Booty Wood
Birth nameMitchell W. Wood
BornDecember 27, 1919
Wedowee, Alabama, U.S.[1]
DiedJune 10, 1987 (aged 67)
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.[1]
GenresJazz
Instrument(s)Trombone

Mitchell W. Wood, better known as Booty Wood (December 27, 1919 – June 10, 1987)[2] was an American jazz trombonist.

Career

Wood played professionally on trombone from the late 1930s. He worked with Tiny Bradshaw and Lionel Hampton in the 1940s before joining the Navy during World War II.[3] While there he played in a band with Clark Terry, Willie Smith, and Gerald Wilson.[3] After his service ended he returned to play with Hampton, then worked with Arnett Cobb (1947–48), Erskine Hawkins (1948-50), and Count Basie (1951).[3]

He spent a few years outside music, then played with Duke Ellington in 1959-60 and again in 1963; he returned once more early in the 1970s.[3] He again played with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1979 into the middle of the following decade.[4]

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Count Basie

With Duke Ellington

With Ella Fitzgerald

With others

References

  1. ^ a b Dance, Stanley (1987). "Mitchell "Booty" Wood [Obituary]". Jazz Journal International. Vol. 40, no. 10. p. 26. ISSN 2041-8833.
  2. ^ "Booty Wood Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  3. ^ a b c d Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2725. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  4. ^ Burnside, Vanessa Sorrell. "Randolph County native Booty Wood left mark on jazz world". The Randolph Leader. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
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