Sul sito Sign on San Diego è stata pubblicata una bella intervista con il grande sassofonista James Moody che lo scorso 26 marzo ha compiuto 85 anni:
“I was sick of (the flute), so I just played saxophone,” said Moody, who lives in an elegant hillside home in San Carlos with his wife, Linda, a San Diego Realtor.
He changed his mind after Hofmann made a suggestion about his embouchure and the position of his right elbow when he played his flute.
“Most musicians who have been around as long as Moody rarely change the way they play,” she said. “But it’s typical of Moody that he did change, because he’s always practicing, working on things so intently and evolving as a player. He has shown me some wonderful patterns that I’ve incorporated into my playing, which I would have never discovered on my own.”
Her admiration for Moody’s talent and his tireless work ethic are shared by other prominent musicians, including Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center.
“He’s about the music — all the time,” Marsalis said. “I’ve worked with Moody a lot and he’s just impeccable, his musicianship, his soul, his humor. He’s a titan of our music and I love him.”
When Moody belatedly celebrates his birthday June 23 with a long sold-out gala concert at Carnegie Hall, he anticipates playing at least one number on flute. He now practices the flute at least five days a week while watching such TV news and opinion shows as “Countdown With Keith Obermann,” “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “Anderson Cooper 360°.”
“I can’t do that,” Hofmann said with a laugh. “I watch the same TV shows, but I have to concentrate too hard when I’m practicing.”
Moody’s ability to multitask comes as no surprise to his wife of 21 years, who accompanied him when he received a Kennedy Center Living Jazz Legend Award in 2007 and was also on hand for his three White House performances.
“What’s interesting is that he can play the flute and hear the shows on TV at the same time,” Linda Moody said. “He practices the whole two or three hours he’s watching the shows.”
Moody (as his friends and fans call him) being Moody, he devotes even more time to the saxophone, a higher volume instrument he also practices daily, sans TV.
“It’s altogether different,” he said. “The flute is softer, and the more control you learn when you play it, the more you learn that silence really is golden. It will take me time to ‘unlearn’ all of those mistakes I used to make on the flute.
“With any instrument, you never get it all. But you try to get as much as you can. That’s why music is infinite. When I say it’s good to always practice, it doesn’t mean playing something you know. You practice what you don’t know. The point is, you have to find out what you don’t know.”....
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“I was sick of (the flute), so I just played saxophone,” said Moody, who lives in an elegant hillside home in San Carlos with his wife, Linda, a San Diego Realtor.
He changed his mind after Hofmann made a suggestion about his embouchure and the position of his right elbow when he played his flute.
“Most musicians who have been around as long as Moody rarely change the way they play,” she said. “But it’s typical of Moody that he did change, because he’s always practicing, working on things so intently and evolving as a player. He has shown me some wonderful patterns that I’ve incorporated into my playing, which I would have never discovered on my own.”
Her admiration for Moody’s talent and his tireless work ethic are shared by other prominent musicians, including Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center.
“He’s about the music — all the time,” Marsalis said. “I’ve worked with Moody a lot and he’s just impeccable, his musicianship, his soul, his humor. He’s a titan of our music and I love him.”
When Moody belatedly celebrates his birthday June 23 with a long sold-out gala concert at Carnegie Hall, he anticipates playing at least one number on flute. He now practices the flute at least five days a week while watching such TV news and opinion shows as “Countdown With Keith Obermann,” “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “Anderson Cooper 360°.”
“I can’t do that,” Hofmann said with a laugh. “I watch the same TV shows, but I have to concentrate too hard when I’m practicing.”
Moody’s ability to multitask comes as no surprise to his wife of 21 years, who accompanied him when he received a Kennedy Center Living Jazz Legend Award in 2007 and was also on hand for his three White House performances.
“What’s interesting is that he can play the flute and hear the shows on TV at the same time,” Linda Moody said. “He practices the whole two or three hours he’s watching the shows.”
Moody (as his friends and fans call him) being Moody, he devotes even more time to the saxophone, a higher volume instrument he also practices daily, sans TV.
“It’s altogether different,” he said. “The flute is softer, and the more control you learn when you play it, the more you learn that silence really is golden. It will take me time to ‘unlearn’ all of those mistakes I used to make on the flute.
“With any instrument, you never get it all. But you try to get as much as you can. That’s why music is infinite. When I say it’s good to always practice, it doesn’t mean playing something you know. You practice what you don’t know. The point is, you have to find out what you don’t know.”....
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