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Moody (album)

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Released
  
1956

Release date
  
1956

Genre
  
Pop music

Artist
  
James Moody

Label
  
Prestige Records

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Recorded
  
January 8, April 12 and September 29, 1954 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

James Moody albums
  
Moody 4B, Sax & Flute Man, Flute 'n the Blues, James Moody, Hi Fi Party

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Moody (also released as Moody's Workshop) is an album by saxophonist James Moody composed of sessions from 1954 with a septet arranged by Quincy Jones which were released on the Prestige label.

Contents

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Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars stating "In the mid-'50s James Moody led a four-horn septet that played music falling somewhere between bop and rhythm & blues. The danceable rhythms and riffing made its recordings somewhat accessible but the solos of Moody (on tenor and alto) and trumpeter Dave Burns also held listener's interests".

Track listing

All compositions by Quincy Jones except as indicated

  1. "Keepin' Up with Jonesy" - 3:14
  2. "Workshop" (Gil Fuller) - 3:08
  3. "I'm Gone" - 3:19
  4. "A Hundred Years from Today" (Ned Washington, Joe Young, Victor Young) - 2:45
  5. "Jack Raggs" (Jack Raggs) - 2:40
  6. "Mambo with Moody" (James Moody, Newbolt) - 4:07
  7. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 3:03
  8. "Blues in the Closet" (Oscar Pettiford) - 3:53
  9. "Moody's Mood for Blues" - 5:35
  10. "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (Traditional) - 2:51
  11. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 3:51
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on January 8, 1954 (tracks 1-4), April 12, 1954 (tracks 5-7), September 29, 1954 (tracks 8, 9 & 11) and January 28, 1955 (track 101)

    • Personnel

  • James Moody - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
  • Dave Burns - trumpet
  • William Shepherd - trombone
  • Pee Wee Moore - baritone saxophone
  • Jimmy Boyd (tracks 5-11), Sadik Hakim (tracks 1-4) - piano
  • John Latham - bass
  • Joe Harris (tracks 1-7), Clarence Johnston (tracks 8-11) - drums
  • Quincy Jones - arranger
  • Eddie Jefferson - vocals (track 2)

    • Production

  • Rudy Van Gelder - engineer

    • References

    Moody (album) Wikipedia
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