No More Blues – 1966
Dizzy Gillespie
James Moody and Kenny Barron co-star
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The co-founder of bebop along with Charlie Parker, and the co-founder of Afro-Cuban jazz along with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie was also an unheralded pioneer in playing bossa-nova in the United States.
Unfortunately he did not record Brazilian jazz early enough to be recognized along with Charlie Byrd, Stan Getz, and Herbie Mann.
Gillespie enjoyed playing an occasional song by Antonio Carlos Jobim throughout the remainder of his long career as can be heard and seen on this spirited version of Jobim’s “No More Blues.”
Dizzy plays the bossa nova standard with his mid-1960s quintet which includes James Moody on alto, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Christopher White, and drummer Rudy Collins.
After Gillespie’s trumpet solo, he switches to tambourine as Moody stretches out on alto (rather than his usual tenor).
Barron and Collins also have worthy solos on this joyful version.
-Scott Yanow
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