Artist description Bruce Woody, musician ,singer,song-writer,agreeably persuades his Seaport audiences to join him in his magical world of music.The Bruce WoodyTrio entertains at Gilmore's Sat & Sun afternoons with Bruce playing bass & singing ,Ray DelVecchio on piano & Charlie Davis on drums. This Virginia-born master of sound enjoys a career spanning 5 decades.It began with a stint with Ida Cox & her Darktown Scandals on a Midwest tour in the 40's[Ida wrote "Wild Women Don't Have the Blues] Later, joining the Stomp Gordon Band, Bruce reveled in the musical artics typical of 50's rock & roll. The Band's hit song in that era was "The Grind". After Stomp's untimely death Bruce formed his own band called Bruce Woody & his Chips in Columbus, Ohio. The great Sax player Rahsaan Roland Kirk made featured appearances with the group Eventually moving to New Jersey, he formed his current Trio which plays gigs around the NYC area at clubs & private parties. Bruce's repertory includes well-known favorites of many song-writers as well as original material. He has a cool passion for composing & his songs are lyrical & sensuous with a controlled energy that feels good. He has written over 30 songs. Treat your ears-come hear him.

Music Style Jazz

Similar Artists any jazz player that had the soul to play

Artist History The bass is fifty years olds and stands tall amongst the tattered chairs adorning the small furniture upholstery shop. It is the instrument of music which Bruce Woody has proudly used for more than a half of cntury. Soft melodic notes vibrate though-out the shop as Woody goes about the task of restoring beauty into some old ancient sofa, he is by all means a musician ,a true lover of the art, but by chance or destiny he is also a craftsman.Bruce Woody's odyssey into the world of music began at the tender age of nine. Born on March 19th, 1926 in Harrisburg Virginia he migrated from the South to Columbus, Ohio at fifteen years of age.At first Woody picked up the drums.Grandually he evolved to thr guitar and finally settled for the bass. By seventeen he had run away from home to play music with Ida Cox's and the darktown Scandals a minstrel show very popular in the golden age of rythmn and blues. America had not yet established it's musical identity .Jazz had just began to receive a sense of respectability and R&B was in it's experimental stage. Woody leaped feet first into the fray of the musical times and with likes of Ground Hog ,[a popular dance] Nick and Tic and the two Chicks,Silk and Satin, Chuck berry and a host of others; they began to lay the foundation for what we know today as R&B and rock and roll.Woody flashes that toothy smile and reminiscences about the time of innocence,"Chuck Berry was the leader of us all. Imean white and black.Without Chuck there wouldn't have been an Elvis.

Group Members Bruce Woody/ Ray DelVecchio/ Charlie Davis

Instruments bass, piano, drums

Albums Bruce Woody Alive at the South Street Seaport

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Location Newark, N.J - USA

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