Phil Woods

Paul Simon’s ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’ is hise fourth studio album co-produced with, Phil Ramone and released on October 6, 1975 by Columbia. Track Listing : 1.Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon) – 03:26 . 2.My Little Town (Paul Simon) – 03:51 . 3.I Do It For Your Love (Paul Simon) […]

Jean Luc Ponty, Weather Report, Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, The Crusaders, Tom Jobim, Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter, Ralph Towner, Gary Peacock, Baden Powell, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Astor Piazzolla, Gerry Mulligan, Clark Terry, Phil Woods. They are the “Jazz Legends” selected among the 311 Posts we publish this week. Here, they are reunited in one […]

Billy Joel’s ‘The Stranger’ is his fifth studio album (his best-selling till today) produced by Phil Ramone and released on September 29, 1977 by Columbia Records. Track Listing : 1.Movin’ Out [Anthony’S Song] (Billy Joel) – 03:30 . 2.The Stranger (Billy Joel) – 05:10 . 3.Just The Way You Are (Billy Joel) – 04:52 . […]

This day (September 29, 2015, died Philip Wells Woods, an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.

‘Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo’ by Wes Montgomery & Jimmy Smith is their third collaboration album, recorded on September 21, 23 & 28, 1966 and released the same year by Verve. Track Listing : 1.Down By The Riverside (Traditional) – 10:02 . 2.Night Train (Jimmy Forrest) – 06:46 . 3.James And Wes (Jimmy Smith) […]

This day (August 19, 2013) in Brooklyn, N.Y, died Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior a.k.a. , Cedar Walton, an American hard bop jazz pianist.

July 18, 1981 – The New York Montreux Connection gathers Arthur Blythe, Paquito D’Riviera, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, McCoy Tyner, Chico Freeman, Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Ronnie Burrage, John Blake, Stanley Cowell, John Hicks and Steve Mc Call on stage at at “Montreux Jazz Festival” in Switzerland

July 1, 2001 – Michel Legrand performs with the Phil Woods Quartet at Montreal Jazz Festival, Canada

John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Candy Dulfer, Phil Woods, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Paul Desmond, Johnny Griffin, Joe Lovano, Bennie Maupin, Marshall Allen et al, Charlie Rouse, Billy Harper et al. They are the “Jazz Legends (Special Saxophonists)” performers selected among the 287 Posts we publish this week. Here, they are reunited in one glorious playlist. […]

Bassist (and contra bassist) extraordinaire, Anthony Jackson, who turns 66 today – Happy Birthday – has been for almost 50 years a “top session bassist”. Very much in demand, Anthony has played on numerous albums and behind the greatest (you want to verify ? click on http://go.rvm.pm/anthonyjackson). The ‘Three Concerts with Anthony Jackson‘ are with […]

May 20, 1960 – The Quincy Jones Big Band with among others Phil Woods on alto sax performs at Municipal Theatre in Laussane, Switzerland

Billy Joel’s ‘Turnstiles’ feat. “New York State of Mind” is his fourth studio album, released on May 19, 1976 by Family Productions.. Track Listing : 1.Say Goodbye To Hollywood (Billy Joel) – 04:36 . 2.Summer, Highland Falls (Billy Joel) – 03:15 . 3.All You Wanna Do Is Dance (Billy Joel) – 03:40 . 4.New York […]

Buddy Rich’s ‘Richcraft’ is a studio big band album with arrangements by Ernie Wilkins, recorded on April 9–10, 1959 and released in 1959 by Mercury. Track Listing : 1.Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana) (Ballard Macdonald, James F. Hanley) – 03:38 . 2.Richcraft (Ernie Wilkins) – 03:06 . 3.Sweets Tooth (Ernie Wilkins) – 04:01 . […]

Lee Morgan’s ‘Delightfulee Morgan’ is an album, recorded on April 8 & May 27, 1966, with Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw and Billy Higgins plus a big band and released in 1967 by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Ca-Lee-So (Lee Morgan) – 05:34 . 2.Zambia (Lee Morgan) – 06:33 . 3.Yesterday (John Lennon, Paul […]

This day (March 31, 2006), in Hartford, Connecticut, died John Lenwood ‘Jackie’ McLean, an American jazz alto saxophonist.

‘Bashin’: The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith’ is a studio album recorded by Smith on March 26 & 28, 1962 with Oliver Nelson’s big band and released the same year by Verve. Track Listing : 1.Walk On The Wild Side (Elmer Bernstein, Mack David) – 05:55 . 2.Ol’ Man River (Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Jerome Kern) – 03:56 […]

Quincy Jones’ ‘This Is How I Feel About Jazz’ is his debut album recorded in New-York City and released on March 21, 1957 by Abc Paramount. Track Listing : 1.Walkin’ (Richard Carpenter) – 10:47 . 2.Stockholm Sweetnin’ (Quincy Jones) – 05:41 . 3.Evening In Paris (Quincy Jones) – 04:09 . 4.Sermonette (Adderley, Hendricks) – 05:58 […]

March 17, 1989 – Phil Woods performs together with the Big Band Catanese are at the Nuovo Teatro in Catania, Sicily

Steely Dan’s ‘Katy Lied’ is their fourth album (and the first to feature Michael McDonald) released in March 1975 by ABC. Track Listing : 1.Black Friday (Walter Becker, Donald Fagen) – 03:33 . 2.Bad Sneakers (Walter Becker, Donald Fagen) – 03:16 . 3.Rose Darling (Walter Becker, Donald Fagen) – 02:59 . 4.Daddy Don’T Live In […]

‘The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall’ is an album recorded on February 28, 1959 and released the same year by Riverside. Track Listing : 1.Thelonious (Thelonious Monk) – 00:56 . 2.Friday The 13Th (Thelonious Monk) – 09:22 . 3.Monk’S Mood (Thelonious Monk) – 10:15 . 4.Little Rootie Tootie (Thelonious Monk) – 08:45 . 5.Off […]