{"id":8290,"date":"2017-03-26T22:08:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8290"},"modified":"2017-03-26T22:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T05:13:59","slug":"moody-groovin-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/03\/moody-groovin-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody: Groovin&#8217; High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff almost let March 26 go by without acknowledging that this is James Moody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. The master of several saxophones and the flute was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. At 21, following his tour with the US Air Force, Moody joined Dizzy Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trailblazing 1946 big band. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"261\" \/>In the late forties, with a group of Swedish all-stars, he recorded \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m In The Mood For Love.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d His solo on the single became a hit record in Sweden, then in the United States, with a lyric added by King Pleasure, as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Moody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mood For Love.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Throughout his career Moody was one of Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s closest colleagues, co-starring in the trumpeter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quintet in several of its incarnations and frequently put together with Gillespie in all-star groups. Here, videotaped for a PBS <em>Soundstage<\/em> broadcast in 1975, we briefly see Gillespie after he has announced Moody. We see <em>and<\/em> hear Moody; Al Haig, piano; Ray Brown, bass; and Kenny Clarke, drums\u00e2\u20ac\u201da convocation of bebop giants. The video is slightly fuzzy. The sound is not.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PKjHytzMQOg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">James Moody, 1925-2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rifftides staff almost let March 26 go by without acknowledging that this is James Moody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. The master of several saxophones and the flute was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. At 21, following his tour with the US Air Force, Moody joined Dizzy Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trailblazing 1946 big band. In the late forties, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}