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Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band: Dizzy's Business
by AAJ Italy Staff
Arrangiatori fra i più raffinati della scena jazz moderna, Slide Hampton ed Ernie Wilkins raccolgono la sfida di rileggere il più noto repertorio orchestrale di Dizzy Gillespie. Per l’occasione (un concerto commemorativo) sono stati chiamati a raccolta alcuni tra i più stretti collaboratori del magnifico trombettista, per fornire la necessaria patina di autenticità al progetto. James ...
James Moody: Hey! It's James Moody
by Andrew Rowan
There is nothing earth-shattering on this collection, which was originally issued as two LPs: Flute'n The Blues (1956) and Hey! It's James Moody (1959). What remains remarkable, though, is how fresh James Moody sounds, even when some of the arrangements show their age and some of the ensemble passages lack precise intonation. Indeed, some of these ...
Moody's Mood at Blues Alley
by Erik R. Quick
James Moody Blues Alley October 2005 Washington, DC In an era where vapid commercial conglomerates seemingly dictate the aural pabulum streaming through monolithically controlled media that would prove Terry Gilliam's dreary and expressionistic worldview as accurate, intelligent and well performed music is always welcomed. If, however, one is extremely fortunate, ...
James Moody & Moody And The Brass Figures
by Andrew Rowan
What a perfect name: James Moody. His playing has that fire and fluency honed in the bebop and post-bop eras, but there is also a haunting sound that tells the listener that his music is about feeling as much as it is about musical notation. James Moody James Moody Argo-Verve ...
James Moody: Timeless
by Terrell Kent Holmes
In this era of disposable culture and accepted mediocrity, it's gratifying to applaud the life and accomplishments of someone who has managed to transcend evanescence. James Moody, sax master and flutist, one of America's most enduring and beloved musicians, turns 80 this month. Born in Savannah, GA, Moody started with the alto sax but fell in ...
Homage
By James Moody
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: A Message to Moody; Lazy Afternoon; Into the Shadows; Main Title: Glengarry, Glenross; Simplicity and Beauty; We All Love Moody; Moody Tune; And Then Again; Homage; When Lucy Smiles At Me; Love Was the Cause for All Good Things
Bootsie Barnes: Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center
by Victor L. Schermer
This CD featuring Bootsie Barnes and a group assembled for the occasion has one characteristic uncommon in an era of so-called 'smooth jazz,' rap singing, and canned music for every occasion from cinematically simulated inner city rumbles to drugs for erectile dysfunction. It really swings! It also 'bops around the center!' (I truly don't know what ...
James Moody: Homage
by John Kelman
Here’s a lesson for all the young saxophone players out there who are so keen to focus on the past. Septuagenarian saxophonist James Moody, who was a fixture in Dizzy Gillespie’s band for many years, may have some reverence for his past, but his approach is resolutely about moving forward. His first record in six years, ...
