[6] Wood is a member of Valley of the Dolls, with Janet Planet, Connie Grauer and Kim Zick, who have released an album entitled High.
[9][1] On one of her near-yearly trips to Finland she was listening to jazz trumpeter Art Farmer's recording of Swedish folk songs, To Sweden with Love (1964), and decided to record "simple and hauntingly beautiful Finnish folk songs, instrumentally and in a jazz style.
[1] The foundation awarded her two grants: the first to research and produce a follow-up to Synkkä Metsä; the other for traveling the USA performing the Finnish folk songs in jazz styles.
[3] Juli Wood's four grandparents immigrated from the Ostrobothnia region in Finland in the early 1900s to Minnesota’s Iron Range, and Duluth.
[6] She soon joined the R&B Cadets, with singer Robyn Pluer, and John and Mike Sieger who later broke off to form Semi-Twang; a later version of the Cadets would include Paul Cebar who had a knack for unearthing obscure jazz songs that made for great cover songs.
[6] She had a side project with Pluer and a jazz duo Mrs. Fun called Rhythm Club; Wood was also teaching saxophone to up to forty students during the work week at several venues.
Paul Minnesota, commuting back after playing two or more clubs and events; Wood enjoyed the time but also found the live band was too loud to be sustained.
"Saxophonist Juli Wood jazzes up Finnish folk tunes; performs at Merrimans' in South Bend".