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.
Only problem I have with Arty Shaw is I can never get a "best" , every piece is perfect . Got one with Rubalcaba even if piano is a bit off . Must be the company he keeps.Plus its in Munich, they love jazz.
Rok,.Never thought of logistic as hardest workers.Come to think of it my Transport Plt. had to be at dock by 4AM whilst the 105 shells for the 4id were loaded as we ate breakfast at a table on the dock.
Then my 8 deuce and 1/2’s had to go up from seal level to their base at 3, 500 ft on a steep dirt road , 300 miles up and back getting back to our base around 8 PM . 7 days a week with the odd shot to deal with. The Transport Lt. with the jeep and ONLY radio didn’t show up most days . .
Ahmad Jamal is a jazz pianist who is one class act. I saw him when I was staying at the Holiday Inn, on North Shore Drive in Chicago in the mid 80's. He was appearing at "Ricks Cafe", which was located in the hotel. The place was designed to recreate the bar made famous by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the movie classic "Casablanca."
After the show Frank and Othello joined me for drinks where we had a long discussion in regard to a jazz musician making a living in the States. Frank told me he had tickets in his pocket for Japan, and it would be tough without fans outside of the US.
" Truth is that you tend to use this thread as a vehicle for personal story telling (not all real, by your own admission); sometimes even more so than simply for sharing and discussing the music. When you don’t score points you often act like a mean spirited old man. Interesting how truth always has a way of revealing itself."
If any one wants to know the reason for my last post, ask Frogman?
Do you think Kenny Rice would remember talking to me and my girlfriend when he sat at our table while watching John Coltrane perform at a nightclub in St. Louis?
This is the pressing that I have and that I bought from this source a while back. Have never heard the original, but I can tell you that this (my copy, at least) is more than decent sound wise. If I were to rate my copy for quietness, I would say A-. I am more tolerant of surface noise than some. Recommended.
Very nice record from one of my favorite tenor players. We recently looked at the great pianist Kenny Drew and I believe this was their first of many collaborations. I like Dexter from this period in his career. A little lighter toned and not as (almost) painfully behind the beat as he was later in his career. (Love the cover art.)
Any recommendations on a good pressing that doesn't break the bank for Dexter Gordon's Daddy Plays the Horns album? I don't see a lot of options outside of the original that seem to go for outrageous (according to my wallet) sums of money. Would be happy in the $50-$80 range.
Logistics people don't have the most dangerous jobs in the Army, but, they are the hardest working group in ANY military force.
He will get it done. They are going to try the vaccine out on folks like us. If we don't croak, everyone gets it. Look at it as just continually serving your country. :)
Rok, if Gen. Perma can pull off the logistics of Warp after almost a total year of total neglect it might well be the greatest feat of the US Army ever .Gus looks like the man to me, if he pulls it off he will deserve the Medal of Honor . I’m praying for him and all logistical soldiers . I got struck as Plt Sgt for few months in a Transport Co. hauling ammo . It ain't easy or safe .
Frogman, God as my witness. I went to U of MN, top 50 in the world , then U of WI top 25, 2 German U’s where you lived or died in a 3 hour grilling .If God made me the 1st human for a do-over at 18 and I could go to any U I wanted , I’d pick little SUNY Potsdam in the Adirondack foot-hills.
The Crane School has 650 students as does the U of MN School of music .There’s nothing I like better than to go to student recitals , may be the bias of a old man but at MN I hear (or did) competition, at Potsdam, cohesion .
The Mohawk’s claim one of earths power belts pass right under SUNY Potsdam . I used to argue with Indians, I don’t anymore with Native Americans .
Schubert and Keegiam, the Schonefeld airport in Berlin is not really distant.Very much european traffic went that way anyhow. Now it will become the part of the larger, new, airport (the work on it was late and the budget overstreched, which is strange for germans) Flew many, many times there, but only once from Tegel and than to the States
A sad day for anyone who loved Berlin and flew into it’s airport(Tegel) in last 60 years . Very sad for me as I did at least a hundred times (sob) . Just cuting onions. New one (BER) Willy Brant is 18 kilometers SE from city center, Tegel was 5 north .
https://youtu.be/i6uzTbtxt1c?t=1 If Americans ever get the green light to fly to Germany again in my lifetime I will be there if its the last thing I ever do. On Lufthansa 747 out of Chicago ! In First Class !!
I know two of them (the character from Woody Allen movie clip posted above not counted) ...one is well knonw comic strip figure and the other...no need to say it....
Frogman, my grandmother’s name was also Marija...and its my aunts middle name too....its a common name in these parts...or better, it was....now the children have more ’modern’ names....
This sounds much like Shorter’s " Terra Incognito" classical piece which is on You Tube . Goggle won’t let you hear it unless you join them , I heard it on St Paul PBS .
Family factoid (and running joke). In my family there are 5 Marias. In one immediate family unit of 3 sisters (first cousins to me), all three are named Maria. Maria Antonia, Maria Fernanda and Maria del Carmen.
Mary_Jo..........OK, I need to get to the bottom of this! I always struggle with this when addressing you, so please set the record straight. Which do you prefer? Mary_Jo, mary_jo, or Mary_jo? Perhaps MJ? I have a sister in law with the same name as you (lovely name, btw). We call her simply, Jo. Which do you prefer?
Oh, almost forgot: JQ?
Re your funny comment about that great Monk/Rouse pic. Reminded me of a joke often used by musicians when talking to another: “I like what you’re trying to do, man” 😎 Subtle.
When I saw "Trane" he was blowing the Soprano sax, it was the same one Miles had given him. Miles said that John Coltrane had helped to make both of them legends.
According to Miles; "Trane was the loudest, fastest saxophonist I’ve ever heard. He could play real fast, and real loud at the same time and that’s very difficult to do.
After I gave him that soprano saxophone, it had an effect on his playing, his style changed; while he sometime played like Bird, Stitt, Lockjaw, or Dexter Gordon before, after he got that horn, he didn’t sound like nobody but himself. He found out he could play lighter and faster on the soprano than he could on the tenor. He found he could think and hear better with the soprano than he could with the tenor. When he played the soprano, after a while it sounded almost like a human voice, wailing"
That’s what Miles had to say about Trane.
This is the album that was hot when I saw John Coltrane;
The place was packed with professional musicians (minus girlfriends). If I had come minus girlfriend, I would not have had one when I got home; she liked Trane as much as I did. We were fortunate enough to have "Kenny Rice" a professional drummer, sit at our table.
All those professional musicians were there for a reason, which I was soon to discover; Trane didn’t repeat what was on the album, but played a much extended version, that was long enough to take me to a place that I had never been, but always wanted to go; a blissful musical heaven.
This was in a nightclub setting and we were close enough to the musicians to see every bead of sweat, and the expressions on their faces as they took us through different moods; naturally, Elvin Jones, the drummer was dripping with sweat as he propelled Trane to higher ground.
Near the end of the set, Trane really stretched out, that was what the professional musicians came to hear; "Coltrane unleashed", going places where no musician had gone before, out into the far reaches of the seventh galaxy. He reworked and extended "My Favorite Things" into a 35 minute tune. A grand time was had by all.
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