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.
Along with Stitt my favorite on Vinyl is Stanley Turpentine .This is a love song he wrote for his wife . Total ALL -STAR group , with Ray Barretto on conga’s ,Lee Morgan,trumpet, McTyner on piano, Elvin Jones , drum, Bob Cranshaw, . bass and Rudy Van Gelder on recording machine .
IMO , this is about as good as jazz gets .https://youtu.be/0hdUPzW-CnAHard bop rules the rest is for fools , not really but it rhymes .
81563 , you should wait for frogperson , he forgot more than I know . That said , with my limited Knowledge , they are 3 I would feel OK referring to anyone . "Motion" he and Elvin Jones are great together , "Standards Live : At the Village Vanguard ""Subconcious" His best with Tristano and Marsch- Classic
Is there a man alive than can not be shaken to the deepest body of his eternal soul by this Masterpiece played by Stanley and his Lady Shirley "Queen of the Organ’ Scott. If so he got a hole in that soul . sohttps://youtu.be/DmIgSO6nDKkng I !
Great Turrentine selection Schubert. Big Stanley Turrentine fan myself. I have that disc with the song "Shirley." The albums called "Mr. Natural" and was recorded in 1964 but not releases until 1980.
So I searched high and low for my first Lee Konitz albums and I listened to some samples on a couple I really liked and purchased them.
Elvin Jones plays drums on "Motion" while Lee with Warne Marsh features Kenny Clarke on drums. The rest of the players on both albums are no slouches either!
pjw, I like Schubert’s Lee Konitz recs. “Motion” is great and a nobrainer. Another favorite is the one I posted a couple of days ago “At Storyville”. For something different and interesting one if you like a Third-Stream vibe is “An Image” featuring Konitz with string section. For something later in his career I like “Alone Together” with a Brad Mehldau and Charlie Haden.
Thanks frogman and Schubert for the recommendations. I have "Motion" on the wat along with the Konitz/Marsh recording (I liked the songs I heard on that one).
I'm giving the other suggestions a listen right now as I'm writing this.
Pyramid is definitely a change from his 50's - 60's output. I like Conner's guitar playing too.
Storyville swings hard.
ordered this morning:
Storyville, Subconscious - Lee, Live At The Half Note
pjwI have a ton of Lee konitz music. if you like Duo recordings konitz has saxophone piano Duo with Martial Solal called star eyes Hamburg 1983 It has six standards and three Originals on the disc. another good more recent set is a 2 CD disc with konitz as the leader its called European Episode- Impressive Rome it's a quartet with xlent European musicians.
acman3 great Konitz links. I already ordered the Carnegie Hall recording with Kenny Clarke, Red Garland, Oscar Pettiford, et al. Also ordered the one with Miles Davis and others - EZZ - THETIC.
I know I keep posting Carter clips (I'm the only one on this forum who does) but I'm a huge fan and will keep on posting. tonight will be my 6th time seeing him live!
*schubert/"Andre, who could never be called small minded, said "I’ve done my best to be open-minded about rock but there is nothing there, pure garbage."
The statement is the absolute nonsense, even if it comes from the four time Oscar winning composer. Rock is just a different music genre, that’s all. I don’t listen rock that often anymore but can’t ignore the significant mark in the history which this band for instance, among many others, has left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et3SdIOchRw
By building up the classical repertoire for a guitar, Segovia empowered guitar as a “serious” instrument; richer in technique, in repertoire and more appreciated in the public.
I have read quite lot’s of stories about Segovia. Can’t tell if all of them are true but they surely describe him as an extraordinary man. At one point in this video he said that he had to rescue the guitar twice; from the noisy hands of flamenco players and from a repertoire which was not a repertoire by guitarist composers – with the exception for Sor and Giuliani.
In one interview he said that Tarrega (Recuerdos de la Alhambra, Capricho árabe) was not a big composer; and that other composers were not very musical. He said that he had began asking the REAL composers – symphonic composers – to help him in creating the repertoire for the guitar.
Noisy flamenco players. Real composers. Tarrega being not a big composer. Segovia really had an “attitude”.
Segovia: “I love the flamenco, but the TRUE flamenco — not the flamenco heard these days. The flamenco guitarist of today has removed his attention from the ideals of yesterday, when this noble art was prized for a depth of emotion which could be produced by a certain simplicity of approach. Today’s guitarists are more theatrical, they want to show their technique, to dazzle the public with pyrotechnics…”
(Segovia on Flamenco Guitar, Song and Dance – from Guitar Review, 1977)
He did not specially like virtuoso Paco de Lucia either, whose influence on flamenco guitar has often been compared with his influence on classical guitar and he once called him a player with “clever fingers” and good look only (I am slightly paraphrasing here).
Who knows which performance of Concierto de Aranjuez would suit Segovia more? The one of John Williams, of Pepe Romero or..?
Rodrigo originally dedicated the Aranjuez to Segovia, but when Segovia received the score he declared it unplayable in some parts and suggested changes which Rodrigo did not want to accept. So Rodrigo dedicated it to Sainz de la Maza instead, who performed it with huge success. Later Segovia has spoken highly of the piece but never performed it. I wonder why.
It is all, as always, matter of perspective (speaking about rock genre) Is it a music? Is it a 'good music' ? I guess that largly depends on what somebody describes as 'music'... Of course, there is no crime in liking something that perhaps lack certain quality.
What is the relation between music and ethics? “Can music have a positive or negative role in our disposition toward, or performance of, right and wrong acts, duties, virtues? Can it make a difference to us morally? Can musical experience make us better off or worse off from a moral point of view?” “[I]n what sense is music ‘moral’? Does music have an influence on character? Is there a connection between one’s aesthetic preferences and one’s capacity for moral virtue?”
acman3 I had nothing to recover from I was driving so therefore had just one glass of Jameson Irish Whiskey...
JC was fantastic as always. Sometimes he gets carried away with the Jimi Hendrix like pyrotechnics improvised solo's but he always mixes in a ballad or two and the set is usually variations of jazz standards. Last night he did a jazz version of the Bill Wither's song "Use Me"
James used his tenor as the vocals and it was a little more up - tempo then the Wither's original. He played a beautiful song on the flute and also played soprano and baritone on a few tunes. Set lasted from 8:30 - 9:45.
He held a long note on soprano to end a song and my table was right up front so I could see him using "circular breathing" to stretch that note out to a 2 minute fade.
He talks often to the crowd and really loves to please everybody in attendance. I sat at the bar with him afterwards and we chatted a bit and took some photo's.
I think the general dislike among some jazz aficionados is due to the fact that he is a virtuoso on alto, tenor, soprano, and baritone. Also his solo improvisations are frowned on by some as "showing off" Its funny because John Coltrane used to do 20 plus minute long solos live and some of them like on the "One Up One Down - Live At The Half Note" were highly pyrotechnic and, of course, since it was Coltrane it was not showing off but artistic brilliance.....
alex your response to Mary jo was pretty deep. Everyone is different and likes different music. All genres of music have great songs and duds, depending on who the listener is.
mary jo Andres Segovia was a brilliant classical guitarist and he is entitled to his opinion. That does not make it the opinion of others and Paco De Lucia was certainly not making "noise" IMHO.....
“Rock melted the glue and the only thing left was a
hyper-patriotism that became nationalism and militarism which had given endless
war and a debt that will destroy us.”
I must say that I wasn’t ever of the fact that rock was one of the factors that indirectly have led the nation into the destructive waters of war,
into world’s massive exploration, human degradation and disgrace what
eventually ruined (and will ruin for more) all of us. Until now. Somebody should have warned
Marx.
Back to destructive late rock. Woodstock
/3 Days of Peace & Music. Make love not war. But I guess I’ll have to
change that image now and imagine that the symbolic flower in that pretty
woman’s hair in the Age of Aquarius is a disguised explosive device. Made to kill.
I look at what happened and is happening, and think that the music is a snapshot of the culture that it is coming from. The decline in music shows the decline in culture, much like our current leaders reflect the ethics of the current population.
While I have been listening to it for only a week or two I absolutely love: "For Centennial Reasons 100 Year Salute to Nat King Cole" John Pizzarelli Trio This should be on everyone's must have list.
schubert, I do not think that this is contest either. We just talk. I think that your opinion on this matter has no valid foundation and that the terrible consequences that the world is facing now in most fields of life quality, have much deeper cause of the one you are aiming on. It’s just way too simple to claim that rock mostly did it. And you know what they say; everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts...
mary jo, I did not say rock was the main factor , I said it was a factor . But as music is instinctive in humans it becomes a sine qua non factor .Which is the only reason I talk about it .When it first came out , I thought all the Southern Baptist preachers saying what would happen were nuts .
The process of enslaving financially 98% of the population of the United States and other major world economies has been going on for over a century and has absolutely nothing to do with music. One must remember there was a time back in the 30’s when jazz was considered the "devils music." Then it was Rock and Roll. Now its rap/hip hop. There are far more important reasons why the world is in the state that it is. Music has a miniscule impact. If you have the time watch the following:
I know its nearly 3 hours so instead why don’t you all take a minute and read my review of the James Carter concert - a jazz music aficionado topic which is what this thread is for and give me your thoughts on it like mary jo - thanks mary jo. If you don't care to comment then post some music links!
As one of the 3-4 major drives of humans it is impossible to be a miniscule impact . I know all that stuff in your post and it is so .Here we speak of music . Sex , drugs and rock and roll was a salute to rock not a insult . 5% of the worlds population doing 25% of the worlds drugs makes their task easier . The markets rely solely on greed which is not a human instinct and weakens compassion for others which is . At its best music is anti-dotal , at its worst flame for the fire .
It’s all right schubert, don’t worry, I understand your point. I am glad you like the song.
I’ll take a look on your Money Masters video, pjw. Few hours ago, when I first saw your link, I have misread the title and saw it as Money "Monsters". I have just become aware of it.
Monster is perhaps a better title anyway .I don’t worry mary jo , gave it up for Lent years ago . I don’t take the Bible literally, but the most used phrase in it" be not afraid"struck me as a good idea. That love trane is nice .
P.S . Greed is the daughter of fear .Don't tell anyone , fear gets angry and her boss raises hell .
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