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Woody Shaw
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Woody Shaw, Jr. was born in Laurinburg, N.C. onDecember 24th, 1944 to Rosalie Pegues Shaw andWoody Shaw, Sr. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey,and began playing trumpet at the age of 11. Shawattended Arts High School in Newark where he studiedtrumpet and music theory with Jerome Ziering. Newarkhas a rich Jazz history and many notable Jazz artists areoriginally from there, including Sarah Vaughan, WayneShorter, Eddie Gladden, Larry Young, and GrachanMoncur III. His first and perhaps greatest inspiration, interms of the trumpet, came from listening to LouisArmstrong and, not long after, Clifford Brown.
The Free Slave
By Roy Brooks
Label: Time Traveller Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Free Slave; Understanding; Will Pan's Walk; Five for Max.
A Muse Renaissance: Reissues from Roy Brooks, Kenny Barron, and Carlos Garnett
by C. Andrew Hovan
The independent jazz label has long served as a bellwether for the music's highest artistry, ever since the advent of the long-playing record. Labels such as Verve Records, Blue Note Records, Prestige Records, Contemporary Records, and Riverside--each a modest operation led by passionate entrepreneurs--were devoted to documenting the sound of their era with fidelity and purpose. ...
Dexter Gordon: More Than You Know (1981)
by Neil Duggan
More Than You Know is a previously unreleased live recording by jazz legend Dexter Gordon. It is the first in the GleAM Records series dedicated to the giants of jazz. The recording features saxophonist Gordon performing with his early 1980s quartet: Kirk Lightsey on piano, David Eubanks on bass and Eddie Gladden on drums. Dating from ...
Roy Brooks: The Free Slave
by Pierre Giroux
Roy Brooks's The Free Slave, newly reissued on Time Traveler Recordings as a 180-gram vinyl LP, stands as a passionate tribute to the drummer's remarkable artistry and his often overlooked role as one of the most rhythmic thinkers of the post-bop period. Recorded live by Muse Records on April 26, 1970, at Baltimore's renowned Left Bank ...
New Music from Muriel Grossmann, Robert Glasper, a Yazz Ahmed re-mix, and classic Horace Silver
by Hobart Taylor
New music from Austria's Muriel Grossman, Robert Glasper, Yazz Ahmed and an unearthed gem from Horace Silver.Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Muriel Grossmann “Abide" from Breakthrough (Dreamland) 00:18 Horace Silver /Woody Shaw/Joe Henderson “Sayonara Blues" from Silver in Seattle: Live at The Penthouse (Blue Note) 13:07 Yazz Ahmed “Waiting For The Dawn (Richard Russell Remix)" ...
The "Jazz Detective" Finds A New Muse, Reissues Lost Classics
by Joshua Weiner
Joe Fields (1929-2017) was a jazz producer and record executive who worked for Columbia, MGM, Verve, and, most impactfully, at Prestige in the 1950s and 1960s. Shortly after Prestige was sold to Fantasy in 1971, ending a classic era for the storied label, Fields founded Muse Records to document the next phase in jazz. Muse brought ...
50 Years Later: 10 Jazz Albums from 1975 That Deserve Another Spin
by Kyle Simpler
1975 was a landmark year for music, marked by several outstanding album releases. Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (Columbia), Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti (Swan Song), Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here (Harvest), Frank Zappa's One Size Fits All (DiscReet) and Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow (Epic) were just a few of the titles that have ...
George Coleman, Anne Mette Iverson, Sylvie Courvoisier with Wadada Leo Smith, and Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian
by Hobart Taylor
Regeneration... New and old music featuring George Coleman, a newly released historic Keith Jarrett Trio recording, and astounding new music from Anne Mette Iverson as well as Sylvie Courvoisier with Wadada Leo SmithPlaylist Craig Taborn /Marcus Gilmore/Nels Cline “Queen King" from (Trio of Bloom) (Pyro clastic) 00:00 Anne Mette Iversen “TBQE (To Be Questioned ...
Exploration (Dominik Kisiel Exploration Quartet), Hank Mobley, Garaj Mahal, Wilton Felder and More
by David W. Daniels
Jazz classics by Milt Jackson, Abbey Lincoln, Woody Shaw, and more. Re-releases from Miles Davis and the Tommy Smith Quartet. New music from Mark Winkler, Nick Finzer, Paul Cornish, and more. This week's birthdays (8/31 through 9/6) include Horace Silver, Gerald Wilson, Teri Thornton, and more. Playlist Dominik Kisiel Exploration Quartet “Exploration" from Exploration ...
