Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2019
Label: Impulse!
180-gram mono pressing
Mastered from the original session tapes
Originally released in 1967
Track List
Side A
- Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
- Mas Que Nada (Pow, Pow, Pow)
- Bye
Side B
- Something In Your Smile
- Kush
Credits
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Flute – James Moody
Drums – Candy Finch
Electric Bass – Frank Schifano
Piano – Mike Longo
Producer – Bob Thiele
Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie
Notes
A strangely popular album for Dizzy Gillespie, Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac represents a period in his career where he was adapting to the times, keeping his goof factor on board, and individually playing as well as he ever had. This club date, recorded over two days circa May of 1967 from The Memory Lane in Los Angeles, has Gillespie with soon to be longtime partners James Moody and Mike Longo, joking and jiving with their audience, presenting a relatively short program of modified pop tunes and one of the trumpeter’s most revered compositions.
Recorded live 25 & 26 May, 1967 at the Memory Lane, Los Angeles, California
