Jazz mucisian JAMES MOODY. His new CD, "Young At Heart" (Warner Brothers) is a collection of Frank Sinatra tunes. Just after World War II, MOODY joined the bebop big band of Dizzy Gillespie and played with Milt Jackson. His most famous recording is of an improvisatory piece he performed in 1949, now known as "Moody's Mood For Love." In the new CD, MOODY performs as vocalist, tenor/alto/soprano saxist and flutist. Some of the selections include "Love and Marriage," "Nancy," "Only the Lonely" and "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW
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