Rickey Woodard
Rickey Woodard (born August 5, 1950) is an American jazz saxophonist.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1980 on Woodard spent seven years with the Ray Charles band.[1]
A member of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Woodard has also recorded with Frank Capp and as a member of Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham's Sweet Baby Blues Band.[2]
In 1993, he embarked on a series of yearly visits to the Peterborough Jazz Club in England, billed with veteran British jazz musicians such as Dick Morrissey, John Burch, and Tony Archer.
Discography
- As leader/co-leader
- 1991: The Frank Capp Trio Presents Rickey Woodard (Concord)
- 1991: California Cooking (Candid)
- 1991: Night Mist – with Eric Reed, Tony Dumas and Roy McCurdy
- 1992: The Tokyo Express – with Joe Chambers, James Williams and Christian McBride (Candid)
- 1994: Yazoo (Concord) – with Cedar Walton, Ralph Penland, Jeff Littleton and Ray Brown
- 1995: The Silver Strut (Concord)
- 1997: The Tenor Trio – with Ernie Watts, Pete Christlieb, Gerry Wiggins, Chuck Berghofer and Frank Capp
- 2005: Picture This
- As sideman
- 1989: Groove Shop – The Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra
- 1991: Basket Full of Blues – Sweet Baby Blues Band (Concord)
- 1993: Blues and the Boogie Masters – Sweet Baby Blues Band (Concord)
- 1994: Timepiece – Kenny Rogers
- 1994: Pencil Packin' Papa – Horace Silver
- 1994: Seven Sensational Saxophones – Fujitsu-Concord 26th Jazz Festival with Jesse Davis, Gary Foster, Bill Ramsay, Ken Peplowski, Chris Potter, Frank Wess, and Rickey Woodard
- 1995: Gud Nuz Bluz – Sweet Baby Blues Band (Concord)
- 1996: Shaking Free – Nnenna Freelon
- 2005: Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra Live at MCG
- 2005: Christmas Songs – Diana Krall with The Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra
References
- ↑ Giddins, Gary (2004) Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century, p. 33. Oxford University Press, Nov 15, 2004 At Google Books. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ Bogdanov, Vladimir, et al. (2002) All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music, p. 220. Backbeat Books At Google Books. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
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