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.
Probably my favorite Jazz musician, because no one is more economical, no one is more sentimentally involved in the song, no one is more humble with his instrument because Chet forgot always himself in the music he play...We even forgot that this is a trumpet, subsist only a passing cloud in front of a stay forever sun, like a pure melody appearing in front of the heart....
He is the greatest trumpet player, not because of what he do or could do with the trumpet , but because of what he dont do ever and never will do...He most of the times slowly articulated each part of a melody like spoken words...
Playing slowly the trumpet notes like he did and making each one of them expressive in his own way is very difficult...More difficult than playing virtuoso and speed with high notes...
I am not a trumpet player... You could ask me how can i know what is the more difficult way to play at the trumpet?
I will answer easily... Look for any trumpeter and compare him with Chet...No one is able to slowly "spoke" with the trumpet at the expressive mastery level of Chet... Go now and look for virtuosos who play full speed ... There is plenty of them and i like them all because i like trumpet... But i love Chet...
There is some few others i love, but they have all their own "aural spectral expressive sound ", because i like that, none "spoke" with the trumpet though...
Music comes from the heart and nothing can destroy the heart, nor the drugs, nor the lost of his teeth...He learn to play anew at the same level... No other trumpetist will ever be able to do that i think...He played for the music ONLY never for the drug he need and pay for....For sure he was gravely ill all his life by drug ....But miraculously music never disapeared in meaningless concerts to pay for drug...I own more than one hundred of his best albums then i know him....
He was a withered and consumed angel....
For the same reason i love Bill Evans... They are twins...
I like Enrico Rava, i think i own 25 albums at least....Those 2 also... He was a disciple of Chet like were some Italian jazz musicians fascinated in their young age by Chet who go to italia many times for some concerts......
Today ended sadly for me when I found out about the death of Ronnie Spector😪
I will always remember riding in the backseat of my mothers car with Ronnie’s beautifully piercing vocals coming out of the rear deck speakers behind me. They don’t make music like that anymore but in the 60’s it was sublime.
acman, not much mention of McLaughlin here. I became aware of him when he joined Miles for "In A Silent Way" and then "Bitches Brew". Soon after that he became a leader for fusion with his group The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Recently a writer contacted me online who is researching a book on The Mahavishnu Orchestra. He found something I'd posted some time ago on an audio site listing favorite concerts. One of those for me was seeing McLaughlin and TMO live back in 1972. That was unforgettable with the energy and interplay among the five members of the band.
Growing up I heard my dad play a lot of Louie Armstrong, especially with the All Stars, which in the early years included Teagarden. As a teenager I couldn't really appreciate it, but as I grew older I did.
So today I remain a fan of much of Satchmo's music, but there is also some good Teagarden stuff out there too.
“This is Teagarden” Capitol 1956 Mono. Still plays nicely. Picked up a trombone that year, 9 yrs old. Mis’ry And T’he Blues Verve” 61 also sweet. I have others but those are still my favorites. Can’t play for sour apples myself now. If you like that stuff try Kai Winding and JJ Johnson “Nuf Said” Bethlehlem 1959.
my "go to" for a reasonable price for years has been their HD-580.
I had the HD580, now my son has them. I still have the HD650, HD660S and the HD560S. Love them all. An inexpensive way to scratch the 'something new' itch.
Roon suggested something yesterday that I enjoyed. Carla Bley's Life Goes On album. I'm probably very late to that party, but passing it along, just in case.
I listened to The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery again last night. Been a while.
I don't know how I hadn't noticed it before, but does anybody know why Wes and the pianist flip sides on 2 of the tracks? The rest of the album, the piano is toward the right, and Wes is on the left. For 2 tracks, it's just the opposite. I don't think it's a channel flop; I didn't notice the bass or drums moving. Maybe I was just so puzzled by the guitar and piano that I didn't notice, though.
I wasn't paying attention to what the tracks were, so I don't know exactly which 2 it is. But it's the 3rd or 4th, and then one near the end.
After my discovery of Pat Martino guitar very impressive original improvising pulsating chords in fired creativity, thanks to frogman advice; now a masterful craftsman of subtle tone hues and melody, Johnny Smith... With Grant Green and Martino in my favorite artists list together...
In making this album, Peter Bjørnild (bassist) writes, "We quickly realized that we did not want to make a tribute album. Rather we would pay our respects to Ray by following the advice Ray gave to Willie Nelson at a recording session: ’Don’t think about how anybody else does it, just do it the way that YOU feel it.’ So we took the songs back to their bare essentials, tried to hear them as if they had just been written and in so doing making them our own."
And a fresh sound they indeed deliver. This is their music, with a nod to the master here and there. Never over-produced, always respecting each other, the musicians find a nice balance of supporting each other, challenging each other, complementing each other, never stepping on one another.
The song that I most enjoyed on my first listen was "CC Rider" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant (circa 1924, also known as "See See Rider Blues"). As Bjørnild comments in the liner notes, "Here Tettero’s guitar is the 2nd protagonist in this story of a love affair taking a wrong turn. The guitar is of equal importance to Gomes’ voice, it’s the CC Rider Carmen is singing about. Listen how they keep on challenging each other yet never get in each other’s way. That kind of communication and musical empathy is a rare find."
My work schedule was heavy and i never had the money to spend to travel...I bought too many thousand books... I paid my house in short number of years because of that instead of travels expanse...I never had debt in all my life...
In music i like musician most than the genre in which they play...
I dont like heavy metal for example but nevermind i even discovered great musician there...
Then when i speak about music here it is not so much about jazz but mostly about a specfic jazz musician...
Jonnhy Smith is a great guitarist never mind the genre in which he play...
My dear @mahgister, I had no idea you could swing like that! Ever been to Kansas City, MO or St. Louis, MO?
Well , I’ve been all over mahgister .At least you live in a land that all over the world
is thought well of . That’s why my travel coats have maple on them.
I’ve been in all ten and IMO Canada stops at Ontario down near London , Waterloo etc .
Manitoba has it rough period . Sask has same First Nation problems, Alberta’s
real name is Texas North , BC I can’t speak Chinese and can’t go over a million for a house.
O’Canada is in Ontario, Quebec , NB ,NS and PIE . Newfy’s beats me .
Best of all are Quebec , most interesting , NB , best place to raise kids, Nova Scotia is great because I am 70% Scottish and Halifax has nice views. PIE , F spuds .
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