Great Day (also released as The Great Day) is an album by saxophonist James Moody recorded in 1963 and released on the Argo label.[1][2][3] It was supervised by Esmond Edwards who also did the cover painting.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]

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".[4]

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

References

  1. ^ James Moody discography Archived 2016-01-17 at the Wayback Machine accessed February 6, 2013
  2. ^ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Argo Album Discography, Part 1: Jazz Series (1956-1965) accessed February 6, 2013
  3. ^ James Moody discography accessed February 6, 2013
  4. ^ a b Wynn, R. Allmusic Review, February 6, 2013
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