Woody Shaw was born on December 24, 1944, in Laurinburg, North Carolina, USA.

Woody Shaw died on May 10, 1989, in New York City, New York, USA of kidney failure.

Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman, are three Jazz Swing players.

One of the most innovative and brilliant trumpeter-composers that ever lived, Woody Shaw is known for changing the harmonic and improvisational vocabulary of modern trumpet playing, and as one of the last true straight-ahead jazz bandleaders and innovators to advance the tradition of "American classical music."

The "last major innovator in the jazz trumpet lineage."

The cast of Jackie McLean on Mars - 1980 includes: Jackie McLean as himself Woody Shaw as himself