Woody Shaw: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection

The Complete Columbia Album Collection
The Complete Columbia Album Collection
Box set by Woody Shaw
Released	September 13, 2011
Genre	Jazz
Length	5:07:16
Label	Columbia/Legacy
Producer	Michael Cuscuna, Woody Shaw III
Woody Shaw chronology

Professional ratings
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AllMusic	^[1]

Woody Shaw: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection is a 6-CD box set compilation of recordings by jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader Woody Shaw, released in 2011.^[1]

The box set includes Shaw's original five Columbia albums plus a CD of previously-unreleased recordings taken from the original master tapes of Shaw's Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard session.^[1]

CD and Track Listing

Disc 1: *Rosewood*
No.	Title	Composer	Length
1.	"Rosewood"	Woody Shaw	7:14
2.	"Every Time I see You"	Onaje Allan Gumbs	7:16
3.	"The Legend of Cheops"	Victor Lewis	6:06
4.	"Rahsaan's Run"	Woody Shaw	5:12
5.	"Sun Showers"	Clint Houston	7:50
6.	"Theme For Maxine"	Woody Shaw	7:15

Disc 2: *Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard*
No.	Title	Composer	Length
1.	"Stepping Stone"	Woody Shaw	9:12
2.	"In A Capricornian Way"	Woody Shaw	11:16
3.	"Seventh Avenue"	Victor Lewis	8:35
4.	"All Things Being Equal Are Not"	Onaje Allan Gumbs	12:04
5.	"Escape Velocity"	Clint Houston	11:14
6.	"Blue For Ball"	McCoy Tyner	17:12
7.	"Theme for Maxine"	Woody Shaw	1:00

Disc 3: *Stepping Stones Bonus Tracks*
No.	Title	Composer	Length
1.	"It All Comes Back to You"	Onaje Allan Gumbs	10:15
2.	"Watership Down"	Clint Houston	13:49
3.	"Solar"	Miles Davis	16:21
4.	"On Green Dolphin Street"	Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington	16:02
5.	"Days of Wine and Roses"	Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer	13:38

Disc 4: *Woody III*
No.	Title	Composer	Length
1.	"Woody I: On the New Ark"	Woody Shaw	7:20
2.	"Woody II: Other Paths"	Woody Shaw	6:54
3.	"Woody III: New Offerings"	Woody Shaw	8:31
4.	"To Kill A Brick"	Woody Shaw	7:43
5.	"Organ Grinder"	Woody Shaw	5:31

Disc 5: *For Sure!*
No.	Title	Composer	Length
1.	"We'll Be Together Again" (arr. by Marty Sheller)	Carl T. Fischer	7:20
2.	"OPEC"	Woody Shaw	5:22
3.	"Time is Right"	Judi Singh	4:28
4.	"Ginseng People"	Woody Shaw	5:31
5.	"Why?"	Victor Lewis	4:53
6.	"Joshua C."	Woody Shaw	7:13
7.	"Isabel the Liberator"	Larry Willis	8:29
8.	"Teotihuacan"	Stafford James	7:19

Disc 6: *United*
No.	Title	Composer	Length
1.	"United"	Wayne Shorter	5:23
2.	"The Greene Street Caper"	Woody Shaw	5:30
3.	"What Is This Thing Called Love?"	Cole Porter	9:42
4.	"Pressing the Issue"	Mulgrew Miller	7:05
5.	"Katrina Ballerina"	Woody Shaw	5:42
6.	"Blues for Wood"	Ronnie Mathews	7:17

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Collar, Matt. "Woody Shaw: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection". AllMusic. Retrieved March 30, 2020.

[AM-1] Collar, Matt. "Woody Shaw: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection". AllMusic. Retrieved March 30, 2020.

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v t e Woody Shaw
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	In the Beginning (1965) Blackstone Legacy (1970) Song of Songs (1972) The Moontrane (1974) San Francisco Express – Getting It Together (1975) Love Dance (1975) Little Red's Fantasy (1976) Woody Plays Woody (1976–77) The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage (1976) Rosewood (1977) The Iron Men (with Anthony Braxton, 1977) Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard (1978) Woody III (1978–79) For Sure! (1979) United (1981) Lotus Flower (1982) Master of the Art (1982) Night Music (1982) Setting Standards (1983) The Time Is Right (1983) Double Take (and Freddie Hubbard, 1985) Woody Shaw with the Tone Jansa Quartet (1985) Dr. Chi (1986) Bemsha Swing (1986) Solid (1986) Imagination (1987) In My Own Sweet Way (1987) The Eternal Triangle (with Freddie Hubbard, 1987)
With others	Home! (Gary Bartz, 1969) Coral Keys (Walter Bishop Jr., 1971) Child's Dance (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1972) Buhaina (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1973) Anthenagin (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1973) The Free Slave (Roy Brooks, 1970) Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1983) The Almoravid (Joe Chambers, 1971) Tones for Joan's Bones (Chick Corea, 1966) The Complete "Is" Sessions (Chick Corea, 1969) Brilliant Circles (Stanley Cowell, 1969) Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963) Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963) Tex Book Tenor/Back from the Gig (Booker Ervin, 1968) Ichi-Ban (Louis Hayes and Junior Cook, 1976) The Real Thing (Louis Hayes, 1977) If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem (Joe Henderson, 1970) Joe Henderson Quintet at the Lighthouse (1970) Grass Roots (Andrew Hill, 1968) Lift Every Voice (Andrew Hill, 1969–70) Passing Ships (Andrew Hill, 1969) Bobby Hutcherson Live at Montreux (1973) Cirrus (Bobby Hutcherson, 1974) Bridge into the New Age (Azar Lawrence, 1974) 'Bout Soul (Jackie McLean, 1967) Demon's Dance (Jackie McLean, 1967) Reach Out! (Hank Mobley, 1968) Thinking of Home (Hank Mobley, 1970) Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (Pharoah Sanders, 1970) The Cape Verdean Blues (Horace Silver, 1965) The Jody Grind (Horace Silver, 1966) Natural Soul (Buddy Terry, 1967) Pure Dynamite (Buddy Terry, 1972) Expansions (McCoy Tyner, 1968) The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (Mal Waldron, 1986) The Seagulls of Kristiansund (Mal Waldron, 1986) Natural Essence (Tyrone Washington, 1967) Unity (Larry Young, 1965) Zawinul (Joe Zawinul, 1970)
Box sets	Woody Shaw: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Columbia, 1978–81 [2011]) Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (Mosaic, 1965–87 [2013])