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East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Genres. Jazz. Occupation (s) Musician, composer. Instrument (s) Alto saxophone, clarinet. Philip Wells Woods (November 2, 1931 [1] – September 29, 2015) [2] was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer.
Jazz saxophonist Phil Woods was a disciple of Charlie Parker, one of the pioneers of bebop. But Woods reached millions of ears through his playing on pop songs by Paul Simon, Billy Joel and others.
"Phil Woods's voice on the page is as raw and lyrical and unmistakable as the sound of his alto. If you want to really know about The Life -- the true day-to-day of a working jazz musician, with all its agonies and ecstasies and tedium and the ever-exciting challenge of getting paid something like what you're worth for playing your heart out -- look no further.
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Sep 30, 2015 · Sept. 29, 2015. Phil Woods, an alto saxophonist revered in jazz circles for his bright, clean sound and his sterling technique — and widely heard on songs by Billy Joel, Paul Simon and others ...
Sep 30, 2015 · Updated 11:14 AM PDT, September 30, 2015. NEW YORK (AP) — Phil Woods, a leading alto saxophonist in mainstream jazz for more than 60 years whose piercing solos could also be heard on hit records by Billy Joel and Paul Simon, has died. He was 83. Woods died Tuesday in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, said Philip Bensing, owner of the Bensing-Thomas ...
Sep 29, 2015 · Phil Woods. An Iren Oetsby/Courtesy of the artist. Alto saxophonist Phil Woods, a leading jazz performer since the 1950s, died Tuesday afternoon. The cause was related to emphysema, his longtime ...
Oct 1, 2015 · Phil Woods, an alto saxophonist revered in jazz circles for his bright, clean sound and his sterling technique – and widely heard on songs by Billy Joel, Paul Simon and others – died on Tuesday in East Stroudsburg, Pa. He was 83. Mr. Woods was one of the leading alto saxophonists in the generation that followed Charlie Parker, who had set ...
