Britt Woodman


Britt Woodman was an American jazz trombonist.

Career

Woodman was a childhood friend of Charles Mingus, but first worked with Phil Moore and Les Hite. After service in World War II he played with Boyd Raeburn before joining with Lionel Hampton in 1946. During the 1950s he worked with Ellington. As a member of Ellington's band he can be heard on Such Sweet Thunder, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, Black, Brown, and Beige and Ellington Indigos.
In 1960 he left Ellington to work in a pit orchestra. Later he worked with Mingus and can be heard on the album Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. In the 1970s,
he led his own octet and worked with pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. In 1989, he was in the personnel for the album Epitaph dedicated to the previously unrecorded music of Charles Mingus.

Discography

As sideman

With Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
With Bill Berry
With Duke Ellington
With Ella Fitzgerald
With Lionel Hampton
With Johnny Hodges
With Charles Mingus
With Jimmy Smith
With others