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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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tubegroover
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Jeez I love this thread! I am systematically going through the recommendations and links, great stuff, thanks guys!
tubegroover
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I discovered this, thought it might be of interest to the conversation around Coltrane lending greater insight to the man his early influences and evolution.

"Trane's music was like a train moving forward; with a direction that was unstoppable, if not a runaway train."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJj4YXWPLI
tubegroover
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"P. S I don't have to imagine the Paramount in the 40's, I was in it then."

Schubert I hear you, my father loathed him for exactly the same reasons you do and I certainly get the why of it but probably not to the same extent as someone who witnessed it first hand. The one thing I admire in Sinatra if little else, is his tenacity and belief in himself but conversely his pettyness. He was a very complex individual, generous on one hand, unforgiving and a bully on the other and I suppose this just adds into the equation of the enduring facination with his persona maybe even more so than his singing. I personally don't believe the two can be separate. If you take away the personality from the singer he, at least in my estimation, would have fizzed out long before his remarkable comeback.
tubegroover
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Now Schubert I would only say this. Imagine, if you can, that you are a teenage girl and you and your girl friends are in the audience at the Paramount in the early 40's listening to your idol, Frank Sinatra swooning "Night and Day". Are you ever going to forget it? Would you care whether anyone else cares what is important to you?

Whether you like Sinatra or not for whatever reason one thing is undeniable, the man worked hard at his craft and promoted it by whatever means necessary. As time went by he became a better musician because of it and he has to at LEAST be given credit for that especially after all the obstacles he encountered, divorcing his wife and the disfavor of the public after that. Me? I think he has nothing more than an average range but is the master of phrasing musically and self promotion and delusion (of the masses) at worst. One can thank Dolly for that, but what are mother's for? Ask all those American Idol participants.

Sinatra is more than about his voice, it's about the American Dream, how even mediocrity can elevate itself to something special in it's own unique way.
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