{"id":2639,"date":"2011-05-19T13:27:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2011-05-22T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T04:41:40","slug":"woody-shaw-ginseng-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/05\/woody-shaw-ginseng-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Shaw: Ginseng People<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woody Shaw died 22 years ago this month. A trumpeter of power, taste, a subtle harmonic sense and admirable originality, Shaw was long burdened with critiques \"\"<\/a>that described him as a disciple, if not a copy, of Freddie Hubbard, who was six years his senior. This recording<\/a> they made together\u00e2\u20ac\u201dout of print, expensive and worth finding\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsays otherwise. Before becoming a leader in the late 1970s, Shaw worked with Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon and Gil Evans, among others.<\/p>\n

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Here he is with his quartet at a concert at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1985, when he was 40. His rhythm section was Stanley Cowell, piano; David Williams, bass; and the 19-year-old Terri Lynn Carrington, drums. This is Shaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ginseng People.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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The Shaw video came from Steve Provizer, the Boston trumpeter, writer, broadcaster and proprietor of the interesting weblog Brilliant Corners<\/em>, which has long had a link in the Rifftides<\/em> blogroll. In his current posting<\/a>, Provizer ponders what he sees as a general decline in the number of comments by readers of jazz blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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