Moody (album)

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.

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".

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