Moanin '(album)
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Moanin ' is a jazz album by Art Blakey and his quintet The Jazz Messengers , recorded on October 30, 1958 and released in January 1959. It is considered one of the groundbreaking hard bop albums.
background
In 1957 Blakey had recorded his album Orgy in Rhythm for Blue Note with a percussion ensemble ; Since 1955, however, no Jazz Messengers album had been created for the Blue Note label, to which the band had been committed since 1947. The album initially had a title named after the band, but the immediate popularity of the first piece Moanin ' , written by pianist Bobby Timmons , led to the album becoming known by that title. The other pieces were written by saxophonist Benny Golson , who hadn't been with the Jazz Messengers long and only recorded this one album with them.
Are you real? is a driving, 32-bar piece with a two-part solo for Golson and trumpeter Lee Morgan .
Along Came Betty is a lyric piece, the album's ballad.
The Drum Thunder Suite, a work made for Blakey, in three motifs: Drum Thunder ; Cry a Blue Tear with a Latin American rhythm and Harlem's Disciples .
Blues March is in the style of the marching bands of New Orleans, which has also become a classic. The album ends with the only jazz standard Come Rain or Come Shine , played unusually quickly .
All pieces except the Drum Thunder Suite became the hallmarks of jazz messengers, even after Timmons and Golson left the band. The album is less of a typical representative of the albums of the hard-bop era, with the intense drumming of Blakey and the playful class of Morgan, Golson, as well as the combination of gospel and blues influences by Timmons, it is an album with a demanding, modern jazz.
Track list
- page 1
- 1. Moanin ' ( Bobby Timmons ) - 9:30
- 2. Are you real? ( Benny Golson ) - 4:47
- 3. Along Came Betty (Golson) - 6:08
- Page 2
- 4. The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite (Golson) - 7:30
- 5th Blues March (Golson) - 6:13
- 6. Come Rain or Come Shine ( Harold Arlen , Johnny Mercer ) - 5:45
- CD (RVG edition)
- 1. Warm-up and conversation between Lee Morgan and Rudy Van Gelder - 0:35
- 2. Moanin ' (Timmons) - 9:30
- 3. Are you real? (Golson) - 4:47
- 4. Along Came Betty (Golson) - 6:08
- 5. The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite (Golson) - 7:30
- 6th Blues March (Golson) - 6:13
- 7. Come Rain or Come Shine (Arlen, Mercer) - 5:45
- 8. Moanin '(Alternate Take) (Timmons) - 9:19
reception
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The music magazine Jazzwise chose the album at number 28 in the list The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World ; Keith Shadwick wrote:
“Blakey was in on the ground floor when it came to the evolution of hard bop into soul jazz, having co-led the first Jazz Messengers with Horace Silver back in 1956. By 1958 he'd gone through a number of versions of the band , with this becoming the blueprint version for the next half a decade. With Benny Golson and Bobby Timmons supplying hard bop anthems such as the title tune, 'Along Came Betty' and 'Blues March', and the front line soloists refining their long, elaborate post-bop lines into the shorter and more pithy soul-based hard bop lines of the late 1950s, this Blakey band, and this Blakey album, defined soul jazz. "
“Blakey was there from the start as it went from hard-bop to soul jazz after leading the first Jazz Messengers with Horace Silver back in 1956. By 1958, he had a number of versions of the band tried it out, and this became the blueprint version for the next half decade. With Benny Golson and Bobby Timmons, who delivered the hard-bop anthems such as the title track, "Along Came Betty" and "Blues March", and frontline soloists who based their long, lavish post-bop lines into shorter and concise soul-based lines Hard-bop lines of the late 1950s refined, this Blakey band, and this Blakey album, defined soul jazz. "
Mike Oppenheim wrote about the album on All About Jazz :
“Moanin 'is one of hard bop's seminal albums due to the extremely high quality of the personnel and compositions featured. The mastery with which Lee Morgan and Benny Golson provide the frontline is further elevated by the solidarity of Timmons, Merritt, and Blakey. It is a testament to the great quality of the performers, compositions, and the hard bop genre. The accessibility of the album is surely a result of Art Blakey's desire to promote jazz as an art at a time when public interest in the music was waning, and the genre as a whole was threatened by the popularity of emerging musical styles such as doo- wop and rock and roll. "
“Moanin 'is one of hard bop's groundbreaking albums due to the extremely high quality of the staff and the compositions presented. The championship, with Lee Morgan and Benny Golson forming the front line, is further enhanced by the alliance of Timmons, Merritt and Blakey. It is proof of the high quality of the performers, the compositions and the hard bop genre. The album's accessibility is certainly the result of Art Blakey's desire to promote jazz as an art at a time when public interest in music was dwindling and the genre as a whole was threatened by the popularity of new musical styles such as doo-wop and rock and roll has been."
Rolling Stone magazine voted the album at number 21 in its 2013 list of the 100 best jazz albums.
Web links
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Moanin '(The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) on YouTube
- Review at Arte- Jahrhundertwerke
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review by Michael G. Nastos on allmusic.com (accessed May 30, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Mike Oppenheim on allaboutjazz.com (accessed May 30, 2018)
- ^ The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 11, 2012 ; Retrieved May 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Extended Analysis - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin '. Retrieved May 25, 2013 .
- ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved April 6, 2017.
