Richard Brody on the trumpeter Woody Shaw’s performance of the challenging “ ’Round Midnight,” part of the new release “The Tour: Volume Two.” ...

Woody Shaw made his first recordings 50 years ago at age 18. Woody Shaw, who made his first recordings 50 years ago this summer, might be the jazz trumpet's least appreciated giant.

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A forgotten studio recording of the late jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw has been released as part of an effort to preserve jazz history. “49th Parallel,” a 1987 recording ...

Live straight-ahead jazz doesn't get much better than these two nights when Woody Shaw brought his quintet into the Village Vanguard in August 1978. Trumpet and saxophone improvise with forceful ...

Woody Shaw Label: Mosaic Records Released: 2013 Views: 5,267 Tracks CD1: The Moontrane; Are They Only Dreams; Tapscott's Blues; Sanyas; Katrina Ballerina; Tapscott's Blues (alt. tk.); Katrina ...

Shaw should have been all set to benefit when acoustic jazz made a comeback later in the decade. But by then, the trumpeter was in ill health. He died in 1989, aged 44. ★★★★☆ ...

A forgotten studio recording of the late jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw has been released as part of an effort to preserve jazz history. “49th Parallel,” a 1987 recording led by Canadian bassist ...