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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."

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