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.
That's a great Baker quote. Musicians who are somewhat more limited than others may be often do some of the most interesting work. Love it. I think it was Jeff Tweedy who said creativity comes from deprivation. Maybe it's not original to him, but I'm pretty sure he's who I heard it from. (And he's a good example of it.)
Nobody informed my garden that winter started. There is young and impertinent orange tree with big shiny oranges that sways back and forth on the light wind. The morning sun dances among its branches, gently lightening (up) each orange ball. And when I pick a ball, it greets me with sweet smell, filling my both hands, that big it is, bringing equally large smile on my face.
That’s my Christmas tree.
Merry Christmas to all you Aficionados. You too Queen.
The old Jazz Standard gets kind of boring, don't you think ?
No.
Do you notice that most Jazz of today has moved away from this.
Most of today's music they call Jazz, has moved away.
I wonder why ?
Hmmmmmmm, let's see. They can't play? If you can't play, you try to change the rules or redefine the genre. In other words, mindless, pointless,. incoherent noise becomes 'improvisation'. Now, anyone can play Jazz. Sort of like audiophile-land, things are whatever each individual says they are.
How old is the Christmas music we are now playing? Mozart? Beethoven? Ellington? Mingus? Jazz is the same type music. It stands the test of time. It never gets old.
Throw-away music made by teenagers and old geezer rockers, gets old. And gets old fast.
Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge and Teddy Hill in front of Minton’s Playhouse in New York City September 1947. (Photo by William Gottlieb)
Trent, I have "The complete Blue Note recordings of the Tina Brooks Quintets"; it's boss, three LP's that were recorded when the creative juices of the young lions at "Blue Note" were running wild: Lee Morgan, Sonny Clark, Art Blakey, Jackie McClean, Blue Mitchell, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and there is even more.
I want you to know that I compliment your good taste, and the courage to move to your own drummers beat.
When I was a teenager living with my older cousin on the South Side of Chicago, and at dusk dark when the lights were just coming on in the windows of the distant skyscrapers, I would play this tune, "Bohemia After Dark" and imagine what my life would be like when my time came to be in "Bohemia After Dark", and doing whatever it is that "Bohemians" do after dark.
An imperfect beating of the heart by the most amazing trumpetist, which has a never perfect playing, only living singing playing and so modest under the spell of any melody that it takes times before i decide that indeed he was the greatest trumpetist... 😎
All the others are perfect when they can, but they dont sing with the golden instrument forgetting sound and any perfection...
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm definitely not getting my alerts that new posts are happening in this thread. I'm getting them reliably for other threads I follow, but only sometimes for this one.
@orpheus10
Trent, I have "The complete Blue Note recordings of the Tina Brooks Quintets"; it's boss, three LP's that were recorded when the creative juices of the young lions at "Blue Note" were running wild: Lee Morgan, Sonny Clark, Art Blakey, Jackie McClean, Blue Mitchell, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, and there is even more.
I want you to know that I compliment your good taste, and the courage to move to your own drummers beat.
Nice! How are the liner notes with that set?
Ha, thanks. I've always gone my own way. It's been good in some ways, and bad in others. But it's just how I'm wired. At this point, I've been who I am long enough to be comfortable in my own skin.
Trent, The linear notes on Tina Brooks are quite complete; they tell of a sensitive individual who needed a big brother that he didn't have to protect and help guide him on his perilous journey as a jazz musician.
Here are two cuts on this set that I like a lot, plus the work he did with Jimmy Smith.
a sensitive individual who needed a big brother that he didn't have to protect and help guide him on his perilous journey as a jazz musician
A man could say that about a few jazz musicians, eh, @orpheus10 ? The sheer tonnage of talent that was lost too young in that musical form takes one off one's feet.
Just finishing my own copy of this Stanley Turrentine Album at home. One of the most easy to listen with still something to say I've heard in quite awhile . https://youtu.be/8Kx49BN6YSM
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