Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions

The Complete Muse Sessions
Box set by
Released2013
GenreJazz
Length6:33:37
LabelMosaic Records
ProducerMichael Cuscuna, Woody Shaw III
Woody Shaw chronology
Woody Plays Woody
(2012)
The Complete Muse Sessions
(2013)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic

Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions is a 7-CD box set compilation of recordings by jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader Woody Shaw, released in 2013 by Mosaic Records.

The box set includes all nine of Woody Shaw's albums for Muse Records that were originally released during the periods between 1974–1977 and 1983–1987. The collection features an accompanying booklet written by Shaw's son, Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III, who co-produced the set. Includes new photographs and remastered sound by Malcolm Addey.

Reception

Matt Collar of AllMusic stated that the Muse albums "represent not only some of the most important recordings of Shaw's career, but some of the most influential and individualistic artistic statements by a jazz artist in the 20th century."[1]

CD and Track Listing

Disc 1 : The Moontrane
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Moontrane"Woody Shaw6:54
2."Are They Only Dreams"Onaje Allan Gumbs9:12
3."Tapscott’s Blues"Azar Lawrence6:41
4."Sanyas"Steve Turre13:05
5."Katrina Ballerina"Woody Shaw7:36
6."Tapscott’s Blues (alt tk)"Azar Lawrence6:50
7."Katrina Ballerina (alt tk)"Woody Shaw8:01
Disc 2 : Love Dance
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Love Dance"Joe Bonner12:36
2."Obsequious"Larry Young9:28
3."Sun Bath"Peggy Stern6:33
4."Zoltan"Woody Shaw6:45
5."Soulfully I Love You (Black Spiritual Of Love)"Billy Harper8:13
Disc 3 : The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hello To The Wind"Joe Chambers16:36
2."Obsequious"Larry Young9:29
3."Sanyas"Steve Turre9:55
4."Jean Marie"Ronnie Mathews9:34
5."Bilad As Sudan (Land Of The Blacks)"Rene McLean12:34
Disc 4: Tracks 1–5 from In the Beginning / Cassandranite and Tracks 6–7 from Little Red's Fantasy
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Cassandranite"Woody Shaw6:47
2."Obsequious"Larry Young7:39
3."Baloo, Baloo"Hank Johnson6:00
4."Three Muses"Woody Shaw6:22
5."Tetragon"Joe Henderson6:37
6."Jean Marie"Ronnie Mathews7:39
7."Sashianova"Stafford James9:58
Disc 5 : Tracks 1–3 from Little Red's Fantasy and Tracks 4–9 from The Iron Men
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."In Case You Haven’t Heard"Woody Shaw6:25
2."Little Red’s Fantasy"Woody Shaw7:05
3."Tomorrow’s Destiny"Woody Shaw7:45
4."Iron Man"Eric Dolphy6:20
5."Jitterbug Waltz"Fats Waller8:26
6."Symmetry"Andrew Hill8:17
7."Diversion One"Woody Shaw2:55
8."Song Of Songs"Woody Shaw12:45
9."Diversion Two"Woody Shaw2:52
Disc 6 : Tracks 1–6 from Setting Standards and Tracks 7–10 from Solid
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."There Is No Greater Love"Isham Jones6:58
2."All The Way"Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen7:50
3."Spiderman Blues"Woody Shaw4:45
4."The Touch of Your Lips"Ray Noble 
5."What's New?"Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke7:43
6."When Love Is New"Cedar Walton4:30
7."There Will Never Be Another You"Mack Gordon and Harry Warren6:55
8."You Stepped Out Of A Dream"Nacio Brown and Gus Kahn5:29
9."Speak Low"Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash8:55
10."Solid"Sonny Rollins4:38
Disc 7 : Tracks 1–2 from Solid and Tracks 3–8 from Imagination
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."It Might As Well Be Spring"Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein10:00
2."The Woody Woodpecker Song"Ramey Idriss and George Tibbles3:42
3."If I Were A Bell"Frank Loesser5:21
4."Imagination"Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen7:24
5."Dat Dere"Bobby Timmons8:08
6."You And The Night And The Music"Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz5:59
7."Stormy Weather"Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler7:55
8."Steve’s Blues"Steve Turre4:46

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