Results for "James Moody"

James Moody

By James Moody

Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 2004

North Sea Jazz Sessions Vol. 3

By James Moody

Label: Columbia
Released: 2004

Bootsie Barnes: Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center

by Victor L. Schermer
June 6, 2004

This CD featuring Bootsie Barnes and a group assembled for the occasion has one characteristic uncommon in an era of so-called 'smooth jazz,' rap singing, and canned music for every occasion from cinematically simulated inner city rumbles to drugs for erectile dysfunction. It really swings! It also 'bops around the center!' (I truly don't know what ...

James Moody: Homage

by John Kelman
April 7, 2004

Here’s a lesson for all the young saxophone players out there who are so keen to focus on the past. Septuagenarian saxophonist James Moody, who was a fixture in Dizzy Gillespie’s band for many years, may have some reverence for his past, but his approach is resolutely about moving forward. His first record in six years, ...

The Teachers

By James Moody

Label: Sanctuary Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Disc One: The Teachers 1. The Teachers 2. Rest Sweetly, Brother Dove 3. Unchained 4. The New Spirit 5. Hello, Goodbye 6. Behind Every Good Man 7. Street Talk Suite

Disc Two: Heritage Hum 1. Heritage Hum 2. Sound For Sore ears 3. Road Runner 4. Can

James Moody: The Teachers

by Charlie B. Dahan
November 1, 2002

Sanctuary/Castle Music’s latest reissue contains a collection of albums from James Moody in the early 1970’s. Both albums, The Teachers and Heritage Hum, were from Moody’s work on Perception Records that found him expressing himself politically with a funky / soulful groove. Evident in this collection is Moody’s virtuosity at his instrument and ...

Greatest Hits

By James Moody

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: The Flight (aka The Flight of the Bopple Bee)/ I

James Moody & the Swedish All-Stars: Greatest Hits

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2000

James Moody was a modernist. Even going so far as to describe one of his pioneering bop-grounded groups under that moniker his sound on saxophone was always concerned with realizing the cursive capabilities of the instrument. Realizing the growing audience for the still relatively new music overseas Moody did what many of his contemporaries would do ...

Feelin' It Together

By James Moody

Label: 32 Records
Released: 1998

The Blues And Other Colors

By James Moody

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 1998