Saxophonist James Moody died Thursday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 85. Moody's name and career are forever linked to "Moody's Mood for Love," the minor hit single that inspired singer ...

Come out to hear saxophonist James Moody and you know he’ll play that song. “I can’t stop playing it. It wouldn’t make sense. The song is why people come to my shows,” Moody says over the telephone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saxophonist James Moody has made a career out of not acting his age, so why should his 80th-birthday celebration be any different? At the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater on Saturday night, the ...

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 ...

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