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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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WWWHHHAAATTT!!! That is an insane statement if I ever heard one. Not only is Pat Martino a master guitarist but a master band leader as well. Pat Martino has played with some of the best musicians that have ever lived. And HE knows the BLUES! Guitarist Anthony Wilson born in1968, is a BABY compared to Maestro Martino! And you play guitar!? frogman, if coltarne1 can’t understand the massive CHOPS of Pat Martino? Then there’s nothing you or we can do. Especially, after dropping that YouTube video Oleo! He is a front man. His band in the video would blow the Anthony Wilson band live with Diana Krall. OFF THE STAGE!
And to the comment, ’I much prefer his tone to Pat Martino’s. Reason being Anthony plays a Gibson Byrdland archtop as opposed to a tele like guitar.’ Let me explain, and give an analogy. A master carpenter can take the worst, beat up, broken tools and create a master piece. And a apprentice or even a newly minted journeyman could not match the skill set of a master carpenter even if (he or she) had brand new spanking tools. And the quality of workmanship would not even come closet to the master carpenter’s with the worst, beat up, broken tools.
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(forgive me I’m not up to date in current thread), I read how a member prefers a player’s tone over Pat Martino, as that player used an Archtop.Was Pat known for ever playing a Tele?? Regardless, Pat would do an exemplary job on a Sears Silvertone!!! But yea, "tone" does matter to those who notice and care. Btw, I'mfortunate to have a couple "very nice" 6 and 4 strings. (Gibson Super 400 original PAFs is KING) I don't have that. 😊 |
@alexatpos,Y'all Jammin! This is what we/I used to do as kids. Turn each other on (introduce) to new music. Swingin! |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4HKYj7gSXw In the mean time this help me : guitar+hammond ... i live hammond and guitar.... Sorry i cannot embed the image probably problem with my computer mouse click....
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@tyray, Neither did I mention Grant Green, or Kenny Burrell, or Russell Malone. There are many, many, great guitarists. And the great ones all played archtop’s. Was that because they too were traditionalists? I’m not saying Pat Martino wasn’t a gifted player. But he lost me with his tone. We each hear differently. Non Musicians hear differently than Pro’s. I’m not a pro, but I recognize what great guitar tone is. Without good tone you’ve completely lost my interest. It’s as everything you had to say is now irrelevant because your tone is crap. All my opinion. |
The guitar choices of Martino are dictated and chosen for and by his particular way of picking "chords"... He is a genius in his way to use some chords like no one did in guitar jazz america... We need a musician to confirm this, i am not one... But it seems to me that his style is something i would described by the word "speaking" before "singing"...His guitar playing remind me of some master of the ud or tanbur in near-eastern music or north africa... His guitar spoke to sing and before singing , not sing first, save in some pieces he plays, times to times orthodoxically and out of his own chords syntax system....... His genius for me is not so much playing beautiful melodies which he is very able to do by the way sometimes, BUT inducing mantra-like "spoken chords" repetiting/varying formulas, making him able to integrate anything in his flowing moves....Often the musicians playing with him are NOT SIDE co-players but disciples...They play like him in his language.... Rythm ,melody,and harmony unite in something "vertical" that mimic or resemble no "beautiful linear melodic singing" but Hypnotic trance ... Like the mystic greatest master of Tanbur Ostad Elahi....Like dancing Sufi music... I truly think that Martino is a mystic....Not only the usual musician....his music is so frenetically powerful because of that... But i know many people for example that dont like the last Sciabin nor Ostad Elahi, because we must really open our mind to some new "consciousness" level to learn HOW to listen to that with the right part of our soul and brain...My Music tastes changed all my life absorbing something new completely times to times...music is not like meals a question of taste, music is too much linked to our soul to be only a "taste", music is a set of perspectives encompassing the human soul and nourrishing it....Some music must be LEARNED to be LOVED... One thing is sure the guitar of Martino is not always like an easy enchanting melodic line, but a zig-zag abyss between rythm and harmony...For me it is so intense that i prefer him to most more " beautiful" easy listenings players, like Grant Green for example whom i like so much...But Martino is in an another class of its own over all jazz guitarist i know... I am not shocked easily...I like almost all styles of music of all countries or era... In a word there exist probably a "Martino" cult... Like A Bruckner cult, a Wagner cult, a Scriabin cult, these 3 masters also in their own way wanted to grip you by the sheer force of their "chord" mastery... The last Coltrane or Miles Davis induce also something like that with his own means...Chet Baker so demolished in his soul and body, go on with a playing that lost all "innovations" potential to concentrate on the "spoken" nude words where there is nothing left save an intimate articulate murmur conveying emotions WITHOUT any spectacular sound ( the opposite of the creative Miles Davis)...
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Well it would seem buy consensus here on audiogon that more agree with me than you. And that is a fact, and has nothing to do with opinion. By the way I played drums, not a pro but have ben playing since I was 6 and have very good ’tone’. |
Thanksgiving "joke" (not strictly related to Thanksgiving) A man called up his adult daughter and told her the bad news: He and his wife were getting a divorce. “But why, dad? What happened?” the daughter asked. “I’ve been miserable for years and I just can’t take it anymore. I’ve packed my bags and I’m leaving tonight!” the father replied. “Wait, dad! Don’t do anything drastic. I’m coming over to talk to you guys. Can you at least wait until tomorrow?” asked the daughter. “OK, why don’t you bring John and the kids, too. I’m sure your mom will want to see them,” the dad said. “OK,” said the daughter. “See you then.” The man hung up the phone, then said, “Honey! The kids are coming over for Thanksgiving!” |
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