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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.
orpheus10
schubert
7,386 posts
 
IF, you could I would agree .In general I do ,my age makes it hard to say
what I will . 
frogman
7,373 posts
 
It is obvious that you do.  You have a tremendous passion for music and are committed to sharing it.  
keegiam
730 posts
 
@schubert and @frogman

Nice philosophical exchange on the meaning of music, thanks.  Schubert - my POV is that frogman doesn't "see" the music, he hears it and feels it.

If music is "seeable" for you, you may be stuck in the European sheet music convention.  That's how I was trained: read the music and play it.  But the best stuff comes from the soul, not sheet music.  That's why we're all here on JFA.
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mahgister
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One of the greatest pianist i ever heard was Ervin Nyiregyhazi...

One of my gods...With some others like Vladimir Sofronitsky, and Hans Moravec...

He says after someone made to him the remark that in his playing he did not reproduce what it is written sometimes, he answer that the music is under his hands and in his heart not on a paper sheet mechanically activated by the brain ...

i cannot retrieve the link for the exact citation....But these words of mine reproduce what he said....


These words convey this idea, if not at least converge to this idea that, in spite of what separate Jazz and classical music, they manifest the same spiritual phenomenon because music is ultimately the focus where interpretation and improvization converge/diverge and even unite.....
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mahgister
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Writing my last post give me another idea about Ervin Nyiregyhazi...

Something new about his style of playing...

He plays like was playing Lizst itself....And Liszt is the first pianist who become famous "interpretating" the music of other pianist live and "possessed" on the scene.... Before Liszt all concert was with a pianist playing his own composition in a very intimate way and with a more intimate public generally, like Chopin did because the piano was a recently invented new instrument......

E.N was pupil of Frederic Lamond a pupil of Liszt itself....

Then something of the FAUSTIAN Liszt playing has crossed through Lamond into E.N.

And this something is the total freedom for the WILL to create or recreate any works and any cosmos.... The great philosopher of the WILL is Schopenhauer after Nietzche...

This is the style of playing i will describe associated with the playing so powerful and more telluric than only refined of Ervin Nyiregyhazi...

I apologize here because i realize my post is in the jazz section...

Sorry for that mistake.....
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