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Author Name: Baldwin, James

Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Moody, Jazz Saxophonist, Dies of Cancer

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 B.B. King, has died. He was 85.

Moody's wife, Linda McGowan Moody, says he died Thursday at San Diego Hospice 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."

Wynton Marsalis told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Moody was a "titan of our music."

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



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Photographer Ingenuity

Photographer Ingenuity
Photograph by O.D. Von Engeln

On a 1910 National Geographic Society expedition, a photographer crouches by the shore of Yakutat Bay, Gulf of Alaska, to wash his film in the seawater. Faced with limited technology and assignments in remote places, National Geographic’s early photographers devised ingenious methods to produce the best images.

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Vanishing Old Masters Save Another Day

The ever-thinning stream of art supplies has amusing consequences. One is to mask the real state of the market to outsiders, as two Old Master paintings sales this week demonstrated on a grand scale. Christie’s sale on Tuesday and Sotheby’s session a day later both revealed buyers to be more eager than ever.

Jeter’s Back in the Fold

Jeter agreed to a three-year, $51 million deal that, in all likelihood, will be the last of his Hall of Fame career. If Jeter exercises a creatively-designed option for 2014, he will finish that season at age 40, and by then the debate over his on-field production and iconic value will have ceased.

Christmas Parade in Paris, Texas

Andy Warhol

Gordon Parks and Walker Evans

Gordon Parks


Walker Evans

Ansel Adams