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Phil Woods

February 04, 2023

Philip Wells Woods (November 2, 1931[1] – September 29, 2015)[2] was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer.

Phil Woods
Woods in 1978
Background information
Birth namePhilip Wells Woods
Born(1931-11-02)November 2, 1931
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedSeptember 29, 2015(2015-09-29) (aged 83)
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Alto saxophone, clarinet

Biography

Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.[1] After inheriting a saxophone at age 12, he began taking lessons at a local music shop. His heroes on the alto saxophone included Benny Carter and Johnny Hodges. He studied music with Lennie Tristano at the Manhattan School of Music and at the Juilliard School.[1] His friend, Joe Lopes, coached him on clarinet as there was no saxophone major at Juilliard at the time and received a bachelor’s degree in 1952. Although he did not copy Charlie Parker, Woods was known as the New Bird, a nickname also given to other alto saxophone players such as Sonny Stitt and Cannonball Adderley.

In the 1950s, Woods began to lead his own bands. Quincy Jones invited him to accompany Dizzy Gillespie on a world tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department. A few years later he toured Europe with Jones, and in 1962 he toured Russia with Benny Goodman.[3]

After moving to France in 1968, Woods led the European Rhythm Machine, a group which tended toward avant-garde jazz.[1] He returned to the United States in 1972 and, after an unsuccessful attempt to establish an electronic group, he formed a quintet[1] which was still performing, with some changes of personnel, in 2004. As his theme, Woods used a piece titled "How's Your Mama?"

Woods earned the top alto sax player award almost 30 times in DownBeat magazine's annual readers' poll. His quintet was awarded the top small combo title several times.[3]

In 1979, Woods recorded the album More Live at Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas. Perhaps his best known recorded work as a sideman is a pop piece, his alto sax solo on Billy Joel's 1977 "Just the Way You Are".[1] He also played the alto sax solo on Steely Dan's "Doctor Wu" from their 1975 album Katy Lied,[4] as well as Paul Simon's "Have a Good Time" from the 1975 album Still Crazy After All These Years.[5]

 
Woods in 1983

Although Woods was primarily a saxophonist, he was also a clarinet player and solos can be found scattered through his recordings. One particular example is his clarinet solo on "Misirlou" on the compilation album, Into the Woods.[6]

Woods, along with Rick Chamberlain and Ed Joubert, founded the organization Celebration of the Arts (COTA) in 1978 late one night in the bar at the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap. The organization would eventually become the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts. Their initial goal was to help foster an appreciation of jazz and its relationship to other artistic disciplines. Each year, the organization hosts the Celebration of the Arts Festival in the town of Delaware Water Gap in September.

In 2005, Jazzed Media released the documentary Phil Woods: A Life in E Flat – Portrait of a Jazz Legend, directed by Rich Lerner and produced by Graham Carter.[7]

Woods was married to Chan Parker, the common-law wife of Charlie Parker, for seventeen years and was the stepfather to Chan's daughter, Kim.[3] On September 4, 2015, he performed a tribute to Charlie Parker with Strings at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild and announced at the end of the show that he would be retiring. He died of emphysema on September 29, 2015, at the age of 83.[2]

Awards

Discography

 
Woods in Oslo, 2007

As leader/co-leader

Compilation

  • Into the Woods (The Best of Phil Woods) (Concord, 1996)
  • Moonlight In Vermont (CTI, 2005)[4CD]

As sideman

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 437/8. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.
  2. ^ a b Rick Nowlin (September 29, 2015). "Phil Woods, legendary alto saxophonist who gave one more great performance here in early September, dies at 83". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  3. ^ a b c Charles J. Gans (September 30, 2015). . Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on October 3, 2015.
  4. ^ "Katy Lied - Steely Dan | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  5. ^ "Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  6. ^ "Into the Woods: The Best of Phil Woods - Phil Woods | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  7. ^ "Phil Woods - Bio | Capri Records Ltd". Caprirecords.com. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  8. ^ a b Phil Woods, Grammy at AllMusic

References

  • Gonzalez, Henry (1990). The Armadillo Years: A Visual History
  • Nisenson, Eric (1996). Round About Midnight – A Portrait of Miles Davis (2nd ed.). Da Capo: Printing Press. ISBN 0-306-80684-3.
  • Burke, Debbie (2011). The Poconos in B Flat. ISBN 978-1469134598.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phil Woods.
  • Official site
  • Phil Woods at IMDb

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Phil Woods news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2015 Learn how and when to remove this template message Philip Wells Woods November 2 1931 1 September 29 2015 2 was an American jazz alto saxophonist clarinetist bandleader and composer Phil WoodsWoods in 1978Background informationBirth namePhilip Wells WoodsBorn 1931 11 02 November 2 1931Springfield Massachusetts U S DiedSeptember 29 2015 2015 09 29 aged 83 East Stroudsburg PennsylvaniaGenresJazzOccupation s Musician composerInstrument s Alto saxophone clarinet Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards 3 Discography 3 1 As leader co leader 3 2 Compilation 3 3 As sideman 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksBiography EditWoods was born in Springfield Massachusetts 1 After inheriting a saxophone at age 12 he began taking lessons at a local music shop His heroes on the alto saxophone included Benny Carter and Johnny Hodges He studied music with Lennie Tristano at the Manhattan School of Music and at the Juilliard School 1 His friend Joe Lopes coached him on clarinet as there was no saxophone major at Juilliard at the time and received a bachelor s degree in 1952 Although he did not copy Charlie Parker Woods was known as the New Bird a nickname also given to other alto saxophone players such as Sonny Stitt and Cannonball Adderley In the 1950s Woods began to lead his own bands Quincy Jones invited him to accompany Dizzy Gillespie on a world tour sponsored by the U S State Department A few years later he toured Europe with Jones and in 1962 he toured Russia with Benny Goodman 3 After moving to France in 1968 Woods led the European Rhythm Machine a group which tended toward avant garde jazz 1 He returned to the United States in 1972 and after an unsuccessful attempt to establish an electronic group he formed a quintet 1 which was still performing with some changes of personnel in 2004 As his theme Woods used a piece titled How s Your Mama Woods earned the top alto sax player award almost 30 times in DownBeat magazine s annual readers poll His quintet was awarded the top small combo title several times 3 In 1979 Woods recorded the album More Live at Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin Texas Perhaps his best known recorded work as a sideman is a pop piece his alto sax solo on Billy Joel s 1977 Just the Way You Are 1 He also played the alto sax solo on Steely Dan s Doctor Wu from their 1975 album Katy Lied 4 as well as Paul Simon s Have a Good Time from the 1975 album Still Crazy After All These Years 5 Woods in 1983 Although Woods was primarily a saxophonist he was also a clarinet player and solos can be found scattered through his recordings One particular example is his clarinet solo on Misirlou on the compilation album Into the Woods 6 Woods along with Rick Chamberlain and Ed Joubert founded the organization Celebration of the Arts COTA in 1978 late one night in the bar at the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap The organization would eventually become the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts Their initial goal was to help foster an appreciation of jazz and its relationship to other artistic disciplines Each year the organization hosts the Celebration of the Arts Festival in the town of Delaware Water Gap in September In 2005 Jazzed Media released the documentary Phil Woods A Life in E Flat Portrait of a Jazz Legend directed by Rich Lerner and produced by Graham Carter 7 Woods was married to Chan Parker the common law wife of Charlie Parker for seventeen years and was the stepfather to Chan s daughter Kim 3 On September 4 2015 he performed a tribute to Charlie Parker with Strings at the Manchester Craftsmen s Guild and announced at the end of the show that he would be retiring He died of emphysema on September 29 2015 at the age of 83 2 Awards EditGrammy Award Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance Images 1975 8 Grammy Award Best Instrumental Jazz Performance Individual or Group Live from the Show Boat 1977 More Live 1982 At the Vanguard 1983 8 NEA Jazz Masters 2007Discography Edit Woods in Oslo 2007 As leader co leader Edit 1954 55 Pot Pie New Jazz 1963 with Jon Eardley 1955 Woodlore Prestige 1956 1956 Pairing Off Prestige 1956 1956 The Young Bloods Prestige 1957 with Donald Byrd 1957 Four Altos Prestige with Gene Quill Hal Stein Sahib Shihab 1957 Phil and Quill with Prestige with Gene Quill 1957 Sugan Status 1957 Warm Woods Epic 1961 Rights of Swing Candid 1967 Greek Cooking Impulse 1968 Alto Summit MPS with Lee Konitz Pony Poindexter and Leo Wright 1968 Alive And Well In Paris Pathe 1969 Round Trip Verve 1970 Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival Embryo 1970 Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine at the Montreux Jazz Festival MGM 1972 Live At Montreux 72 Verve 1974 New Music by the New Phil Woods Quartet Testament 1974 Musique du Bois Muse 1975 Floresta Canto RCA with Chris Gunning Orchestra 1975 Images RCA Victor with Michel Legrand 1976 Phil Woods amp The Japanese Rhythm Machine RCA Victor 1976 The New Phil Woods Album 1976 Altology Prestige 1977 Live from the Show Boat 1977 Summer Afternoon Jazz Hindsight 1978 Song for Sisyphus King Japan 1979 I Remember Gryphon 1980 Phil Woods Quartet Live Clean Cuts 1980 Phil Woods Lew Tabackin Omnisound with Lew Tabackin 1981 Three for All Enja with Tommy Flanagan and Red Mitchell 1981 More Live Adelphi 1981 European Tour Live Red 1982 Live from New York Palo Alto 1983 At the Vanguard Antilles 1984 Integrity Red 1984 Heaven Evidence 1984 Piper at the Gates of Dawn Sea Breeze Jazz with Chris Swansen 1986 Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet Timeless with Dizzy Gillespie 1987 Bop Stew Bouquet Concord 1988 Evolution Here s to My Lady Concord 1988 Little Big Band Evolution 1989 Embracable You Philology 1989 My Man Benny My Man Phil MusicMasters with Benny Carter 1989 Here s to My Lady Chesky 1990 Flash Concord 1990 Phil s Mood Philology 1991 All Bird Children Real Life Concord 1991 Flowers for Hodges Concord 1991 Altoist 1991 Real Life The Little Big Band Chesky 1992 Full House Milestone 1994 Just Friends Our Monk Philology 1995 Plays the Music of Jim McNeely TCB 1996 Mile High Jazz Live in Denver Concord 1996 Another Time Another Place Evening Star with Benny Carter 1996 Astor and Elis Chesky 1996 The Complete Concert JMS with Gordon Beck 1997 Celebration Concord 1998 The Rev and I Blue Note with Johnny Griffin 1999 Cool Woods somethin else 2003 The Thrill Is Gone Venus 2004 Beyond Brooklyn with Herbie Mann finished weeks before Mann s death 2006 Pass the Bebop Cowbell with Benjamin Koppel and Alex Riel Trio 2006 Tel Aviv Jazz Festival Philology with Robert Anchipolovsky and Tony Pancella Trio 2006 American Songbook Kind of Blue with Brian Lynch 2007 American Songbook Vol 2 Kind of Blue with Brian Lynch 2009 Ballads amp Blues Venus 2011 Man with the Hat Pazz with Grace Kelly 2011 Phil amp Bill with Bill Mays Palmetto Compilation Edit Into the Woods The Best of Phil Woods Concord 1996 Moonlight In Vermont CTI 2005 4CD As sideman Edit With Manny Albam Jazz Goes to the Movies Impulse 1962 The Soul of the City Solid State 1966 With Gary Burton 1962 Who Is Gary Burton RCA 1963 1964 The Groovy Sound of Music RCA 1965 With Dizzy Gillespie World Statesman Norgran 1956 Dizzy in Greece Verve 1957 The New Continent Limelight 1962 Rhythmstick CTI 1990 With Friedrich Gulda Friedrich Gulda at Birdland RCA Victor 1957 A Man of Letters Decca 1957 With Quincy Jones The Birth of a Band Mercury 1959 The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones Mercury 1959 I Dig Dancers Mercury 1960 The Quintessence Impulse 1961 Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini Mercury 1964 Golden Boy Mercury 1964 I We Had a Ball Limelight 1965 Quincy Plays for Pussycats Mercury 1965 recorded in 1959 65With Michel Legrand Legrand Jazz Philips 1958 After the Rain Pablo 1982 Michel Legrand and Friends RCA 1975 With Bryan Lynch Simpatico The Brian Lynch Eddie Palmieri Project ArtistShare 2006 Bolero Nights for Billie Holiday Venus 2008 With Herbie Mann The Jazz We Heard Last Summer Savoy 1957 Yardbird Suite Savoy 1957 With the Modern Jazz Quartet Jazz Dialogue Atlantic 1965 MJQ amp Friends A 40th Anniversary Celebration Atlantic 1994 With Thelonious Monk The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Riverside 1959 live Big Band and Quartet in Concert Columbia 1963 liveWith Oliver Nelson Impressions of Phaedra United Artists 1962 Full Nelson Verve 1963 More Blues and the Abstract Truth Impulse 1964 Fantabulous Argo 1964 Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle Impulse 1966 Happenings with Hank Jones Impulse 1966 The Sound of Feeling Verve 1966 Encyclopedia of Jazz Verve 1966 The Spirit of 67 with Pee Wee Russell Impulse 1967 The Kennedy Dream Impulse 1967 Jazzhattan Suite Verve 1968 With Lalo Schifrin Samba Para Dos with Bob Brookmeyer Verve 1963 Once a Thief and Other Themes Verve 1965 With Jimmy Smith Monster Verve 1965 Hoochie Coochie Man Verve 1966 Got My Mojo Workin Verve 1966 With Clark Terry The Happy Horns of Clark Terry Impulse 1964 Squeeze Me Chiaroscuro 1989 With George Wallington Jazz for the Carriage Trade Prestige 1956 The New York Scene Prestige 1957 Jazz at Hotchkiss Savoy 1957 With others Greg Abate Kindred Spirits Live at Chan s Whaling City Sound 2016 2CD live recorded in 2014 Franco Ambrosetti Heartbop Enja 1981 Benny Bailey Big Brass Candid 1960 Louis Bellson and Gene Krupa The Mighty Two Roulette 1963 Bob Brookmeyer Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments Verve 1961 Kenny Burrell A Generation Ago Today Verve 1967 Benny Carter Further Definitions Impulse 1961 Ron Carter Anything Goes Kudu 1975 the Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band Latin Kaleidoscope MPS 1968 Al Cohn Jazz Mission to Moscow Colpix 1962 Eddie Costa Eddie Costa Quintet Interlude 1957 Lou Donaldson Rough House Blues Cadet 1964 Bill Evans Symbiosis MPS 1974 Gil Evans The Individualism of Gil Evans Verve 1964 Art Farmer Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra Mercury 1962 Stephane Grappelli Classic Sessions Stephane Grappelli Who s Who In Jazz 1987 Kenyon Hopkins The Hustler soundtrack Kapp 1961 Milt Jackson Ray Brown Milt Jackson with Ray Brown Verve 1965 Billy Joel Just The Way You Are on album The Stranger CBS 1977 John Lewis Essence Atlantic 1962 Mundell Lowe Satan in High Heels soundtrack Charlie Parker 1961 Gary McFarland The Jazz Version of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying Verve 1962 Nellie McKay Obligatory Villagers Hungry Mouse 2007 Carmen McRae Something to Swing About Kapp 1959 Joe Newman Salute to Satch RCA Victor 1956 Anita O Day All the Sad Young Men Verve 1962 Pony Poindexter Pony s Express Epic 1962 Jimmy Raney Jimmy Raney Quintet Prestige 1954 10 Jimmy Raney and Dick Hyman Early Quintets Prestige 1969 compilation Shirley Scott Roll Em Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands Impulse 1966 Sahib Shihab Jazz Sahib Savoy 1957 Paul Simon Still Crazy After All These Years Columbia 1975 1 track Have a Good Time Steely Dan Katy Lied ABC 1975 1 track Dr Wu Chris Swansen Crazy Horse Atlas 1979 Billy Taylor Kwamina Mercury 1961 Kai Winding Kai Ole Verve 1961 Notes Edit a b c d e f Colin Larkin ed 1992 The Guinness Who s Who of Jazz First ed Guinness Publishing p 437 8 ISBN 0 85112 580 8 a b Rick Nowlin September 29 2015 Phil Woods legendary alto saxophonist who gave one more great performance here in early September dies at 83 Pittsburgh Post Gazette a b c Charles J Gans September 30 2015 Legendary Jazz Saxophonist Phil Woods Dies Featured on Billy Joel Hit Chicago Sun Times Archived from the original on October 3 2015 Katy Lied Steely Dan Credits AllMusic Retrieved August 3 2021 Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon Credits AllMusic Retrieved August 3 2021 Into the Woods The Best of Phil Woods Phil Woods Songs Reviews Credits AllMusic Retrieved August 3 2021 Phil Woods Bio Capri Records Ltd Caprirecords com Retrieved 2015 12 11 a b Phil Woods Grammy at AllMusicReferences EditGonzalez Henry 1990 The Armadillo Years A Visual History Nisenson Eric 1996 Round About Midnight A Portrait of Miles Davis 2nd ed Da Capo Printing Press ISBN 0 306 80684 3 Burke Debbie 2011 The Poconos in B Flat ISBN 978 1469134598 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phil Woods Official site Phil Woods at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Phil Woods amp oldid 1129586945, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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