I saw J. Heath just once, playing in The Heath Brothers, with Percy. Don’t recall if Albert was on drums but they had Stanley Cowell on piano.
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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Neither would I. Hawk and Webster sounded a little "gruff" as well. Did not sound like Sonny but had that gruff tone as well. I think a players tone is a result of their embouchure. A proper saxophone embouchure is the foundation of a great tone and intonation. It directs your air and controls the reeds vibration. A couple other greats not mentioned were Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray and Illinois Jacquet. Jacquet preforming his popular tune "Flying Home" on the Ed Sullivan Show: https://youtu.be/3yxWONmkc14?si=jFawI8J7heiFqIFB Dexter and Wardell Gray - "The Hunt" https://youtu.be/XwyiwgQhBV0?si=EdgvgtPRU2vIJWXg
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@stuartk I saw the Heath Brothers a few times in NYC but never with Percy as he had passed away in 2005, the same year I started listening to jazz. I read Jimmy Heath's book "I Walked With Giants" and highly recommend it. I have read all of the below books and can happily state: "I Walked With Giants" (2010, Heath, McLaren) is on the same level of excellence as "Straight Life" by Art Pepper ( 1979, Art & Laurie Pepper), "Stan Getz A Life In Jazz" (1996, Donald L. Maggin's biography of Stan Getz) "Ode to a Tenor Giant" (2021, Bill Milkowski's biography of Michael Brecker), and "Saxophone Colossus" (2022, Adrain Levy's biography of Sonny Rollins) All 5 books are excellent accounts of the subject as well as all of the major figures in the history of jazz from 1940 through the present. |
Just spent the last hour watching these 3 videos on bass playing in jazz. The Percy Heath video was great and led me to the other 2 on Jimmy Blanton and Scott LaFaro. All 3 videos are worth your time to watch. Percy Heath: https://youtu.be/ew-spMuMqK4?si=1REaTL-wYmLlfFLl Jimmy Blanton: https://youtu.be/2Cr5A5u9ikE?si=oh32nsfYZWLo7-tH Scott LaFaro: https://youtu.be/LzvL3gb1lGM?si=FfWcVcKudasH-fsj The Richie Kamuca Quintet, featuring bassist Scott LaFaro in the last video, led me on a search for Kamuca's recordings as a leader/co-leader. I own the Shelly Manne And His Men "Complete Live at the Blackhawk" 4 CD box , featuring Kamuca on tenor sax, and its on my list of desert island jazz recordings that every jazz aficionado needs to have in his or her collections which is much easier now with streaming as I believe that box set is OOP and rare. Anyway, the Shelly Manne box introduced me to Kamuca over a decade ago and I really love his west coast cool jazz tone on tenor but I never dived deeper until tonight and found lots of great songs on Spotify featuring Kamuca. One from the Shelly Manne box: https://youtu.be/L_kYxHIh320?si=ByqpXBvFEYscn25e I believe Kamuca has that tone that @alexatpos enjoys.
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