Woody Herman Shaw II (December 24, 10 May, 1944, 1989) (USA) was a jazz trumpeter and composer. Shaw was raised in Newark, New Jersey, and began studying music at the age of 11, after visiting Newark Arts High School. [1] Early in his career was by Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Fats Navarro, Booker Little, Dizzy Gillespie (influences whom went Woody Jr’s father in high school), Freddie Hubbard, among other things, but the impact of the saxophonist Eric Dolphy, which he played and recorded in the 1960s and John Coltrane, are also important for the development of style and design as a trumpeter and composer. He worked in the 1960s with the largest like Horace Silver, Max Roach, Art Blakey y. During this period he recorded for Blue Note Records as a sideman with Andrew Hill, Jackie McLean, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, among others. Since the mid-1970s he worked primarily as a guide.
Shaw had come the misfortune of his own to offer as a leader of the band in the 1970s, a time when interest was at acoustic jazz at its lowest, and even many of the idols of their Shaw traditional jazz to explore jazz-rock. Shaw saw himself as heir to the musical tradition of people like the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, and was determined to maintain the highest artistic level, despite a relatively modest commercial success. It has signed several albums in the small label and Muse in 1978 with Columbia Records albums, and took in Rosewood, Stepping Stones, Woody III, safe, and the United States. Rosewood was nominated for two Grammy Awards and was voted Best Jazz Album of the Year in 1978 Down Beat Reader Poll, who also voted Best Jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw of the Year and Jazz Musician of the Year.
