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Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions – 7 CDs

We are proud to announce the forthcoming release of Woody Shaw’s entire Muse recordings by Mosaic Records (June 2013). Much of this music presents my father at the height of his battle as a truth-telling artist, offering snapshots of his creative process as he pioneered a new sound and conception that had never before existed [...]

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Woody Shaw III: “My father had a real sense of honor as a jazz musician…” (Ottawa Citizen)

My memories of my father are varied. With artists of such depth and creativity, it’s almost like encountering a different person during different periods of their lives. My father was this way. I have memories being very young in the presence of a strong and proud man, a presence that exuded a certain cultural pride [...]

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Anthony Braxton on Woody Shaw: “He was a brilliant man and he was fighting for his music…”

Anthony Braxton on Woody Shaw Transcript: “First, I would say, how wonderful for Woody Shaw to give me an opportunity to play with him. Woody would do his work on the East Coast; I grew up in Chicago. There was a big separation between both movements of musicians. And, in many ways, when I came [...]

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McCoy Tyner Interview with Ben Sidran (1972): “Each performance should be an adventure…”

Pianist, historian, and writer Ben Sidran interviews the Great McCoy Tyner and writer-director Conrad Rooks. A rare interview that captures McCoy’s beautiful perspective and philosophy on music and the creative process, as well as Rooks’ and Tyner’s recollections of John Coltrane’s connection with the late master Ravi Shankar. Check out Woody Shaw on Ben Sidran’s rendition of [...]

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Randy Brecker: “Woody Shaw was indispensable in my development as a trumpet player and musician…”

”A true mentor to me, he was. It was so kind of Woody to recommend me for some pivotal gigs in my own career (Horace Silver and Art Blakey) and his musical and technical suggestions had a lasting influence on me. He was indispensable in my development as a trumpet player and musician. I am [...]

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Kenny Garrett: “In the back of my mind, I am always thinking of Woody Shaw.”

“I have a lot of tunes for Woody. I have a tune on Black Hope which is called ‘Run Run Shaw.’ There is a tune on Happy People called ‘A Hole in One,’ written for Tiger Woods, but in the back of my mind, I am always thinking of Woody Shaw. His influence and his [...]

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37th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell - Terence Blanchard - April 29, 2006

Terence Blanchard: “Woody Shaw took the trumpet into a whole new direction.”

Well, the thing that’s best said about Woody, which is what a lot of us always say, is that he was probably the last great innovator in jazz. One of the things that’s interesting to me is that he was a student of the history of the trumpet, but at the same time he didn’t [...]

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NPR Radio – Woody Shaw Tribute at Jazz Standard, NYC (2008) – Festival of New Trumpet Music

Photo: Woody Shaw at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA, 1981. (c) Brian McMillen. “In September 2008, the Festival of New Trumpet Music staged a major retrospective of Woody Shaw’s compositions at the Jazz Standard in New York. There, a pair of Shaw’s one-time bandmates, Mulgrew Miller on piano and Victor Lewis on drums, backed three [...]

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Woody added to the vocabulary of the trumpet… He was very serious, disciplined and respectful towards jazz. His whole approach influenced me tremendously. — Wynton Marsalis

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