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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
pryso
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Thanks o10, I enjoyed that. I’d read the review in Stereophile of the "Small Town" album and was curious. This was an interesting video, I noted posted by ECM, apparently on a turntable shot outside so the cloud reflections could be captured.  But who are "they"?

Here is another tune from that album but this one is the studio version from the source acman3 posted -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1meUGGtYzo

Quite different from the brassy Bassey version we’re all familiar with. ;^)
frogman
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Nice Frisell clips all; thanks.  Love Bill Frisell; one of the most ecclectic jazz musicians today.  We have discussed musicians’ “tone” a few times and Frisell has one of the most, perhaps the most, distinctive tone of all jazz guitar players whose respective tones tend to be more alike than most other jazz instruments.  Really sophisticated harmonic sense and a swing feel that owes a lot to his interest in other genres; not as obviously “swingy”. 

Some of my favorite Frisell is his work with the Paul Motian trio.  This is a really interesting take on Monk’s classic “Misterioso”:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YaY1GVeHqKw

Another interesting record; this time as leader and on which he really cuts loose on a couple of the cuts sounding less “dreamy” than usual:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tIL1vHcpwH8
orpheus10 OP
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As the Hiippy's used to say, "Far out man"; so is the cover.






orpheus10 OP
8,668 posts
 

Pryso, DOL's 180gm Catalogue has a lot of good looking LP's, but I don't know much about "audiophile" LP's or how to evaluate them; my LP's are mostly the originals. I would like your input.


                https://www.discogs.com/label/466581-DOL
jafant
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