Phil Woods is known worldwide as a jazz headliner and leader with a powerful attack on the alto saxophone. He plays with every ounce of energy, as though it's his very last day on the job. And for reasons that probably have more to do with nature than logic, when Phil plays, the urgency in his tone leaves me transfixed. It's so magnetic that I stop what…
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