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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...

Browse the Woody Shaw Shop Introduction by Linda Reitman In a recent interview with Leonard Feather, Miles Davis laid to rest all myths about who's really playing the trumpet these days. Asked about Freddie Hubbard, Miles responded, "All technique, but no feeling." On Wynton Marsalis: "All the [young] trumpeters copy...

An unreleased track from a live performance of Woody Shaw's quintet featuring Bobby Hutcherson in Tokyo, Japan, 1981.  Browse the Woody Shaw Shop

Note by Woody Shaw III: Here is an excerpt from a selection of reviews written by late New York Times music critic Robert Palmer in December of 1977, which included new album releases as eclectic and varied as the works of Ludwvig Van Beethoven - performed by the London Symphony Orchestra...

Browse the Woody Shaw Shop Robert IannapolloCadence MagazineIndependent Journal of Creative Improvised Music(Oct 2012): pp 68-69. Woody Shaw's neo hard- bop albums for Columbia [Records] in the late 1970s were highly regarded and paved the way for Wynton Marsalis and his young lion cohorts' hard bop revival. But Shaw also had...

Browse the Woody Shaw Webstore by Robert Palmer. March 30, 1977. In the modern jazz mainstream, an area bounded chronologically by the hard bop of the early 1950's and the Modal playing popularized by Miles Davis and John Coltrane during the early 1960's, Woody Shaw is the reigning trumpet king. Freddie Hubbard...