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

One of my favorite jazz album because the atmosphere is irresistible, magical  and i discovered it because i admired Tom Harrell to begin with...But the whole is more than the sum of his parts here...

1H45  of pure joy...

 

 I learned to love Jazz, many decades ago, being not a musician like frogman, the day i realized that Jazz is about chemistry between musicians too and not only a new language but a new type of sacred communion ...

it remind me of the way i was transported in ecstasy very young by the atmosphere of choral music...

I begun to understand why Miles Davis , Chet Baker, Sun Ra etc appeared to me as priests not only musicians  as in classical written  music...

it was a revelation about music i was no more young, but in my thirty....Till then i was mostly only in classical...

Chorus  sacred music for me is a geometry of voices like interpenetrating points/volumes in a heavenly space. Jazz  was a denuded heart vibrating and communicating with my own heart...

After i came to Indian and Persian music ... It is another story...


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I did not appreciate many female jazz voices as i appreciate instruments. But Shirley Horn is magnificent here . Thanks frogman for your expert choices...

https://youtu.be/4YmnLvwfCtk
 

https://youtu.be/Y1n2hBn8TrU