Mosaic Records

Woody Shaw was the next great voice on trumpet after Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard.

As this performance of "Stepping Stones" demonstrates, he was a distinctive composer and a trumpeter with extraordinary technique and imagination.

A magnificent performance from Italy by Woody Shaw's quintet with Carter Jefferson, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Stafford James and Victor Lewis.

The bassist is Evanston, IL, native, Stafford James.

- billbenj

Wow! Firebrand Woody with all his righteously complicated hard bop harmonies! Is that Clint Houston on bass? Can we have more?

- monrovian bear