Phil Woods
Philip Wells Woods (November 2, 1931 – September 29, 2015) was an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.
Biography
Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He studied music with Lennie Tristano, who influenced him greatly, at the Manhattan School of Music and at the Juilliard School. His friend, Joe Lopes, coached him on clarinet as there was no saxophone major at Juilliard at the time. Although he did not copy Charlie "Bird" Parker, he was known as the New Bird, a label which was also attached to other alto players such as Sonny Stitt and Cannonball Adderley at one time or another in their careers.
In the mid-'50s, Woods began to front his own bands. He got major exposure after Quincy Jones invited him to accompany a 1956 State Department-sponsored world tour with the big band of Dizzy Gillespie. In 1959 Woods traveled Europe with Jones’ band; in 1962 he participated in Benny Goodman’s Russian tour.
After moving to France in 1968, Woods led the European Rhythm Machine, a group which tended toward avant-garde jazz. He returned to the United States in 1972 and, after an unsuccessful attempt to establish an electronic group, he formed a quintet which was still performing, with some changes of personnel, in 2004. As his theme, Woods used a piece titled "How's Your Mama?"
Canadian Sunset
"Canadian Sunset" is a popular song with music by jazz pianist Eddie Heywood and lyrics by Norman Gimbel. An instrumental version by Heywood and Hugo Winterhalter reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #7 on the R&B chart in 1956. A version sung by Andy Williams was also popular that year, reaching #7 on the Billboard chart. The Sounds Orchestral, conducted by Johnny Pearson, hit the Easy Listening chart reaching #14 and the Billboard Top Hot 100 in 1965 reaching #76.
Emergence as a jazz standard
The tune has been covered by a number of jazz performers beginning in the 1960s.
Canadian Sunset (album)
Canadian Sunset is a compilation album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the spring of 1965 by Columbia Records. The cover bears the phrase "formerly titled Andy Williams' Best" underneath the title, suggesting that the same songs can be found here that were on that 1961 release by Cadence Records, but his number one hit "Butterfly" and its top 10 follow-up "I Like Your Kind of Love" that were included on the Cadence album were replaced on this release with the B-sides of two of the other songs here. This album made its first appearance on the Billboard Top LP's chart in the issue dated July 3, 1965, and remained there for six weeks, peaking at number 112.
Track listing
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- Right to Swing released: 2013
- Saxes Inc. / Trombone Scene released: 2011
- Sugan released: 2006
- Bouncing with Bud and Phil: Live at Yoshi’s released: 2005
- Beyond Brooklyn released: 2004
- Live at the Village Vanguard released: 2003
- Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine at the Montreux Jazz Festival released: 2003
- Americans Swinging In Paris released: 2002
- Jamba released: 2002
- Voyage - with the Bill Charlap Trio released: 2001
- Você E Eu released: 2000
- Round Trip released: 1999
- Phil Woods/Lew Tabackin released: 1998
- The Rev and I released: 1998
- Jazz Matinee released: 1996
- Alto Summit released: 1996
- My Man Benny, My Man Phil released: 1996
- The Young Bloods released: 1996
- Woodlore released: 1996
- Phil & Quill With Prestige released: 1996
- The Phil Woods Quartet - Quintet 20th Anniversary Set released: 1995
- Early Quintets released: 1995
- Red Square Blue: Jazz Impressions of Russian Composers released: 1992
- Hard Sock Dance released: 1992
- The Little Big Band: Real Life released: 1991
- Here's to My Lady released: 1989
- I Think We're Almost There released: 1986
- Satin Nights released: 1986
- Piper at the Gates of Dawn released: 1986
- Three for All released: 1981
- Images released: 1975
- Phil Woods & Tom Harrell released:
- Musique Du Bois released:
- Flowers for Hodges released:
- Into The Woods-The Best Of Phil Woods released:
Saxes Inc. / Trombone Scene
Released 2011- Fugue For Tin Horns
- Broadway
- The Gipsy
- A Night in Tunisia
- Four Brothers
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Tickle-Toe
- Sweet and Lovely
- Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
- Early Autumn
- Axmobile 2:11
- Slim Jim
- It Could Happen To You
- Sorta Rumbish
- Hackin' Around
- Indiana
- Plungin' In
- Hambone
- Out Of Nowhere
- Sonny's Side
- Up and Out
Red Square Blue: Jazz Impressions of Russian Composers
Released 1992- The Old Castle (from Pictures at an Exhibition)
- Andante (from Concerto for Coloratura, Op. 82)
- Aria (from Concerto for Coloratura, Op. 82)
- Prelude Op. 11, No. 2
- Canzona (from Symphony No. 4 in F Minor)
- Etude, Op. 8, No. 2
- Prelude Op. 9, No. 1
- The Young Prince and the Young Princess (from Scheherazade)
- Prelude Op. 11, No. 1
- Arabian Dance (from The Nutcracker Suite)
- Adagio (from Piano Concerto No. 2)
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by Dean Martin
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by Etta Jones
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by James Last
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by Dave Dudley
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by Andy Williams
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by Floyd Cramer
Canadian Sunset
by: Dean MartinOnce I was alone
So lonely and then
You came out of nowhere
Like the sun up from the hill
Cold cold as the wind
Warm warm were your lips
Out there on the ski trail
Where your kiss filled me with thrill
Weekend in Canada a change of scenery
Was the most I bargained for
And then I discovered you and in your eyes
I've found a love that I couldn't ignore
Down down came the sun
Fast fast beat my heart
I knew as the sun set from that day
We'd never part
Down down down down came the sun
Fast fast fast fast beat my heart
I knew as the sun set from that day
We'd never part
Down down down down came-a the sun
Fast fast fast fast beat-a my heart
I knew as the sun set from that day
We'd never part
We'd never part