Jemeel Moondoc

Judy's Bounce is a live trio album by alto saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc, recorded at New York University's Loeb Student Center on November 9, 1981. Fred Hopkins plays bass and Ed Blackwell drums, and Soul Note released it in 1982. Moondoc had led the group Muntu through the 1970s, and this is one of several records he made for the Milan label in the 1980s; years later he spoke of the relationship he had built with Soul Note. All four pieces are his own.

The concert was produced by Seven Loaves and recorded by Kazunori Sugiyama, with Moondoc as producer, Giovanni Bonandrini as executive producer and liner notes by Lee Jeske. The four tracks are long, two of them close to fourteen minutes: Echo In Blue and the closing Nimus give the trio room to stretch, while the title tune and One For Ornette run under nine. The last of these is a dedication to Ornette Coleman, and the choice of drummer was part of it. Asked about the piece by Philip Freeman in an interview now in the Burning Ambulance archive, Moondoc said that "Ornette always had little stories to tell in his compositions and performances", adding: "I was playing with Eddie Blackwell on that date, so I felt it was appropriate." With no piano, the alto works against Hopkins' bass lines and Blackwell's drums alone.

This is the Soul Note CD 121051-2, which Discogs lists as a reissue of the album first released on LP in 1982 as SN 1051. Its SID codes date the pressing to 1994 or later.