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Kevin Woods

Born: April 2, 1979

Trumpeter Kevin Woods began his musical interests at an early age. His father, who played trumpet in a local big band, gave Woods a cornet at age five and introduced him to the music of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Harry James and Benny Goodman. Throughout junior high and high school Woods received many honors and awards from several jazz and classical music festivals and competitions and in 1997 was invited to perform in the Spokane All City and the All Northwest Jazz Ensembles. Woods attended Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, on music and academic scholarships for two years where he studied jazz and classical trumpet with Dr

Signals

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Few Regrets; Solo en Viento Sabe; Peri’s Scope; Signals; My Shining Hour; Since Last December; Big T’s; Inutil Paisagem; One for B.E.; Virgo; I Hear a Rhapsody.

Trio Linguae: Signals

by Jack Bowers
September 22, 2020

Signals introduces the snug and simpatico Trio Linguae ("lin-gwee") from western Canada whose unusual makeup (trumpet, guitar, piano) doesn't hinder it from painting a series of shapely and pleasing portraits in sound. Trumpeter Kevin Woods had been performing with his compatriots—pianist Miles Black, guitarist John Stowell—for more than a decade but never before on the same ...

Northwest +1: Minor Suggestions

by Geannine Reid
October 31, 2014

Northwest + 1 is a group of five jazz musicians, all educators that were brought together in a routine guest artist appearance at Spokane Falls Community College in June of 2013, by trumpeter/educator Kevin Woods. Woods along with his SFCC colleague pianist Danny McCollum, assembled a rhythm section of Washington's finest with Jon Hamar on bass ...

Ballad of the West

By Kevin Woods

Label: SpooM Music
Released: 2007