All About Jazz is celebrating James Moody's birthday today! For over six decades, saxophone master James Moody has serenaded lovers with his signature song Moody\'s Mood for Love an improvisation on ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz saxophonist, flautist and singer James Moody mostly led his own groups, but also performed with friend Dizzy Gillespie and his bands. Moody made an untold number of records ...

James Moody, 85, an exuberant presence in jazz for more than six decades whose improvised version of "I'm in the Mood for Love" became a surprise hit in the 1950s and launched a form of music called ...

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Grammy Award-winning music legend James Moody performed for two presidents at the White House and twice for the king of Thailand in Bangkok, received a ...

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Jazz saxophonist-flautist James Moody, one of the last surviving greats of the bebop and post-bop era, died Dec. 9 in San Diego. He was 85, and had pancreatic cancer. Born in Savannah, Ga., and raised ...

Moody made untold records over 63 years of recording, and really excelled as a live performer. 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note is a recording made on his 80th birthday in 2005. This is FRESH AIR ...