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Moody-Inspired Fan Devotes Life to History of Jazz
“Jazz Is Freedom. You Think About That." -Thelonious Monk By Stan Lee Special to jazzstage.net That's what jazz brings to me. I have friends with whom I want to share this joy of artistry that started with me in 1986. That's the purpose of this project on jazz history. I started with the birth of jazz ...
Good News For LA's Jazz Community
The jazz community has, too often, endured bad news. This sad reality recently manifested in the deaths of legends James Moody, Lena Horne, Billy Taylor and Buddy Collette, among others. The loss of the music's great instrumentalists and vocalists to the ravages of time and disease is, of course, inevitable, though no less painful. Like these ...
Mark Weinstein: Jazz Brasil
by C. Michael Bailey
Flautist Mark Weinstein has enjoyed impressive success with his almost yearly releases. Timbasa (Jazzhead Records, 2010), Tales from the Earth (With Omar Sosa) (Ota Records, 2009) and Straight No Chaser (Jazzhead Records, 2008) were all favorably reviewed within these sacred electrons. Weinstein belongs to an elite club of jazz flautists, a necessarily small one that includes ...
Moody's Mood Was Always Happy
by Jack Bowers
James Moody, whose noble spirit and radiant personality were as impressive as his exploits on saxophone and flute for more than six decades, died December 9, 2010 from pancreatic cancer at his home in San Diego. He was 85 years old. To anyone who was lucky enough to meet him, the Moody hug ...
Announcing the Winners of the "James Moody - Moody 4B" Giveaway
Richard Brandt, Thomas Inglis, Lance Saltzman, T.M. Scruggs and Leroy Smith, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the IPO Recordings “James Moody—Moody 4B“ giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in the contest and please visit IPO Recordings for more releases. Enjoy the music! Your ...
Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait
by Dan Bilawsky
Many people believe that married couples have a telepathic connection. This recording puts that theory to the test, with two of the most important pianists in jazz today--who also happen to be husband and wife--sitting down for a duo piano recital. Charlap's own work with drummer Kenny Washington and bassist Peter Washington has ...
B.J. Jansen and T.C. The 3rd to Release New Album on ARC
B.J. Jansen and T.C. the 3rd have collaborated on a new album featuring the Uptown Jazz Collective on Artists Recording Collective. The new release, She Do What She Do (ARC-2260), features original compositions, standards as well as spoken word performances. Jansen and T.C. have dedicated She Do What She Do to the memories of Trudy Pitts ...
Moody 4B
By James Moody
Label: IPO Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Take the A Train; Hot House; Speak Low; Polka Dots & Moonbeams; I
Love You; O.P. Update; Nikara's Song; Along Came Betty; But Not For
Me.
Moody's from Heaven
Anyone who has experienced the joy of hearing the great NEA Jazz Master James Moody's hilarious turnaround on the old Tin Pan Alley tune “Pennie's From Heaven," which he re-cast as “Bennie's From Heaven" can appreciate that this fabulous man has ascended on a one-way ticket to heaven. While it is with great sorrow that we ...
James Moody (1925-2010)
James Moody, a bebop pioneer and seductive improviser whose mischievous sense of humor masked a highly serious and industrious saxophonist, flutist, composer and arranger, died Thursday in San Diego. He was 85. [Photo of James Moody at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival by Paul Slaughter] Moody embodied the entire history of post-war jazz, beginning with his ...
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