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"Moody's Mood for Love" (a.k.a. Moody's Mood) is a 1952 song by Eddie Jefferson, whose melody is derived from an improvised solo by jazz saxophonist James Moody (and a brief solo in the middle by pianist Thore Swanerud) on a 1949 recording of the 1935 song "I'm in the Mood for Love". [1]
He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Jefferson himself claims that his main influence was Leo Watson . Perhaps Jefferson's best-known song is " Moody's Mood for Love " which was recorded in 1952 by King Pleasure and catapulted the contrafact into wide ...
King Pleasure first gained attention by singing the Eddie Jefferson vocalese classic "Moody's Mood For Love", based on a 1949 James Moody saxophone solo to "I'm In The Mood For Love". [1] Pleasure's 1952 recording, his first after signing a contract with the Prestige label, is considered a jazz classic; the female vocalist featured is Blossom ...
Moody's Mood for Love (1957) Last Train from Overbrook (1958) Moody's Mood for Love is an album by saxophonist James Moody recorded in 1956 and released on the Argo ...
Grunge exploded, and alternative music represented Gen X’s moody vibe. Pioneers and top talents like Notorious BIG, Tupac, Aaliyah, Nate Dogg, and TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes were all ...
He is best remembered for an eight-bar improvised solo he made during a 1949 recording of "I'm in the Mood for Love", in a quintet headed by James Moody while Moody was touring Sweden. Eddie Jefferson created the 1952 song " Moody's Mood for Love " in vocalese style by adding lyrics to Moody's and Swanerud's solos in the recording, and the song ...
Wild Mood Swings would’ve been an apt title for several Cure albums that present art rock dirges alongside bright, upbeat pop songs. If anything, though, the album that bears that name doesn’t ...
He signed off the air each night to the tune "Moody's Mood For Love" by crooner King Pleasure. Crocker coined the radio term " urban contemporary " in the 1970s, a label for the eclectic mix of songs that appealed to an urban audience of black listeners, Hispanics, whites and Asians.