NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Woody Shaw on 15 June 2022. Woody Shaw has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 27 episodes and was first played on 4 November 2014.

Woody Herman Shaw II (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) (United States) was a stunningly brilliant jazz trumpeter and composer, one of the last contributors to the language of modern jazz - who fiercely and yet successfully broadened the technical and harmonic capacity of his instrument. [ Website: http://www.WoodyShaw.com ]

Shaw grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and began his study of music at the…