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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Somebody say “green”? 😊 https://youtu.be/cHHln37qXaI https://youtu.be/xGVdAlxlp18 https://youtu.be/mjT5jMKc_B4 Btw, re Morgan’s solo…..…oh, never mind: https://youtu.be/rRZ-IxZ46ng |
Friends, I tell you the stone cold Truth , If you have never been here you have never been any where ! https://youtu.be/Q2TygZt9Xl0 |
Some good Korean Jazz at Just the Right Time ! https://youtu.be/ty_LDBaE7gw Cello man is a trip. https://youtu.be/6EiB2oiKU18 |
Might I remind you Rok, there was a time when Europe couldn't stay out of Africa; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa |
@orpheus10 That "Moanin'" video is priceless history. Well done! Freddie's solo is too strident for me, but then again my hyperacusis may be to blame. 1964 Monk - Paris "bootleg" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al697st1oeU |
We never know what will turn up on the web, like this Esperanza Spalding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50YFhxL6efs |
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Bobby Timmons is one of my favorite jazz musicians, his music resonates with me, and many of the working class people it was written for as well. Jazz is the purest expression of the inner person who creates it, since his music expresses my inner person, I want to know everything about him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Timmons I have no ideas about the substance abuse problems associated with jazz musicians; however, I will say that the problems have nothing to do with the music; I have been very close friends with musicians who had the problem, and it didn't help them play better one iota; they couldn't play when they needed it, and they couldn't play when they had too much. In common with Bobby Timmons, they had a rare talent that comes along once in a "Blue Moon"; a talent that makes mere music rise above itself and become a part of the "spirit world" that resides in all living human beings. "Moanin" ;I've been beating the pavement looking for a job and can't find one. My unemployment done run out, and now all I can do is "Moan". Bobby Timmons music was a success because it connected with the working man on the street in a special way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnVP5KdQkI4 |
The boy is consistent, if nothing else. I told you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b23mUUoyTWg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wYd12oesuE Cheers |
Long drive today, but it led to a couple reminders from the masters:thanks i appreciate these 2 atonishing links right now.... |
Long drive today, but it led to a couple reminders from the masters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPr3yvkHYsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUC8NuiuXcs |
@pjw81563 and @orpheus10 +1 on the social commentary, and for "Inner City Blues" Sam Cooke "A Change is Gonna Come" (1963) - weren't we all hopeful it would? It's not looking so good these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPr3yvkHYsE |
Humans going extinct? Can you think of a more deserving species?Well said rok (16) Ball of Confusion! lyrics by the Temptations! - YouTube (16) Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - YouTube (16) He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother THE HOLLIES (with lyrics) - YouTube |
Could not find this album that I have on ytube, so I will post it this way.Hello Alek. Happy your ok and thanks for posting the Dr. Lonnie Smith and his 3 Japanese friends who recorded that "LIVE JAM" -THE JAZZ FUNK MASTERS.
It was recorded live in Tokyo at the club Jirokichi and released on a Japanese label called P VINE records on LP and CD the same year. It has never been reissued. The 5 live songs are typical Lonnie Smith funk and gospel "boogie" music. I liked all of the songs. Dr. Lonnie Smiths music is never dull. I saw him live a half dozen times in NYC and I was never disappointed. He was quite the showman on the Hammond B 3. |
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Very good record. Have you ever noticed how musicians play like the talk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZrKt1fJZM |
I doubt that.,His dad was a strong man ! I stand corrected . Finland was the Best place to Live and Canada was 6th after Nordic lands . What Canada was 1st in was Respect . I learned a long time that YOU get more respect in Germany and others if you have a Maple Leaf on your coat . If you are in the Netherlands{good idea} you will be a hero . Can't thing of one , rok,, Maybe a Hyena ? |
The Entire World in The last UN poll decided that Canada was the best Country in the World . You do not understand that Canada is a Democracy and any country that has a choice of two is not . In a Democracy the boss can do something today and get changed the next week . In our method it can take years to do that, if that . Canada , like the USA , has two different worlds . Alberta and Sask are oil and controlled by that . People that don’t want Climate change go all out to make him look bad . You twist everything to fit the bubble you were born into as your brain makes sure you keep your statist , it wants to live, Truth be dammed . I don’t think you are a bad-person , In Fact I like you . Other people brainwashed you . I got lucky , nobody brainwashed me till I was about 17 and by then I laughed at it . Fact remains we have done hundreds of times more bad than Canada. and that’s per-capita . I also just said listen to his speech , which is very wise, not that he is the savior or even wrote it . 3 base yes , but every honest Pol -Scientist knows his father was the greatest Prime Minister Canada ever had . He ’s not his dad but, he has some of him, and that is enough for now to keep the oil companies of the world from destroying him and killing us . |
In regard to Lonnie Smith's recent passing; he had many different facets; my favorite was slightly different from most; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEp4pJ32Es8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DYotzu2No |
The Prime Minister comes in about .50 , if you don’t hear his speech you are a fool . This statement is laughable. The entire world, and most of Canada thinks of this guy as a clown, which he is. All show, no substance. His always SAYS the right thing, but DOES absolutely nothing. When asked, after the third incident, how many times had he done this, he answered "I don’t remember." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NKCx7P_mpo Suggested internet searches: Trudeau in India (clown)---- Missing Indigenous women in Canada (ineptness) Reminds of that saying, They were born on third base, but thought they hit a triple. Third base is being next to the U.S.A. Cheers BTW, when they actually get the $40,000, PM me with the news. As if that excuses kidnapping and murder. And this was as late as 1990s. |