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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While I applaud the attempt to post about music on a gearhead site, I am curious as to which jazz CDs may have been remastered and re-released to give the best sound quality.

Let's start with Trane...

any info?
Thx much I did not know of the Rudy Van Gelder reissues - now to find just the ones I want...

BTW - on the topic of new players (rather than better reissues of older releases) I will suggest:
Tamasi Washington - very adventurous
and Grace Kelly - beautiful sax tone
"Little Randy is feeling his oats today. My guess is too much sugar."

what is pitiful is your continued attacks on people who have corrected on numerous things - not just me either

why anyone would want to embarrass themselves on the internet is beyond me
Thx, frogman - do you happen to know what year(s) they remastered the CTI releases?

I have quite a few on CD but if the music is significantly better...
Grace Kelly is Korean-American - from Boston IIRC. Her mother remarried a guy named Kelly, hence the surname.

She was part of Stay Human on the Late Show for awhile - I suspect she left as she has her own band and needs to tour.

She is a child prodigy and there are some videos on youtube of her as a child with a sax as large as she is propped up on a support so she can hold it.

It will be fun to watch her evolve with age.

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My biggest hope is that reincarnation is real and so Trane will return...

but we are just lucky to live in an era of recorded music.
the main one was an LP with Benson, Turrentine, Hubbard et al. on it, but I forget the name

White Rabbit also
I like White Rabbit best...

some criticize him for being too pop-music oriented, but I say... let them play the guitar instead
yes, that was joke

I do recommend the tune "I thought I heard Buddy Bolden Say"
in New Orleans, kids with horns are all over the place, walking home from school - at high school football games, even if the team loses, if your band wins that is a victory

and here's a quote from a friend (who does not live there):
"most of the street musicians would be band leaders in other cities"
orpheus10 posted some important but little known facts about NoLa, but the Black Creoles (and indeed all Creoles) has lost a LOT of political power to "Les Americans' by the time we see jass beginning

another important but little known issue is some cross-fertilization from Italian immigrants, mostly Sicilian -- it's reasonable to think they may have affected jazz as well as food and other aspects of culture
Yes, he is very "New Orleanian" - anyone who thinks New Orleans is a SOuthern city, probably also thinks it is an American city.

or a Caribbean city, or a french or Spanish colonial city
What are the best Herbie Hancock albums on CD?

(other than Maiden Voyage & Empyrean Isles)
any thoughts on:  Early Ellington: The Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings 1926-1931

I just got the 3 CD set
Speaking of Trane...  anybody know if the Church of Coltrane still exists?  I know they had to move from one location in San Francisco a few years ago... 
any thoughts on the complete plugged nickel show by miles davis on CD?

SQ, re-masterings, etc.?
I walked out of the book store with a number of books, and a friend of mine peeped in the bag: "old Shakespeare, Dickens, and D H Lawrence, you still into them?" That was the question he asked 20 years ago. It's for certain I thought I would be out of those artists by now, but we are discussing those same artists more than ever now.


???
this thread was starting to cost me too much money, but the quarreling has reduced the number of jazz albums posted
Sonny Stitt question:  How rare is the CD of him and his electric saxophone?