James "Biddy" Wood was a film journalist, promoter, and disc jockey.
[4] Wood graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore and served in the military as a staff sergeant with the United States Army during World War II.
He also documented the jazz activity and other nightlife along Baltimore's Pennsylvania Avenue, and researched and produced newsreels with William D. Alexander[6] Wood also owned a jazz club called the Sweet Chariot Gospel Night Club in New York[7][8] In his final years, Wood lived in Baltimore's Bolton Hill neighborhood.
Wood died from respiratory failure int the hospice unit of Harbor Hospital Center in Baltimore on October 7, 2011 at age 87.
Wood was interred at the Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery in Owings Mills, Maryland.