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.
While I was on my "Walk About" (Australian phrase), you guys were posting some of the best jazz I've ever heard. I think I commented on some of it. The latest was "Erroll Garner"; I once had a dream where his "Misty" was playing all the way through the dream. Needles to say, it was a beautiful dream; I even hated when I woke up, I tried to go back to sleep and pick up where it left off, but that didn't work.
Special Guests: Dr. John - vocal and piano on "It’s all over now" Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet and vocal on "oop pop a dah" Branford Marsalis - tenor saxophone on "moose the mooche"
You don’t have to be an aficionado to know this is from New Orleans.
Notes just list personnel and tune titles. Recorded 1987
Finally!!! Someone that appears to be the real deal. Working on her 8th album release. Longevity, one of the hallmarks of the real deal. Sings Broadway, or the American songbook, another hallmark. She has everything else.
I fall in love too easy; now I'm in love with Marie Bryant, and this is the first time I ever heard of her. I fell in love after seeing Keegiam's post.
That was the first time Marie Bryant ever sang, she earned her living dancing; I must have fallen in love with her sincerity, or, a singer can rise to new heights with the right accompaniment.
World Saxophone Quartet -- RHYTHM AND BLUES Julius Hemphill(alto), Oliver Lake(alto,soprano), David Murray(tenor, bass clarinet), Hamiet Bluiett(baritone, alto clarinet)
Minimal notes / info. This is much better than you might think, given the instrumentation.
All those are favorites of mine also. There was a time when they were on the Juke boxes in the clubs. Just like Cannonball’s ’Sack o Woe’ and stuff like that.
I know precisely what you mean about the "jukebox"; I was at a club in San Antonio, and discovered their jukebox was just as jazzy as the jukeboxes in St. Louis and Chicago; that blew me away, here I was deep in the heart of Texas expecting to find C&W, but found jazz.
My jukebox is working overtime this evening and will continue so during whole night. Tv is on, with jazz programme called "Time for jazz".
But it is almost 2 o’ clock after midnight and I think I will switch to earphones. Guys are still jamming on tv, but in a silent way.
I need jazz so badly now. That’s the only music (besides pop 70s, 80s), that has power for healing process. I must sadly confess that somehow, rock music has become too heavy for me.
I am dropping a coin... *chin* Some things just have to be done this way. Sometimes I forget it. Luckily there is this gorgeous music to remind me of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHesqaMhh34#searching
Not that long ago, I watched very emotional story in a movie with Hilary Swank in a main role. I usually avoid watching movies like that, life itself is full of such reality, there is no need for screen pictures to remind me of it but this one captured my attention so deeply that I promised myself, as if I am f**** teenager, that I will try not to be unkind to a single person in my life. Today I broke that rule.
Luckily, with each day, one has a chance to do the same again.
People in the bar are not happy with my choice of the music so will have to switch on something else before the idea of me being outside the bar, is born in their minds...
Inna, that is fantastic piece and video clip. Those photos, the atmosphere and the music that goes along, that is precisely what I am looking for. I can't figure out why my jazz guru never sent me that...
Mary_jo, I fall in love very easily, but before I fall in love with you, tell me you're not "skin and bones"; I have an aversion to skinny women. Never mind that you're in love with Rok, that doesn't matter. I just don't want to fall in love with a skinny woman.
O-10, that is very kind of you but I have to disappoint you because I am definitely not the type you're looking for. Alex saw me in live, I am not his type, Fro saw me on the internet while performing, he says that I am ok, but every woman with a proper make up and under proper light looks ok. So, with an average look and very bad temper, this woman advise you better to run and hide while you still can. :-) Only the men that like my specific type (I do not fulfil this first condition with you), older than me, very wise and extremely self-confident can handle all this, others I simply "destroy". Ok, not like that but it is not far from that.
Excellent notes, but very difficult to read. "....I would eventually like to be able to play two solos simultaneously that evoke contrasting moods. For maximum freedom, I would like to be able to do this at any velocity. I think that would be a true contribution."
I love that car. True story; my uncle bought one fresh off the line that same color, and he decided on a road trip a little over a hundred miles south of St. Louis, with my cousin driving. On the way back, my cousin said he had to drive fast to stay woke.
I went to sleep in the back seat, and the wind whistling woke me up, but the car was moving along as steady as a rock; I looked at the speedometer and it read 120. Those fins functioned as stabilizers at high speeds, the same as an airplane.
I went back to sleep with the thought, "If anything goes wrong, I'll never know it".
Bbbb bad to the bone. That is very nice car. p.s. No, O-10, I am not bad, I only can be a bit unpleasant sometimes, meaning too straightforward. Men do not like that.
**** Fro saw me on the internet while performing, he says that I am ok, ****
Ok, I know you’re just trying to turn his “COLD” knob up and the “HOT” knob down; after all, who really knows just what might be possible over the internet? However, let’s be accurate when quoting someone else: 😊
It is absolutely unbelievable how many people think this is the coolest song they ever heard in their life. Amazingly it conjures up similar visions to a lot of different people.
"What we've got here is failure to communicate." Thank you pjw for reminding me of this movie...They do not make movies like this anymore...
No unfortunately they never will make movies like it again.
There are many "hidden gems" throughout the whole movie which are tied to the theme of the movie which is "gameness" the act of being "game". To stick to your convictions no matter what life throws your way. To "persevere" -
continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success.
One of these gems is when the snapping turtle, just shot by "the man with no eyes" is still holding firm on the stick even as its dying.
And of course there is the fight scene with George Kennedy when Dragline (Kennedy) tells Luke "stay down your beat" and Luke says "your gonna have to kill me"
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