Name Britt Woodman | Role Trombonist | |
Music groups Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Mingus Big Band (2000), Duke Ellington & His Orchestra (1951 – 1960) Albums Ellington at Newport, Blues in Orbit, The Nutcracker Suite, Such Sweet Thunder, Black - Brown and Beige Similar People Jimmy Hamilton, Russell Procope, Ray Nance, Sam Woodyard, Harry Carney | ||
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Britt Woodman (June 4, 1920 in Los Angeles – October 13, 2000 in Hawthorne, California) was a jazz trombonist. He is best known for his work with Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus.
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He knew Mingus from childhood, but first worked with Phil Moore and Les Hite. After service in World War II he played with Boyd Raeburn before joining with Lionel Hampton in 1946. During the 1950s he worked with Ellington. As a member of Ellington's band he can be heard on Such Sweet Thunder (1957), Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (also 1957), Black, Brown, and Beige (1958) and Ellington Indigos (1958).
In 1960 he left Ellington to work in a pit orchestra. Later he worked with Mingus and can be heard on the album Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963). In the 1970s he led his own octet and worked with pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. In 1989 he was in the personnel for the album Epitaph dedicated to the previously unrecorded music of Charles Mingus.
Steve Turre, among others, has cited him as an influence.
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Discography
With Gene Ammons
With Ruth Brown
With John Coltrane
With Tadd Dameron
With Miles Davis
With Duke Ellington
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Chico Hamilton
With Johnny Hodges
With Hank Jones and Oliver Nelson
With Junior Mance
With Charles Mingus
With Blue Mitchell
With James Moody
With Oliver Nelson
With Zoot Sims with the Benny Carter Orchestra
With Jimmy Smith
With Billy Taylor
With Clark Terry
With Teri Thornton
With Jimmy Woode