Groovin’ High – 1970s
James Moody
An all-star bop quartet including Al Haig
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Four of the top veterans and survivors of the bebop era got together for a special concert in the 1970s.
James Moody, by then normally a tenor-saxophonist, switched to alto to play Dizzy Gillespie’s “Groovin’ High.”
Pianist Al Haig, who was rarely filmed, takes a fine solo as does bassist Ray Brown before Moody and Kenny Clarke have a tradeoff; the drummer nearly steals the show.
-Scott Yanow
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