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Rickey Woodard

Born: August 5, 1950

Rickey Woodard was born in Nashville where he played in a family band with his brothers and sisters, playing Blues and R’n'B around the Nashville area. At an early age, Rickey came up listening to such greats as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker and Sonny Stitt. Rickey’s favorite saxophone players are Hank Mobley and George Coleman, two of the all-time great players.

After leaving Nashville, Rickey went to California and joined the Ray Charles Band where he was a member for eight years. After that, Rickey decided to pursue a solo career and recorded both as a leader and as a sideman for Concord Records.

New Jazz Standards, Volume 7

By Marina Pacowski

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: August in New York; High on Blueberry Pie; Theme for Jobim; Feels Like Home; Is That Asking Too Much?; Looking at You; I Need a Dream; Sweet Talk; You’re So Cute; Do Be Do Be Do; Alone; Can You Dig Being Dug?; Always in My Heart; Minute Waltz.

Smitty Straightens Out

By Peter Smith

Label: Real Magic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Road Song; Smitty Straightens Out; Timing Rules The World; Tumbling down; As They Grow; Swagger Waggle; Until Next Time.

Simply Me

By Valerie Monroe

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Down Home Blues; Give Me One Reason; How Glad I Am; The Very Thought Of You; Alright Ok, You Win; But Beautiful; Never Make Your Move Too Soon; Do It Again; We're in This Love Together / Let's Do It Again; Simply Me.

Marina Pacowski: New Jazz Standards, Volume 7

by Jack Bowers
June 6, 2025

To those who know--really know--their breathtaking jazz trumpeters, Carl Saunders was definitely in a class by himself. Simply put, there was nothing Saunders could not do on the horn, from nailing seemingly insurmountable high notes to creating intricate and mind- blowing solos, all the while making it seem so effortless that many listeners thought he must ...

A Lady With a Song

By Amber Weekes

Label: Amber Inn Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Gentleman Friend; Save Your Love For Me; A Lady With a Song; Ten Good Years; What a Little Moonlight Can Do; Midnight Sun; Suppertime; Wave; Guess Who I Saw Today; I’m Always Drunk in San Francisco; The Best is Yet To Come; You’re Gonna Hear From Me; Wasn’t It Wonderful.

Postcards from Hollywood

By Scott Whitfield

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Magnificent Seven; Sally’s Tomato (from Breakfast at Tiffany’s); Entre’act/First Love Theme (from Cleopatra); The Sand Pebbles; Tara’s Theme (from Gone with the Wind); A Time for Love (from An American Dream); The Bad and the Beautiful; Spellbound; The Pawnbroker; The Force theme (from Star Wars); North by Northwest.

Overtones

By Doug MacDonald

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Night by Night; Bossa for PK; Blues by Eight; Hortense; Lover Man; Over #21; Ground Up; Rickey Speaking.

Big Band Extravaganza

By Doug MacDonald

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Toluca Lake Jazz; Rashomon; Luces Azules; Aventura en Triadas; Desert Jazz; Luz de Amour; De Ha; But Not for Me; Minor Mess; Ya Know Bill.

ArtWork

By Jack Jones

Label: Cavalry Productions
Released: 2023
Track listing: Fever; Hello; At Last; If Love Is Overrated; Not While I’m Around; She’s Funny That Way; This Masquerade; If You Go Away; Empty Chairs; Lush Life; Is That All There Is; Here’s to Life; This Is All I Ask; One Day.