James Moody - The Chronological Classics: 1950-1951 '2002

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Big and Little E (3:20)
02. S Wonderful (2:41)
03. Thats It (3:01)
04. Embraceable You (3:49)
05. A Date with Kate (2:34)
06. Mean to Me (2:51)
07. Delooney (2:40)
08. Real Cool (3:11)
09. In the Anna (2:45)
10. Voila (2:44)
11. Nath - Part 1 (2:44)
12. Nath - Part 2 (2:48)
13. I Cant Get Started (3:27)
14. Riffin and Raphin (3:31)
15. St. Louis Blues (2:43)
16. In a Rush (2:19)
17. Embraceable You (3:08)
18. The Man I Love (3:15)
19. Again (3:22)
20. Embraceable You (2:30)
21. How Deep Is the Ocean (2:54)
22. Am I Blue (2:46)
23. Ill Get By (2:48)

April in Paris, 1950. James Moody is making records with a band led by trumpeter
Ernie Royal. While two originals by Royal are based on textbook bop themes,
Moodys own Date With Kate shows greater depth of invention. Mean to Me prances
at a healthy clip and Embraceable You is presented as a slow-dance delicacy.
Jumping to July of 1950, Moody leads his own Boptet through four remarkable
exercises in modernity. Marshall Red Allen, who subsequently worked for decades
with Sun Ra, is heard in Moodys band playing alto saxophone. These must be
Allens earliest appearances on record. Delooney surges ahead with peculiar
chords that do in fact slightly resemble what Ras Arkestra would be playing by
1957. Real Cool features the celeste and piano of Raymond Fol and some lovely
bass work by Buddy Banks. In the Anna is a slow and harmonically altered stroll
through Back Home Again in Indiana. Moody sings a chorus of rapid-fire bop scat
on Voila. After he blows his horn for a bit, several voices sing a background
chorus, which continues during a fadeout, that new effect just beginning to
occur on records in 1950. Moodys last Parisian session focuses tightly upon his
tenor sax backed by apparent Bud Powell devotee Raphael Raph Schecroun, Pierre
Michelot, and the amazing Kenny Klook Clarke, whose solo on Riffin and Raphin is
a pleasure. Hot tracks invigorate, and ballads bring on the coolest of reveries.
Moodys fluidic improvisations are always full of pleasant surprises. St. Louis
Blues gets a modern, sophisticated treatment, slipping with progressive ease
into the traditional tango chorus. There are no less than three distinct
renditions of Embraceable You on this CD. Maybe were inside a movie and this is
the recurring theme song, always returning to assist in the story lines
continuity: five months in the life of James Moody. The home stretch takes
listeners back to Stockholm. Backed by seven Scandinavians and bolstered by
cushy arrangements, Moody delivered six gorgeous performances for the Prestige
label. His balladeering is always astonishing. How Deep Is the Ocean has the
power to reassure. So does Ill Get By. Each of these little three-minute records
should be cherished like a vision of a better world.


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