Phil Woods

Philip Wells Woods (November 2, 1931 – September 29, 2015) 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.

After moving to France in 1968, Woods led the European Rhythm Machine, which tended toward avant-garde jazz. 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 are scattered through his recordings. One example is his clarinet solo on "Misirlou" on the compilation album, Into the Woods.

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, Pennsylvania. 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 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.

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.

Awards Grammy Award, Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance: Images, 1975 Grammy Award, Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group: Live from the Show Boat (1977), More Live (1982), At the Vanguard (1983) NEA Jazz Masters, 2007

Discography As leader/co-leader Recording date Title / Co-leader Label Year released Notes 1954-10, 1955-02 Pot Pie with Jon Eardley New Jazz 1963 1955-05 Woodlore Prestige 1956 1956-06 Pairing Off Prestige 1956 1956-11 The Young Bloods with Donald Byrd Prestige 1957 1957-02 Four Altos with Gene Quill, Hal Stein, Sahib Shihab Prestige 1957 1957-03 Phil and Quill with Prestige with Gene Quill Prestige 1957 1957-07 Sugan Status 1965 1957-09, 1957-10 Warm Woods Epic 1958 1961-01, 1961-02 Rights of Swing Candid 1961 1967-01, 1967-02 Greek Cooking Impulse! 1967 1968-06 Alto Summit with Lee Konitz, Pony Poindexter and Leo Wright MPS 1968 1968-11 Alive And Well In Paris Pathé 1968 1969-06 Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine at the Montreux Jazz Festival MGM 1970 Live 1969-07 Round Trip Verve 1969 1970-03 Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival Embryo 1971 Live 1972-07 Live At Montreux 72 Verve 1972 Live 1973 New Music by the New Phil Woods Quartet Testament 1974 1974-01 Musique du Bois Muse 1974 1975-02 Images with Michel Legrand RCA Victor 1975 1975-07 Phil Woods & The Japanese Rhythm Machine RCA Victor 1976 Live 1975-10 –1975-12 The New Phil Woods Album RCA Victor 1976 1976-04 Floresta Canto with Chris Gunning Orchestra RCA 1976 1976-11 Live from the Show Boat RCA Victor 1977 [2LP] Live 1977-11 Summer Afternoon Jazz Hindsight 1978 1978-03 I Remember Gryphon 1979 1978-11 Song for Sisyphus Century 1978 1979-05 Phil Woods Quartet Live Clean Cuts 1980 Live 1979-05 'More' Live Adelphi 1981 Live 1980-11 European Tour Live Red 1981 Live 1980-12 Phil Woods/Lew Tabackin with Lew Tabackin Omnisound 1981 1981-01 Three for All with Tommy Flanagan and Red Mitchell Enja 1981 1981-08 Birds of a Feather Antilles 1982 1982-05 Live from New York Palo Alto 1985 Live 1982-10 At the Vanguard Antilles 1983 Live 1984-04 Integrity Red 1985 [2LP] Live 1984? Piper at the Gates of Dawn with Chris Swansen Sea Breeze Jazz 1984 1984-12 Heaven Evidence 1986 1986-12 Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet with Dizzy Gillespie Timeless 1987 1987-11 Bop Stew Concord 1988 Live 1987-11 Bouquet Concord 1989 Live 1988-04 Phil's Mood with Space Jazz Trio Philology 1990 1988-05 Evolution Concord 1988 1988-05 Little Big Band Évolution Concord 1988 1988-07 Embracable You Philology 1989 1988-10 My Man Benny, My Man Phil with Benny Carter MusicMasters 1989 1988-12 Here's to My Lady Chesky 1989 1989-04 Flash Concord 1990 1990-06 All Bird Children Concord 1991 1990-09 Real Life Chesky 1991 1991? Altoist! Rockin' Chair 1991 1991-06 Flowers for Hodges Concord 1991 1991-09 Full House Milestone 1992 1994-06 Just Friends Philology 1997 1994-11 Our Monk Philology 1996 1995-02 Plays the Music of Jim McNeely TCB 1996 1995-03 The Songs Carmen Sang (Carol Sloane with Phil Woods) Concord Jazz 1995 1996-03 Another Time, Another Place with Benny Carter Evening Star 1996 Live 1996-04 Mile High Jazz Live in Denver Concord 1996 Live 1996-05 The Complete Concert with Gordon Beck JMS 1996 [2CD] Live 1996-05 Astor and Elis Chesky 1996 1997-01 Celebration! Concord 1997 1997-10 Chasin' The Bird Venus 1998 1998-01 The Rev and I with Johnny Griffin Blue Note 1998 1999-01 Cool Woods somethin' else 1999 2000-05 Phil Woods In Italy 2000 (Chapter 1–7) Philology 2001 2002-06 The Thrill Is Gone Venus 2003 2002 American Songbook with Brian Lynch Kind of Blue 2006 2003-06? Beyond Brooklyn with Herbie Mann Manchester Craftsmen's Guild 2004 Finished weeks before Mann's death. Dedicated to Mann. 2005-06 Bird With Strings ... And More! Storyville 2023 [2CD] Live 2005-09 The Gershwin Affair with Franco D'Andrea Philology 2006 2005-09 Blues For New Orleans with Irio De Paula Philology 2006 2007-01 American Songbook II with Brian Lynch Kind of Blue 2007 2008-06 Ballads & Blues Venus 2009 2009-01 Sing & Play The Phil Woods Songbook (Vol.1 & Vol. 2) with Michela Lombardi Philology 2010 2008-02, 2009-05 Solitude with The DePaul University Jazz Ensemble Jazzed Media 2010 2010-06 Songs For COTA 2010 with Jesse Green Philology 2010 2010-09 Phil & Bill with Bill Mays Palmetto 2011 2010? Man with the Hat with Grace Kelly Pazz 2011 2013-04 –2013-06 New Celebration Chiaroscuro 2013 2014-12 Songs One with Vic Juris Philology 2015 Compilation

Altology (Prestige, 1976)[2LP] – rec. 1956–57 Into the Woods (The Best of Phil Woods) (Concord, 1996) Moonlight In Vermont (CTI, 2005)[4CD] Complete Quintet And Sextet Sessions 1956-1957 (Fresh Sound, 2007)[2CD] Phil woods (Red, 2019)

As sideman

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, 1961) – rec. 1960 The Quintessence (Impulse!, 1962) – rec. 1961 Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (Mercury, 1964) Golden Boy (Mercury, 1964) I/We Had a Ball (Limelight, 1965) – rec. 1964-65 Quincy Plays for Pussycats (Mercury, 1965) – rec. 1959-65

With Michel Legrand Legrand Jazz (Philips, 1958) After the Rain (Pablo, 1982) Michel Legrand and Friends (RCA, 1975)

With Bryan Lynch Simpático (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 & 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) – live

With 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) – rec. 1965

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 rec. 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) Richie Cole, Side by Side (Muse, 1981) – live rec. 1980 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) Benjamin Koppel, Pass the Bebop (Cowbell, 2006) John Lewis, Essence (Atlantic, 1962) Mundell Lowe, Satan in High Heels (soundtrack) (Charlie Parker, 1961) Rob McConnell, Boss Brass and Woods (MCA/Impulse!, 1985) 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) Mel Tormé & Buddy Rich, Together Again: For the First Time (Gryphon, 1978) Kai Winding, Kai Olé (Verve, 1961)