Woody Shaw Live, Vol. 4

Performer: Woody Shaw
Artist: Steve Turre; Victor Lewis; Larry Willis
Producer: Andrew Bart; Todd Barkan; Andrew Bart...
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Woody Shaw (trumpet, flugelhorn); Woody Shaw; Stafford James (double bass); Steve Turre (trombone); Larry Willis (piano); Victor Lewis (drums). Liner Note Author: Andrew H. Bart. Recording information: The Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA (1981). Editor: Jon Rosenberg. Photographer: Mitchell Seidel.

Trumpeter Woody Shaw should have been among the best known jazz trumpeters of his era, but his personal problems and early death ended his career tragically early. Nevertheless, he's hailed as a trumpeter's trumpeter, and was a crucial link between hard bop and progressive jazz. Heavily influenced by Clifford Brown, Shaw played with a host of giants early on (McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey, Eric Dolphy, and others). In the 1970s and '80s, Shaw's work as a bandleader found him shifting seamlessly between post-bop workouts and harmonically adventurous excursions. In 1989, Shaw fell under a New York City subway train, and died three months later, cutting short what should have been a long, fruitful musical life.

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