Phil Woods has been played on NTS in shows including If Music Presents You Need This w/ Jean-Claude, featured first on 23 September 2014. Songs played include A Taste Of Honey, Part IV (Scherzo) and So Danco Samba.

Philip Wells Woods (November 2, 1931 – September 29, 2015) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.

Woods was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He studied music with Lennie Tristano, who influenced him greatly, at the Manhattan School of Music and at the Juilliard School. His friend, Joe Lopes, coached him on clarinet as there was no saxophone major at Juilliard at the time. Although he…