Artist: Jimmy Woode
James Bryant Woode was an American jazz bassist.
He played and/or recorded in bands with Flip Phillips, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Pierce, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, Jaki Byard, Earl Hines, Jimmy Witherspoon, Clark Terry and Miles Davis.
Woode was born September 23, 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States His father, also named Jimmy Woode, was a music teacher and pianist who had played with Hot Lips Page. The younger Woode studied piano and bass in Boston at Boston University and at the Conservatory of Music, as well as at the Philadelphia Academy.
He joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1955, appearing on many of Ellington's recordings, including Such Sweet Thunder and Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, both from 1957, as well as the performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival issued on Ellington at Newport. He stayed with the Orchestra until 1960, when he left to live in Europe.
An original member of The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, in 1995 he also toured with Lionel Hampton's Golden Men of Jazz.
In 2003, Woode formed a trio with drummer Pete York and German jazz musician/ comedian Helge Schneider, touring in Germany with his interpretation of jazz classics such as "Georgia" and "Summertime". As a consequence of his co-operation with Schneider, Woode also starred in the feature film Jazzclub (2004). in the role of Steinberg, a struggling jazz bassist.
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Jimmy Woode: Videos
Jack The Bear - Duke Ellington and His Orchestra 1958 (feat. Jimmy Woode)
Duke Ellington & Jimmy Woode - Satin Doll
Stuff Smith, Earl Hines & Jimmy Woode - Paris Jazz Festival (1965)