Live broadcast... ac said that he loved pike. Ok, I love pike but I also love tea. I am tea enthusiast. I drink tea on every occasion I have and I drink it when I have no occasion at all. I have all kinds of tea, you can’t even imagine what kind of tea I have. This morning I bought new baby and it is called **Cannabis sativa L**. It says on the box, I am just reading it, organic hemp tea, CBD less than 3%, THC less than 0.2%. So I have just taken one and I am waiting for the result. Julia Lee - Marijuana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKiKTJ58Lto |
Mary_Jo,Hvala ti rok, that is very kind of you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too. A song for you https://youtu.be/e_1nagBrG54 |
I think they fooled me, I feel nothing. Attention. A joke. A rabbit got some weed and invited a little chicken to smoke some weed. After a while a rabbit asked little chick: Chicky, do you feel anything? Chick: I do not feel anything. Rabbit: What do you mean? Impossible, here take some more. After a while, rabbit: do you feel something now? Chick: Nothing. Rabbit: ok, here another one. After a while, rabbit: ok, what about now?? Little chicken: Nope, I feel nothing, I feel no legs, no wings, no head, nothing! |
Fro, nope, I just assume that it sees differently. And nope, the creator does not see it automatically, since obviously a level of education is required. I referred not to the non-deliberate or deliberate choice, I just wanted to emphasize the difference between the picture they have in general. I did wrote that both do have magic but of different kind. Knowledge is never a curse; when kept in its proper place. The point is in "proper place" I agree and this can be interpreted in many ways. Obviously I wasn’t trying to say that knowledge by itself is a curse. Of course that it is not. But in the light of from what I am saying, it could be. I would NOT underestimate the power of rose glasses in art in particular, you know, ’cause that is what moves the fan (admirer). And having fan who is moved is what all is about, right? |
I’m glad that I’m the kind of aficionado that goes where the artist I’m listening to takes me; I never compare. I guess that this comes naturally as the reaction on fro’s recent post. The movie maker and the movie watcher. I’d like to compare these two rather than a musician and the one who listens music. Where the pure observer sees the magic and the story itself, prior to anything else, the movie maker sees the complexity of work; the technic of shooting, the angle of light, the cut between the frames and all kinds of other stuff...Presumably this can’t be shaked off one’s mind. It’s the curse in the blessing from the obvious reason. Captures everyone who tried making something (creating something small or big). Once one has come to the other side where creators have been hiding and tasted the role of the maker, there is no way back. The magic of an observer shapes into the magic of a maker; one starts to examine, to compare, is grown to have bigger eyes (in movies) and bigger ears (in music). See what other can’t see, hears what other can’t hear. The curse in blessing how I see it. Somebody correct me if I am wrong but I guess that above mentioned is the reason why fro drinks too much coffee. |
And, thanks for your thoughts also, mary_jo. I must say that I got a very different sense of what you were trying to say from your first post on the subject. I appreciate what you are saying; I’m just not sure that such a strong distinction is justified nor accurate. And, I wouldn’t even call the “magic” (emotional reaction) necessarily that “different” in kind.Thank you for reply, in regards to who tried to say what, same here. And of course that there is no such strong distinction anywhere, that’s too obvious to even pay attention to. But yes, I would call it different. Again, not necessarily too opposite but definitely is different. If you, as the musician from very young age, have been "inside" of the world of the creators, could it be that you are not "quite familiar" (no to take this literally of course) with the perspective of the one who has been raised "outside"? It could also be the matter of the perspective that two of us have it. I think we have different views here. I agree, the power of rose colored glasses is very real, but it’s not always a good thing, IMO. Sometimes, factors other than just the music influence a listener’s reaction to it. Having known a performer personally, or having heard a song that one associates with a memorable life experience, or even liking a particular instrument more than another influences the level of “magic” that one experiences from a performance. Very normal, but that is the rose colored glasses effect.Is it good or not, I do not think that the creator is responsible of what one should do with his/her glasses. He should be responsible until some point (in regards what he presents and promotes) but is surely not responsible of how one sees his creation. And yes, factors other than just the music do influence on a listener’s reaction but again, that’s the "problem" of the listener, not the creator. Most serious artists not only would prefer that their art NOT be viewed through rose colored glasses, they don’t feel that having fans is “what it is all about”. They would prefer to be true to their vision of the art and if fans want to come along for the ride that’s great. Of course, some are more compromising than others and all of them have to eat.I think we are lost here. I deliberately emphasized that I wanted to talk about movies, rather than about musicians. There is the difference. A movie itself is more detached from a movie creator himself (out of the simple fact that much more people are involved in a movie) than a piece from player. Listeners tend to bond more with a musician than a movie watcher bonds with a movie director (they get attached more to an actor). Generally speaking of course. Exceptions do live. :-) Most serious artists not only would prefer that their art NOT be viewed through rose colored glasses, they don’t feel that having fans is “what it is all about”. They would prefer to be true to their vision of the art and if fans want to come along for the ride that’s great. Of course, some are more compromising than others and all of them have to eat.Since I understood what you were saying to me in the previous lines, this comes in a more clear way towards me and is perfectly understandable. But again, I wanted to say - art is the way of "selling the magic" and at the end, it’s all about the magic. The more magic one creates, the better. Now, what one considers to be the definition of the magic for him or her, that’s another pair of the shoes. I wrote a lot, pjw will now tell me that I probably have my day off, having so much time to do this. Nope, I do not have it, I have just put my work on the hold.:-) Alex, I would like to thank you for that Tarkovsky clip. |