Dizzy Gillespie Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac [LP]

Personnel: Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); James Moody (alto & tenor saxophones, flute); Mike Longo (piano); Frank Schifano (electric bass); Candy Finch (drums).Producer: Bob Thiele.Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.Recorded live at Memory Lane, Los Angeles, California on May 25 & 26, 1967. Originally released on Impulse! (9149). Includes liner notes by George Hoefer.Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios).SWING LOW, SWEET CADILLAC is one of the most popular and enduring of Dizzy Gillespie's many recordings, a live session from 1967 with his working band of the moment, featuring the great James Moody on both alto and tenor saxophones, as well as flute.By 1967 Dizzy had added a keyboardist with a Fender Rhodes electric piano, and a Fender bass to his rhythm section. Frank Schifano's vamping ostinatos on the extended blowing of "Kush" lend an Afro-Cuban funk feeling to the groove, pointing out just how much contemporary jazz and R&B owes to Gillespie's Latin