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.
Rok, what is going on? Why so many posts this way? Almost all communication is gone now, its like there is a random stramer posting here instead of you?
5 Tracks, I thought four were very nice. Esp 'California Dreaming' and 'El Mar'. My initial impression was that I was listening to 70s fusion, which it turns out, is exactly what it is. But, very well done. Talent always shines through. I like it a lot more in 2021 than I would have liked it in 1971.
Lately, when I check these pages, I feel like watching a slot machine rolling... smthg. like this... https://youtu.be/ZqVpSIqG4pg Rok, what is going on? Why so many posts this way? Almost all communication is gone now, its like there is a random stramer posting here instead of you?
Well its seems as if all the so-called Aficionados have jumped ship. I assume The Frogman is working / on tour. Maybe he's a hostage in North Korea, or perhaps he's planning Bay of pigs 2.0. The OP has quit Jazz and gone into primitive third world noise. Our friends in Croatia, including the Queen, have disappeared. The other regulars don't post as often as they once did. Soooooo, there is no one to communicate with. There are still viewers.
You think folks aren't posting simply because I am posting?? hmmmmmm Maybe I should take a hint.
I am following what Rok is posting, it is just that my guests and partners at work are annoying me a lot. I do not have any energy left after they finish with me.
I like to recheck things at work because I know how people are lazy and easy going.
I recheck because I like to be sure that there are no mistakes.
When I ask my business partners to send me certain info: I ask twice, are you sure, are you completely sure?
They say yes.
Ok, I say.
So I give the same info to our client. I sign the contract, I put my signature for what I have said to them.
Then I get back to my partners.
I say again (!): I said that and that what you told me. All clear and fine, shall we proceed?
Their response: Oh, no, that is false information, please inform the client that such thing is not true!
*****
And then I go mad, completely mad!
Since I work with many people, they do that to me quite often.
Today too!
I ask the office staff: Does the boat has gps chart plotter? Please check!
With plotter, although such thing is not unsignificant, is just small part of larger scale of misunderstandings...Bigger things are annoying me. The lack of responsibility is one of them. Maybe I am too strict and should be easy going like rest of them. But that is not in my nature. And that is probably not jazzy...
You work with people who work or dream in automatic pilot like robot with no consciousness of their own...
In contrast you are a free human soul with a moral compass navigating seriously the reality...Not surprizingly your emotions are involved.... Theirs are not.... Save for recognizing you to be a zealot...You are not.... They are dead bodies....
Dee Dee Bridgewater(vocals), Thierry Eliez(piano), Thomas Bramerie(bass), Ali Jackson(drums, percussion) Verve 1998
Notes: "Potentially the most volatile component of a Jazz vocalist's performance, scatting can be deadly in the wrong singer's hands. But Bridgewater has the gift."
Herve Sellin(piano), Antoine Bonfils(bass guitar), Andre Ceccarelli(drums) Impulse / MCA 1986 / 1989
Notes: "Jazz is a music of improvisation, a music of feeling deeply rooted in me. I chose to convey this music "live" to try to capture the excitement of the moment. It's not perfect "mais ca fonctionne bien." It's the real thing, no "artificial sweetners" and what fun we had making it happen..."
The most expensive single CD I have ever purchased. Cost me around 40 dollars from Japan. I just had to have that version of 'on a clear day' and that album cover photo. Great CD. Oscar has never made a bad recording.
Does anybody have this new release by Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller. If so can you give a quick review of your thoughts on it?
A piano trumpet duo might be challenging.
Greetings, Resonance Records just released In Harmony by Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, check it out here.
Here’s what they say about it: “In Harmony is the first previously unissued recording of the late trumpet star Roy Hargrove since his passing in 2018. Captured live on January 15, 2006 at Merkin Hall in New York City and September 11, 2007 at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, with the late piano great Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony is an intimate snapshot of two masters performing without a net at the top of their games. The 2 CD set is being released in cooperation with the Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller Estates and includes an elaborate booklet with rare photos, an essay by acclaimed writer Ted Panken, plus interviews and statements by fellow musicians with deep connections to Hargrove and Miller such as Sonny Rollins, Jon Batiste, Christian McBride, Ambrose Akinmusire, Keyon Harrold, Kenny Barron, Eddie Henderson, and others.”
Well its seems as if all the so-called Aficionados have jumped ship. I assume The Frogman is working / on tour. Maybe he's a hostage in North Korea, or perhaps he's planning Bay of pigs 2.0. The OP has quit Jazz and gone into primitive third world noise. Our friends in Croatia, including the Queen, have disappeared. The other regulars don't post as often as they once did. Soooooo, there is no one to communicate with. There are still viewers.
I'm still here rok. A little busy with work now.
RE frogman
Here is one of his favorite tenor players at his best:
@rok2id, I had that on vinyl in the early 80's. But since it was a smaller label release it never made it to CD in the states. I believe Japan released it in the 2000's. Great album! And yes, On A Clear Day was a true standout on that record!
So many more, so little time. So, what is “favorite” anyway? The absence of inclusion above of some of the acknowledged “greatests”, especially the mighty Coltrane might seem strange. I love them also and would acknowledge that they were indeed the greatest, in part on an intellectual level. However, some simply have a way of telling a story that for some reason is crystal clear TO ME and they always put a smile on my face.
Btw, sorry for my absence. Very busy as work gets rolling again and other commitments. No Bay of Pigs aspirations, but hoping…….; and related to “other commitments”.
Best to all and thanks pjw. A beast of a player and undoubtedly a favorite.
Yes, I work on Saturdays and Sundays and during Summer Season it is from morning till evening but when the Season is over, all is quite flexible, meaning if I wish to work, I work, when not, I just take my hobbies and enjoy in them...
Dee Dee Bridgewater(vocals), Stephane Belmondo(trumpet), Lionel Belmondo(tenor sax), Hein Van De Geyn(bass), Andre Ceccarelli(drums), Horace Silver(piano), Jimmy Smith(B3 organ) Verve Recorded in 1994
No notes, she just thanks everyone in the alpha quadrant for their support and help.
Does anybody have some other albums of these guys to recommend? Guess I’ll have to expand the time frame of music that I am interested.It looks like there is good stuff to be found beyond '65, after all....
Another piano player who made some great records post-bell bottoms era and is still making them is Kenny Barron. A truly special player. Can’t recommend this record highly enough:
Freddie Hubbard(trumpet), Tina Brooks(tenor sax), Duke Jordan(piano), Sam Jones(bass), Art Taylor(drums) Blue Note 1960 / 2005
Notes: "Brooks was one of Jazz's ultimate footnotes until the Blue Note savvy Japanese brought his 1958 quintet sessions, BACK TO THE TRACKS and the rest of the Brooks / McLean music into print toward the close of the 1970s."
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