A1 - Slow Boat To China
A2 - Get Happy
A3 - Strollin' With Pam
B1 - Woodlore
B2 - Falling In Love All Over Again
B3 - Be My Love

Recorded on November 25, 1955 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Philip Wells Woods (1931 - 2015) studied music with Lennie Tristano at the Manhattan School of Music and at the Julliard School. In the early 1950s, Woods began to lead his own bands. Quincy Jones invited him to accompany Dizzy Gillespie on a world tour. 

Woodlore is Phil Wood's second album as a leader.

To all aspiring bebop alto saxophonists in the late 1940s and into the '50s, Charlie Parker was an inspiration and an obstacle. On one hand, his genius inspired players to seek greater heights of improvisation; on the other hand, it was difficult for them to escape Parker's influence and be considered on their individual merits. Phil Woods split the difference. He embraced Parker's musical vocabulary and used it as one of the building blocks of his own musical personality; he even earned the nickname "New Bird" after his idol. Here. while you can hear Parker's influence, it is also clear that you are listening to an alto player who is staking out his own territory. Although all the players get some room to solo, Woodlore is a tour-de-force for the young Phil Woods, who lets the world know that he came to play his music and is here to stay.

The "golden age" of recordings was from 1955 to 1965, at the beginning of the LP and the stereo era, where pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity and warmth, lifelike presence and illumination.

Woodlore is part of the ultimate audiophile Prestige mono reissues from Analogue Productions, 25 of the most collectible, rarest, most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made. All mastered from the original analog master tapes by mastering maestro Kevin Gray. 200-gram LPs pressed at state-of -the-art plant Quality Record Pressings and plated by Gary Salstrom. Deep groove label pressings, tip-on jackets on thick cardboard stock.