Speaking of Cuban percussion.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOXF6qKmbPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv3Xi98RaGo
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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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Rok, the foundational rhythms in Latin music are generally much more complex than in most American Jazz. The most obvious and closest equivalence in American Jazz, as a general concept in the music, is the very important emphasis by the players on beats 2 and 4 of each measure of music. When we as listeners snap our fingers to a Jazz tune the “hip” (normal) way to do it, whether we are aware of it or not, is on beats 2 and 4. The “square” way is on beats 1 and 3. Polka anyone?! ☺️ Great Mongo, btw. |
Today's Listen: Chucho Valdes -- BRIYUMBA PALO CONGO Can't talk about Cuban Jazz without talking about the 'pulverizer'. The title means 'Religion of the Congo', the music does not seem to fit. Unless of course, The Frogman has convinced the music world that 'Rhapsody', 'Bolero' and 'Caravan' are of African origin. aaauuuggghhh!!!! Great playing anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFldzg4FIFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHBHuNgOGPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26X5bvOGKOA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_S_I7y2TLs Cheers |
Frogman, on the Afro-Cuban Tutorial you posted, Ignacio Berroa discussed all the African rhythms that exist in Brazil, South America and Cuba. Ages ago, I initiated this very subject. Before slavery, Africans lived in peaceful villages all over the continent; each village had it's on dances and style of drumming and Rhythms. Africa is a big continent, while villages are relatively small groupings of people; that means there were a multitude of villages with many different rhythms. I stated that many of the rhythms of Africa are no longer on that continent; those rhythms left that continent with the slaves on the slave ships and can only be found in this hemisphere. There are very unique rhythms in Brazil, and I don't mean that Rio Samba thing, these rhythms emanate from the interior of Brazil where slaves ruled for a period of time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmares_(quilombo) Out of all the rhythms, they had the most interesting; I think it was the unusual hesitations, and then the drum beat. As I stated, there was a multitude of villages, that's what enabled the more powerful kings to capture people after a price was put on their heads. "Kunta Kinte (roots) was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Juffure, in the Gambia. He was raised in a Muslim family." I went on a tour up a mountain in "Cap Haitian" Haiti, and we stopped to rest and have refreshments at a clearing along the way. Not far from where we were, there were some kids playing; the oldest was 12 or 13, there was a total of 5 kids as I remember. The reason this tiny incident sticks in my mind is because it was not a part of anything, just some kids playing and entertaining themselves as kids do. The oldest kid picked up a shovel lying on the ground, propped it against a tree, grabbed two rocks, one for each hand, and began beating out rhythms on the shovel while the other 4 kids danced. It was so hypnotic; they moved like their bodies had no bones, while the older kid beat out the rhythms. I don't want to attach the word "voodoo" to those rhythms, because to those kids, they were simply the rhythms they danced to, and how they danced, like their bodies were without bones. |
From today's drive on usb stick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=436Sd14X07s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f5SS_iiqC4 Cheers |
o10, you linked to their Carnegie Hall performance, and no doubt this has been offered before, but it is a wonderful collection of Cuban artists, caught while they were still with us thankfully. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5cELP06Mik&list=PLetv3SCC-r3bPinnDE7jWxKPJc-mpEalB When I first heard this some of the melodies were familiar but I didn't know about any of the performers Ry found. |
I'm presenting this because I read a book that never existed. I read a book in the 80's that was hundreds of years old; the title was "Diary of a Slave Trader". It was the kind of book that once you began reading it, you had to keep on reading until the end. The book was very detailed and explicit; it gave graphic accounts of the ugly events involving capturing and transporting slaves across the jungle and across the ocean. Recently I looked for that book, and there is no record that said book ever existed. It had the names of the African Kings who ordered the slaves. They were the people the slave trader worked for. The Africans who are descendants of those kings are very wealthy and had enough money to erase that book out of existence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoeCcwc5-l4 The rhythms we are discussing came from those slaves. |
There could not be a better time to be a "jazz aficionado" than the present. This is a good time to be in "Lock-down"; plenty of good music, and my rig is sounding better than ever; that's because of the quiet "grid". Some of you may not know what that means. When commercial and industrial activity slows down, the electrical grid gets quiet, this gives you better electricity AKA "power supply". Expensive equipment is expensive because of the power supply; when the grid is exceptionally quiet, you get that benefit for free. I find it humorous that people are complaining about "lock-down"; they should become "jazz aficionados" and enjoy it. Happy Lock-down! |
Orpheus, the content of your previous post remind me of this album. Ray Brooks, long time drummer with Horace Silver. His ’Free Slave’ album from 1972., one of few that he made as a leader... https://youtu.be/2HnUNNiTn9k ...an earlier one ’The Beat’ from 1963. https://youtu.be/_NnMVeCBleg https://youtu.be/wK8WGDuJV-k |
Wynton makes anybody sound good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M7sXYdrP1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkt2IvpWY1c Cheers |
Chucho Valdez: Rok, I can’t take credit for that 😊. “Originated” is an overstatement. “One of the ingredients” is more like it; but, then again, you know all this. Don’t worry, your favorite “Bolero” (by Ravel) has nothing to do with Chucho’s “Bolero” which in this case is just the generic use of the Spanish word for “ballad”. Not a single trace of Ravel in that one. I did like it very much. Great player. “Rhapsody” is a different story. It has become “de rigueur ” for Jazz piano players to put their own spin on Gershwin’s “Rhapsody”, with varying amounts of success. Chucho simply uses some of the melodies and incorporates them into his own thing as opposed to keeping the composition fairly intact and improvising “extensions” of the solo piano sections as Jazz players usually do. Didn’t work too well for me. |
The best of everything in Africa left on the slave ships, especially the best rhythms; they can't even be found in Africa, but are in South America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2leZTIrua9Q Here's where it's at; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwavOZIGF1M |
More good Cuban music at a time when I don't even know if we can order anything? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCMQ8HAXC-M |
Look what we have in "Colombia", I wonder what travel arrangements they made in order to get to Colombia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON_aQB986oc |
Today's Listen: Gonzalo Rubalcaba -- IMAGES with Jack DeJohnette(drums) and John Patitucci(bass) Notes: Short paragraph of Nonsensical ramblings by Rubalcaba. Recorded 1991 at MT. Fuji Jazz Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X45YwZXBjVo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRnlXaTzSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKU7fpd1uqA Cheers |
It’s Saturday, and everyone has the blues these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dHWdhHUysQ&list=OLAK5uy_lY4OtzQgKx23Z4E9rpOXX5s6o4iJ-AEao&index=8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rkEm7s5es&list=PLVyulc7g6yXEMj7xQNVNTD7qF31evTuMH&index=6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1fnWcA-IAU&list=OLAK5uy_lY4OtzQgKx23Z4E9rpOXX5s6o4iJ-AEao&index=12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoyV3ySzMlQ&list=OLAK5uy_lY4OtzQgKx23Z4E9rpOXX5s6o4iJ-AEao&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaRUS1ix8JY&list=OLAK5uy_lY4OtzQgKx23Z4E9rpOXX5s6o4iJ-AEao&index=3 Cheers |
o10, your South American rhythm link reminded me of the other side of the world - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHa8r2esEU4 But hey, we are all in this together. |
Rok, I ain't never got the Blues. If you noticed, I never mentioned the West Side of Chicago; that was the "uncool" side of Chicago. The only reason I went to the Blues Clubs in St. Louis is because that's where the "uncool" females went. There were no "cool" females in St. Louis; consequently I had to see Chuck Berry, and Albert King, but I was too young to get into the club where Tina Turner appeared, and so was she. Although I must admit I did like Albert King. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyBZnLuNJ7k |
Saturday night. I wish I am in a night club now, all dressed up with heels so high that it’s better to stand still than to walk. The air is mildly heavy with just the right mixture of smoke and fresh air. Feelin’ little dizzy, can’t say is the glass of wine in my hand or live bluesy and jazzy music that stirres my blood and soothes me alternately and rhythmically...Perfect getaway, don’t wake me up before 5 in the morning... ........ *link with damn, damn good music* |
The other Brazil; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swbt2HGmXmY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubol9NyLWZc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY23re1dUvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ueru3eELi4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93kmqUeJWN8 When they left Africa, they took it with them, leaving nothing but an empty musical shell on that continent. |
Man, can’t believe it! Zagreb is not a place to go these days. After madness with virus, there was earthquake today! 5.5 according to Richter. There were some damages on older buildings and cars on the street...I see now some people are trapped, I hope that there are no casualties. Now we just need the invasion of the grasshopers... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNCS27rtQ8 |
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2020/03/21/trump-urges-americans-to-take-game-changing-drug-... If this happens to be the truth, just to let you know guys, Azithromycin (our code name Sumamed®) is an antibiotic developed by a team of Croatian pharmaceutical experts from the PLIVA drug factory. Pliva was (now belongs to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd/Israel) one of the biggest Croatian drug factories. According to Wiki, in the year 2016 this medicine was the 49th most prescribed medication in the United States with more than 15 million prescriptions. |
Mary_jo, the best place for you to be is here, and here is where you belong. You can come "here" whenever you feel like it, and share your thoughts and feelings; you can share your music whether it's jazz or not. I would like to share some music with you that's not jazz. This music takes me back to the very best time in my entire life; it was when I felt the most secure, it was before I knew anything about this horrible world in which we live, it was when my favorite aunt read me fairy tales from a thick white jewel encrusted book. She would take off her big diamond ring that I liked to twist and turn under the light to see it sparkle while I nestled snugly in the crook of her arm. Fairy tale land was where all things were possible and there was always magic in the air, and that's where we were going. "Andreas Vollenweider" takes me back to that time; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onp_uRj6FNE I saw him live once where I had a seat center mezzanine in a big theater, it was like being in the center of a gigantic speaker. I brought long range, and wide angle binoculars so that I wouldn't miss anything; the percussionist alone had a truckload of equipment and watching him was both enchanting and hypnotic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rywJpDYgAhQ No one knows better than me what a horrible world in which we live, and that was before the virus. I choose to leave it whenever I feel like it, and you can be my "Jade Princess" and come with me. I know Rok will object, but so what. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uZUnjGQ7-o We have only just began our journey into other worlds between here and there. |
010, thank you for your kind words and for the music. Good vibe in written word helps but hate to disappoint you, I am not a princess type of a woman. I enjoy behaving ladylike but swear like angry coachman in my free time and do have difficult behaviour in general. I’ve been told that such things comes with an age. :--) Warm story with your thoughtful aunt...Since we are too much down to earth, it wouldn’t hurt us go back for a while, just to remember times when everything was possible and when fairy tales existed...Ice cream for free... https://youtu.be/HuCySPXQiY8 |
Mary_jo you're human, humans are going crazy where I am, and that's normal. These events are stretching some people past the breaking point, and it's just beginning. Stan Getz's horn has such a beautiful tone, and that's one of my favorite tunes. Good music is a necessity at a time like this. I just read about the difficulties you're having there; stay safe. |
I listen to this CD often. Every Sunday, just seems to be Sunday, sitting on the porch, kind of music. Beautiful music, that reminds us of when we had a real crisis, and real leadership, in this country. Best wishes to Aficionados everywhere, esp NYC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9TcXmBNbtM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou9RmnACtHM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8NVo7oqNdM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b5du0TIDS4 Cheers |
I got cabin fever and went to the park not far away; I just wanted to get out of the house for some air. There was a guy in a white truck talking to a guy in a black truck way on the other side of a huge parking lot. After they talked for awhile, and the guy in the black truck left, the guy in the white truck drove all the way to the side of the lot where I was. Sorry, I was not in the mood for company, which is very rare for me, but I left the park and came back home. I surmised that the guy in the white truck probably lived by himself, and under normal conditions still socialized with a lot of people, but under these conditions was stressing out from being alone, and wanted someone to talk to. |