Phil Woods News

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will host the eighth annual Don Redman Heritage Awards and Concert today, featuring jazz drummer Charli Persip and saxophonist Phil Woods.

Saxophonist Phil Woods and drummer Charli Persip had met at jazz events, but really got to know each other in 1956 when they went on tour to the Middle East and South America with the Dizzy Gillespie Band.

Fresh Sound New Talent Saxophonist Jeremy Udden comes armed with heavyweight credentials.

Alan Darcy likes to wax lyrical about his musical idol, Billy Joel. Even though he's a traditional and smooth jazz musician.

She's been recording since she was 12. She talks about playing with jazz legend Phil Woods with comfort, but still has a sense of reverence -- even when it comes to his famous hat .

Join us for a European jazz vacation, with 13 weeks of performances from the continent's hottest clubs, concert halls and festivals, including the spectacular North Sea Jazz Festival.

Alan Darcy likes to wax lyrical about his musical idol, Billy Joel. Even though he's a traditional and smooth jazz musician.

Considered the truest heir to Charlie Parker on the alto saxophone, Phil Woods even married Birda s widow, Chan Parker.

PLAYING for Scarborough Jazz are Mick Donnelly tonight and Steve Parry next Wednesday, at the Cask.

As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby entertained millions with their "road" movies in the 1940s, so the Mike Vax Big Band has its own "road show," arguably as entertaining but playing to much smaller audiences than Hope and Crosby were able to command.

When pianist Jim McNeely replaced Hal Galper in the Phil Woods Quintet in 1990 it was the current winner-repeating in 1991-of the Downbeat Readers Poll as top jazz small group.

BRIDGEWATER - Timothy A. Stuart, a senior music major at Bridgewater College, will present a saxophone recital at 8 p.m. April 29, in the Carter Center for Worship and Music.

This year marks drummer Bill Goodwin's fiftieth as a professional musician. During the past 35 years, he's performed with, recorded with and produced albums for legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods in addition to working with Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett.

Bobby Watson Quartet Jazz Up Close: Kind of Blue Turns 50 Honoring Cannonball Adderly and John Coltrane, Saxophones Kimmel Center Perelman Theater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 28, 2009 The great Bobby Watson, still in "mid-life" at age 53, is a seasoned "heavy" on the alto sax whose playing echoes saxophone greats from Phil Woods to Cannonball ...

Alto saxophonist Phil Woods is a consummate musician whose mastery of improvisation is second to none.

Celebrate "Jazz Appreciation Month" at the Sherman Theater in downtown Stroudsburg on Monday, April 13th, at 7:30 p.m., with the third edition of "Library Alive" - the innovation of three dedicated high-performance collaborators: NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods and the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts Festival Orchestra, the Al Cohn Memorial ...

Well of course. NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods' The Children's Suite , inspired by the verses of A.A. Milne.

Philology Jazz Records This CD is exciting enough to require several titles, beginning with Lee Konitz meets Alessandro Lanzoni Trio , then Poetical Lee , then 81+15=96! , before concluding with the parenthetical .

Texas Instruments Jazz Band Concert with Special Guest Saxophonist Tim Ries in Plano on March 27th TI Jazz Band Concert with Special Guest, Saxophonist Tim Ries Friday, March 27th at 8pm Tickets: $8 at the door TI Jazz Band Contact: 214-567-7311 A versatile and thoughtful saxophonist and composer, Tim Ries has collaborated with such jazz artists as ...

London, Festival for jazz artists of the future More reviews by Jack Massarik Harmonically advanced: Jean Toussaint It's open week at the Guildhall School of Music's jazz faculty, a feast of free concerts by ...