Woody Shaw
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Image:Stonescover2.jpg Woody Herman Shaw II (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) (United States) -- Jazz trumpet player and composer.
Early in his career he was influenced by Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, and other trumpeters, yet the influences of Eric Dolphy, with whom he played and recorded in the 1960s, and John Coltrane, were equally as important to the development of his style and concept as a trumpeter and composer. He worked during the 1960s with such greats as Horace Silver, Max Roach, and Art Blakey . During this period he also recorded for Blue Note Records as a sideman with Andrew Hill, Jackie McLean, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, and others. Beginning in the mid-1970s he worked primarily as a leader.
In 1978 Shaw was signed to Columbia Records and recorded the albums Rosewood, Stepping Stones, Woody III, For Sure, and United. Rosewood was nominated for 2 Grammies and was voted Best Jazz Album of 1978 in the Down Beat Reader's Poll, which also voted Woody Shaw Best Jazz Trumpeter of the Year and #4 Jazz Musician of the Year.
Discographies:
The Almost-Complete Discography of Woody Shaw
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