PHIL WOODS  Photo by David W. Coulter
BIOGRAPHY & SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
EDUCATION Studied with Harvey LaRose in Springfield, Massachusetts
Studied with Lennie Tristano in New York City
One semester at Manhattan School of Music (1948)
Juilliard Conservatory (1948-1952)
PERSONAL APPEARANCES
(WITH BANDS, AS FEATURED PERFORMER AND WITH OWN GROUP -
A PARTIAL LIST) Charlie Barnet Orchestra
Claude Thornhill
Benny Goodman
Buddy Rich Band
Phil and Quill
Quincy Jones
Thelonious Monk
Gerry Mulligan Concert Band
Oliver Nelson
Clark Terry Big Bad Band (co-founder)
The European Rhythm Machine
(his European Group from 1968-1973)
Michel Legrand
Dizzy Gillespie/Phil Woods All-Stars
Philip Morris Superband
The Phil Woods Quartet (1974-1983)
The Phil Woods Quintet
featuring Brian Lynch, Bill Charlap, Steve Gilmore, Bill Goodwin
(current working group: 1983 - present)
RECORDINGS WITH OTHERS
(A PARTIAL LIST - PLEASE REFER TO DISCOGRAPHY
FOR COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY) Quincy Jones
STOCKHOLM SWEETENIN'; BIRTH OF A BAND;
GREAT WIDE WORLD OF...; and several others Dizzy Gillespie
WORLD STATESMAN; DIZZY IN GREECE;
LIVE FROM BIRDLAND; and several others Clark Terry
HAPPY HORNS; DEFINITIVE JAZZ SCENE;
WHAT MAKES SAMMY SWING; and several others Michel Legrand
LEGRAND JAZZ; LIVE AT JIMMY'S; IMAGES John Lewis
ORCHESTRA U.S.A Hank Jones
HAPPENINGS Thelonious Monk
MONK AT TOWN HALL Manny Albam
THE BLUES IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS Neal Hefti
PARDON MY DO-WAH George Russell
NEW YORK, NY Clark Terry & Ben Webster
HAPPY FACES Oliver Nelson
FULL NELSON; MORE BLUES & THE ABSTRACT TRUTH; THE KENNEDY DREAM; and several others Bill Potts
THE JAZZ SOUL OF PORGY & BESS George Wallington
JAZZ FOR THE CARRIAGE TRADE Bob Brookmeyer
GLOOMY SUNDAY AND OTHER BRIGHT MOMENTS Sonny Rollins
ALFIE Benny Carter
FURTHER DEFINITIONS; MY MAN BENNY, MY MAN PHIL; ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE Morgana King
WITH A TASTE OF HONEY Billy Joel
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE Stephane Grappelli
MASTERS SESSION, VOL. 1 Steely Dan
DR. WU Paul Simon
HAVE A GOOD TIME Carly Simon
TORCH Bill Evans
SYMBIOSIS Lena Horne
A NEW ALBUM American Jazz Philharmonic
AMERICAN JAZZ PHILHARMONIC
(Grammy Nominee: Best Jazz Instrumental Solo 1994) Patrick Williams and His Big Band
SINATRALAND Tony Bennett
THE ART OF ROMANCE Bill Charlap
PLAYS GERSHWIN: THE AMERICAN SOUL Also, Phil Woods has been featured on the sound track scores of THE HUSTLER, BLOW-UP, TWELVE ANGRY MEN, BOY IN A TREE and IT'S MY TURN
RECORDINGS AS FEATURED ARTIST AND WITH OWN GROUPS
(A PARTIAL LIST - PLEASE REFER TO DISCOGRAPHY
FOR COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY) PAIRING OFF
with Donald Byrd and Kenny Dorham Phil and Quill (three albums)
with Gene Quill SUGAN
with Red Garland EARLY QUINTETS; POT PIE; WOODLORE;
WARM WOODS; RIGHTS OF SWING The European Rhythm Machine (six albums)
including AT THE FRANKFURT JAZZ FESTIVAL
(Grammy Nominee - 1972: Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist & Best Jazz Performance by a Group) IMAGES
with Michel Legrand
(Grammy Winner - 1976: Best Jazz Performance, Big Band)
THE PHIL WOODS SIX LIVE FROM THE SHOWBOAT
(Grammy Winner - 1977: Best Instrumental
Jazz Performance, Group) I REMEMBER
featuring The Phil Woods Quartet (1979) MORE LIVE
(Grammy Winner - 1982: Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group) AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
by The Phil Woods Quartet
(Grammy Winner - 1983: Best Instrumental
Jazz Performance, Group; Winner Grand Prix du Disc, France) DIZZY GILLESPIE MEETS THE PHIL WOODS QUINTET HERE'S TO MY LADY
with Tommy Flanagan, George Mraz, Kenny Washington ALL BIRD'S CHILDREN
by The Phil Woods Quintet REAL LIFE
by Phil Woods' Little Big Band FLOWERS FOR HODGES
by Phil Woods & Jim McNeely THE PHIL WOODS QUARTET/QUINTET
20th ANNIVERSARY ALBUM
(Mosaic MD5-159 & MQ5-159) AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
The Phil Woods Quintet THE PHIL WOODS QUINTET PLAYS
THE MUSIC OF JIM McNEELY ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE
with Benny Carter ASTOR & ELIS MILE HIGH JAZZ
by The Phil Woods Quintet CELEBRATION
by Phil Woods and the Festival Orchestra
(Grammy Nominee - 1997: Best Large Ensemble Jazz Performance) THE REV & I
by Phil Woods with special guest Johnny Griffin VOYAGE
by Phil Woods with the Bill Charlap Trio GIANTS AT PLAY; GIANTS AT WORK SET 1
by Phil Woods and John Coates, Jr. PLAY HENRY MANCINI
Phil Woods and Carl Saunders THIS IS HOW I FEEL ABOUT QUINCY
Phil Woods' Little Big Band Plus
AMERICAN SONGBOOK AND AMERICAN SONGBOOK II
Phil Woods Quintet
AWARDS New Star Award (alto sax): 1956
down beat Magazine Playboy Poll: 1972 Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition (clarinet): 1963
down beat Magazine Critics' Poll Winner (alto saxophone): 1975-1979,
1981-1990, 1992, 1996-1997, 2000-2002, 2006
down beat Magazine Readers' Poll Winner (alto saxophone):
1976-1997, 2000-2007 down beat Magazine Critics' Poll Winners (Phil Woods Quintet):
1988-1989, 1991-1992, 1996-1998
down beat Magazine Readers' Poll Winners (Phil Woods Quintet):
1985, 1988-1991
down beat Magazine Leonard Feather's Golden Feather Award
(Phil Woods Quintet): 1985 Grammy Award for IMAGES with Michel Legrand: 1976 Grammy Award for The Phil Woods Six,
Live from the Showboat: 1977 Grammy Award for More Live
by The Phil Woods Quartet: 1982 Grammy Award for At The Vanguard
by The Phil Woods Quartet: 1983 Grammy Award Nominations as soloist and/or group: 1971, 1980, 1994 (Big Band) National Association of Jazz Educators Poll Winner (alto saxophone): 1987 National Association of Jazz Educators Poll Winners (Phil Woods Quintet): 1987 Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, France: 1989 Jazz Times Readers' Poll (Phil Woods Quintet)
(tied with the Modern Jazz Quartet and
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers 1990; winners 1991) East Stroudsburg University Honorary Degree: 1994 Induction into the American Jazz Hall of Fame: 1994 Induction into Omicron Kappa Delta: 1997 Beacons in Jazz Award: 2001 Jazz Times Readers' Poll (alto saxophone):
2004-2006 Swing Journal Readers' Poll (alto saxophone): 2004 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards
(Alto Saxophonist of the Year) 2005 - 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Fellowship: 2007
President's Merit Award from the Grammy Foundation: 2007
Kennedy Center Living Legends in Jazz Award: 2007
COMPOSITIONS Three Improvisations (Saxophone Quartet)
performed and recorded by The New York Saxophone Quartet, Quatuor de Saxophones de Montreal, Quator Gabriel Pierne and others. Sonata for Alto and Piano (Four Moods)
performed and recorded by Victor Morosco, Neal Ramsey and others. Rights of Swing The Sun Suite
written under a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts - 1974 I Remember
a group of remembrances of great jazz musicians. Deer Head Sketches
performed by the New York Saxophone Quartet and others Piece for Piazzolla
written for the occasion of East Stroudsburg University Commencement
May 21, 1994 Fill the Woods with Light (formerly Triads)
commissioned by the American Dance Festival and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through the Doris Duke Millennium awards for Modern Dance & Jazz Music Collaborations, with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (for the David Parsons Dance Company) - 1997
The Children's Suite
(inspired by the poems of A. A. Milne from "Now We Are Six") Phil Woods has also composed more than 200 additional songs, instrumental pieces and arrangements.
CURRENTLY
Residing in Monroe County, Pennsylvania since 1974, Phil Woods is a founder and advisory board member of the Delaware Water Gap Celebration Of The Arts ("C.O.T.A." founded in 1978), Co-Director of COTA CampJazz (with Richard Chamberlain), is a member of the Board of Directors of the Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection (at East Stroudsburg University), the East Stroudsburg University Regional Jazz Coalition, and has participated and/or directed numerous benefits and fund-raisers over the years for the Delaware Water Gap Fire Department in particular and worthy causes in general. He is active as a bandleader, composer, arranger and soloist worldwide, and at his home in Delaware Water Gap where he has lived since 1976.
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