Con Alma (Part 2/2) - Dizzy Gillespie/James Moody/Gene Harris/Ray Brown/Grady Tate

[DreamsCumTrue469]

if you're really hip, you caught James Moody quoting from the Irish tune "The Kerry Dance" (2:06 - 2:13 - you will see pianist Gene Harris snap his head up and look to see if anyone else caught it as Moody completes the quote), then Moody follow it by quoting "Old Folks" bet 2:17 and 2:33. The best jazz can be like Shakespeare or an August Wilson play; if you don't come to the performance well read (or well listened), much of what the performer does will escape your full appreciation.

[dizzypeanut]

I'm so going to get some friends together with some beers and make one of those sticks! Thats so bad ass!

[daniel091989]

nice bass

[spottedoctopus274]

THIS is jazz!

[jamesdiggs]

Moody wll make you cry on this one; he's sooo soulful, in that way Moody is soulful, appropriate for this tune, right?  Moody. And now he's gone. That's why the tears; gone, Moody's gone; but his groove is right here, for us to hear, to feel, to love, always. Teach your kids to learn this music, this culture... before you loose them. K. Ali

[trumpetras]

Moody is a Beast!!

[snaaptaker]

Great!

And Diz playing the rhythmstick.

[lininho]

@snaaptaker did you know he made that with beer caps! :)

[snaaptaker]

@lininho No, I didn't.

Very interesting.

Thanks for the info.