Nathan Woods is a US jazz woodwind player from Springfield, United States. The available information links him with hard bop, jazz and post-bop, and places him in a range of ensembles including The Phil Woods Quintet, The Phil Woods Quintet + One, The Phil Woods Six, Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine, Dizzy Gillespie-Phil Woods All Stars, Phil Woods / Lee Konitz / Enrico Rava 6et, The Bill Crow-Phil Woods All Stars, Quincy Jones and His Orchestra, Clark Terry Septet, Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Thelonious Monk Nonet and The Thelonious Monk Orchestra. He is born in 1931 and dies in 2015.