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Imagination

Label: 32 Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: If I Were A Bell; Imagination; Dat Dere; You and the Night and the Music; Stormy Weather; Steve

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The Moontrane

By Woody Shaw

Label: 32 Records
Released: 1998

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Originally released by Muse in 1987, this album features the talented quintet of trumpeter Woody Shaw, trombonist Steve Turre, pianist Kirk Lightsey, bassist Ray Drummond, and drummer Carl Allen. Steve Turre, who worked with Woody Shaw for about 16 years, had already developed the same sort of natural style for which we remember Shaw. In his ...

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Woody Shaw: Two More Pieces Of The Puzzle

by Jim Santella
June 1, 1998

Recorded in 1976 and 1977, two Muse LPs are reissued in one package: The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble At The Berliner Jazztage and The Iron Men. Trumpeter Woody Shaw, who passed away in 1989 at the age of forty-four, was blessed with a remarkably pretty trumpet tone. His fast and furious hard bop sound, coupled with ...

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Woody Shaw: Last of the Line

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 1998

Last of the Line is a 2-CD reissue of two excellent albums by the chronically underrated trumpeter Woody Shaw: Cassandranite and Love Dance. Cassandranite is a self-produced 1965 (with one track from 1971) session with Joe Henderson on tenor. Larry Young is also present, on piano (not organ), for “Cassandranite" and “Obsequious," after which he gives ...

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Woody Shaw: Dark Journey

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 1998

Dark Journey is a 2-CD compilation of some of the best recordings by the great trumpeter Woody Shaw. Tracks are gathered from recordings dating from 1965 to 1987, and most impressive is the breadth of the guest list: Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Cedar Walton, Kenny Garrett, J. J. Johnson, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Larry Young, ...

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Woody Shaw: The Moontrane

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 1998

In a genre full of tragically short-lived performers, Woody Shaw's story is exceptionally tragic. Legally blind and beset with emotional problems, he was killed in a subway accident in 1989 without ever attaining the recognition attentive listeners knew he deserved. The Mosaic box set of his Columbia recordings a few years ago placed him in a ...

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The Eternal Triangle

By Freddie Hubbard

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1988
Track listing: Down Under; The Eternal Triangle; The Moontrane; Calling Miss Khadija; Nostrand And Fulton; Tomorrow's Destiny; Sao Paulo; Reets And I;

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