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Times Square Ball Drop? Who Needs It? Cookin' at the Jazz Bakery on New Year's Eve.
by Kim Vinson
Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Benny Green, Clayton Cameron, Trevor Ware New Year's Eve Jazz CelebrationThe Jazz BakeryLos Angeles, California December 31, 2008 Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Benny Green, Clayton Cameron, and Trevor Ware sparked a jazz-infused fireworks display bringing in 2009. Thousands may have watched with festive flair in ...
L.A. Jazz Scene 2008: Alive and Swingin'
by Chuck Koton
The Los Angeles scene has often been referred to in patronizing terms by jazz lovers, musicians and writers. It has been said that the city's laid-back vibe deprives musicians of the energy that a New York audience can impart to the bandstand. Others complain that the growth of a hip jazz scene has been impeded by ...
2008 Contributor Picks
by AAJ Staff
We solicited opinions from all active All About Jazz contributors, and out of more than 1,000 nominations, the following 2008 releases garnered the most votes. New Releases Charles Lloyd Rabe de Nube (ECM Records) Reviews ...
The James Moody and Hank Jones Quartet: Our Delight
by AAJ Italy Staff
A distinguere questo disco rispetto ad altre proposte mainstream di oggi sono i nomi e la personalità di chi lo ha realizzato. Un binomio (Moody-Jones) d’assoluta eccellenza, che ha contribuito a rendere classici stili e brani ormai divenuti pietre miliari del jazz. Dalla loro parte una più che quarantennale ricerca poetica lungo le rotte del bop, ...
Our Delight
By James Moody
Label: IPO Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Our Delight; Birk's Works; Con Alma; Ladybird; Eternal Triangle; Body & Soul; Good Bait; Darben the Red Foxx;
Soul Trane; Woody' N You; Old Folks; Moody's Groove.
Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All Stars
By James Moody
Label: Monterey Jazz Festival Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Be-Bop; Romance (Winter Love); Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me); Monterey Mist; Misty; Benny's Tune; Time After Time.
The James Moody and Hank Jones Quartet: Our Delight
by Woodrow Wilkins
James Moody and Hank Jones have had limited contact with each other, insofar as performing and recording music is concerned. However, they seem to be quite familiar as they perform twelve songs that are either standards or compositions closely associated with them as musicians.Moody, on tenor saxophone and flute, and pianist Jones, are joined ...
Curtis Fuller: Motor City Messenger
by Russ Musto
The most recorded jazz trombonist of his lifetime, Curtis Fuller's illustrious career spans six decades and includes tenures with many of the greatest names in this music. Born Dec. 15th, 1934 in Detroit, Fuller was orphaned at an early age, but found family in the close-knit jazz community of the musically fertile Motor City. He first ...
The James Moody and Hank Jones Quartet Release Jazz Classic Our Delight
New York, NY With two amazing careers traveling alongside one another but never intersecting, it only seemed natural that James Moody and Hank Jones would finally find each other on the same road. With their new release on the IPO imprint, Our Delight, the two veteran jazz stars make an obvious statement with the title of ...
James Moody and Hank Jones Quartet: Our Delight
by Mark Corroto
The title Our Delight should have been subtitled with (to borrow a line from Ornette Coleman) “This Is Our Music," not so much in the sense of revolution as revelation. But then Pianist Hank Jones and saxophonist James Moody have been revealing their precious gifts of music since the 1940s. Both artists have been witness (and ...
