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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.
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.
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From the "Good Stuff" thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TWcRjmgkjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIg3lRN2Xw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4uPOBnbFnU Cheers |
Today's Listen: Art Blakey / Jazz Messengers -- MOSAIC with addition of Curtis Fuller(tb), first time Messengers were a Sextet. Recorded 1961. Classic Blue Note cover art. composed by cedar walton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzfURZdmkx8 by curtis fuller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqI7KG1ERyQ by freddie hubbard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS9wQqFgR68 Cheers |
Acman,guess he has no your sense of humor... https://youtu.be/amqhPsYRx_c Beeing able to spit into death's eye is a unique and respectful quality that requires sharp brain and strong character. Both my parents had 'overtime' but their response to it was very different. Needless to say, I consider 'prettier gender' to be stronger as well. https://youtu.be/JrdEMERq8MA |
Alex, an elder friend , who was a big American football fan, once wrote a book called the 4 quarters of life. It was about life for a man and the things he tries to obtain between 0-20, 20-40,40-60,60-80. I looked him in the eye and said " You must be in sudden death overtime." He hasn't spoken to me since. |
The great Jimmy Cobb. RIP. Discography: As leader
With Pepper Adams-Donald Byrd Quintet
With Cannonball Adderley
With Nat Adderley
With Toshiko Akiyoshi With Lorez Alexandria
With Geri Allen
With Dorothy Ashby
With Kenny Barron and John Hicks
With Walter Benton
With Walter Bishop, Jr.
With Nick Brignola
With Paul Chambers
With Al Cohn
With John Coltrane
With Miles Davis
With Joey DeFrancesco
With Kenny Dorham
With Kenny Drew
With Ricky Ford
With Curtis Fuller
With Benny Golson
With Paul Gonsalves
With Bunky Green
With Bill Hardman
With Joe Henderson
With John Hendricks
With John Hicks and Elise Wood
With Wynton Kelly
With Hubert Laws
With Johnny Lytle
With Harold Mabern
With Pat Martino
With Ronnie Mathews
With Billy Mitchell
With Wes Montgomery
With Frank Morgan
With Art Pepper
With Jimmy Raney
With Sonny Red
With Shirley Scott
With Wayne Shorter
With Don Sleet
With Sonny Stitt
With Teri Thornton
With Bobby Timmons
With Norris Turney
With Phil Upchurch
With Sarah Vaughan
With Cedar Walton
With Dinah Washington
With C. I. Williams
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Walking around for the rest of her life with the questions on the top of her head was heavy burden for her. Then she realized, maybe precisely the questions were the answers. Uncertainty was new way of living. Almost like dancing in the street with somebody she didn’t know…:--) Fun Martha & The Vandellas "Dancing in the Streets" Support Hold On, I’m Coming, Sam & Dave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JElrEbAcwY
"Now, don’t you ever be sad What? Peter Gunn Theme by Henry Mancini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIKSQT-oXfc Wish you nice day guys... |
Today's Listen: Oscar Peterson -- EXCLUSIVELY FOR MY FRIENDS 4 CD set. Includes 6 complete albums. Excellent booklet and notes: "All songs are recorded in the private studio of Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer, Villingen, Germany. Unfortunately the exact dates of the recording sessions are unknown." Like a handful of other players, Gene Harris comes to mind, Oscar is never boring or tedious. from volume 1: ray brown (b), ed thigpen (d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k6RYYjhodk sam jones (b), bobby durham (d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZn4kPR01HE sam jones (b), Louis Hayes (d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAbt3RdYMh0 sam jones (b), bobby durham (d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_2gxpB6GoM Cheers |
Good to see you back, pjw. As someone here said recently, how could I have missed this one? Fabulous clip and an album to get. Funny how some of the greats slip by sometimes. Thanks! Right back at you: https://youtu.be/MTQoH_lVdL0 https://youtu.be/S1fPrT8M4jc https://youtu.be/Bsdelj43ED0 |
Happy Memorial Day to all!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncjb6GIvLmo&list=PLp1OjP0tJn_F4jBpdG_JqW8PE1bfKwDLt |
Still haven't had enough bass clarinet? Try this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v998aAyrFo&feature=youtu.be Then this - https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/jazz-for-aficionados?page=435 A friend forwarded it today without knowing about our recent discussions here. For my taste Landrus slips into what I call "noodling" a bit too much, something many clarinet players tend to do. I like the tonality of the clarinet and bass clarinet but I am particular about the style in which it is played. |
I would like to change the groove dramatically on this Holiday Weekend Sunday to a more pensive and introspective groove, and Lonnie Liston is the first artist I’ve selected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Liston_Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dmX2uhQrZs&list=PLQ1szRkkynoufd6ybqGV1l9ildh4DDIUS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_M9NvaNxoI&list=PLQ1szRkkynoufd6ybqGV1l9ildh4DDIUS&index=1 I noticed that lonnie played with all the artists that we have featured numerous times on this thread; that’s a good recommendation. I will include some of those artists on this post; Leon Thomas is one of those artists. I knew Leon Thomas, I also knew his father. Leon sang this at a club after his father's funeral; it brought tears to my eyes because the song was so appropriate in regard to his father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh7aZ_Q6ibw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61LYJm-fnLs I’ll conclude with Pharoah Sanders Thembi; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyirrcT5a6Q |
I was thinking more along these lines. Didn't they have a record store online, in Chicago I think. Have a ton of blues CDs from them. https://delmark.com/blues-artists/ Cheers I do have The Roscoe Mitchell Sextet on Delmark. The title of the CD is 'SOUND'. :) Includes Lester Bowie. Which reminds me, I need to hear 'I only have eyes for you' tonight. |
It seems that Gloria Lynne was popular at about the same time as Dakota; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMeLxh80zdE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DwPn1wCxIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tgh5BOTCuM |
Dakota Staton was really hot in St. Louis when she was performing. I don't know but I would hope she was that hot in other places too. With George Shearing; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpY_d7_mUaQ |
I'll never forget the time we...we ...what were we talking about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O24OFJlIRPE |
It's that time of week folks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfIhwTv9M8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCFUR7MzgeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-npjVDK2XU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1naqkKP9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO2Q_YuC3PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYVz7p8R6yI Cheers |
Rok, I think you have this spectacular CD by Dinah Washington; it's "Dinah Jams" I've told this story so many times that you would think that I actually saw Dinah perform, but I was a teenager and too young to go to nightclubs at that time; never the less, just being in the vicinity of "The Queen" is something worth recalling, especially now. I was walking down Cottage Grove on the South Side one afternoon, when I saw a crowd of people around an automobile. This was in 56, and no one had ever seen this particular model of automobile. It just happened to be Dinah Washington's car, but even if it had been my car, people would have still been crowded around it, the car was just that out of sight; a new Lincoln Continental Mark with the built in spare on the trunk; it was the most expensive US automobile made at that time. The car was parked in front of the Pershing Lounge, where Ahmad Jamal led the house band, and she probably just stopped in with friends for a cocktail, or maybe was conducting business with the management, who knows? When you add all of those things together, you can see just how fantastic that moment was, and well worth recalling now that I'm listening to a new record by Dinah. It's so unfortunate that she died from a pill reaction, not a pill overdose, when her chaotic life had finally settled down to perfection; she was with her last husband who was also her perfect mate when death struck. As Fats Waller said, "One never knows, do one? |
'New', previously unissued live album of Grant Green Slick! (Live at Oil Can Harry's) https://youtu.be/XLYJR4TSCGo https://youtu.be/S1VnT5hwK44 More about that edition and the label, including live interview with Green https://grantgreen.bandcamp.com/album/slick-live-at-oil-can-harrys |
Gloria Coleman Quartet ’Soul Sisters’ album featuring Pola Roberts, with Grant Green and Leo Wright from 1963. https://youtu.be/iKKneKGfkGE https://youtu.be/Tthz7Eho3lU |
I don't have as many of Grover's albums as I thought I had, but these are the one's that I have;"Inner City Blues"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1_tkTYAHhE "A Secret Place" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmap1RBNhAs "Winelight" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPH1IuMtFGc Plus a few more; all of this music sounds good to me; especially "Just the Two Of Us" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOuI4OqJfQc |
This song is about either "instant seduction" or love at first sight; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyp1yvSBq5I&list=RDiyp1yvSBq5I&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Qt3Y7IxsM&list=RDiyp1yvSBq5I&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC8FY-PSlZk&list=RDiyp1yvSBq5I&index=3 Moments in time too unforgettable for words, moments that one wishes could be trapped in a time capsule to be relived when desired. |
At times like these, we need to recall all the precious moments we can ever remember. mine are depicted in songs, and "speak Low" is one of them; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DGY3MGwqls That version captures the perfect Summer day. |