Jazz legend James Moody dies (85)

US jazz saxophonist James Moody, who recorded more than 50 solo albums as well as songs with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy…

US jazz saxophonist James Moody, who recorded more than 50 solo albums as well as songs with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Lionel Hampton and BB King, has died. He was 85.

Moody’s wife, Linda McGowan Moody, says he died at San Diego Hospice in California, after battling pancreatic cancer for 10 months.

Moody is best known for his 1949 hit Moody's Mood for Love an interpretation of the 1935 ballad I'm in the Mood for Love.

Fellow musician Wynton Marsalis said Moody was a “titan of our music.”

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Moody was nominated for four Grammies. He received a 1998 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award and a 2007 Kennedy Centre Living Jazz Legend Award.

AP