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(December 24th, 1944 - May 10th, 1989)
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'Tis the season to be Jazzy! Today, many of us will take great pleasure in honoring one of the major innovators of our music. Hailed by fans and fellow cohorts as "the last in the line" of the modern bebop trumpeters, Shaw ingeniously built upon the innovations of his predecessors, maintaining a standard of integrity, honor, and respect for the music and its roots, while adding, impeccably, to the intricacies of its vocabulary - as an instrumentalist, composer, and conceptualist. |
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COMING IN 2007:
 
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WOODYSHAW.COM joins *iTunes*
In January, 2007, WOODYSHAW.COM will enter in its first agreement wth iTunes for the digital distribution of UNRELEASED, DOWNLOADABLE Woody Shaw recordings! This is expected to be the - as of yet - most succesful medium for the release of our archival recordings. We are excited to be able to share some of these killin', raw, live, unreleased Woody Shaw performances with you very soon. First up in the catalog is Volume 1 in a new series of live dates with legendary tenor saxophonist, Dexter Gordon, from the late 1970's. We will surely keep you iTuned in, so don't worry! Visit our "biggest" affiliate, DEXTERGORDON.COM |
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THOUGHTS ON WOODY SHAW:
Mulgrew Miller: "Perhaps one of the last great conceptualists in the wake of Miles Davis and John Coltrane".
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Wynton Marsalis (NEA Grant-based student of Woody Shaw, 1980-81): "Woody added to the vocabulary of the trumpet... He was very serious, disciplined and respectful towards jazz. His whole approach influenced me tremendously."
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Miles Davis: "Now there's a great trumpet player... He can play different from all of them."
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Max Roach: "He was truly one of the greatest..."
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Chris Botti: "He was an incredibly forward-thinking trumpet player."
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Dave Liebman: "One of the greatest Jazz musicians of all time!"
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Terence Blanchard: ...Some of us still feel that Woody was the last true innovator of Jazz..."