James Moody and Hank Jones have had limited contact with each other, insofar as performing and recording music is concerned. However, they seem to be quite familiar as they perform twelve songs that ...

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 ...

Introduction – George Wein; Benny’s from Heaven; Cherokee; Moody’s Mood for Love / The Television Rap; Moody Speaks; Birks' Works; Bebop; Happy Birthday; Ow; Centerpiece / Every Day I Have the Blues*; ...

The 2025 TD James Moody Jazz Festival will take place from November 8 to 23. The line-up will include Arturo Sandoval, ...

Saxophone and flute great James Moody became an international jazz star in 1949. He continued to record and tour around the world until shortly before his death in 2010, in San Diego, from pancreatic ...

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 ...