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.
I think you are correct about the origin. Btw, I was not in the 2nd Brigade, I just use that icon to honor the origin of the name ’Black Jack’. I was in the DISCOM, 1st Cav. Cheers
Yeah, but it’s just as hard fightin and stringin communication wire from the back of a horse as it is fightin and ridein from one!
I never has known Hancock was so good....The quality of his musical output from bluenote is homogenous...not a single less interesting track... Thanks...
mahgister, when you write something, it is some of the most beautiful, ethereal words of poetry - put to pen, I’ve ever had the opportunity to read...
Herbie Hancock was the pianist in the best jazz combo ever assembled. (mahgister!) Enjoy your journey! The members here have introduced me to some of the greats in the same way.
Wait until you get to the FUNKY/JAZZ years of Herbie...!
@acman3, I wanted to drop, shall we say somewhat of a different music with a gut bucket stank funky jass grove by some new lions on/of the current scene to show case these young cats here but I didn’t want to show out? As it were? But you have opened that door for me to show case this young cat called MonoNeon on the electric bass. Playing it left handed, upside down - nasty! Kind’a like Jimi...
Notice how the drummer, Tamir Barzilay effortlessly I might add, keeps everybody in the pocket...Groovy baby!
@rok2id, every language in every culture does this. Always cutting off words. ’Bro’ was originally pronounced ’bruh’ as in brother and not brō, which I hate!
For some reason those cut off or slang words make us feel more comfortable. Like a secong language of sorts. Only spoken by the ’Hip’ few. Although I never did quite understand what a ’Hep Cat’ was? Lol! (Yes I did!)
If you think about it, a lot of American slang or cut off words coming from the black jazz musicians were originally from slang words developed in the black south. Chittl(in) circuit anyone?
But I know you already knew this being a member of the Black Pack 2nd Brigade 1st Cavalry Division. We honor you! (In) ’22!
I just happened to pass this way and was fortunate enough to come across the Paul Martino posts. Thank you guys for this! As I had never heard of him!
mahgister, for years I thought John Coltrane was the father of free jazz until I read one of your ’poems’ on another thread and found out that it was Ornette Coleman that is the father of ’free jazz’. Nicely done!
schubert I get it! And I would like to share something with you. Just recently George Benson was asked who he thought was the best guitar player and without hesitation he said Django Rinehart. Not Charlie Christian, Eddie Lang nor Wes Montgomery.
Interesting you mentioning the word ’flabbergasted’. Since you have given so much to us, here is a link to some eclectic music that you just may enjoy!☺
Man this interesting stuff! Just a couple weeks ago I posted a comment on ’Bands/artists you never got to see live in their heyday, but would’ve liked to.’
11-11-2021 9:29pm
Wow, I had almost forgotten what a nice thread looks like with like minded people. For some reason I got old jazz guitar slingers on my mind.
Django Reinhardt Charlie Christian Eddie Lang Jim Hall Barney Kessel Bill Frisell Tal Farlow Herb Ellis Freddie & Grant Green Charlie Byrd Kenny Burrell
And as many a jazz guitarist I’ve known about over the years, I had never heard of Pat Martino! Until about a week or so later, I discovered here, thanks to you guys!
So I gotta ask?
coltrane1, why did you leave Eddie Lang off your jazz guitarist list above? His style of playing jazz to me, is show nuff blues and country music based indeed. Just curious?
I much prefer his tone to Pat Martino’s. Reason being Anthony plays a Gibson Byrdland archtop as opposed to a tele like guitar.
WWWHHHAAATTT!!!
That is an insane statement if I ever heard one. Not only is Pat Martino a master guitarist but a master band leader as well. Pat Martino has played with some of the best musicians that have ever lived. And HE knows the BLUES!
Guitarist Anthony Wilson born in1968, is a BABY compared to Maestro Martino! And you play guitar!?
frogman, if coltarne1 can’t understand the massive CHOPS of Pat Martino? Then there’s nothing you or we can do. Especially, after dropping that YouTube video Oleo! He is a front man.
His band in the video would blow the Anthony Wilson band live with Diana Krall. OFF THE STAGE!
And to the comment, ’I much prefer his tone to Pat Martino’s. Reason being Anthony plays a Gibson Byrdland archtop as opposed to a tele like guitar.’
Let me explain, and give an analogy.
A master carpenter can take the worst, beat up, broken tools and create a master piece.
And a apprentice or even a newly minted journeyman could not match the skill set of a master carpenter even if (he or she) had brand new spanking tools.
And the quality of workmanship would not even come closet to the master carpenter’s with the worst, beat up, broken tools.
It’s as everything you had to say is now irrelevant because your tone is crap. All my opinion.
Well it would seem buy consensus here on audiogon that more agree with me than you. And that is a fact, and has nothing to do with opinion. By the way I played drums, not a pro but have ben playing since I was 6 and have very good ’tone’.
’The label was created as an alternative to traditional jazz, invoking a more political and spiritual tone, often with funk overtones.[5] Black Jazz (Records) released various types of music including, funk, free jazz and soul jazz. Black Jazz Records was also known for its unique album cover concept, which was copyrighted by the label.’
In the words of James Brown, you’re ’doing it to death’...I had known about the Doug Carn releases on black jazz records featuring also his wife at the time Jean Carn, but you’ve just - masterfully I might add, opened me ears and mind to digging the entire catalog I did not know about. WOW!
For our friend, teacher, fellow poster and ’Magi’ @mahgister, welcome back! For those of you who know and for those of you who don’t know, the music here is Brazilian Jazz. Not to be confused with ’Bossa Nova’, which it is not.
You are such an avid reader of books, even of different languages I thought you were a professor.
In fact, I wanted to share with you a book I have read that was originally written in your native French language by Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop ’Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology’.
I normally wouldn’t post an algorithm suggestion from you tube but this I had to share with you good folks. This is: THE GREAT VOCAL JAZZ LOUNGE, with Denise King, Silvia Donati, Claudia Zannoni and Patricia De Assis.
The vocals, musicianship and sound quality of this video is killer. There’s jazz and Latin jazz standards with even some Samba jazz not to be confused with Bossa Nova at the end which surprised me. Please do take the time and listen to this entire project. Thank you.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been here and I thought to share this link but I wasn’t quite sure to post this cause it’s not (all) jazz per say, but after seeing this last page I noticed @jafant mention Esperanza Spaulding and @alexatpos mention Wayne Shorter and I said, why not?
Milton Nascimento: ’Cais’
Milton Nascimento: ’Outubro’
Guinga, Paulo César Pinheiro: ’Saci (feat. Guinga)’
Milton Nascimento, Fernando Brant: ’Saudade Dos Aviões Da Panair (Conversando No Bar) (feat. Maria Gadú)’
Wayne Shorter, Edgy Lee: “When You Dream (feat. Maria Gadú)”
Please enjoy.
@frogman,’style individualistic’ I couldn’t agree more. I’ve always been drawn to dynamic musicians who make you not only look and listen to them but are also great accompaniment to their bandmates. Just like Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spaulding.
Man, thank you both for the in-depth posts. I only remembered how people described him. Pre-hippie was spot on. The guy was ’mystical’ way before it was cool. I’ve often described the song version done by Nat King Cole the most ’ethereal’ song I’ve ever heard and it has the same effect on me when I here it. It’s as if the musical collaboration(s) version of the NKC recording has a ’Vibe’ (vibration) that causes a response in me that is always the same. As the song has never got old to me. My Pops was a BIG NKC fan. Here is a George Benson version.
I was gonna make a post here about the great drummer Chick Webb but after seeing @alexatpos and @frogman’s post...Funny how things work out sometimes...
’And they said in 1956 tv and rock and roll was killing big band jazz...They’re swinging so hard, it sounds not only easy (to listen to) but nasty (jam session) too!’
You can definitely hear the ’nuances’ between say a Benny Goodman arrangement Count Basie or Duke Ellington arrangement. And that’s taking nothing away from Benny...
I found this, this weekend and wanted to share with you all even if it has already been posted? Please enjoy!
Streamed live on Apr 21, 2018
We are delighted that the good Doctor Lonnie Smith is returning to the club, bringing his supreme self-taught styling’s of psychedelic funk, gospel, jazz and more. With a career that spans half a century, this Master of the Hammond B-3 organ has accumulated a plethora of accolades, recorded over twenty solo albums, and toured with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Etta James, Ron Carter and Lou Donaldson. Expect an eclectic evening of bold musical landscapes brought by one of the strongest musical outfits touring today.
@frogmanWill do! This is the place I come to get ’new’ music. Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by the amount of outstanding and high quality sound of music that’s posted here as I’m always playing catchup to the marvelous music posted here.
@curiousjimYou are so right! ++++ on Consummation!
@acman3 You are killing it, with all those glorious posts here. Keep it up!
On the Tamba Trio - Tempo 1964 - Full Album I could not find separate songs of this particular album on YouTube, only a full rip, so anyway, please enjoy!
Ahhh...Ho! Ho! Ho! Bobba! As Bootsy would say...Around this time of the year...
@acman3, I had a literal Jam Session at my place last night X-Mas Eve 2024.
Those two posts of yours Tomin - A Willed and Conscious Balance (Full Album) and Especially Sahib Shihab - Sahib Shihab and the Danish Radio Jazz Group [Full Album] were off the proverbial Chain.
In fact when I first started to listen to the youtube rip of Sahib Shihab I thought it was AI! Cause the youtube video showed a digital facsimile of a black line continuously going back and forth over the picture of the band in the background which to me resembled an analog recording film or celluloid based video recording medium that had deteriorated over time from oxidation on the film and from the old movie/video film projector scratching the film during playback.
Man was I wrong, about the rip being AI! As I said in one of my previous posts. @acman3 - You (you’re) Killin The Game! Thank you so much.
That’s why to this day I still crate dig for used albums and even used cd’s whether it’s a walk in record/cd store or perusing Discogs. Here’s a tip for my crate diggin folks out there, always use a record weight when playing used record albums just in case they may be a bit warped. I spend the bulk of my hifi/audio funds on my rig itself so’s I can buy more records and cd’s. But hey, different strokes...
You must have a verified phone number and physical address in order to post in the Audiogon Forums. Please return to Audiogon.com and complete this step. If you have any questions please contact Support.
