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May 11, 1989 Woody Shaw Dead At 44

it's been quite'a'bit of a longtime now since
Woody's torment ended �/ so
� � � � � � � � � � eye �sit
� � � � � � � �this mournin2012
� � � � � �listening to th'power
� � � � in his sound
� � � tru
� � � m p e t ing �from th'steep
stairs of (the) Vanguard where wee saw him heard his
� power sound power quite a bit of longtime a'go...

DeKalb,DeKalb,Bklyn-line,just'a'few stops
� from our old Bklyneighborhood station.....h'ow
in bloodyfckn'hell
� � �d'ye windup under a train,arm severed, &
live 6more
� � � � �weeks? �Damn,Woody...goodG'odd d a mn...

� � � a m a z in g � this �life, a m
azi ng �our deathsufferings....a maz i n g
the Life
� � � in his sound,
strong,direct � � �rightly Rite[s] on th'muse for
� � those e'lusive "bright moments"

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Jazz Trumpeter, Composer Woody Shaw Dead At 44
By JEFFREY K. PARKER
UPI - Thursday, May 11, 1989 (New York).
� Woody Shaw, the imaginitive "post-bop" jazz trumpeter and composer whose left arm was severed in February in a mysterious subway accident, died of kidney failure Wednesday after a long illness. He was 44.
Shaw, whose eyesight had been declining for a decade, tumbled down a stairway Feb. 27 onto the tracks at Brooklyn's Dekalb Avenue subway station where a train struck him, severing his arm. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where his condition deteriorated and he was stricken by pneumonia. Although his pneumonia abated, he continued to suffer kidney pain and died of kidney failure, said his father, Woody Shaw Sr.
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