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Pittsburgh is well known for its expatriate jazz musicians who expanded the vocabulary of instruments like the drums and piano , to name a few.

"The rhythm section is the essence of every style of music," the late Max Roach told me back in 1992.

Active and influential for more than six decades and still going strong, NEA Jazz Master Award recipient James Moody is a true master of the jazz saxophone and flute.

Here's what I played on a funky Bank Holiday special edition of the Jazz Connection on Monday 25 May on Radio Cardiff: King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew Ella Fitzgerald - I Heard It Through The Grapevine Dizzy Gillespie - Mas Que Nada Tom Jones - Hard To Handle Beginning of the End - Funky Nassau The Amigos - Caravan Brian Auger - A Day In The Life ...