Moody's Mood for Love
If you watch television or listen to the radio, chances are you have at least heard a snippet of jazz saxophonist James Moody’s “Moody’s Mood for Love.” This song is one of the most popular American jazz songs ever recorded.
Jazz vocalist and lyricist Eddie Jefferson heard Moody’s instrumental and composed lyrics to it. King Pleasure recorded the song in 1952. It became very popular among jazz enthusiasts. The rest, as they say, is history.
“Moody’s Mood for Love” has been remade for Gap commercials and featured on television shows like The Cosby Show and Living Single. Most recently, in 2006, American Idol’s Elliot Yamin performed and recorded a version of it for the Season 5: Encores disc.
Music artists including the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, Brian McKnight, Amy Winehouse, Tito Puente and George Benson have covered “Moody’s Mood for Love.”
Which of these sentences would make the best topic sentence if a new paragraph were added to this passage?
A.
Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross recorded a whole album of vocalese songs called Sing a Song of Basie.
B.
Another result of "Moody's Mood for Love" was the "vocalese" movement where lyrics are written to an instrumental or jazz solo.
C.
James Moody and his wife, Linda, recently started a scholarship fund at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College-SUNY.
D.
Eddie Jefferson was shot and killed after his performance at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, Michigan.