Phil Woods

Biography

American alto saxophonist, the leading bebop alto of his generation after *Charlie Parker*, whose widow Chan he later married. A leader since 'Woodlore' (1955), he worked with *Quincy Jones* and *Dizzy Gillespie*, won Grammy Awards with his own quintet in the 1970s and 80s, and played the famous alto solo on *Billy Joel*'s 'Just the Way You Are'. He died in Pennsylvania in 2015.