Chesky Records’ Best Of Phil Woods Album Release

Available March 13th on Chesky Records is Best Of Phil Woods album. Phil Woods began saxophone lessons at age 12 and after graduating from high school at age 16. He then traveled to New York City to study at the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard. During the 1950s and 1960s, he performed with his own working bands, some co-led by altoist Gene Quill. In the mid-1950s, Quincy Jones hired Phil to play lead alto in the big band that Dizzy Gillespie took to the Middle East for the State Department and in 1959.
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