''Rosewood'' is an album led by trumpter

Woody Shaw Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and educator. Shaw is widely known as one of the most important and influential jazz trumpet ...

which was recorded in 1977 and released on the Columbia label in 1978.Woody Shaw catalog
accessed August 22, 2013

Reception

Scott Yanow of

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stated, "Woody Shaw's first album for a major label, ''Rosewood'' features the trumpeter with a sextet... ''Rosewood'' was a consensus Jazz Album Of The Year in 1977. This modal music ranks with his best work".Yanow, S
Allmusic Review
accessed August 21, 2013 The album resulted in Shaw receiving many accolades including nominations as ''Talent Deserving Wider Recognition'' in

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's International Jazz Critics Poll (1977), as well as ''Jazz Album of the Year'' and ''Best Trumpeter'' in Down Beat's Readers Poll (1978). ''Rosewood'' also received two

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Nominations for ''Best Jazz Instrumental Performance (Soloist)'' and ''Best Jazz Instrumental Performance (Group)'' (1979).

Track listing

''All compositions by Woody Shaw except as indicated'' # "Rosewood" - 7:11 # "Everytime I See You" (Onaje Allan Gumbs) - 7:14 # "The Legend of the Cheops" (Victor Lewis) - 6:03 # "Rahsaan's Run" - 5:10 # "Sunshowers" (Clint Houston) - 7:48 # "Theme for Maxine" - 7:15 # "Isabel, the Liberator" (

Larry Willis Lawrence Elliott Willis (December 20, 1942 – September 29, 2019) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He performed in a wide range of styles, including jazz fusion, Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop, and avant-garde jazz, avant-garde. Willis was b ...

) - 8:27 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Joshua C." - 7:09 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Why?" (Lewis) - 4:50 Bonus track on CD reissue *''Rosewood'' was reissued on '' Woody Shaw: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection'' in 2011.

Personnel

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

(track 1-5 & 7-9)

Flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

(track 6) * Carter Jefferson -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sop ...

(tracks 1-5 & 7-9) *

Joe Henderson Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent l ...

- tenor saxophone (tracks 1-3 & 5-6) * Frank Wess -

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

piccolo flute The piccolo ( ; Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Sometimes referred to as a "baby flute" the modern piccolo has similar fingerings as the standard transverse flute, but the so ...

(tracks 1-3 & 5) *Art Webb - flute (tracks 1-3 & 5) *James Vass - soprano saxophone,

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

(tracks 1-3 & 5) *

Steve Turre Stephen Johnson Turre (born September 12, 1948, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer of using Conch (instrument), seashells as instruments, a composer, arranger, and educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. For ...

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

bass trombone The bass trombone (german: Bassposaune, it, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. Modern instruments are pitched in the same B♭ as the tenor trombone but with a larger bore, bell and mouthpiece to ...

(tracks 1-3 & 5) *Janice Robinson - trombone (tracks 1-3 & 5) *

Onaje Allan Gumbs Onaje Allan Gumbs (born Allan Bentley Gumbs, September 3, 1949 – April 6, 2020) ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

Clint Houston Clinton Joseph Houston (June 24, 1946 – June 7, 2000) was an American jazz double-bassist. Houston played with George Cables and Lenny White in the house band at Slug's, a club in New York City, then played with Nina Simone (1969), Roy Hayne ...

- bass *

Victor Lewis Victor Lewis (born May 20, 1950) is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator. Early life Victor Lewis was born on May 20, 1950 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Richard Lewis, who played saxophone and mother, Camille, a pianist-vocalist ...

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

* Sammy Figueroa -

congas The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest) ...

(tracks 1 & 3) *Armen Halburian - percussion (tracks 1-3 & 5) *Lois Colin -

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

(track 1 & 3)

References

{{Authority control Woody Shaw albums 1978 albums Columbia Records albums Albums produced by Michael Cuscuna