Great article, acman.
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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“Following Frank Zappa’s appraisal that ‘jazz isn’t dead; it just smells funny’, I would say that I think it smells just fine. It’s like cilantro – some people really like it and some people just can’t get with it.” — Brad Mehldau https://youtu.be/7vMszycqqlc https://youtu.be/qPe-9jW21tQ ”Like they say, as you get older, you either get smarter or you get stupider. And the people who get stupider are the ones whose thinking gets stuck. They lack the ability to continually re-contextualize themselves in the ever-changing world around them. Wisdom is nothing less then a deep understanding of our contingent nature. It is not learning a set of truths and then resting with that knowledge and living out your days. Wisdom involves accepting that truth itself is variable. To really know this involves humility, for one must be humble to forsake one’s own claim to unshakable truth. The best literature is wisdom literature. It’s always teaching us to not give into our vanity, and it’s teaching us to constantly question a presumption we make before it becomes calcified into personal dogma – in this way, we don’t get stupid. Wisdom literature will teach us to not fall under the sway of teaching – even its own teaching. The best learning is always inherently contradictory, malleable, and full of irony. It will always contain a clause that renounces any supposed absolute truth that it might possess. It is something to play with and discard, and then perhaps come back to again at a later point in life, when there is something else to be gained from it, something new and different. Any great wisdom should have this ability to re-contextualize itself at any given moment. If ideas cannot be re-contextualized, they are mere dogma, and wind up in that trash bin of history.” |
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Excellent Woody with his clarinet... Another genius pursuing career in music... "Never mind the words" https://youtu.be/0daS_SDCT_U |
A little late on the Larry Young. That's what happens when you deal with people whose brains are firing a little slow. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNkY5Zv2cBo |
One of the best Japanese jazz trios, bassist is the leader and a great player.https://youtu.be/Mmi2UdIlcTU?t=3 Also a fantastic drum solo at about 5: 00 |
Well it was his step-daughter but still on the pervy side all right. All I know about his playing is I would not bother to go hear it if it was free and they sent a limo . This is what a great clarinet player sounds like ! https://youtu.be/tn13tcDvS28?t=1 |
"How can anyone think of Woody Allen and think about Clarinet playing!!! The pervert seduced his Daughter!! Then married her!! Get a grip people. Cheers He can be thankful he lived in NY and not Texas." So...? He is indeed pervert (I think I would have cut his head off if I was on Mia's place) but two got married and it seems that they are doing quite well. I haven't read anywhere that he was cheating on her. As they would say in Texas, Oils well that ends well. Besides, there are many of those non - perverts, looking normal but they either cheat their wives, beat the hell out of them or abuse their own family through their entire lives in the quietness of their homes. And not just in Texas of course. So what shall you do about it? |
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acman3, Great Sonny Rollins link. Sonny’s playing just kept getting better and better. The bag pipes are unusual in a jazz ensemble but it works quite well in there. The kid on the hollow body lead guitar is very good as well. Sonny released an album called "G Man" in the 80's that really kicks a*s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_2lAhpTgVI |
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Speaking about collections, I bet Rok got bigger and better one than these two guys... https://youtu.be/c2dwG3Lr49M ...and, Mary, please, no need to get all serious about it. He is a funny guy. He is, really and I mean it without any irony.... https://youtu.be/Pfcy15ZUE2c |
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I’ve seen bagpipes in jazz and classical bands , they can do a lot That said , their correct name is war pipes . They can bring men to fight and fight hard .This clip is "The Last Post " , the British equivalent of our "Taps" for the fallen Each and every day since 1928 a piper has stood in this cemetery ans played this at 11: 00,, the hour when WW I ceased. .(save the years when Germany held Belgium in WW II ) It ’s important to me because my great-grandfather , a piper in the Black Watch Regiment is buried there . https://youtu.be/ND78FKdCkJc?t=7 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzpbdPmPIuE Scottish for sure, Black Watch?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GD-5mRyaJw Cheers |
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Trying to get off caffeine and need some help. What is it they say...that we tend to replace one habit with another? I need to hear this on a pretty regular basis; wakes me up every time: https://youtu.be/Ns02jzH8Ccw Too bad the clip is cut short; would have loved to have heard NHOP’s bass solo. |
Since the intended humor and sarcasm of my Woody Allen post escaped some and on the subject of great clarinet playing, my favorite Jazz clarinetist. For me, perhaps the only clarinetist that has sounded completely credible playing bebop and who also had a truly beautiful clarinet tone. As an aside, the exact same chord progression as the above “Oleo”. A chord progression used in many bebop tunes and referred to as “Rhythm changes” because it is a chord progression first heard in George Gershwin’s very popular tune “I’ve Got Rhythm”: https://youtu.be/a_VfDtZLxtI (Unfortunate that, once again, the entire tune is not available on the Tube.) https://youtu.be/aYU8H4A7YDM https://youtu.be/rs5F5nRciLo |
I thought it was sarcasm all right frog .And I do not for minute think you are anything but correct about De Franco. .. That said, Martin Frost was an "associate " with the SPCO for two years .As a musician he blew everyone away . Can play half a dozen instruments, is a fantastic conductor, and has one of the most agile and inventive minds this side of Oslo. Could he do what De Franco does if he wanted to? I have no idea , but I wouldn’t bet against him . . P.S . Do you heart a favor , as you age it doesn’t get along with coffee . Been there . |
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And how appropriate again... Sarah Vaughan - Black Coffee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRyN9wQ1taY |
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