sentences:  Growing up in Newark, New Jersey, he was attracted to the saxophone after hearing George Holmes Tate, Don Byas, and various saxophonists who played with Count Basie, and later also took up the flute.Moody joined the US Army Air Corps in 1943 and played in the "negro band" on the segregated base.Following his discharge from the military in 1946 he played bebop with Dizzy Gillespie for two years.