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.
orpheus10

Thanks for Sun Ra....

He is one of the more interesting and marginalized figure in Jazz...

After all who is able to transform himself in a living  "myth" and educated so much musicians around him ? Very few.... Miles Davis and Chet Baker.... Few others like Louis Armstrong are mythical figures...Sun Ra is one... And his output is huge...Probably very few people know him  completely....Too much albums to listen to ....😁😊

This one is for me one of the great album of jazz...And Dickerson is a musical genius vastly underestimated...

 

 

 

Hello all JFA people 

Been a while and I am happy to see frog, rok, acman, pryso, mahgister, alek and all my old JFA people still posting.

And me and me, me, me!! :--)))

Hello all JFA people 

Been a while and I am happy to see frog, rok, acman, pryso, mahgister, alek and all my old JFA people still posting.

I have been posting here for 5 years and I cannot recall anyone posting about Hugh Masekela. Anyway I like the late Masekela who passed in 2018. Hugh lived through all of that BS in South Africa and still managed to put out some serious jazz.

Did I mention he is also a really great trumpet player. 

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Wow! i like hammond organ very much...

Very good selection i listen to it for some time now..

Thanks this make my day....

jim5559

I don’t think this was ever on here .

 

 

 

I learned 60 years ago when folks from this land  put there mind to it the rest of us can forget about it !

Good thing too ,  they have made their Air Force  twice as large in 5 years and their

pilots have got their minds on Chinese .

Thanks very much.... 

jim5559

I did not know her...It sound promising...

 

 

Jazz at the peak!

Astonishing trio.... One of the best i ever listen to...

I own 17 albums...

Try this concert live...

By the way the recording are more than very good generally...

In my acoustic room the sound is around me and i am on the stage with the musicians!

Thanks to acoustic applied in my audio room...

This pianist someone recommend me here is pure gold...I apologize because i dont remember who recommend it to me...If he manifest himself i will thank him...

He is original,creative, improvised but it is balanced by melodic fly difficult to resist... Life is too short to miss a so much  interesting Jazz pianist and very good drummer and bassist...

The piano is so well recored in the album: E.S.T. Live

He is in my room beside me...

 

 

 

Staying in a birthday mood, today is the birthday of a great tenor player that has received scant ,if any, mention here. Great West Coast player with a warm tone and great swing. Happy Birthday, Teddy Edwards!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you, Pryso. Great stuff! Sorry I missed the birthday party.

Here is the original version; with Mingus himself on bass. What would a birthday party be without a clown? 😊

 

I believe that this is the first time that both nights (and albums) were issued on cd. Previously the second night was on separate album (Just the way it had to be) that was possible to find only on lp.

 

 

You are more purist than some jazz musician going back to Africa to study drum tradition and trying to understand when ANY music "roll" or not...

i dont remember his name...

A music "roll" when his tempo is not external to the melody but emerge and "roll" inside it not with it or beside it...

Then "non sense" is not the right qualitative word for my remark and my post...

Anyway it is not "pure" jazz...

Happy Easter

 

but somewhere it is in the tree of jazz roots nonsense

I apologize because it is not jazz       true

 

but somewhere it is in the tree of jazz roots    nonsense

 

Cheers

I apologize because it is not jazz but somewhere it is in the tree of jazz roots ...

And i am fond of less known instrument that are humanity treasures... The kora is  certainly one...

 

I never understood  why they called him Cannonball , a Cannonball goes straight ,

he carried the melody a lot by my hears .

 

Simply some of the best recorded jazz...The classics are great too.

Bobo stensons  war orphans

Bobo stensons  cantando

Bobo stensons  goodbye

Yes i listen to other music lol...these are just wonderfully recorded and go to for my auditioning and cable analysis.

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Alex, sorry I missed your questions .

I do Stream about 50% of the time. It opens my collection up farther than I could ever afford. Still personally like Vinyl best, but digital has come a long way, and I buy Vinyl based on digital.

Also, I listen to a local college jazz station, out of Denton Texas, and they play a lot of great new players I never heard of ,so as I hear something good, I take a picture of the names on the radio screen while driving and search when I have time. Hopefully I don’t kill anyone.

 

 

Acman, cant be proud of my ignorance, but I am littlle bit relieved since Frogman has not heard of M.Hill too...do you stream music? I just ask because you post wide randge of very different music, always wondered where do you find it...As much as I like my old school method (only for the sake of old school) I must admit that your way seems to be more efffective... 

some german (obscure,off course) jazz from 60's

 

Loved the Marquis Hill clips, acman3.  Thanks!  New to me.  One of the most original trumpet voices I’ve heard in a while.  I can usually say to myself, “oh, I hear some Miles, or Freddie, or…. “.  Hard to do with this guy.  He sounds great.  

Nice article, Alex; thanks. Thoughts? I would say it’s mostly accurate. Mostly. I think it puts a little too much emphasis on the notion of Miles being the “sensitive and introspective” one and Trane the “garrulous and long winded”. Probably true in their lives off the band stand, but depending on what period in their respective careers we are talking about those descriptions could easily be flipped as concerns their playing.

As usual when writing about Miles, KOB becomes a kind of focal point in the article. This actually makes my point. Post-KOB Miles is often anything but “introspective”; certainly not in the way that I think the author means. Actually, I have always felt that in the KOB band it was in fact Cannonball, not Coltrane, who was the musical “odd man out”. Cannonball, as great as he was, was and remained a traditionalist; a very bluesy bebopper who, unlike both Miles and Trane, never really ventured into more adventurous harmonically “outside” territory. His “Ballads” recording is a great example of beautifully sensitive and introspective playing by Trane; as is his playing on one of my favorite cuts from KOB. One of the most concise and sensitive tenor solos that I’ve heard on record. Nothing “garrulous” about his playing on this:

 

Great record “….at the Blackhawk”. I love Hank Mobley, but not as much with Miles. I understand your reaction to his tone, but it doesn’t bother me as much as his ideas are wonderful. Again, just as with Cannonball on KOB, a saxophone player with a much more traditional approach than Miles’ “always forward looking” attitude. Maybe that is part of the “rub” for you; it is for me. I think he is more in his zone on this record:

 

 

Always one of my favorites Alex.

 

I've been listening to Marquis Hill lately. Check it out!

 

Just listening to live 4cd album ’In person Friday and Saturday at the Blackhawk’ of Miles Davis. Great sonics, and some fine playing from the band. I enjoy very much hearing Wynton Kelly in concert, it might be the only album where I heard him that way. Rythm section of Chambers and Cobb is great too. I have some slight reservations on some playing of Mobley, but perhaps that might be because he is not one of my favourite sax players (tonevise). Any thoughts from the guys on stands?

 

Has anyone heard from, or know about O-10?

 

I sent him a message a day ago.  No reply.

Cheers

 

Bela fleck is very great  master of his instrument also.... The jam give us an idea  of the way  Martino  is in command but with a humility that make him play WITH the others even if he lead...