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Originally Posted by Joe DiMonte  A happy belated birthday greetings goes out to the Wise One.
Wilmer,your above link is a great New Year's Bop link.
I listened to every word said during that 65:30 minutes and although Woody mentioned his partner in crime,Tyrone Washington on a few occasions,he never mentioned to the interviewer that he and Tyrone's musical ideas/direction is what prompted Mr.Horace Silver to disband his band.
Woody is my elder by 362 days and when he arrived in the belly of the beast or as some may call it "Jazz Mecca" with horn in hand,yours truly was a resident and had already established a foothold in the Washington Square South area.
In his remarks about Willie Bobo and Joe Farrell - somehow I recall Clark Terry as the trumpeter in that band.
In addition,I was led to believe he had enjoyed living and working on the left coast.
Again,thanks for that gem of a link.
KJ in the 'Burgh
I left the scene in June 1966 ,he mentioned a Ash |
Woody Shaw lived for a time on the west coast jsut before his 1974 Moontrane recording was released. i am not going to go into it, but Woody was a very sick man throughout his life, slowly deteriating eyesite just one of his maladies. By his own words, he went to the west coast to try to put his life together after it had so precariously slipped from his control.
I'll say no more--and either should anyone else.
Remeber him for the music.