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

Where are we going to find a musician who has played in both Jazz and Classical settings, and is an Audiophile?

@acman3, we probably won't find a musician who has played both classical and jazz in this group. So, a discussion for another day.

Many ordinary musicians can play classical and enjoy playing jazz.

But playing in a band of many versus with two or three or four with a "timing" born from the unwritten  play versus a "timing" imposed by the written play ask for a different time feeling...

Music is classical or jazz, rythms of time and timing...

There is no time in mathematics...

But there is not so much  numbers in music as thought Pythagoras and Leibnitz after him  but more timbre explorations and timing time investigations...

We hear a vibrating sound source  which "inform" us and we vibrate ourselves in response in a timing way, transforming our body and the instrument or the vibrating phenomena into one event. It is Speech creation  already with music.

Here in speech, as in music, time is not external to the event but on the opposite created by it  and born from it.( poetry unlike prose can gave us this birth of creative memory again)

Jazz is the root by which we can remember the birth of music and speech again by recreating musical time and timing in a new way compared to classical western music.

The black African root of jazz was a gift.

"its rolling" as said to Randy Weston his African master friend. Time is born with music again.