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Woody Shaw: Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard

Read "Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
October 3, 2005

Live straight-ahead jazz doesn't get much better than these two nights when Woody Shaw brought his quintet into the Village Vanguard in August 1978. Trumpet and saxophone improvise with forceful confidence, piano provides the glue that keeps them in a tightly- knit affair, and the rhythmic team of bass and drums exudes a propelling force.

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Woody Shaw: Live Volume Four

Read "Live Volume Four" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
June 29, 2005

Live Volume Four continues HighNote's ongoing series of live recordings from Todd Barkan's Keystone Korner club from the late '70s and early '80s. While trumpeter Woody Shaw never received the accolades he was due during his relatively short life--he died in '89 at the age of 44--these live recordings paint a picture of an innovator who ...

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Thinking of Home

By Hank Mobley

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Suite (Thinking of Home; The Flight; Home At Last); Justine; You Gotta Hit It; Gayle's Groove; Talk About Gittin' It.

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Blackstone Legacy

By Woody Shaw

Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 1999

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Imagination

By Woody Shaw

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Released: 1999
Track listing: If I Were a Bell, Imagination; Dat Dere; You and the Night and the Music; Stormy Weather; Steve

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Woody Shaw (32 Jazz: Imagination

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 1999

Let Me Reintroduce.... Woody Shaw (1944 – 1989) was a popular yet never fully appreciated trumpeter during the 1970s and 80s. Largely influenced by Freddie Hubbard, Shaw is considered by jazz musicologists to be a bridge between Hard Bop and Avant-garde trumpet playing. He played and recorded with Eric Dolphy, Horace Silver, Dexter Gordon, Andrew Hill, ...

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Woody Shaw: Blackstone Legacy

by Douglas Payne
June 1, 1999

Trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-89) was 26 in 1970 when he recorded this, his official solo debut, for Contemporary Records. Originally a double LP, the six longish originals (four by Shaw and the disc's two best by the keyboardist on the date, George Cables) make it on to one CD due to some imperceptible editing on two ...

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