8 Phil Woods Jazz Bebop LPs Alto Sax Composer Bandleader Charlie Parker Eulogy

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9 Phil Wood vinyl record collection. All VG or better

1.  Musique du Bois,  factory sealed.

2. Phil Woods Quartet with Gene Quill Sitting In.  Columbia, 1980.  Open wrapped sleeve, light tip wear, esp. lower right.  Woods, Quill, Corwin, Dallas, Stabulas

3. Phil Woods / I Remember, Gryphon, Open Wrapped, Distributor cut lower left. Collection of  8 compositions with orchestra, for his departed friends Cannonball Adderley, Paul Desmond, Oliver Nelson, Gary McFarland, Willie Rodriguez, Willie Dennis, Oscar Pettiford and Charlie Parker, featuring Woods Quartet with Mike Melillo, Steve Gilmore and Bill Goodwin.

4. Phil Woods Rights of Swing, Barnaby Reissue Stereo. Produced by Nat Hentoff. Outer sleeve wear, ring, bleeded ink label. Edgewear. Vinyl scratch free.

5. Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, Embryo Stereo SD 530. Gatefold, ringwear, edgewear, one former owner name back. Promotional Copy labels on front.  Four live jams, 11 to mostly 13+minutes.

6. Phil Woods Quintet  Song for Sisyphus (Recorded Direct to Disc), gatefold sleeve,  Century Records, 1978. Light edgewear, a few small stains to margins of sleeve. Disc unaffected

7. The Phil Woods Quartet, "More Live", Woods, Steve Gilmour, bass, Mike Melillo, keys, Bill Goodwin, drums. Adelphi Jazz, 1981, small hairline, else near mint vinyl, top right corner clipped sleeve. 

8,9).  Altology, double album, Woods with Donald Byrd, Kenny Dlorham, Philly Jo Jones, Gene Quill, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Teddy Kotick.  Mid fifties reissue, with notes by Nat Hentoff. Near mint vinyl, VG gatefold, ringwear from shelving.

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Two years after his return to the United States following a successful four-year
stay in Europe (and residency in France), Phil Woods again scored another huge
on the jazz charts with this brilliant masterpiece in 1974 that found him playing to
dynamic sincere note while bringing his trademark artistry to another refreshingly
ebullient landscape. Musique Du Bois skillfully combine the melodic elements of
hard bop, samba, new acoustic directions and bold originality where Phil heads a
pitch perfect rhythm section that features him doubling on clarinet and alto saxo-
phone, Jaki Byard at the piano, session bassist Richard Davis, and Alan Dawson
on drums as they showcase a unique rich and diverse focal point performed to a
dashing beat. Starting off on the uplifting opening track Samba Du Bois, the first
rate track set conclude with other memorable tracks, like his atmospheric free for
all reindition for Willow Weep For Me, Wayne Shorter’s Nefertiti, the solid original
classic The Last Page, and an exquisite reindition on Sonny Rollins’ Airegin, until
ending with his slick alternate take on Samba Du Bois. Widely acknowledge as a
modern jazz masterpiece, Musique Du Bois even heralds the kind of artistic free-
dom that describe the unfolding tour de force and magnificent interplay within the
quartet that adds up to the swinging merriment, smooth wonder and inconsonant
melodic possibilities, which made this one a blockbuster and a thoroughly upbeat
tour de force that will live on as a timeless classic in Phil’s rich spectacular legacy
even well beyond eternity.  - Amazon Review

      Woods, (1931-2015) was four time Grammy Award winner.

    And from Wikipedia: 

Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He studied music with Lennie Tristano, who influenced him greatly, at the Manhattan School of Music and at the Juilliard School. His friend, Joe Lopes, coached him on clarinet as there was no saxophone major at Juilliard at the time. Although he did not copy Charlie "Bird" Parker, he was known as the New Bird, a label which was also attached to other alto players such as Sonny Stitt and Cannonball Adderley at one time or another in their careers.

In the mid-'50s, Woods began to front his own bands. He got major exposure after Quincy Jones invited him to accompany a 1956 State Department-sponsored world tour with the big band of Dizzy Gillespie. In 1959 Woods traveled Europe with Jones’ band; in 1962 he participated in Benny Goodman’s Russian tour.[1]

After moving to France in 1968, Woods led the European Rhythm Machine, a group which tended toward avant-garde jazz. He returned to the United States in 1972 and, after an unsuccessful attempt to establish an electronic group, he formed a quintet 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.[1]

In 1979, Woods made the recording More Live at the 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". He also played the alto sax solo on Steely Dan's "Doctor Wu" from their 1975 album Katy Lied, as well as Paul Simon's "Have a Good Time" from the 1975 album Still Crazy After All These Years.

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 album Into The Woods (see discography below).

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.[2]

Phil Woods was married to Chan Parker, the widow of Charlie Parker, for 17 years from 1955 and was stepfather to Chan's daughter Kim.[1] On September 4, 2015, Woods performed a tribute to Charlie Parker with Strings at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, and announced toward the end of the show that he would be retiring. Woods died September 29, 2015, at the age of 83.[3]

Awards[edit]

In 2007, Phil received a "Jazz Master" award from the National Endowment of the Arts.

Grammy awards[edit]

Woods' recordings have been nominated for seven Grammy awards and have won four.

• 1975 Images: "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance".[4]
• 1977 Live from the Show Boat: "Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group".[4]
• 1982 More Live: "Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group".[4]
• 1983 At the Vanguard: "Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group".[4]

He also performed on the 2006 Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project Album, Simpático, which won Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year in 2007.

Discography[edit]

As leader[edit]

• 1954: Pot Pie (Prestige)
• 1955: Woodlore (Prestige)
• 1956: Pairing Off (Prestige)
• 1956: The Young Bloods (Prestige) – 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)
• 1959: Early Quintets (Prestige)
• 1961: Rights of Swing (Candid)
• 1967: Greek Cooking (Impulse!)
• 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)
• 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: The New Phil Woods Album
• 1976: Altology (Prestige)
• 1977: Live from the Show Boat
• 1977: Summer Afternoon Jazz (Hindsight)
• 1978: 'Song for Sisyphus' (Gryphon)
• 1979: Phil Woods Quartet Live (Clean Cuts)
• 1979: Phil Woods – I Remember (Gryphon) US
• 1980: Phil Woods/Lew Tabackin (Omnisound) with Lew Tabackin
• 1982: Live from New York (Palo Alto)
• 1982: More Live
• 1983: At the Vanguard
• 1984: Integrity (Red)
• 1984: Heaven (Evidence)
• 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: Embracable You (Philology)
• 1989: Flash (Concord)
• 1989: Here's to My Lady (Chesky)
• 1990: All Bird Children; Real Life (Concord)
• 1990: Phil's Mood (Philology)
• 1990: My Man Benny, My Man Phil, with Benny Carter (Musicmasters)
• 1991: Flowers For Hodges (Concord)
• 1991: Full House (Milestone)
• 1991: Real Life, The Little Big Band (Chesky)

• 1994: Just Friends; Our Monk (Philology)
• 1995: Plays The Music if Jim McNeely (TCB)
• 1996: Mile High Jazz Live in Denver (Concord)
• 1996: Astor and Elis (Chesky)
• 1996: The Complete Concert (JMS) with Gordon Beck
• 1996: Into The Woods (Concord CCD-4699)
• 1997: Celebration! (Concord)
• 1998: The Rev and I (Blue Note)
• 1999: cool woods (somethin`else)
• 2006: Pass the Bebop (Cowbell Music) with Benjamin Koppel and Alex Riel Trio
• 2011: Man with the Hat (Pazz) with Grace Kelly (co-leader), with Monty Alexander, Evan Gregor, Bill Goodwin, and Jordan Perlson