Britt Woodman

Britt Woodman ( June 4, 1920 in Los Angeles, † 13 October 2000 in Hawthorne ( California)) was an American jazz trombonist.

Woodman grew up in a musical environment: his father William O. Woodman was also a jazz trombonist (recordings with Sonny Clay and Teddy Buckner ); Britt first played at the Woodman Brothers, a family combo. After a first jazz combo with his childhood friends Buddy Collette and Charles Mingus in 1938, he toured with Phil Moore and 1939/40, with Floyd Turnham, and then play until 1942 when Les White. After his military service he worked in 1946 in Boyd Raeburn and 1946-1947 Lionel Hampton. After completing his studies from 1948 to 1950 on the West Lake College and studio activities Woodman was from 1951 to 1960 in the Orchestra of Duke Ellington worked. During the 1960s he lived in New York City and worked in Broadway orchestras, but also took with John Coltrane / Eric Dolphy ( Africa / Brass ), Quincy Jones and Charles Mingus, but also worked at Toshiko Akiyoshi, including in their Big Band with Lew Tabackin ( Insights, 1976), and then to go back to Los Angeles and to conduct its own octet. Since the 1980s, he was back in New York; He was a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, but also involved in the recording of Mingus Epitaph 1989.

Discography (selection)

• Duke Ellington: The Cosmic Scene: Duke Ellington 's Spacemen (1958 )
• Charles Mingus: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus ( Impulse! Records, 1963)