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 ...
This month, the Savannah Jazz Association is celebrating the legacy of as one of the pioneers of bebop—renowned jazz saxophonist and flutist—James Moody. SJA Executive Director Paula Fogarty sat down ...
Somehow, my favorite bebopper, James Moody, was also my favorite rapper. In 1946, the 21-year-old veteran of the Army Air Corps joined Dizzy Gillespie’s pioneering big band, which even then was ...
• Thursday, The Quartyard, San Diego, free, 5 p.m., with scheduled acts the Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Jazz Sextet, The Less Likely and the Binational Youth Ensemble. • Saturday, California Center for ...
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 ...