Moody (album) explained

Moody
Type:	Studio
Artist:	James Moody
Cover:	Moody (album).jpg
Released:	1956
Recorded:	January 8, April 12 and September 29, 1954
Studio:	Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Prestige
Chronology:	James Moody
Prev Title:	New Sounds
Prev Year:	1952
Next Title:	James Moody's Moods
Next Year:	1954–55

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. The LP was released on the Prestige label.^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Scott Yanow, writing for AllMusic, stated: "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".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Quincy Jones, except where indicated.

1. "Keepin' Up with Jonesy" – 3:14
2. "Workshop" (Gil Fuller) – 3:08
3. "NJR (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" - (tenor sax take) (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 10)

Personnel

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-7000-series/#prlp-7072 Prestige Records discography
2. http://www.discogs.com/James-Moody-Moody/release/3431388 Discogs album entry
3. Yanow, S. AllMusic Review, February 4, 2013