Jimmy Woode

Jimmy Woode (born James Bryant Woode, September 23, 1926, Philadelphia – April 23, 2005, Lindenwold, New Jersey) was an American jazz bassist.

Biography
His father, also named Jimmy Woode, was a music teacher and pianist who played with Hot Lips Page. Woode studied piano and bass in Boston at Boston University and at the Conservatory of Music, as well as at the Philadelphia Academy.

He played and/or recorded in bands with Flip Phillips, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Nat Pierce, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, Jaki Byard, Earl Hines, Jimmy Witherspoon and Miles Davis.

He joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1955, appearing on many of Ellington's recordings, including Such Sweet Thunder and Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, both from 1957, as well as the historic 1956 Newport Jazz Festival session. He stayed with the Orchestra until 1960, when he left to live in Europe.

Jimmy Woode's song "Just Give Me Time" was covered by Carola in 1966, first released on her album Carola & Heikki Sarmanto Trio, reaching the Finnish charts in 2004.

An original member of The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, in 1995 he also toured with Lionel Hampton's Golden Men of Jazz.

In 2003, Woode formed a trio with renowned drummer Pete York and German jazz musician/comedian Helge Schneider, reaching a younger generation of listeners on a tour through Germany with his interpretation of jazz classics such as "Georgia" and "Summertime". As a consequence of his co-operation with Schneider, Woode also starred in the 2004 feature film Jazzclub. In the role of Steinberg, a struggling jazz bassist, he showed considerable acting skills.

He died in April 2005 at age 78 at his home in Lindenwold, New Jersey of port-surgical complications.

As leader

 * The Colorful Strings of Jimmy Woode (Argo, 1958)

As sideman
With Kenny Clarke With Ted Curson With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin WIth Nathan Davis '''With Eric Dolphy With Paul Gonsalves With Johnny Griffin With Mythologie With Sahib Shihab With Sunbirds With Clark Terry With Mal Waldron
 * The Golden 8 (Blue Note, 1961)
 * Americans in Europe (Impulse!, 1963)
 * Urge (1966)
 * Tough Tenors Again 'n' Again (MPS, 1970)
 * The Hip Walk
 * Peace Treaty
 * Happy Girl
 * Stockholm Sessions (Enja, 1961)
 * Cookin' (Argo, 1957)
 * Night Lady (Philips, 1964)
 * Live At »Domicile« Munich (BASF, 1971)
 * Summer Dawn (Chess, 1964)
 * Seeds (Atlantic, 1968)
 * Commitment' (1970)
 * Sunbirds (BASF, 1971)
 * Zagara (Polydor/Finger, 1973)
 * Out on a Limb with Clark Terry (Argo, 1957)
 * Black Glory (Enja, 1971)
 * Mal Waldron Plays the Blues (Enja, 1971)
 * A Touch of the Blues (Enja, 1972)
 * One-Upmanship (Enja, 1977)