In The Mood by Joe Garland
In The Mood by Joe Garland (1903-1977) Joseph Copeland “Joe” Garland was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger, best known for writing “In the Mood”. Garland studied music at Shaw University and the Aeolian Conservatory. He started by playing classical music but joined a jazz band, Graham Jackson’s Seminole Syncopators, in 1924, where he …