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Christopher Gordon Blandford Wood (24 June 1944 – 12 July 1983) was a British rock musician, best known as a founding member of the
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band
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, along with
Steve Winwood Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, and pop rock. Though primarily a guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalist prominent for his dis ...
,
Jim Capaldi Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English singer-songwriter and drummer. His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the progressive rock band Traffic in 1967 with Steve Winwood with whom he c ...
and
Dave Mason David Thomas Mason (born 10 May 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, who came to prominence in 1967 as a founding member of the rock band Traffic. While with Traffic, he wrote and sang lead vocals on two of the b ...
.


Early life

Chris Wood was born in 1944, in Quinton,
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.Stephanie Wood Wood had an interest in music and painting from an early childhood. He was self-taught on
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and
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, which he began playing at the age of 15. He attended the Stourbridge College of Art, then the
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(Painting Dept.) and subsequently was awarded a grant to attend the Royal Academy of Art starting in December 1965.


Career


Early years

18-year-old Wood joined the Steve Hadley Quartet, a jazz/blues group in 1962. Wood began to play locally with other Birmingham musicians who would later find international fame in music: Christine Perfect (later Christine McVie),
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, Stan Webb and
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. In 1964, Wood played with Webb and Perfect in the band Shades of Blue. From 1965–1966, he played with Kellie in the jazz band
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. During this time, Wood was attending college and would on occasion perform with the band. He prematurely left college, and decided to pursue a career in music. His younger sister Stephanie Wood designed clothes for
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, based in Birmingham, and it was through her that Wood was first introduced to fellow Birmingham native
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. A well-known Birmingham club, the Elbow Room, was an after-hours venue for local bands and musicians, and it was here that Wood used to meet up with Winwood and Jim Capaldi. In 1967, 18-year-old Winwood abandoned the Spencer Davis Group at the height of their popularity, and along with Wood, Capaldi and Dave Mason, formed the
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group Traffic.Dan Ropek, author of Chris Wood biography (''Tragic Magic: The Life of Traffic's Chris Wood'', 2015, Oakamoor Publishing, )


Traffic: 1967–1969

In 1967, in order to focus his fledgling band
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, Island Records' founder
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arranged for the four band members to retreat to an isolated farmhouse on the
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Downs, near
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. Initially without electricity, telephone or running water, The Cottage (as it became universally known) was so remote that a generator had to be installed to power the group's equipment. A concrete outdoor stage was built with the band's stage equipment set up to overlook the surrounding fields. After six months honing their music, Traffic released their first single, " Paper Sun". In Traffic, Wood primarily played
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and
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, occasionally contributing keyboards,
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and
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. Wood also co-wrote several of Traffic's songs, particularly during the earlier period of the band's recording career. His most notable contribution is as the co-writer (with Winwood and Capaldi), of " Dear Mr. Fantasy".


Session work: 1968–1970

Wood and Winwood played with
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, and both appeared on the 1968 album ''
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'' (1968). He played the flute on the song " 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)". During the album recording session, Wood met then-17-year-old Jeanette Jacobs (formerly of the 1960s girl group The Cake). Originally from
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, she had briefly come to London, accompanying Hendrix. The two would later marry. In 1969, Traffic recorded a jam session with Hendrix. Wood was then invited to perform in concert with the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the
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, in
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,
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, on 24 February 1969. The concert was filmed, with Wood appearing on the song "Room Full of Mirrors". In 1969, Wood's talents appeared on a series of albums. On the eponymous 1969
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second album of Free, he played the flute on "Mourning Sad Morning". For Nick Drake's
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1969 debut album, Wood added flute on the song "Three Hours" accompanied by future Traffic member
Rebop Kwaku Baah Anthony "Rebop" Kwaku Baah (13 February 1944 – 12 January 1983) was a Ghanaian percussionist who worked with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can. Biography Baah was born in 1944 in Konongo, Gold Coast. In the Akan culture of Ghana, Kwa ...
. The alternative version was previously unreleased, until 2017. Wood also applied his sax talents to Gordon Jackson's song "Snake & Ladders". It was previously believed that Wood featured on the
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' '' The Autumn Stone'' (1969), but the flute work was credited to Lyn Dobson.


Wood, Mason and Capaldi & Frog: 1969

When Winwood temporarily formed supergroup
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in 1969, Wood, Mason and Capaldi joined
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(otherwise known as Wynder K. Frog), to become Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog. After this stint, Wood travelled to the
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and went to tour with Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack), a
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pianist. Wood was reunited with singer and future wife Jeanette Jacobs.


Ginger Baker's Air Force: 1970

In 1970, Wood and Jacobs travelled back to London, and along with Steve Winwood, joined
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. The unified supergroup released one album, before Wood re-joined Traffic.


Traffic: 1970–1974

Wood remained with Traffic from the time of its reformation in 1970, until the group's breakup in 1974. In the recording sessions, Wood introduced the 17th-century traditional song "John Barleycorn" to the band after hearing it on
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album ''Frost and Fire''. It became the title song of their 1970 album '' John Barleycorn Must Die''. In this reincarnation of the Traffic,
Rebop Kwaku Baah Anthony "Rebop" Kwaku Baah (13 February 1944 – 12 January 1983) was a Ghanaian percussionist who worked with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can. Biography Baah was born in 1944 in Konongo, Gold Coast. In the Akan culture of Ghana, Kwa ...
joined in 1971, providing the band with a rhythmic base and dynamism. By the 1970s, Wood came into his own and led the band on an emotional, artistic and mood-setting venture into music. They released '' The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys'' (1971) and ''
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'' (1973), featuring Wood's self-composed song "Tragic Magic".


Session work: 1970s

Throughout the existence of Traffic, Chris was in demand as a session musician with his immediately identifiable flute or saxophone playing. He featured on albums for fellow band members Jim Calpadi, Rebop Kwaku Baah, as well as
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,
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, Fat Mattress, Gordon Jackson, Crawler, The Sky, and
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among others.


Personal life and health

Wood and Jeanette Jacobs married in November 1972, at Kensington Register Office, when he was 28 and she was 22. His wife was unfaithful while he was on tour with Traffic, leading to increased drinking, and to the culmination of
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. Wood eventually cut down on drinking, but his medication caused further complications. Throughout his life, Wood had suffered from addiction to
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and
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, which were initially attributed to a
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. His wife Jeanette, from whom he had separated, died in 1982, at the age of 31, from the effects of a
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. Wood was profoundly affected by her death.


Death and legacy

The death of two close friends, Free's
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and former bandmate
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, along with his former wife, laid very heavily on Wood. In the summer of 1983, Wood suffered from pneumonia. On 12 July 1983 Wood died of
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, aged 39, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in
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.


Vulcan (1983, 2008)

Around the time of his death, Wood was working on a solo album that was to be titled ''Vulcan''. He had recorded material for the album over the previous few years, mostly in London at Island's Hammersmith Studio, The Fall Out Shelter, with engineer Terry Barham, as well as at
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in London. Following Wood's death, the Vulcan recordings remained in the possession of Wood's sister, Stephanie. In 2008, with the consent of Stephanie Wood a CD titled ''Vulcan'', consisting of selected material Wood recorded while working on the incomplete album (plus an unreleased Traffic live performance of one of Wood's compositions), was released by
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.


Far from Home (1994)

Traffic recorded one additional studio album, '' Far from Home'' (1994), after Wood's death. The album was dedicated to him, and the central figure on the front cover is a
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of a man playing flute.


Evening Blue (2017)

In June 2013, on what would have been Wood's 69th birthday, the Chris Wood Estate (run by his sister, Stephanie) announced that a commemorative box set was being prepared – in collaboration with contemporary music archivists HiddenMasters, to properly honour Wood's life in music. Among other music, the set included the album ''Vulcan'' as Chris had originally sequenced it in 1978. The box set ''Evening Blue'' was finally released, three and a half years later, in early 2017. It was a special deluxe first edition, limited to 1,000 copies. For the album booklet, Wood's own instruments were photographed. Jayne Gould, from HiddenMasters, was in charge of the photoshoot in Berkshire Downs, returning to the location of Traffic's cottage. While photographing Wood's flute on a fencepost by the barleycorn field, his flute "got up, stood on its edge, played a few notes about eight or nine, and went back down flat again. It all happened in two minutes." The following weekend, Gould visited a village
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and randomly met Steve Winwood. She recalled the spiritual incident with Wood's flute to him and Winwood confirmed, "Yeah, that would be Chris."


Discography


Solo

*2008 ''Vulcan'' (compilation) *2017 ''Evening Blue'' (box set) *2017 ''Moon Child Vulcan''


with Traffic

*''
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'' (1967) *''
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'' (1968) *'' Last Exit'' (1969) *'' Best of Traffic'' (1969) *'' John Barleycorn Must Die'' (1970) *'' The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys'' (1971) *'' Welcome to the Canteen'' (1971) *''
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'' (1973) *''
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'' (1973) *'' When the Eagle Flies'' (1974) *''Heavy Traffic'' (1975) *''More Heavy Traffic'' (1975) *''Smiling Phases'' (1991) *''Heaven Is In Your Mind – An Introduction To Traffic'' (1998) *''Feelin' Alright: The Very Best Of Traffic'' (2000) *''The Collection'' (2002) *''The Best Of Traffic – The Millennium Collection'' (2003) *'' Traffic Gold'' (2005)


with

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*''
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'' (1970) *Ginger Baker, ''Do What You Like'' (Compilation of Ginger Baker's first three albums, including ''Ginger Baker's Air Force'') (1998)


with others

*''
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'' (
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, 1968) *'' Free'' ( Free, 1969) * Fat Mattress ( Fat Mattress, 1969) *''Fiends and Angels'' ( Martha Velez, 1969) *''O.K. Ken?'' (
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, 1969) *''Thinking Back'' (Gordon Jackson, 1969) *''We Are Everything You See'' (
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, 1969) *''Contribution'' (
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, 1970) *''Don't Hold Back (There In The Greenbriar)'' (
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, 1970) *'' The Cry of Love'' (Jimi Hendrix, 1971) *''Winwood'' (Compilation of Winwood's activities from 1966 to 1970, including material from Traffic) (
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, 1971) *'' Oh How We Danced'' (
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, 1972) *''Rebop'' (
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, 1972) *'' Inside Out'' (
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, 1973) *''Now Hear This'' (
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, 1973) *'' Music from Free Creek'' ( Free Creek, 1973; re-released 1976 as ''Summit Meeting'') *'' Short Cut Draw Blood'' (Jim Capaldi, 1975) *''96 Degrees In The Shade'' (
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, 1977) *''Crawler'' ( Crawler, 1977) *''The Story's Been Told'' (Third World, 1979) *''Funky'' (
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, 1997)


References


External links


Chris Wood official website


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Jim Capaldi website
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