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Kevin Woods
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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
The Grind
Label: SpooM Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ricochet; Magic Mode; Blue Note Maki; Ballade #2; Forward Motion a.k.a.The Grind; Climb/Fall;
Western Oracle; Little Boo; Goodbyes
Forward Motion a.k.a. The Grind
Album: The Grind
By In Motion Quartet
Label: SpooM Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:19
In Motion Quartet's 'The Grind' Is Out January 25
Led by Seattle-based saxophonist Steve Treseler and Bellingham-based trumpeter Kevin Woods, In Motion Quartet releases their debut album The Grind, an adventurous set of original music exploring propulsive grooves and the avant-garde. With a nod to the chord-less groups of Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, and Lee Konitz, the instrumentation allows the band the freedom to stretch ...
About In Motion Quartet
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
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In Motion Quartet
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Led by Seattle-based saxophonist Steve Treseler and Bellingham-based trumpeter Kevin Woods, In Motion Quartet releases their debut album The Grind, an adventurous set of original music exploring propulsive grooves and the avant-garde. With a nod to the chord-less groups of Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, and Lee Konitz, the instrumentation allows the band the freedom to stretch harmonically and melodically, while maintaining an emphasis on rhythmic interaction and improvised counterpoint. Treseler and Woods seem to communicate telepathically, with a great sense of élan, curiosity, and vitality.
Signals
By Kevin Woods
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
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
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 ...
