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Chick Corea: “Woody never hesitated – he was always ready to jump into the unknown and explore…”

“I first met Woody at our clandestine jam sessions at Juilliard School when it was up on 120 something street. We’d hide in some empty classroom with a piano, sneak the drums in (Wilson Morman) and have some fun while our teachers weren’t looking. I remember us jamming with Hubert Laws, Pete Yellin, Lyle Atkinson [...]

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“Woody Plays Woody” | High Note Records

Amazon.com Widgets In April of 2012, I was contacted by the famed NY-based independent record label, High Note Records, to oversee a new compilation of my father’s music. High Note and my father have a long history going back to the mid-1970s (formerly known as Muse) when Woody Shaw began to establish his presence as [...]

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Joe Henderson & Woody Shaw: The Sage and the Sorcerer

WOODY SHAW and JOE HENDERSON: Shaw’s electrifying career may arguably be the manifested reality of Henderson’s prophetic words spoken upon first hearing Shaw play as a teenager in the early 1960′s. “He shocked me then. He’s got all the basics down, he’s developed his own style, and his future is without limits,” Henderson foretold (Source: Revivalist.OkayPlayer.com).

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International Trumpet Guild: CD & Journal

In 2012 the International Trumpet Guild (ITG) commemorated Woody Shaw with a series of publications, recordings, and events. The goal was to bring Woody’s music into focus within the broader context of the trumpet world, allowing people to get a deeper understanding of Woody’s innovations on the instrument while spreading the word about his music. [...]

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I used to listen to Trane and Dolphy and think, wow, how come nobody plays like that on the trumpet? So I swung around from the Freddie Hubbard-Lee Morgan axis and tried to play the trumpet like a saxophone. And in so doing I learned a whole lot more about my instrument. — Woody Shaw

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