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 that often utilized many different and complex harmonic progressions. He was very serious, disciplined and respectful towards jazz. His whole approach influenced me tremendously.”