- Jimmy Woode
Jimmy Woode (born
Philadelphia 23 September 1926 (or 1927) - diedLindenwold, New Jersey 23 April 2005) was a jazz bassist. His father, also named Jimmy Woode, was a music teacher and pianist who played withHot Lips Page . Woode studied piano and bass in Boston atBoston University and at the Conservatory of Music, as well as at the Philadelphia Academy.He played and/or recorded in bands with
Flip Phillips ,Sarah Vaughan ,Ella Fitzgerald ,Nat Pierce ,Sidney Bechet ,Billie Holiday ,Jaki Byard ,Earl Hines ,Jimmy Witherspoon andMiles Davis .He joined the
Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1955, appearing on many of Ellington's recordings, including "Such Sweet Thunder " and "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook ", both from 1957, as well as the historic 1956Newport Jazz Festival session. He stayed with the Orchestra until 1960, when he left to live in Europe.An original member of
The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band , in 1995 he also toured withLionel Hampton 's Golden Men of Jazz.He died in April 2005 of a heart attack at age 78.
External links
* [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3655.ece Obituary in The Independent (UK newspaper)]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
