''Cookin' the Blues'' is a

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by saxophonist James Moody recorded in San Francisco in 1961 and released on the

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label in 1964.James Moody catalog
accessed February 5, 2013

Reception

The

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site awarded the album 4 stars.Allmusic Review
February 5, 2013

Track listing

''All compositions by James Moody, except as indicated'' # "The Jazz Twist" - 6:36 # "One For Nat" (Gene Kee) - 5:52 # "Bunny Boo" - 5:30 # "Moody Flooty" - 4:12 # "

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) - 5:45 # "Disappointed" (Eddie Jefferson) - 2:06 # "

Sister Sadie "Sister Sadie" is a jazz standard written in 1959 by Horace Silver, and first recorded for his 1959 Blue Note Records album, ''Blowin' the Blues Away''. Covers *1960: Hank Crawford – ''More Soul'' ( Atlantic Records) *1960: Gil Evans – '' O ...

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) - 2:42 # "Little Buck" - 3:15 # "Home Fries" (Kee) - 6:12

Personnel

* James Moody -

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

Howard McGhee Howard McGhee (March 6, 1918 – July 17, 1987) was one of the first American bebop jazz trumpeters, with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for his fast fingering and high notes. He had an influence on younger beb ...

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

* Bernard McKinney -

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

*Musa Kaleem -

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contra ...

*Sonny Donaldson -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

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- bass *Arnold Enlow -

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Eddie Jefferson Eddie Jefferson (August 3, 1918 – May 9, 1979) was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. 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 t ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

- (tracks 6 & 7)

References

James Moody (saxophonist) live albums 1964 live albums Argo Records live albums albums recorded at the Jazz Workshop {{1960s-jazz-album-stub