Rickey Woodard

Rickey Woodard, 2005

Rickey Woodard ( [ wʊdɑːrd ] * 5. August 1950 in Nashville , Tennessee ) is an American saxophonist of swing and modern jazz .

Live and act

Woodard grew up in Nashville; He made his first appearances with his three siblings in his father's rhythm and blues band in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky . After studying at Tennessee State University , he moved to California in 1979 , where he has since been active in the swing and mainstream jazz scene, initially from 1980 in Ray Charles ' backing band , with whom he toured for seven years. Since the 1980s he worked a. a. with Frank Capp , Jimmy Cheatham , Warren Vaché , Jimmy Smith , Ken Peplowski , the Milt Jackson Big Band ( Explosive!; 1999), Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and Joey DeFrancesco ( Singin 'and Swingin' ). Since the early 1990s, Woodard recorded a number of albums under his own name for the Candid and Concord Records label ; on the album The Tokyo Express in 1992 he played with pianist James Williams , bassist Christian McBride and drummer Joe Chambers . In 1994 the album Yazoo followed with the pianist Cedar Walton .

After Cook / Morton, Woodard is stylistically reminiscent of Zoot Sims .

Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Gary Giddins : Weather Bird: Jazz on the Dawn of its Second Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, etc. 2004, ISBN 0195304497 .

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