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.
First time I saw Cobham was in what I believe was in McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra first tour, maybe 1972. It was a small club and we had a table right in front of the band. The musical exchanges and energy that night were fantastic. Cobham was like a coiled spring who seemed to play harder and harder as the night wore on. One of my Top10 concert experiences ever.
The City of Minneapolis is as well, There is no city in the world that has as many Great Choirs . Here is one of them ,(still few days of Christmas ). https://youtu.be/c_g4rEPXkyI?t=3
Alberta Hunter, Lucille Hegamin, Victoria Spivey -- SONGS WE TAUGHT YOUR MOTHER
Divas --- No Flash, all Substance.
Notes: "During world war 2, Miss Hunter made numerous U.S.O. trips to the "CBI" (China-Burma-India) theater of operations, Europe and the south pacific. Once while in France, she was flown off to Frankfurt, Germany, to do a command performance for General Eisenhower, and during the Korean war she toured Korea with Snub Mosely’s 17 piece band. Needless to say, Alberta Hunter deserved the Medal for Meritorious services which she was awarded."
Beautiful! Not much Barrueco can’t play, indeed. To be fair, I’m not crazy about some of the other cuts on this record (I suspect I know what you would say) but he nails “Michelle”:
Frogman is right, I shouldn't get off track; I just googled the answer to your question Schubert in regard to comparing us to other industrialized countries, and after I posted it, the answer disappeared. That's another problem.
Is somebody trying to tell me not to get off the subject of music?
Rok, I look at the news daily, been doing it for ages, and it's as if the lower middle class does not exist; there is never anything mentioning their plight.
EDUCATION for what, to flip hamburgers; that's another problem, the lack of opportunities. Kids rack up debts going to college, and the next thing you know, the jobs they went to college for have been "off shored". In a Democracy, we are our brothers keeper, and the lower middle class (people who depend on employment) have been sold out.
Schubert we are talking about industrialized countries, and I'm not sure since I've only kept us under close observation.
We began our downhill run under the Bush Administration when JP Morgan became a person, that allowed them to "manipulate" all of our financial markets. Although I used them as an example, I meant all of the corporations. This continued under the Obama Administration; it's like a "Uni party", everything benefits the 1%.
I can tell by you're replies and questions that you've been paying attention. What's most apparent is how things have shifted; all the laws made by DC benefit the rich at the expense of the poor; taxes is a good example.
What's most distressing is the fact that the poor have gotten poorer. With that fact comes extreme psychological stress. Someone born 20 years ago in a distressed community was born into an open air insane asylum; deprived people become depraved people when their deprivation is extreme.
Rok, you can answer all the questions before any of them are asked.
In the history of a country or a city 20 years is not long at all, but many cities in this country have gone like "Down hill racers" in their effort to get to the bottom.
It is? I never meet a American who is into Chinese Opera . Language always matters . If there no wrong there is no right .
A thought , I drove all over Europe and the vast majority of music on the car radio was American R&R .That said , when you crossed into Italy there was little to no of same . Italy was the most religious country in Europe , there was plenty of pop music but it was Italian pop music .Dare say along with Poland still is . Poles say you are either Polish Catholic or Catholic Polish . Both countries , have absolute right and wrong and whether they heed it or not they know what it is . In USA and most of Europe everything is relative , relative to nothing .
No reason to retreat, you are always welcome here.
I think of movies and music differently it seems. In a movie, I think the director needs to tell a coherent story so it makes since to the viewer. To look through the lens and notice where more or less of the story needs telling to make the story work.
In music, I always have believed it was up to the viewer to keep up with the artists story, even if they tell it in three unknown languages. An obvious contradiction, but that's to be human.
Dear guys, I hope you had nice New Year welcome and that you have gained at least + 2kg, looking even more beautiful than before. I know that I do.
In one of my old posts, I have longed for longer holidays but I think this would be it.
I do not know how weather is there at your place, but no snow here and it is unusually warm. We enjoy in the sun during the day and how things are rolling, in few years we might even start growing bananas...
Akira (that’s Alex), I watched that Tarkovsky clip. Enjoyed a lot and was, have to admit, disappointed that I was understood in a way you understood me in my postings.
My point was not that I thought that a movie should have been made in a way a viewer wanted or in a way just to "please" the viewer. Absolutely not, because that would be in the contradiction of what I have previously said - make your own work, be original.
And when I said that all was about selling the magic, I obviously did not mean about selling the movie in a way one makes a commercial movie, just to please the viewer. If a director sells a story good, that means that he or she managed to get to the viewer in various ways. When getting to the viewer, I guess that is the point where communication begins and the condition of art fulfilles.
Happy New Year to all. <3
I am retreating now to the safe distance and from the public...a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do. :)))
The very best jazz is that which was never recorded; it was the live jazz at local jazz clubs in cities all across this country. I feel very fortunate to have been on the scene at that time.
Wes Montgomery "Echoes of Indiana Avenue" captures that live feel in those small intimate clubs. There was something so real, live, and spontaneous about it, that you wished the experience would never end when you were there. This album captures that experience;
Schubert, that Junior Cook was quite a find, it shows how much fantastic music in the past that most of us haven't discovered; I know that's new to me.
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