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PittSongs – Eddie Jefferson

January 5, 2022

Song: “Moody’s Mood For Love”

Artist: Eddie Jefferson

Album: The Jazz Singer

Year Released: 1952

Genre: Jazz vocalist

Local Connection: Born in Pittsburgh August 3, 1918

Did you know? Eddie Jefferson is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo

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