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who's who and who's doing what?James Moody
- country:USA
- style(s):Instrumental Jazz
- label:Savoy Records
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
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For over six decades, saxophone master James Moody has serenaded lovers with his signature song Moody's Mood for Love, an improvisation on the chord progressions of I'm in the Mood for Love. Born in Savannah, Georgia on March 26, 1925, and raised in Newark, New Jersey, James Moody took up the alto sax, a gift from his uncle, at the age of 16. His first Job was with Dizzy Gillespie at the age of 21. The rest is history.
Just to name a few of his accolades, Moody has been inducted into the International Jazz Hall of Fame, in 1998 received the prestigious Jazz Masters Fellowship Award granted by the National Endowment for the Arts, in 1997 an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Florida Memorial College, in 2000 an Honorary Doctorate of Music from the Berklee College of Music, in 2007 the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences bestowed him with the Presidents Merit Award and also in 2007 Moody received the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts Living Jazz Legend Award.
To quote Peter Watrous of the New York Times, "As a musical explorer, performer, collaborator and composer he has made an indelible contribution to the rise of American music as the dominant musical force of the twentieth century." And to quote Mark Stryker from the Detroit Free Press "Moody might be the hippest 83-year-old on the planet."
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