Come out to hear saxophonist James Moody and you know he’ll play that song. “I can’t stop playing it. It wouldn’t make sense. The song is why people come to my shows,” Moody says over the telephone ...

James Moody, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...