Jimmy Woode

Jimmy Woode (* September 23, 1929 Born as James Bryant Woode in Philadelphia, † April 23, 2005 in Lindenwold, New Jersey ) was an American jazz double bassist.

Life

James Bryant Woode was born on September 23, 1929 in Philadelphia. His uncle, Henri Woode, was arranger in big bands, and his father, Jimmy Woode Sr, was a pianist and teacher. Jimmy Woode first played the trombone in his father's band as a pianist in churches and as a singer in vocal ensembles. He studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, Boston University and the Boston Conservatory, and later he took bass lessons with Paul Gregory. During his military service, he served as a radar technician in the U.S. Navy.

After the war he played soon as a jazz bassist with such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan. He proudly told again and again of his time with Duke Ellington, the big band he belonged from 1955 to 1959. Ellington himself praised Woode as a musician with team spirit. That's Woode, of a lasting contribution to the history of jazz as a composer also wrote, remained until the end.

1960 moved Woode to Europe, where he worked first in Sweden and later in Germany, Holland, Austria and Switzerland with the most renowned musicians from all stylistic camps. In memory remains especially his role in the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band, the most important European jazz big band of the sixties, as well as in local jazz bands such as the Rosenheim Gerhard Francesconi trio.

In 1994, Woode with pianist Dirk Rauf iron and drummer Charly Antolini the SUPER TRIO.

He was also a long -time bassist of the legendary Dorothy Donegan Trio. The trio triumphed at the North Sea Jazz Festival and many tours mainly in Switzerland and Austria.

In 2003 he formed a trio with drummer Pete York and jazz artist Helge Schneider and reached on a Germany -wide tour a young audience, which he gave the classic jazz savant again with his interpretations of jazz standards as "Georgia" and "Summertime".

The collaboration with Schneider also his appearance was in the movie " Jazz Club - The early bird catches the worm " ( Director: Helge Schneider, Germany 2004) indicates.

Jimmy Woode died on 23 April 2005 at the age of 75 years in the U.S. state of New Jersey unexpectedly after hip surgery. He left behind hundreds of LPs and CDs. His last recording was made in January and February 2005 in Hannover together with saxophonist Stephan Abel, and is entitled " My Kind of World".

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