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Phil Woods Quintet Live at Nick's Cafe in Lauren, Holland
by Ken Dryden
Gene Parrish's syndicated radio program Worldwide Jazz is not one that I've heard very often over the years, so this circa 1996 broadcast of the Phil Woods Quintet at Nick's Café in Lauren, Holland, was a special treat.The alto saxophonist's quintet at the time was a strong one (when isn't Woods leading a great ...
Phil Woods: A Life in E Flat
by Jim Santella
Phil Woods A Life in E Flat Jazzed Media 2005 Intertwined with a one-hour documentary about the life of Phil Woods in his own words comes a musical collage of shorts from the making of his recent album, This is How I Feel About Quincy. We ...
Phil Woods: Groovin' to Marty Paich
by Jim Santella
Recorded at a concert in Los Angeles last year honoring the memory and the music of Marty Paich, thirteen straight-ahead jazz veterans got together under the leadership of pianist Christian Jacob to recall the West Coast Cool sound that has become a legend in our time. Featuring Phil Woods, the ensemble invites a big band sound ...
Jazzclub Singen (Hohentwiel, Germany) 15th Anniversary
by Robert R. Calder
Fifteen years ago Jazz-Club Singen was established in relation to the modest little theatre cum cinema (called GEMS) at the edge of the little industrial town of Singen-am-Hohentwiel, in the handsome German hinterland of Lake Constance (the Bodensee). About halfway through this period I became a part-time resident of the region. I hopped on a train ...
Phil Woods: Groovin' to Marty Paich
by C. Michael Bailey
Phil Woods Groovin' to Marty Paich Jazzed Media 2005 In its quiet and amiable way, Phil Woods- Groovin' to Marty Paich is one of the most significant recordings of this year. Recorded at the Los Angeles International Airport Sheraton Hotel on May 30, 2004, the music on Groovin' to Marty ...
Meet Phil Woods
by Craig Jolley
There is no need to introduce Phil Woods to a jazz audience, but it should be mentioned that he is now as active as ever, turning out quality CD's and videos, playing concerts with his popping quintet, posting outrageous and hilarious notes on his website, and generally refusing to fade away. A Life in ...
Phil Woods: A Life in E-Flat
by Jack Bowers
Phil Woods A Life in E-Flat Jazzed Media 2005 Most Jazz musicians, and especially those who've been around for a number of years, have interesting stories to tell, about themselves and some of the characters they've known and worked with. Of course, some tell them better than others, which often ...
Phil Woods: Groovin' to Marty Paich
by Jack Bowers
More than 45 years ago, arranger Marty Paich and alto saxophone legend Art Pepper recorded the benchmark album Art Pepper + Eleven, on which Pepper and a “mini-big band performed Paich's superlative charts. Fast forward to May 2004, when Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute presented “Springsville, a four-day festival celebrating “the Birth of ...
Phil Woods: Groovin' to Marty Paich
by Geoff Roach
What a difference 45 years makes. But 45 years don't change a thing. If this sounds like an obvious conflict, you should listen to Phil Woods and the Los Angeles Jazz Orchestra play twelve classic arrangements by Marty Paich. Paich is one of the unsung heroes of music as a pianist, composer, and arranger. Phil Woods ...
