The Roland Kirk album cover brings back memories of when the covers filled you with anticipation. Probably sold most of the LPs sold. Another lost art.
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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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Tyner confirmed what I said about "Trane" in regard to going to the outer galaxies; Tyner was just left in "space", "What do I do now"? I witnessed it. As Coltrane’s music grew increasingly wilder and more ecstatic in the mid-Sixties, incorporating contributions from saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and drummer Rashied Ali, Tyner began to feel increasingly out of place in the band. In 1965, after appearing on free-jazz standouts like Ascension and Meditations, the pianist left the group. “I didn’t see myself making any contribution to that music,” he once said. We have so much of Tyners music left; "The real Tyner"; he was too overshadowed by Trane, now we can find and hear what his inner soul had to contribute to the music. |
Pryso, you might be interested to hear this, Mokave trio with Glen Moore. https://youtu.be/7Qb7MRDcPRk https://youtu.be/pBWYdG9VSas https://youtu.be/h30YPfkISg4 I ve got three their albums, almost unintentionally, got first at the hi fi shop (its audioquest production) more than 25 years ago, liked it, gor the other two. Once when I was in london out of curiosity even went to a teching performance of their percussionist, Glen Velez and funny enough, there were 20 people perhaps...somehow I expected bigger crowd, so maybe that was the point that I changed my mind about pursuing a creer in jazz... |
Saw Tyner live once, 1998. with The Latin All Stars,they were playing music from this album than https://youtu.be/6rqIAWSorjs |
**** Some losses are greater than others. **** https://youtu.be/7toKjKtbeeI https://youtu.be/rEDzcP2oAUc https://youtu.be/GoYAGNLqFwg https://youtu.be/YgRLTqfuuFM https://youtu.be/BwbcYzZiQUk |
Feels kind of silly to go from McCoy to Rudy Wiedoeft, even if it is the legendary Wiedoeft. Pryso mentions his dad’s C melody saxophone. Now obsolete (Dr. Cohen has three) it is an unusual sounding saxophone due to a range that sits smack between the alto and the tenor. You aficionados may not realize it, but you have probably heard both Wiedoeft and the C melody saxophone many times: https://youtu.be/nkM0m-fB2Uw Maybe not this: https://youtu.be/3yMwc8olTLE |
I had planned on going on a permanent "hiatus", but those plans have changed; after listening to some of the best music that I've ever heard in my entire life, the least I can do is respond to it.It's hard to resist these people O10. You wake up in the morning or you wish to have a good night sleep and you have a need to check what the gang posted... About living in the past, if you, by any chance, bump into 90s, I am sure you'll see me somewhere wandering around. I was little girl back then, but for some reason can't resist the smell of that time, wonderfully captured in this movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnsmEWzakEw |
I never really got into a lot of the "old" jazz. I found a lot of it dissonant. Now that I am retired I need to go back and listen some more. But here is a list of what I like Pat Metheny "bright sized life" "Letters from home" Joni Mitchell "Shadows and Light" Live album with Jaco PastoriusStan GetzGlen Miller OrchestraMokave "Afrique" Some of the best sounding piano recording I have heardWeather Report and Return to Forever. Am I out of bounds? Mike Garson "Oxnard Sessions" Reference RecordingsFourplay "Elixer"Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" |
Daledeee, no you're not at all out of place; I have all of the artists you posted in my collection. I think we all have different moods, and play the albums you posted from time to time. From my point of view, it's all about what pleases you, I see no need in learning how to listen; either you like or you don't like it, otherwise you waste money buying it. Please post some of your favorite albums and enjoy the music. |
As the good book says, man can't live on Bebop alone. Besides, it's Saturday Night somewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQLdztuMd1g should have went on to mexico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHrVB35kTrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V--jgIQjco0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnXTpkugcHo No B !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9IIDE_45Pc Cheers |
Fusion came on line in the 70's; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2hK6_o5Pdw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJGESmyIVo0 |
Today’s Listen: Hampton Hawes -- HAMPTON HAWES TRIO - VOL 1 with Red Mitchell(bass), Chuck Thompson(drums) "This is the most exciting album I’ve heard from the coast in the over two years that I have been reviewing records for the "Beat".....[Hawes is] potentially the most vital young Jazz pianist since Bud Powell in terms of fire, soul, beat, and guts". -- Nat Hentoff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZixzzjcSbuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-IOR4B-Jus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxF2nIy4ywI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpLNEZGe6w Recorded 1955 Cheers |
acman3 to the rescue! ☺️ Thanks, had not heard that. One of my favorite living alto players and West Coast studio fixture. Yes, some do still play like that. https://youtu.be/UOW-MzZmtNA https://youtu.be/vrUS_9JWNgE Beautiful flute player also: https://youtu.be/3QiYYmh3qSI |
Fantastic opera by Bizet. I believe you refer to the scene in Act 2 when Carmen sings and dances for Jose who has left his military post to be with Carmen. The bugle is calling him back. While it is possible to simulate the effect of getting closer and closer by playing in the orchestra pit and starting to play softly and then progressively louder, in opera (and also in concert pieces calling for a similar effect) the player will literally be off stage in the wings and will play from a distance while walking closer and closer to the stage where the singers are, creating a much more realistic effect. Many opera scores call for singers and/or musicians to sing or play off stage in the wings in addition to the orchestra in the orchestra pit and singers on stage. |
One of my favorite pianists isn't even considered to be a pianist, but a vocalist; such is life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbyPVwioOis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Jk35zfELI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynnb6ejdEz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeMfDflHM1E |