This is FRESH AIR. Jazz saxophonist, flautist and singer James Moody mostly led his own groups, but also performed with friend Dizzy Gillespie and his bands. Moody made an untold number of records ...

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Grammy Award-winning music legend James Moody performed for two presidents at the White House and twice for the king of Thailand in Bangkok, received a ...

• Thursday, The Quartyard, San Diego, free, 5 p.m., with scheduled acts the Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Jazz Sextet, The Less Likely and the Binational Youth Ensemble. • Saturday, California Center for ...

Saxophone and flute great James Moody became an international jazz star in 1949. He continued to record and tour around the world until shortly before his death in 2010, in San Diego, from pancreatic ...

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