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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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Video: “To Kill A Brick” – Woody Shaw Quintet Live at Monterey Jazz Fest, 1979 (Dedicated to Art Blakey)

Woody Shaw: “I’ve written a couple of tunes for Art Blakey including ‘To Kill A Brick’ which appears on Woody III. I wanted a tune which was simple, to the point, and conveyed the feeling of a straight ahead bebop blues. I also wanted to feature alto saxophonists, Rene McLean and James Spaulding in a jam [...]

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Woody Shaw featuring 18 year-old Wynton Marsalis (April 10, 1980)

The Woody Shaw Quintet Live at Fat Tuesday’s, NYC, 1980: Part 1 - Woody Shaw Quintet performing “OPEC” (Shaw) Part 2 - Woody Shaw and young Wynton Marsalis playing “Now’s The Time” (Parker) Wynton Marsalis on Woody Shaw: “Woody added to the vocabulary of the trumpet. He had a real concept about the organization of group music [...]

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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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Stepping Stones Bonus Tracks

STEPPING STONES BONUS TRACKS (MP3 Album) – Available at Amazon.com – The second night of recordings from Woody Shaw’s original Stepping Stones date at the Village Vanguard in 1978. Being the perfectionists they were, Woody and producer Michael Cuscuna originally decided to omit these recordings from the album, but after more than 30 years, Cuscuna [...]

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Unreleased: Woody Shaw performing “OPEC” Live at Fat Tuesday’s, April 10, 1980

UNRELEASED RECORDING of Woody Shaw playing “OPEC” at Fat Tuesday’s in New York City in 1980. Listen to Part 1. Listen to Part 2 with Woody and 18 year-old Wynton Marsalis.

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Unreleased: Woody Shaw performing “Rahsaan’s Run” Live at the Village Vanguard, 1978

UNRELEASED RECORDING of Woody Shaw performing “Rahsaan’s Run” live at the Village Vangaurd in 1978. Click here to listen.

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The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (now in MP3 format!)

PopMarket.com, a new division of Sony Music, releases The Complete Columbia Albums Collection of Woody Shaw. Produced by Michael Cuscuna and Woody Shaw III (also graphic designer, author, curator and project director), the new set features all of Woody Shaw’s Columbia recordings remastered plus new bonus tracks from the Stepping Stones session, with new liner notes, new photography and [...]

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Woody Shaw will always be an example of uncompromising integrity and individualism in spite of the obstacles. — Sean Jones

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