FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Stanford Jazz Festival Returns for Its 38th Year

At the age of 84, James Moody may be the oldest musician performing at the 38th annual Stanford Jazz Festival, which he opens on Friday at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. But there's not a player on the festival's program with a more youthful spirit. In a career stretching back to the mid-1940s, when he first gained attention in Dizzy Gillespie's ridiculously talented bebop orchestra (his bandmates included Thelonious Monk, Milt Jackson, Kenny Clarke and Ray Brown), Moody has distinguished himself as a...

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