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Booty Wood

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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
InstrumentTrombone

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

Career

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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 (1947–1948), Erskine Hawkins (1948–1950), and Count Basie (1951).[3]

He spent a few years outside music, then played with Duke Ellington in 1959–1960 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

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As leader

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As sideman

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With Count Basie

With Duke Ellington

With Ella Fitzgerald

With others

References

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  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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