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
O-10, my father would often say: "some people are not simply s&@?!d; they are, first and foremost, mean spirited".

I could waste my time even further by asking what on earth I wrote that is fundamentally different from what you wrote; I won’t bother. I could also ask you why, if you knew the answer (or so you think) why you bothered asking the question. I won’t bother with that either; the answer goes to my father’s wise words. You are so pathetically intent on somehow proving me wrong about anything that, as always, you see only what you want to see. As always, no comment about the music.  Shame on me for taking the bait.

O-10, this last episode is the last straw for me. Not as far as my participation in this thread, you can’t control that; but, as far as my holding back about what I really think because I believe you are doing the participants and anyone new to the music a disservice by your insistence on keeping things in the gutter. That you know very little about the music and its language has been obvious and proudly admitted by you. The really bizarre part of all this is that I believe that, just as with your claims to have seen Coltrane live and which you later admitted were "exaggerations", you are making all of this stuff up. I don’t believe there was any jazz playing friend, no encounters with Grant Green, no nothing; all made up by a need to .....who knows? Shame on you.



One thing is for certain, I didn't make up the one and only "Frogman"!


Enjoy the music.

Rok, "Radiant Warmth" was the first CD I bought by Mari Boine; these are the "Wicki" facts on that CD;


      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Boine


And here is the music.


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


It was released in 1996, she was almost foxy then; there seems to be some kind of disease called "chunkitis" that ladies catch that makes them look "chunky"; but her music has gotten even better.

There is no better way to communicate than posting links, which I established at the beginning of this thread; that says it all, argue with "Wicki" or "you tube" if you don't like it.



Enjoy the music.

Frogman, after reading the answers to my questions for a third time, and your last post; we should make every effort never to communicate, or even attempt to communicate again in life.


Enjoy the music.