Let's stick with 1976. Yesterday I posted about Dolo Coker's California Hard, a superb album recorded by the pianist for Xanadu in December of that year. Today, let's dig a newly released album by a ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Woody Shaw's birthday today! Woody Shaw, Jr. was born in Laurinburg, N.C. on December 24th, 1944 to Rosalie Pegues Shaw and Woody Shaw, Sr. He grew up in Newark, New ...

The innovative trumpeter’s postmodern masterpiece features an all-star line-up, including Gary Bartz, Ron Carter and Lenny White A pioneering figure in modern jazz, Woody Shaw (1944–1989) was revered ...

In the heat of a great solo, many trumpet players tend to throw their shoulders back and jab their instruments in the air, like a gangster in an old movie hoisting a machine gun on St. Valentine’s Day ...