James Moody's 80th Birthday Celebration
Live at The Eisenhower Theatre, at The Kennedy Center
Washington, D.C. USA
2005-12-10
Part of the "Jazzset" series, hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater.
Broadcast (2010-12-19) by WBGO-FM, Newark, NJ USA.
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Tracklist:
01 - Radio Intro by Dee Dee Bridgewater (0:22)
02 - Sweet Music (1:28)
03 - Dizzy's Business (Wilkins) (3:45)
04 - Stage Intro by Danny Glover (1:21)
05 - Con Alma (Gillespie) (8:15)
06 - Hothouse (Dameron, arrangement Mackrel) (6:47)
07 - Interlude (0:30)
08 - 2nd Half Intro (1:14)
09 - Manteca (Gillespie, original arrangement by Gil Fuller) (11:10)
10 - I Me You (7:12)
11 - Roberta Gambarini Intro (1:24)
12 - Stardust (Parish/Carmichael) (7:27)
13 - Moody's Groove (Heath) (6:12)
14 - Happy Birthday and Outro (0:29)
Total Running Time: 57:43
Personnel:
James Moody - vocals, saxophones
Slide Hampton - musical director, trombone
Jimmy Heath - saxophone
Paquito D'Rivera - sax and clarinet
Roy Hargrove - trumpet
John Lee - bass
Randy Brecker, Greg Gisbert, Frank Greene, Claudio Roditi - trumpets
Andres Boiarsky, Antonio Hart, Justin Robinson, Gary Smulyan - saxophones
Jay Ashby, Steve Davis, Jason Jackson, Douglas Purviance - trombones
Roberta Gambarini - vocals
Marty Ashby - guitar
Mulgrew Miller - piano
Dennis Mackrel - drums
Roger Squitero - percussion
Credits:
Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz is Dr. Billy Taylor
Director of Jazz is Kevin Struthers.
Thanks to Big Mo Recording's Greg Hartman, Chris Weal, Pedro Seminario
and music mixer Duke Markos.
James Moody info:
http://www.jamesmoody.com/ (official site)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Moody_(saxophonist) (wiki entry)
Kennedy Center Schedule 2005-2006:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/jazz/schedule_06.html
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From the NPR website:
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/16/132087755/james-moodys-80th-birthday-on-jazzset
December 16, 2010
The passing of James Moody on Dec. 9 has been noted worldwide.
As Wolfram Knauer of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt in Germany writes: Moody was
beloved in the jazz community as a saxophonist and flautist of highest virtuosity,
which always seemed easy because of the humor he put into the music. Each of
his concerts felt like a love affair with the music and with his audience.
Moody, who started out in Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1946 and continued to
play with Gillespie off and on into the 1990s, became known to a wider audience
when the singer Eddie Jefferson in 1952 wrote lyrics over Moody's saxophone
improvisation on "I'm in the Mood for Love" and King Pleasure's recording of
that tune (now re-titled "Moody's Mood for Love") became a jukebox hit. …
He played a small but hilarious role in the 1997 Clint Eastwood film Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil set in Moody's birthplace, Savannah, Ga.
He also received many honors and was named a NEA Jazz Master in 1998.
I had the luck of hearing Moody many times, in Darmstadt, Nice, New York and
elsewhere, and my memories are always mingled with a smile.
In 2005, James Moody celebrated his 80th birthday for a full year. On the
actual birthday night in March, he joined the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band
at the Blue Note in New York. In May, Moody took his wife Linda on a cruise to
Bermuda with a boatload of fans, including his ear, nose and throat man and his
heart specialist, who gave a formal presentation about keeping your heart young
through a good diet, exercise and love of jazz. Moody toured Europe with a
quick trip between Turkey and Lebanon back to Indiana. (Who books these tours?
Is all that flying good for your heart?) He and his All-Stars recorded an album
together at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh. And then he came to
The Kennedy Center.
The party was staged with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Orchestra, with NEA Jazz
Master Slide Hampton conducting; NEA Jazz Masters and great friends Jimmy Heath
and Paquito D'Rivera on reeds; and new vocalist Roberta Gambarini, whom Moody
personally and charmingly introduces on this episode of JazzSet. Danny Glover
is the emcee. Jimmy Heath wrote a song with lyrics for Moody, and Heath's
explanation of those lyrics to Glover provides a fine moment. The birthday man is
young at heart and quick on his sax and flute on this happy occasion, and we have
highlights.
It's painful to say goodbye to James Moody, but he gave us a closing line.
Dee Dee Bridgewater signs off this JazzSet with his famous ending from
"Moody's Mood for Love": "You can blow now if you want to; we're through."
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