Rickey Woodard gained early experience in a family band. Woodard joined Ray Charles after he graduated from Tennessee State University in 1980. Woodard moved to Los Angeles in 1988 to record (both as a leader as well as as a sideman) with Concord Records. He has also been a member and leader of quartets and was a member the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and the Juggernaut. Allmusic
