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Woody Shaw: Woody I: On The New Ark (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

I feel that in many ways Woody III is the masterpiece of Woody Shaw’s recorded output in the studio The three pieces ...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw: Desert Moonlight (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

The meeting on record of Woody Shaw and all-time trumpet great Freddie Hubbard was a cause for rapt anticipation befo...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Woody Shaw: Theme for Maxine (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 25, 07

"Woody Shaw was the next major stylist on his instrument," Michael Cuscuna writes, "after Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard...

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We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Woody Shaw: The Goat and the Archer (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

I’ve never understood why it took so long (almost five years from the date of his first breakthrough sideman dates) f...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Woody Shaw: Hello to the Wind (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

Woody Shaw’s series of Muse records from 1974 to 1979 really heralded his arrival as the “next cat” on the trumpet to...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Woody Shaw: Isabel the Liberator (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Woody Shaw had arguably the finest touring jazz (straight ahead) small group on the...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Woody Shaw: All the Things You Are (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 08, 08

Half of the band featured on Night Music, one of Woody Shaw's final recordings, is alumni of the "Blakey School." Sha...

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There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Woody Shaw: Stormy Weather (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 08, 08

Such eminent balladeers as Lester Young, Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon always looked to a song's lyrics as key to its...

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Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

Woody Shaw: Ginseng People (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

Revisiting another of his classic lines from the CBS era with a “local” rhythm section comprising one established mas...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Woody Shaw: Escape Velocity (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Woody Shaw is one of the great overlooked trumpeters in jazz history. He bridged the gap between hard bop and the ava...

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Woody Shaw: Rahsaan's Run (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

Woody Shaw re-recorded this up-tempo minor blues, dedicated to the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk, on his first studio dat...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Woody Shaw: All the Way (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

Even as Woody Shaw‘s profile became a little lower in the 1980s, his art was still deepening and gaining a rich patin...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Dexter Gordon: The Moontrane (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 04, 08

I have loved every version of Woody Shaw's "The Moontrane" I ever heard. This one is no exception. After 30 years, it...

Art Blakey: Anthenagin (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

I have always really liked the little-noticed Messengers records on Fantasy/Prestige from the early '70s: Anthenagin,...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Dexter Gordon: Fried Bananas (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 06, 08

After being cast against everyone's advice, Dexter Gordon was nominated for a "Best Actor" Oscar for his perform...

Larry Young: The Moontrane (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

An absolutely essential recording, Unity is also the template for the “progressive” jazz organ date. While it’s organ...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Dexter Gordon: It’s You or No One (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

After thirty-plus years in the business with a respected yet somehow undervalued reputation, Dexter Gordon received a...

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Horace Silver: The African Queen (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

This was a breakthrough recording for Woody Shaw—for me, the first fully realized representation of the innovations t...

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Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music April 16, 08

This fascinating version of the Duke/Gershwin standard is a somewhat rare departure from the classic hard-bop grooves...

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By the age of 25 (1944), Pittsburgh-native Art Blakey had already completed stints with Mary Lou Williams and Fletche...

Horace Silver: Pretty Eyes (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

By the time that Horace Silver recorded The Cape Verdean Blues (certainly among his half-dozen best albums), the prec...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

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