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Released
  
1963

Release date
  
1963

Label
  
Chess Records

Artist
  
James Moody

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
June 17 & 18, 1963 New York City

Great Day (1963)
  
Comin' On Strong (1963)

James Moody albums
  
Comin' On Strong, Hey! It's James Moody, Moody with Strings, Flute 'n the Blues, Moody and the Brass Figures

Great Day (also released as The Great Day) is an album by saxophonist James Moody recorded in 1963 and released on the Argo label. It was supervised by Esmond Edwards who also did the cover painting.

Contents

Reception

Ron Wynn of Allmusic states, "Some good, sometimes excellent sax and flute work from the always reliable James Moody. This was a period in which he was dabbling sometimes in soul jazz and other times in hard bop, but mostly played mainstream, straight-ahead originals, standards, and ballads".

Track listing

All compositions by Tom McIntosh except as indicated

  1. "Great Day" - 4:00
  2. "The Search" - 4:35
  3. "Let's Try" - 3:22
  4. "One Never Knows" (John Lewis) - 5:18
  5. "Opales'que" (Dennis Sandole) - 5:01
  6. "Blues Impromptu" (James Moody) - 5:30
  7. "Malice Toward None" - 5:20

Personnel

  • James Moody - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
  • Johnny Coles, Thad Jones- trumpet
  • Hubert Laws - flute
  • Hank Jones, Bernie Leighton - piano
  • Jim Hall - guitar
  • Richard Davis - bass
  • Mel Lewis - drums
  • Tom McIntosh - arranger, conductor

    • Songs

    1Great Day4:00
    2The Search4:35
    3Let's Try3:22

    References

    Great Day (album) Wikipedia
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