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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
orpheus10 OP
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Frogman, since "My Spanish Heart" was 2 LP's of Chick Coreas music projecting his Spanish Heart, don't you think "Spain" might have been incorporated somewhere in that music.

Whenever you get through, I heard music from "My Spanish Heart"; that's two LP's, and four sides of music. if you give it a listen, you might agree, but since it was his music in both cases, he could play it whenever and however he wanted, and call it what he liked.

And here I thought it was the genuine article, I thought it was "Mingus", that just goes to show how good they were at warming it over.



alexatpos
1,209 posts
 
Couple years back, Orpheus asked me about the size of my  recod collection, considering the number of unknown artists that I have posted here.

Well, I do not know does Jimmy Page listens to jazz music, but his room is much more packed with music than mine...

Still, its nice to see somebody who seems to just enjoys in music....

Jimmy Page's room, from documentary 'It might get loud'...

 https://youtu.be/KVcS7KDf60s
coldducktime
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Wow, I’m new to the forum and just discovered this thread. There’s no way I’ll ever have time to read all 228 pages of it, but what I have seen is entirely in line with my tastes...the OP’s suggestion of Blakey’s Moanin’ is one of the first jazz albums that really spun my head around. Every solo on the opening track is on fire.

These are a few of my favorite jazz albums:
1. Abdullah Ibrahim: Capetown Revisited
2. Les McCann and Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement
3. Bill Evans: Waltz for Debbie
4. Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time In
5. Thelonious Monk: Misterioso
6. Weather Report: Heavy Weather
7. Wes Montgomery: Echoes of Indiana Ave.
orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Alex, you are always coming up with something special for me, even when it's outside the genre; "Rumble" for example, was not in my collection, I didn't even know the name of the tune, but it seemed to come on the car radio about 4:00 in the morning when I was trying to get back to the base in 59. I thought that was a bad guitar, but I never knew the name of the tune.

It's amazing how music can swirl around in your head without knowing the tune or the artist.


With all those fantastic "unknown" artists, I know you're just being modest.
orpheus10 OP
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Coldducktime, I know Rok is going to like you, that's one of his favorite tunes, mine too as a matter of fact; it reminds me of wine drinking lawn parties in the Summer time.

Out of the artists you have listed, I haven't heard too much of Abdullah Ibrahim, I'll have to correct that.
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