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    Phil Woods: April in Paris

    Feb 06, 2021 4 minutes
    PHIL WOODS

    Before his passing in September 2015, saxophonist/composer Phil Woods collaborated with regular JT contributor Ted Panken on a memoir, which was recently published by Cymbal Press as Life in E Flat: The Autobiography of Phil Woods. The following exclusive excerpt takes us to the spring of 1968, when Woods, his wife Chan (Charlie Parker’s widow), and their family decided to make an escape from America—but found that America had, in a sense, followed them across the Atlantic.

    The jazz scene was drying up for me. I started thinking seriously about a major move to Europe. I’d had enough of life in E-flat in the United States.

    Chan was ready to leave too—she hated America with a vitriolic passion. With

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