CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: James Moody - 4b (2010)

By Pico Like the proverbial fine wine, James Moody only gets mellower and better with age. A seasoned saxophone and flute veteran who was in Dizzy Gillespie's original big band of the later 1940's and most famously the author of everyone's favorite vocalese jazz tune "Moody's Mood For Love," (with the lyrics later added by Eddie Jefferson), Moody is one of the flame keepers of old school jazz. It's a flame he has been actively keeping alive even today as he celebrated his 85th birthday just thi...

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