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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I have a story. A few weeks ago I noticed that all the Jazz cataloged on my computer storage device, from E thru H had disappeared. Finally finished inputting it all again. Including this gem. Perfect for a rainy afternoon. Getz said, "How refreshing it is to play with these pros." Sums it up for me. I want to be happy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFf__8U0g8 pennies from heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_lIEU7mz8s ballad medley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y8_73CLLxg bronx blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C380vXYedbo Cheers |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izjSUqCcSQ Lush Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecrE80rnjhw My one and only love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1T3s5QY-WI The Nearness Of You |
Frogman, I have more stories to tell, but I will only tell them with your permission. My next story centers around this song; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP6mX_HtgGI |
Sometimes it's sweet to put oneself in the hands of a good FM deejay (for me, usually when driving). I'm lucky to be within range of WPFW in DC. A few recent gems: Oliver Nelson Septet, "Stolen Moments" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbaGDDbpcQ4 Bobby Watson & Jack Walrath, "Cristo Redentor"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIs7ZHLHFY Miles Davis, "Circle" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRiwDuzadl0 |
Nice clips, Keegiam. Some favorite Getz: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kSdDcxyIWm1GGkwoOsAnSegN9sZYwenrE https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lpWI9KUeyBZ6JIw09N7U6AqXEkARfsMAI Btw, you can keep the points. What would you like me to do with yours? Perhaps Mary_Jo wants them 😊 |
I don't think anybody has posted this group and album . yet It is Amazing IMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-VWlZ2LJ6k |
Likewise, not much posts about Eddie Harris ’Mean greens’ from 1966. I like the trumpet player here, Ray Codrington, does anybody cares to mention some good albums where he plays? https://youtu.be/yibgqq9N1Ds https://youtu.be/kZ1QyYVNe6E |
Good player, Codrington. My first exposure to his playing was on this other Eddie Harris record which I posted a while back. Probably his best known record, it features Codrington and Harris’ best known composition “Freedom Jazz Dance” which has become a modern Jazz standard. https://youtu.be/iDrH5urtCbQ Alex, Codrington’s best known associations were with Harris with whom he recorded several records and with the great pianist Larry Willis. Not on YouTube (sorry), but I recommend Willis’s record “Sanctuary” featuring Codrington. Speaking of Harris and trumpet, Harris pioneered the rather bizarre hybrid instrument the reed trumpet. A trumpet with a saxophone mouthpiece: https://youtu.be/NMmjh4qkEZY |
Acman, thanks, just listening. That and theirs other album is on sale here https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/the-jfk-quintet-albums/5773-new-jazz-frontiers-from-washington-you... Frogman, thank you too, I am aware od that Harris album, infact it can be bought as double edition with an album I posted. Will search for that Willis album as well. |
**** Never considered him a ’serious’ Jazz player. **** Probably because much of his work is on the “funky” side. He is a serious Jazz player with a very unique tenor sound. Maybe these will change your mind: https://youtu.be/E3B4locAgDg https://youtu.be/xU8uitaeFQw https://youtu.be/pjwrk8mn58A |
https://youtu.be/tg3JeqxDprc?t=3 This Korean kid IMO has such swing and harmonic grove he has unlimited improv future in Jazz with his Evan hears with classical training .Those Rhodes are something . For a kid to get to the Jazz essence of this without smaltz is a feat IMO. https://youtu.be/Ul6tPaQPPhk?t=2 Ahhhh https://youtu.be/KFl2DiviMzE?t=2 |
Very nice “Just The Two Of Us” by that kid, Schubert. Plays with a very nice time feel, clean technique and easy touch. Enjoyed it, thanks. https://youtu.be/ctUownP7Kqw |
You have all been demanding to know what was hot in 1945, according to METRONOME magazine. Soooo.... Courtesy of my Local FM station. Reviews by Leonard Feather. Grade A- Ike Quebec -- BLUE HARLEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7qPdSwTCSE Anita O’day with the Stan Kenton Orchestra -- ARE YOU LIVING OLD MAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KsacrLFOl8 Artie Shaw (Ray Conniff arrangement) -- S’WONDERFUL *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW-DDh_tYCQ 75 years ago. The best measure of greatest, longevity!! Cheers ***note for users of ancient technology, For best results use Victor needles. :) |
Metronome 1945: I think they overlooked a couple. Ya think? https://youtu.be/6oOIfN4A0Eg https://youtu.be/pYe4Rz9qhWY https://youtu.be/9U4jTElGdQ4 +1 Artie Shaw |
Thelonious Monk and Charlie Rouse practicing at Nica’s “Cathouse” circa 1960 (photo by Pannonica de Koenigswarter)
https://hipstersanctuary.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/monk-and-charlie-rouse.jpg?w=640 |
When I saw "Trane" he was blowing the Soprano sax, it was the same one Miles had given him. Miles said that John Coltrane had helped to make both of them legends. According to Miles; "Trane was the loudest, fastest saxophonist I’ve ever heard. He could play real fast, and real loud at the same time and that’s very difficult to do. After I gave him that soprano saxophone, it had an effect on his playing, his style changed; while he sometime played like Bird, Stitt, Lockjaw, or Dexter Gordon before, after he got that horn, he didn’t sound like nobody but himself. He found out he could play lighter and faster on the soprano than he could on the tenor. He found he could think and hear better with the soprano than he could with the tenor. When he played the soprano, after a while it sounded almost like a human voice, wailing" That’s what Miles had to say about Trane. This is the album that was hot when I saw John Coltrane; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI The place was packed with professional musicians (minus girlfriends). If I had come minus girlfriend, I would not have had one when I got home; she liked Trane as much as I did. We were fortunate enough to have "Kenny Rice" a professional drummer, sit at our table. All those professional musicians were there for a reason, which I was soon to discover; Trane didn’t repeat what was on the album, but played a much extended version, that was long enough to take me to a place that I had never been, but always wanted to go; a blissful musical heaven. This was in a nightclub setting and we were close enough to the musicians to see every bead of sweat, and the expressions on their faces as they took us through different moods; naturally, Elvin Jones, the drummer was dripping with sweat as he propelled Trane to higher ground. Near the end of the set, Trane really stretched out, that was what the professional musicians came to hear; "Coltrane unleashed", going places where no musician had gone before, out into the far reaches of the seventh galaxy. He reworked and extended "My Favorite Things" into a 35 minute tune. A grand time was had by all. |
Mary_Jo..........OK, I need to get to the bottom of this! I always struggle with this when addressing you, so please set the record straight. Which do you prefer? Mary_Jo, mary_jo, or Mary_jo? Perhaps MJ? I have a sister in law with the same name as you (lovely name, btw). We call her simply, Jo. Which do you prefer? Oh, almost forgot: JQ? Re your funny comment about that great Monk/Rouse pic. Reminded me of a joke often used by musicians when talking to another: “I like what you’re trying to do, man” 😎 Subtle. |