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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schubert, many years ago I helped friends select and install a new CD player in their system. They were both opera buffs and I wanted to pick up something for them to hear with their new player. At Tower (I said this was years ago) I found "Opera Goes To The Movies" on RCA. It was a compilation of their recordings of famous arias utilized in film soundtracks. I'm not much of an opera fan but after hearing that recording I went back and bought a copy for myself. One track is Bjorling singing "Nuesum Dorma". He actually sends a chill down my spine every time I hear it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk |
Today's Listen: Sonny Rollins -- WAY OUT WEST I have been trying to come up with words to describe the album cover. Best leave it to you Aficionados. This is the most ___________ Jazz cover ever!! Fill in the blank. The winner gets my prized copy of 'Corky Siegel plays the blues'. The Notes: "The general public is not yet aware of Rollins." After reading that sentence it was obvious these notes were too old. Written in 1957. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmMHG2THHck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Oma0WOALU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLWojxCTi2Q Cheers |
Impossible not to like a song like this... Placido and Nessun Dorma https://youtu.be/2RdJmqLrsbo Lyrics in english No One Sleeps No one sleeps! No one sleeps! Even you, oh princess, in your cold room, look at the stars that tremble with love and hope! But my mystery; it is locked in me. And my name, no one will know! No, no! On your mouth I will say it, when the light will shine! And my kiss will break the silence, that makes you mine! His name no one will know... And we shall have, alas, to die, to die...! Disperse, o night! Vanish, oh stars! Vanish, oh stars! At daybreak, I will win! I will win! I will win! |
"Satirical" would be one word, I can't think of another. That was before "Trane"; he was "El Numero Uno" on the tenor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ST_MvaONLk That tune is in a laid back groove, the kind you were in when just watching time go by while very slowly blowing smoke rings at your she person partner. (50 years ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x77wHBnofDc |
"English translation is the worst thing you can do to Italian Opera. Once we know what's being said, it distracts from the beauty of the music. Takes it from the mysterious and glorious to the mundane." Are you saying that you didn't know until now not even the meaning of the first words Nessun Dorma? Ahhhhh.... :-))) :p :p |
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While you guys were listening to opera, I was listening to L Shankar and Caroline; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r48n2dImHoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFb9-lik2cg I have never figured out what Caroline is playing, but she's always on the stage with L. Shankar, who is one bad A on double violin. I've seen Caroline many times with L. Shankar playing something that I never could hear. This is all connected to a story I'm about to tell you. There are two local musicians here in St. Louis who lead their own jazz groups. Everyone knows they've been ready for the big time since the 70's. I've gotten well acquainted with both of them, especially since I go wherever they are performing. Although I talked to them separately, they both gave vague similar stories for not hitting the road and making it big. Not satisfied with what they were telling me, I talked to guys they grew up with who were really close. I discovered they both were married to really beautiful wives who they were not about to leave while they went on the road. I believe L. Shankar has solved that problem by having Caroline on stage with him playing some unknown instrument that I can never hear. (This has 6 parts, and I found all of them quite interesting) |
Opera digs deeper into human emotion , your emotion , because it adds to great instrumental players the very greatest of the greatest instrument , the human voice . The Greatest Opera of all "Madam Butterfly " is that because it bares the entire range of emotion of the most important thing in Humanity. A Mother ! https://youtu.be/cXfGPOHgImk?t=3 Only one sung by a real Asian . About 2: 45 she breaks into the GREAT part of aria where she sings in agony and love as she looses her son . Many men and most women cry , even if they have heard it a hundred times . |
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In A Sentimental Mood [Abdullah Ibrahim] : Excellent. Ibrahim was always a big fan of Ellington. I have some of his stuff when he was known as Dollar Brand. Cheers |
Local FM station playing both of these tonight. Big Band Sunday. Said the Teddy Wilson, Goodman version was the favorite of George Gershwin. Gene Krupa on drums. Seems to be a Gershwin night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMljmORaggE Don't know who this is? Git outta Jazz! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pUCeEhqM4o Cheers |
I recall when I was a child, a family that performed "Carmen" in the small park close to where we lived at that time. They even named their beautiful daughter Carmen. She was older than me, but that didn't stop me from falling in love. Do I like Carmen because of that experience; who knows? I can visualize her now, was she beautiful; never the less, on with my love for the music; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_HHRJf0xg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd0FNpiBDyA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1c2CRp56dg |
Christmas time of year. For some reason, I always think that those two last weeks of the year will last at least for half of the year. They will stretch somehow and we will carelessly enjoy in them as if they they will never end. But it happens that they come so fast and pass even faster. Good things should last forever... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecrE80rnjhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq5A0YadWKs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRgWBN8yt_E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-59COFjB6Sk |
Mary_Jo, you posted some of my favorite songs. BTW if you liked that last album, here's another one; "Cory Daye-Cory And Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqiV6ESYlQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiRKkkHIvEA |
Today's Listen: Stephane Grappelli & Yehudi Menuhin -- THE VERY BEST OF GRAPPELLI & MENUHIN The favorite foreign Jazz player.(French) Sticks close to the American Songbook. Self taught. A difficult instrument for Jazz, but Grappelli makes it work brilliantly. And did for over 80 years at that. I always thought Menuhin was a classical player, I have several classical CDs by him. Maybe he saw the light. These are tunes taken from the CD I have. Could not find the actual CD on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmfqsLtKS3Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiiUHKQg4rQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evtk_Cl-yPc Didn't plan to include 'Sweet Georgia Brown" but the OP insisted. Cheers |
Schubert, I know you don't want to leave your beloved Minneapolis? I recall 4 feet of snow in St. Louis; I didn't leave the house, my wife worked at a hospital and they sent 4 wheel drive to pick her up, and I believe they asked her to stay overnight. In addition it was 6 below 0. When conditions are so bad that you're risking your life going anywhere, I don't know why people don't stay at home. |