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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Sonny Rollins’ “place in Jazz”: As Jazz moved away from Swing toward and beyond Bebop, three tenor players would emerge as the greatest and most influential for tenor players in particular and Jazz players in general: Coltrane, Rollins and Joe Henderson; arguably in that order. I think most would agree that Coltrane was in a league all his own, but most tenor players would also agree that Sonny was not far behind as far as helping shape the way that the tenor is played in modern Jazz. Unique is that his vocabulary is very modern and harmonically advanced, but his tone concept remained more traditional than Trane’s. Also unique is that unlike the way that most players approach the improvisation of a solo by developing and expanding a melodic idea, Sonny would often pick and develop a rhythmic idea instead. Great player with an amazingly commanding rhythmic feel. Whereas most players play to the rhythmic pulse generated by the rhythm section, one often gets the feeling that the rhythm section is playing to (accompanying) Sonny’s pulse. https://youtu.be/HP3eg6quOdE |
Got this a few days ago, finally. Not Jazz, but kin folks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVxm7g8xbE4 Cheers |
rok., Re-Jussi Bjorling, for a great Opera singer he had little training and could sing any type of song. I think I would have because he has such heart and humanity in his voice . Impossible to be sure because you can’t do an experiment . I saw a long interview of Pavarotti on BBC .Most of it was about what he thought about this tenor and that and how they were compared to him. He was quite serious but his natural affability was still there . Toward the end the presenter asked him about Bjorling . He got real serious and said , " Don’t compare me to Bjorling, I ’m only human" . He meant it . I’m not a snob , but my opinion , and that of others , is the more refined your taste is , the more you appreciate Bjorling ..50 years of listening to Bach daily would refine a trash cans taste . I had a parlor trick I used sometimes when someone come over to listen .I would put on Pavarotti singing his wheel house aria , " Nessun Dorma " from Puccini's "Turandot ".which floors people who hate music .Then I would put it on with Bjorling as I said ," that was how you sing it loud , this is how you sing it good "3 out of 4 got it . |
I have this double LP of Hank Crawford titled "The Atlantic Years" and it has certainly been stirring my soul; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICjif3DvZgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29bgadxaYS8 |
Mary_Jo, here's an album you might like, it brought back memories for me; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMFH29gywpI |
Today's Listen: Clifford Brown and Max Roach -- AT BASIN STREET with Sonny Rollins "this is the EmArcy debut of a musician who in the past couple of years has risen to high esteem among modern Jazzmen - Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins, the new idol of the tenor saxophone, who took over Harold Land's spot in the quintet late in 1955." notes. I see why he prefers "Sonny". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjx3KEI_fM&list=RDrSjx3KEI_fM&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw72DzZTgqc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-gfxvA-19E The notes also point out that Rollins played with Art Blakey in 1949!!! That's 70 years ago folks. No wonder he took a break. This was the last Brown / Roach recording. Cheers |
rok, P.S . If your German is good you can usually get the jist in Swedish . Often whole sentences are in German . I knew what " O Helga Natt" was immediately , Imagine you did as well . They claim Swedish is the easiest language to learn for a native English speaker. I believe its the one when you have a girlfriend who speaks little or no English . |
Rok, I lived the Summer of 70 in a motel just off of Peachtree Street; was the Art Theater on Peachtree Street. I lived within sight of the Regency Hyatt house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Atlanta |
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I lived the Summer of 70 in a motel just off of Peachtree Street; was the Art Theater on Peachtree Street.***** Yes it was, along with IBM where I worked. I think everything was on Peachtree street. By the summer of 1970, I was in Hanau, Germany. I was just about to buy a car for my job in Atlanta, when I got the letter that begin with "Greetings". (: Cheers |
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I believe its the one when you have a girlfriend who speaks little or no English .***** This is so true. The bad thing about being in the military in Germany is that you don't have to speak German to get along. I took a class in German in Hanau, at the University of Maryland extension. German professor. The first day of class he called the roll, then announced that, that would be the last time he said a word of English for the entire course. He kept his word. I was amazed at how effective that was. I was hearing "alle Zusammen" in my sleep. But reading the written word of different languages clearly shows how much 'borrowing' or 'quoting' as the Frogman would say, has gone on throughout the centuries. Cheers |
This is one of the LP's I have by Lalo Schifrin; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So5VuExvT4M&list=PL5Azqjkwcmyi_Rn6S6Zt0RTNh-pMPCR7h |
https://youtu.be/ETpI6xava5k While out of town, I am listening to Youtube music through Empire Zeus IEM driven by Dell Laptop. But it sounds nice with nuanced details. |
rok, there ain’t no bad things being in the military in Germany , just lest good. Knew a USAF E-6 that had "homesteaded " in Berlin for 12 years .My Top was on his 4th tour in Germany which is 12 years . My Platoon Sgt ., a black man and fine soldier, got discharged in Berlin when his 20 was done . He told me he never wanted to go through racismin USA any more and died 40 years later in Berlin . Kicker was many of the British troops in Berlin were 2 year" National Service " aka drafted, who had never been out side the UK , and many of them stayed there forever . French didn’t seem all that thrilled , but I know a few had German wives . |
Ahh, I live about 4 miles from my Alma Mater and I believe its the stuffing getting knocked out of the Gophers . But I got my Masters from Wisconsin so I can handle it .It turned to 8 inches of something on my balcony . Maybe I’ll move to Texas , they have two world -class universities there as well . |
T-Shirt weather here. Local news: https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Killeen-Thousands-of-wreaths-placed-on-graves-at-veterans-cemetery-501185081.html Cheers |
All nice songs guys, thank you... 16 of something we had here yesterday. Same today. Sunny and obviously warm. Off to go to pick some olives. It's that time of year. Pursuing pure peasant look today. Bunch of man with typical man's language and me. No place for ladies with good manners. Ron Carter today I Fall in Love Too Easily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaSSe0SlS0 |
(I was there:) https://youtu.be/_PwVBEcUUzk “I am optimistic about the soul, therefore I am optimistic about Jazz”- Sonny Rollins https://youtu.be/G0p1rz8Qc_s https://youtu.be/3bL3ptLicX0 |
Frogman, nothing can compare to seeing, and hearing a great musician in a relatively small space perform. I've had that experience exactly three times, and each one of them has stayed with me until this day. Sometime it seems that the audience can somehow project something that causes the artists to perform way over their heads. (not in the case of Sonny Rollins, but what I am about to reveal) I saw where this group was going to give a live free concert and went. It was an outdoor event on a perfect summer afternoon, and since this was a new group, I didn't expect so many people, but there we were, sitting on blankets in the grass. These artists performed like they have never performed before or since. I know, because I bought their records, and none of those records compare to that outdoor event where they performed before an appreciative audience. |
In the couple of thousand live concerts I’ve been to , I’ve seen players get energy from an audience for but only "jet set " players and conductors really kicked the band into overdrive . About two years ago leaving the concert hall I ran into a young oboe player in the St. Paul Chamber Orch, whose father I knew and her to the extent I had to say hello .The concert was staring one of the worlds greatest violinists and stupid me, still high from concert , blurted out " He made you guys play better than you can" . She just smiled and said " it seemed that way " . Course jazz players maybe act different , but I doubt it . In any event , as O-10 says , its rare . ’ |
The spirit of Ron Carter is haunting me today. A Song For You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_iBhgzQC0 All Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbSFOMBPJDU All The Things You Are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNn2AiibsBo |