James Moody
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James Moody (March 26, 1925 – December 9, 2010) was an American jazz saxophone and flute player as well as a occasional vocalist, who appeared in mainly in bebop and hard bop styles. Moody's "Mood for Love," a 1952 song written by Eddie Jefferson that featured as its melody an improvised solo that Moody performed on a 1949 recording of "I'm in the Mood for Love," became a surprise hit for the Moody. Moody adopted the song as his own on his 1956 album Moody's Mood for Love and performing it live on tour, often singing the vocals himself.
Early life
James Moody was born in Savannah, Georgia, United States, and was raised by his (single) mother, Ruby Hann Moody Watters. Louis, he had a brother. After hearing "Buddy" George Holmes Tate, Don Byas, and several saxophonists who competed with Count Basie, growing up in Newark, New Jersey, he was attracted to the saxophone. He also took up the flute later in life.
Personal life
Moody has been married three times; the first two divorces have failed. Linda Petersen McGowan, a former actress who married in 1989, was his third marriage. He had a daughter, Michelle Moody Bagdanove, and three older cousins, Regan, Danny, and Patrick McGowan. Moody and his wife were born in San Diego.
He was a committed member of the Bahá Faith. The Moody Scholarship Fund at Purchase College-State University of New York, 2005, was established by the Moodys in 2005. (SUNY Purchase). Moody was awarded a NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship in 1998 and has often participated in educational development and outreach, including with the International Association for Jazz Education, or IAJE.
Moody was a natural speaker of Italian.
Career
Moody joined the US Army Air Corps in 1943 and spent in the "negro band" at the segregated Greensboro Training Center. He played bebop with Dizzy Gillespie for two years after being barred from the military in 1946. In 1964, Moody, pianist Kenny Barron, and guitarist Les Spann, were among the Gillespie group's musical collaborators who would perform in the coming decades.
He recorded for Blue Note in 1948, his first session in a long recording career, playing both saxophone and flute. He moved to Europe in the first year and was involved in the establishment of European jazz, adding the alto saxophone to his repertoire and helping to establish him as a recording artist in his own right. In 1952, then returned to the United States for a recording career with Prestige Records and others, playing flute and saxophone in bands that featured singers such as Pee Wee Moore and others.
On July 24, 1955, Moody and his Orchestra appeared at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, the eleventh famed Cavalcade of Jazz festival, which was produced by Leon Hefflin, Sr. Big Jay McNeely, Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra, The Medallions, and The Penguins were among the performers on Big Jay McNeely.
He returned to Dizzy Gillespie in the 1960s. He later worked with Mike Longo.
In Clint Eastwood's film adaptation of John Berendt's novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Moody appeared as William Glover, the law firm's porter.
In a 1998 interview with Bob Bernotas, Moody said that jazz has a strong spiritual resonance.
Later in his career, the James Moody Quartet (with pianist Renee Rosnes, bassist Todd Coolman, and drummer Adam Nussbaum) was Moody's vehicle. Moody performed regularly with the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni Association and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, as well as regularly with former Gillespie alumnus Jon Faddis, the trumpeter-conductor; Faddis and Moody performed with the WDR Big Band in Cologne, Germany, under Michael Abene's direction. Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Grady Tate, and Barbara Morrison, along with Faddis, toured in 1986 with the Philip Morris Superband hosting artists. Niels-Henning henning, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Washington, Slide Hampton, and Monty Alexander were among the 18 concerts on a four-country, 14-city tour of 18 concerts, including in Australia, Canada, Japan, and the Philippines, which began on September 3, 1986 with its first concert in Perth, Australia. In 1985, the Philip Morris Superband scheme began a year earlier.