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True Love Is True Music: Dedicated to Bobby Hutcherson and Woody Shaw (by Woody Shaw III)
TRUE LOVE IS TRUE MUSIC.Yesterday's memorial (1/28/16) for the late musical visionary and community hero Bobby Hutcherson was easily one of the most profound moments in my recent adult life. It was profound primarily because, on the eve of the memorial, I was asked by my brother Teddy Hutcherson (Bobby's youngest son and heir), to speak on behalf of the entire Hutcherson family to a deliver a message of gratitude to those in attendance. To have been asked not only by the son of someone so vitally important to our culture, but also someone so closely bound to me and...
Landmark Woody Shaw tribute receives 2017 Grammy Nomination ("Madera Latino" by Brian Lynch)
The Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 59th Annual Grammy© Awards this morning and Madera Latino was on the list! Madera Latino: A Latin Jazz Perspective on the Music of Woody Shaw Buy Now Four years in the making, Grammy© Award winning trumpeter Brian Lynch’s “Madera Latino” (Latin Wood) project, exploring the music of jazz innovator and master trumpeter Woody Shaw in a Latin Jazz format, is finally ready for release on Hollistic MusicWorks! The music of the late, great Woody Shaw (1944-1989) - an innovative and highly individual musical lexicon, expressed through both his chosen instrument of trumpet and his equally distinguished compositions -...
Victor Lewis to receive Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln
POSITIVE NEWS! ... The legendary drummer and composer - and perhaps one of Woody Shaw's favorite musicians that worked in his band - is receiving an Honorary Doctorate degree from University of Nebraska—Lincoln - right in his home state. Doctoral Ceremony Webcast: To view the hooding ceremony and a concert by the University of Nebraska Jazz Orchestra with new arrangements of Victor Lewis' compositions, go to this link on December 8, 2016, at 7:30pm CST / 8:30pm EST — http://netnebraska.org/interactive-multimedia/television/glenn-korff-school-music-unl-big-band-and-jazz-orchestra-kimball Thursday, December 8th, 2016.7:30pm CST / 8:30pm EST On a personal note, having known Victor for more than 30 years, I simply can't...
Rare Cut: Woody Shaw & Archie Shepp (1976)
Here is an extended track of Woody Shaw playing Ah-Leu-Cha (by Charlie Parker) as a guest with the Archie Shepp Trio in Hamburg, Germany in May of 1976. Recommended Article: Archie Shepp Interview - Knowing The Life Listen to the Full Concert Concert Details: May 21, 1976Hamburg, Germany Woody Shaw, tp Archie Shepp, ts Cameron Brown, b Bearver Harris, dr 1. Ah-Leu-Cha2. Solitude3. Along Came Betty (1)3. Along Came Betty (2)4. Spain Street5. 52nd Street Theme
Three New Woody Shaw Projects Submitted for Grammy® Nominations, Forty Years Later (2016)
Nearly 40 years ago, trumpeter-composer Woody Shaw and a number of other leading jazz musicians were signed to Columbia Records (1977) by then label President Bruce Lundvall. This new roster of artists signed to the label at the time suggested new hope for the genre and the possibility of broadening its reception through heightened record sales, wider publicity, international tours, increased airplay, and through critical recognition (validation) of jazz as a commercially viable genre. It was during his tenure with Columbia that Woody released his most musically ambitious and commercially successful recordings, working with larger instrumentation and bringing to life many of...
