Woody Shaw
Trumpeter Woody Shaw should have been among the best known jazz trumpeters of his era, but his personal problems and early death ended his career tragically early. Nevertheless, he's hailed as a trumpeter's trumpeter, and was a crucial link between hard bop and progressive jazz. Heavily influenced by Clifford Brown, Shaw played with a host of giants early on (McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey, Eric Dolphy, and others). In the 1970s and '80s, Shaw's work as a bandleader found him shifting seamlessly between post-bop workouts and harmonically adventurous excursions. In 1989, Shaw fell under a New York City subway train, and died three months later, cutting short what should have been a long, fruitful musical life.
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Albums
- (2007) Night Music
- (2007) Master Of The Art
- (2005) Stepping Stones: Live At The Village Vanguard
- (2005) LIttle Red's Fantasy
- (2005) Imagination
- (2005) Solid
- (1998) Two More Pieces Of The Puzzle
- (1997) Last Of The Line
- (1978) Rosewood
- (1974) The Moontrane
Top Tracks
- The Moontrane
- Imagination
- Dat Dere
- Iron Man
- There Will Never Be Another You
Related Artists
- Miles Davis
- Lee Morgan
- Freddie Hubbard
- Clifford Brown
- Donald Byrd
- Art Farmer
- Terence Blanchard
- Wynton Marsalis
- Sonny Rollins
- Wallace Roney
- Kenny Dorham
- Fats Navarro
- Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Louis Armstrong
- Hank Mobley
- Louis Armstrong Hot Five
- Kenny Wheeler
- Louis Armstrong & His Hot Six
- Louis Armstrong The Hot Fives
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