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Moody's Mood for Blues - James Moody
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  1. I'm Gone
  2. A Hundred Years from Today
  3. Keepin' Up with Jonesy
  4. Workshop
  5. That Man O' Mine
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  1. I'm Gone
  2. A Hundred Years from Today
  3. Keepin' Up with Jonesy
  4. Workshop
  5. That Man O' Mine
  6. Over the Rainbow
  7. Jack Raggs
  8. Mambo with Moody
  9. It Might as Well Be Spring
  10. It Might as Well Be Spring
  11. Blues in the Closet
  12. Moody's Mood for Blues
  13. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen]
  14. I Got the Blues
  15. Blues Walk
  16. Faster James
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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. Vocalese master Eddie Jefferson has two guest appearances (on "Workshop" and "I Got the Blues") and Iona Wade sings "That Man O' Mine" in a Dinah Washington-influenced style but the emphasis is on Moody's solos and the ensembles; the ...

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