Brandon Woody - For The Love Of It All (2025)

Brandon Woody
For The Love Of It All
2025 - Blue Note Records: 00602475477754 (CD) / 00602475477785 (LP)
https://www.bluenote.com/spotlight/brandon-woody-for-the-love-of-it-all/
https://store.bluenote.com/products/brandon-woody-for-the-love-of-it-all

* Brandon Woody : trumpet
* Troy Long : piano, organ (1), keyboards (3-4),
Fender Rhodes electric piano (6)
* Michael Saunders : bass
* Quincy Phillips : drums
* Imani-Grace Cooper: vocals (1)
* Vittorio Stropoli : synthesizer (6)

https://www.brandonwoody.com/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brandon-woody-mn0002815445

Recorded by Don Godwin at Tonal Park, Takoma Park, Maryland, USA, on 2024.
Mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington at Bass Hit Recording, New York, USA.

Reviews
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Maddy Allison
https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/articles/6523--recording-of-the-week-brandon-woody-for-the-love-of-it-all

If you’re based in Baltimore, there’s a good chance that you’ve already heard
of Brandon Woody. For those of us who haven’t, Woody is a talented and fresh
trumpet voice (compared by many to Freddie Hubbard) who's beginning to gain
international recognition for his singular, soulful sound and his approach to
music-making – and all without having left his home city. [...]

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By Matt Collar
https://www.allmusic.com/album/for-the-love-of-it-all-mw0004489401

By Duarte Figueira
https://ukjazznews.com/brandon-woody-for-the-love-of-it-all/

By Stephen Graham
https://marlbank.net/2025/05/09/brandon-woody-for-the-love-of-it-all-blue-note/
https://marlbank.net/2025/02/24/the-saturday-morning-listen-brandon-woody-real-love-part-1/

By Jim Hynes
https://glidemagazine.com/312743/trumpeter-brandon-woody-makes-stirring-blue-note-debut-with-inspirational-for-the-love-of-it-all-album-review/

Rolf Thomas (de)
https://www.jazzthing.de/review/brandon-woody-for-the-love-of-it-all/

Josef Engels (de)
https://www.rondomagazin.de/kritiken.php?kritiken_id=13155

Radio France (fr)
https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/au-coeur-du-jazz/brandon-woody-pour-l-amour-du-son-2936382