Woody Shaw
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Video: Woody Shaw – 'But not for me'
24 December 2012 — Jazz on the Tube Often referred to as the “last innovator” in the jazz trumpet lineage, Shaw is credited with revolutionizing the technical and harmonic vocabulary of the instrument and is considered one of the great jazz composers and band leaders of the twentieth century. Born with a photographic memory Continue reading
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Video: Woody Shaw plays Monk's 'Bemsha Swing
The great Woody Shaw playing the Thelonious Monk composition “Bemsha Swing,” was recorded on Aug. 21,1985 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA. with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Stanley Cowell piano, David WIlliams bass, and Terri-Lyne Carrington on drums. Continue reading
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