And a big hug back at ya. Where is our friend Alek?I checked on him few days ago, he is quite fine. But I do see him rarely around. Who knows, maybe he is in love. :eek: :---)))
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 checked on him few days ago, he is quite fine. But I do see him rarely around. Who knows, maybe he is in love. :eek: :---)))That could happen to anyone. What I often wonder is whether or not that is a good or bad thing. (2) Sonny Stitt with Quincy Jones Orchestra - Love Walked In - YouTube (2) Love Walked In - YouTube (2) Abbey Lincoln Love has gone away - YouTube (2) Abbey Lincoln - Left Alone - YouTube |
Re: Mary Jo's "Ne Me Quitte Pas" link (beautiful piece, thanks MJ). It won't play for me, and I got this explanation from YouTube: <<Video Unavailable - The uploader has not made this video available in your country.>> Is everyone else seeing this? I've never run into it before. Of course we can find it by searching - it's just interesting that an upload can be restricted like this. |
My link for JFA defaults to showing older posts first, but only those I still haven't read. It's cool because it helps me appreciate the earliest posts on JFA. At the top today is this list posted by Frogman on 2/25/13. Great stuff! (Frogman, my apologies if this is inappropriate): Oliver Nelson,"Blues And The Abstract Truth" Eric Dolphy, "Out To Lunch" Sarah Vaughn, "Live In Japan" Clifford Brown, "With Strings" John Coltrane, "Ballads" Nancy Wilson, "With Cannonball Adderly" Wayne Shorter, "Speak No Evil" Shirley Horne, "Here's To Life" Sonny Rollins, "Way Out West" Joe Henderson, "Inner Urge" Benny Goodman, "Sextet" Cannonball Adderley, "With The Bossa Rio Sextet" Miles, "Birth Of The Cool" |
Being a native New Yorker I tuned in to watch the NY Mets play the NY Yankees in a baseball game tonight. Since today is the 20th year to the day of the terrorist attacks on my home country the NYPD and FDNY are being honored on the field before the game. But what struck me the most was the young jazz vocalist sensation Anais Reno who sand our National Anthem. I had never heard of her or listened to her beautiful voice until tonight. I immediately went to Amazon and ordered this talented (and beautiful) young ladies debut album released this past March and titled " Lovesome Thing" Lovesome Thing features Anias singing the following great songs from the American Jazz Standards. Caravan; Mood Indigo; Still in Love; Chelsea Bridge / A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; I'm Just a Lucky So-and- So; It's Kind of Lonesome Tonight; Day Dream; I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues; All Roads Lead Back to You; U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group); Lush Life; Take the "A" Train. Anaïs Reno (anaisreno.com) (2) Benny Benack III & Anais Reno - Caravan - YouTube (2) Lush Life - YouTube (2) Anais Reno, It's kind of lonesome out tonight, Duke Ellington - YouTube |
Re Mulgrew Miller and the Blues. Btw, very nice live clip with Miller by Schubert. Very soulful player! Not terribly surprising having grown up playing in the Church. Well, as Rok has pointed out many times, “No Blues, no Jazz”. As has also been pointed out, Jazz, and the Blues as well, is about the feeling with which it’s played more than anything else. Having said all that, with a couple of exceptions in specific spots (1:35, 2:43) where he gets very bluesy with what he plays (melodically), I don’t hear much that is unusually bluesy about Mulgrew’s chord voicings. They are beautiful, fairly classic, but very modern Jazz piano voicings loaded with tight dissonances. The feeling with which he plays them is another story, loaded with Blues feeling like it is with most truly great Jazz players; so, I understand Schubert’s reaction. Classic Blues piano chord voicings, (a longtime Jazz educator, Miller would often remind students, “Support the soloist, but don’t overwhelm him”) : https://youtu.be/610kYihV2To |
Re “Ne me quitte pas”: The Maysa clip didn’t play for me either. I found this one instead: https://youtu.be/d4sVeblPaa4 Frankly, I don’t hear much Nina in either Ledisi’s or Maysa’s versions. But, is that the goal? To sound like Simone? I wouldn’t think so. Having said that, while I like Maysa’s I love Ledisi’s version. Maysa’s sounds to me a little too.….theatrical? Just me. She does the best job however with the French lyrics, not surprising given her Brazilian/Portuguese heritage. Nina. Not terribly comfortable with the French, but the most conversational, as if she really were speaking to her lover; even if she does seem to rush through the lyrics a bit. But truly wonderful: https://youtu.be/a5FjvWWsH-c |
Ledisi LEDISI SINGS NINA Featuring: The Metropole Orkest The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Guests: Lizz Wright, Alice Smith, Lisa Fischer BMG 2021 Great backing. A thoroughly enjoyable album. Only seven tracks, but no duds. My Baby Just Cares for Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwF4E5HT9Y Work Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeHc2HcyAQ Four Women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUl6tU0j0cg Ne Me Quitte Pas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV1Woy2l-MY Cheers |
OK this weekend I listened to discs 5 through 8 of the LEE MORGAN COMPLETE 8 CD LIVE AT THE LIGHTHOUSE. All 8 discs are excellent remasters. Sonics are second to non as far as the digital (CD) versions are concerned. What I noticed the most was how night after night Lee Morgan had Bennie Maupin lead off on the solo's. Many of the tracks Lee and Bennie played note for note together. Lee was obviously recovered from his heroin addiction and sounded fantastic. Its a shame his GF killed him. |
Gee , thanks keegiam,frogman does about 90 %,, I just listen. I love this rendition "’ of Desafinato’". Both smooth and powerful . https://youtu.be/AYFfnVO_geg?list=RDQMowNQODf85Ow Another Latin standard , boys do all kinds of Jazz, chose this because they are seldom seen .This is in Seoul , big audience is normal there . https://youtu.be/AiWCf7J-wcQ?list=RDQMowNQODf85Ow Can you say improve ? I think Edith would have put her stamp on this ! https://youtu.be/73oXkzWjbxM?list=RDQMowNQODf85Ow |
I imagine all on here know who Edith Piaf is , but just in case . She is a icon of France who was like no other and never will be ! She freezes me whenever I hear her sing , to me her every note has two things , pain and love . https://youtu.be/rzeLynj1GYM There are clips of her songs which sound better , but this was just after WW II and she sung what she was ,a tired France . |
JFA audiophiles: power conditioner advice needed. One bank of my venerable Power Wedge 114 got fried during 5 days of unprecedented voltage spikes (every home on my side of the street). The rest of my gear is OK - I disconnected everything after the first event. (The slo-blo fuse for the fried bank looks fine - no current troubles apparently, only voltage. Likely a dead transformer.) Any recommendations for a replacement power conditioner with current and voltage protection? I haven't kept up with that arena for decades. |
JFA audiophiles: power conditioner advice needed. One bank of my venerable Power Wedge 114 got fried during 5 days of unprecedented voltage spikes (every home on my side of the street). The rest of my gear is OK - I disconnected everything after the first event. (The slo-blo fuse for the fried bank looks fine - no current troubles apparently, only voltage. Likely a dead transformer.) Any recommendations for a replacement power conditioner with full protection? I haven't kept up with that arena for decades. |
@schubert Today is the 100th birthday / anniversary of your boys. Formed on 13 Sept 1921 at Ft Bliss, Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_(United_States) Cheers |
schubert, maybe I'm old fashioned but this remains my favorite version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npKGdsiQz9Q |
Thanks for heads up rok ! All I can say is I left with the Cav a few months back from Germany . By Army standards they were disciplined then and remained so till I left . I was in 229th Air Assault Bat. Army really needed real platoon Sgt’s bit over a year later and I raised my hand . Wrong ,went to 4th Div which had zero discipline as did every other did Army unit I saw . Pass the dope . The 229th was the most,, per capita , decorated unit in Viet Nam . And deserved it . |
@acman3 The Power Wedge is almost 30 years old and worked flawlessly until the crazy voltage spikes hit. Maybe it saved the preamp, or maybe not. Given that the unprotected amp is okay, perhaps the preamp would have been okay too. BTW, I'd rather risk losing an amplifier than risk constricting its sound. Protecting front end stuff is fine, but it seems to me an amp should be enjoyed as is. Thanks acman, keep on keepin' on. |
Chet Baker & Steve Houben, "Beatrice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3kCAPkO7bE&list=OLAK5uy_kWbo2y_JTLv5FuvX1OZac40BC9fTh-x3Y&i... |
Burton, Corea, Metheny, Haynes, Holland - "Question and Answer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6epTSAq0s4&list=OLAK5uy_ms-PRDnEUGK1o3ncDcURd0MrMKQRGvJ6A |
Keith Jarrett Trio - "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Live in Tokyo, 1993) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENrRAIzlL1A |
Burton, Corea, Metheny, Haynes, Holland - "Question and Answer"That is the first song on the Quintet album titled "Like Minds" There is a trio album titled Question and Answer with 3 of the 5 artists on the Like Minds album. Question And Answer | Discogs I have both discs and both are really good albums in their entirety. Keegiam I suggest you check out the trio if you have not yet. |
Oscar Brown Jr. SIN & SOUL Columbia / Sony 1960 / 1996 Notes: Rarely does an artist's debut album deliver as fully formed, well-defined an original as the Oscar Brown Jr. of Sin and Soul. Somebody Buy Me a Drink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAkTXKhqJSw Dat Dere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o_8Ek9Hzu0 Rags and Old Iron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZexCpTTWHc Work Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfXByKfexZs Afro-Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G748lKUVaJs Cheers |
Ray Brown Trio THE SAX PLAYERS Ray Brown(bass), Benny Green(piano), Gregory Hutchinson(drums) Telarc 1996 Stanley Turrentine - Port Of Rico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWxZ0ZKwh_A Joshua Redman - Polka Dots and Moonbeams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=543suDE5Sdk Benny Carter - Fly Me To The Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD5ANgC6bgo Cheers |
Totally digging my 1974 Japan pressing of Hampton Hawes' "For Real!" right now. Never a solid attempt to re-issue in recent years, this one sounds great. Harold land and Scott LaFaro are such a wonderful compliment to Hampton during this 1958 session. Great Thursday evening listening on vinyl with a glass of red. |
"My Little Cello." Lovely little tune from Oscar Pettiford. I still get confused - the OP turned me on to OP (Pettiford), but I already knew the #1 OP (Peterson). That said... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGuIbbsMsTI |
Re Pat Metheny and Jazz: Anyone who thinks he is not a Jazz player of the highest order is just not listening: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWuqeV9DLDppHwqb3lEXXc9G2e0x1BqWs Btw, it’s not just that he has a great agent that, on the album jacket, his name was listed above that of the great Jack De Jonette. https://www.patmetheny.com/qa/questionView.cfm?queID=170 “Joy”: forgetting it is like forgetting to breathe. |
So sorry to learn this. One of my favorites. This came immediately to mind: https://youtu.be/MO11_xWyZJE https://youtu.be/y8PjvxET91U |
Anyone who thinks he is not a Jazz player of the highest order is just not listeningTales From The Hudson was, IMHO, Michael Brecker's best album. I purchased it after buying a few of his earlier sessions as a leader and many more as a sideman or co leader/collaborator. And yes Metheny is a great jazz guitarist - on that album. Anyone who thinks Metheny is not one of the best ever on the instrument is in denial. Where it gets blurred is that Metheny, on all of his own projects and collaborations with Lyle Mays I really can't call it jazz. I have listened to Metheny play straight ahead jazz often, on TFTH and other sessions where he plays in the traditional jazz harmonies like Montgomery or Martino. I would call Metheny's projects "creative guitar music" As in (7) PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS ~ SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH - YouTube Its when Metheny collaborates with someone other then Lyle Mays that he sound more "jazz like" As in (7) Jazzfest Berlin 1990 - (III) - Pat Metheny Trio - Dave Holland (b) - Roy Haynes (dr) deel 1.avi - YouTube And here is an example of Metheny jamming like a "hard rocker" fast forward to 4:10 (7) Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek-Are you going with me? - YouTube Do I think Pat Metheny is a guitar virtuoso - yes, do I think his albums with Lyle Mays (the bulk of his own art) sound like jazz..no |
So sorry to learn this. One of my favorites. This came immediately to mind:Mraz will be missed You have posted Urban Dreams from Pepper Adams a few times over the years and I think it is very good album so I always meant to own a copy but then would forget over time. I'm on my way to Discogs now to order a copy so I dont forget again. Thanks for posting it again. |
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman JOHN COLTRANE AND JOHNNY HARTMAN Impulse 1963 / 1995 They Say It's Wonderful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnm-lxHn2A Dedicated to You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP_NqRR2Nzo Lush Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXXSmmZI3DU Cheers |