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

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My mother told me I had my ear to the radio for Big-Band since I was 3 .

I remember I was about 20 when " Rock about the Clock" took
my Big Band off the radio in a years time .
Been angry every day since .Be dead if I did not hear this Beethoven
Guy song by this Swedish on all places of the Armed Forces Radio
in Vietnam ,
I saw there was beauty in the world , REAL beauty .

Song was ": Fur Elise", Singer was Jussi Bjorling .

Takes one to know what is what pryso1 .

Here is the semi National Anthem of Sweden in his native voice .


https://youtu.be/kXPPMYyJl-g

And these clips are not as good as his real voice was /is !



To my hears this guy is the most interesting in style and originality
on the trumpet .

https://youtu.be/Bzb-A3Xb_0U

P.S. frogman , the water I saw was largely  going to come from the Atlantic about 2040-50 without Climate change.

       Means only one thing , too late .
One of the best Jazz Albums I have bought in Years !

Just came out this Summer with 2 of the greats in Harmony .

https://youtu.be/nOXNn4fEQUM?list=RDnOXNn4fEQUM

What some in the know think  !

https://youtu.be/loxdmleHcaE
P.S there is a slight stop on the clip",enough to not wait for the second tune ,'' Monks Dream"

More HIGHLY  intertwine on each other improv's to sink a ship . A big one.

Rock, I will ask from someone who should know.

Is there not a bit of’" delta "in Mulgrew Miller?

I hear some blues in those chords .

https://youtu.be/2qeCFiRt1gU?list=RDnOXNn4fEQUM

The place is a Israel  music school 
Gee , thanks keegiam,frogman does about 90 %,, I just listen.

I love this rendition "’ of Desafinato’".

Both smooth and powerful .

https://youtu.be/AYFfnVO_geg?list=RDQMowNQODf85Ow


Another Latin standard , boys do all kinds of Jazz, chose this because they are seldom seen .This is in Seoul , big audience is normal there .


https://youtu.be/AiWCf7J-wcQ?list=RDQMowNQODf85Ow

Can you say improve ?


I think Edith would have put her stamp on this !


https://youtu.be/73oXkzWjbxM?list=RDQMowNQODf85Ow

I imagine all on here know who Edith Piaf is , but just in case .

She is a icon of France who was like no other and never will be !

She freezes me whenever I hear her sing , to me her every note
has two things , pain and love .

https://youtu.be/rzeLynj1GYM

There are clips of her songs which sound better , but this was just after WW II and she sung what she was ,a tired  France .

Thanks for heads up rok ! All I can say is I left with the Cav a few months back from Germany . By Army standards they were disciplined then and remained so till I left . I was in 229th Air Assault Bat.

Army really needed real platoon Sgt’s bit over a year later and I raised my hand .

Wrong ,went to 4th Div which had zero discipline as did every other did Army unit I saw .  Pass the dope .
The 229th was the most,, per capita , decorated unit in Viet Nam . And deserved it .
P.S rok , your clip seems there were no Aviation Assault units in Cav .

WRONG they were the backbone . And the  Pathfinders  were life and death  for all .
To each his own , the Euro pianist and others are 4 sure Classical
trained and are far more focused with more to say than Getz and company .IMO
Paul Bley thought Metheny a great musician and and made recordings 
with him .
Nice to see guys are widening you knowledge , it is a big world !.
Thanks to all and will look for what you suggest Tom .


P.S  Speaking of big world,. few days ago the Italian's passed a new law ,
         If you have a job , any  job, in Italy you have to be vacinated 
         within two weeks or you will have NO job in Italy , period .

         Taking care of business in Rome .
True, rok but in US only the blacks are still on the journey and it’s been
much longer for many .

Cheers
Ever bit of data and  study in all the Universities in the world say different .
frogman, I meant only their selves , not their music .
If your selves are close, what they do is great just because they are like 
you .
I believe both had a rather large ego.
This is for O-10 who has a good heart .

A lot of drums in it, I guess it could be called Native Hawaiian Jazz .
I just bumped into the huge man with the unique voice who is the icon
of Hawaiians still in Trauma , which is a about half of then .

It truly is not a joke , he speaks for them .  Got to me .

https://youtu.be/YUVfQ8xivho
At least they buried them . We did in millions and let the animals take care .

In any event it  is a horrible stain both on Canada and America and 
the  Catholic Church .


God will Judge .
So help me God , I did not know that Sept . 30, 2021 is a first Canadian Federal Holiday and will remain so .

Not a fun one but a remorse for what they did or allowed to happen to
the native children in the for and all else done on natives .

Canadian Judges have ruled that all still alive from the schools are to receive 40,000$

Not that great things will always be there , but Canadian Govt is trying and trying hard .

This is a stream from last night including those still alive , very
interesting to those who really care . Clips are mostly on CBC which
are not for You Tube . The Prime Minister comes in about .50 , if you don't hear his speech you are a fool  .

https://youtu.be/rS1DwmmcuHQ


I doubt that.,His dad was a strong man !
I stand corrected . Finland was the Best place to Live and Canada was 6th after Nordic lands .

What Canada was 1st in was Respect .
I learned a long time that YOU get more respect in Germany and others
if you have a Maple Leaf on your coat . If you are in the Netherlands{good idea}  you will be a hero .

Can't thing of one , rok,, Maybe a Hyena ?
The Entire World in The last UN poll decided that Canada was the best
Country in the World .

You do not understand that Canada is a Democracy and any country
that has a choice of two is not . In a Democracy the boss can do something today and get changed the next week .
In our method it can take years to do that, if that .

Canada , like the USA , has two different worlds . Alberta and Sask are
oil and controlled by that . People that don’t want Climate change
go all out to make him look bad .

You twist everything to fit the bubble you were born into as your brain makes
sure you keep your statist , it wants to live, Truth be dammed .

I don’t think you are a bad-person , In Fact I like you .
Other people brainwashed you .

I got lucky , nobody brainwashed me till I was about 17 and by then
I laughed at it .

Fact remains we have done hundreds of times more bad than Canada.
and that’s per-capita .

I also just said listen to his speech , which is very wise, not that he is the savior  or even wrote it .

3 base yes , but every honest Pol -Scientist knows his father was the
greatest Prime Minister Canada ever had .
He ’s not his dad but, he has some of him, and that is enough for now to keep the oil companies of the world from
destroying him and killing us .


Friends, I tell you the stone cold Truth , If you have never been here you
have never been any where !  

https://youtu.be/Q2TygZt9Xl0

Perhaps  this  on been on here , but as I could listen to it about 10 hours a day,
maybe someone might like a few minutes .

https://youtu.be/42KGSxSbMVA

P.S .  Take a 2 weeks to Denmark and see lots of  non-selfish and intelligent  folks ac .
Might be just me , but seems to me almost all bands do their best
in Copenhagen , maybe the girls ?

Not that Basie and Co. needed anything but themselves !



All empires fall , in general for what looks like various reasons .

Every one of the Twenty since time immoral had one thing in common .

The people thought it could never could .
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Stop the Fight , please.

To frogperson and all .

This is the most remarkable thing in music I have ever seen !

https://youtu.be/w3frQW6zLE4
That phrase made me jump out of my chair, like a good professional !

I know Italy makes many fine musicians but this kid , in a Catholic Church and so humble ........................................ God has Blessed Him Greatly .
This outing of the Danish Youth Jazz Band backing  a original artist,
Michael Bladt , is nice for old ears as well.

https://youtu.be/-r8nQdND42I
If Bach was the last person to compose after those who did before him 
I would understand him and easily ! 
Frogman , you see the music as a musician , I see Music as what it does
for me to be a better person . A hard job .
As a Christian, if only a fair one, if Bach and Monteverdi were the only
music in the Universe I would thank God for his greatest gift, save his Son,
to me and mankind each and every day .

And I know you are both Musician and Christian .
Keegiam.

I see what you mean.  You would sorta  feel something you had in hand for 45-50 years 

 I have a bit of Brahms sheet music which has Mucho soul !

Had one Clarinet quintet Op 115 sheet catch on fire, luckily I had a few
Jonas Kaufmann sheets to put the fire out .


Clarity is very Outstanding , I love me some clarity !

The violinist  , no mean musican  himself , looked like he was going to fall  off his chair .

I hear a bit of  Murray Perahia , Straight Up .

rok, those Indians are best I’ve ever seen.

They must have picked up the same  thing I did from Brit's .
" Wars are won on the Parade Ground ". aka discipline .