biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Jazz musician, born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. An iconoclastic saxophonist and composer, his experiments in free-form improvization sharply divided the jazz establishment upon his emergence in 1959. Largely self-taught, he played in rhythm-and-blues bands before settling in Los Angeles (1951), where he gradually formed a quartet of musicians who were receptive to his unorthodox ideas. He first recorded in 1958, debuted in New York the next year, and made a series of important recordings (1959–61) that shaped the direction of jazz for the next 20 years. A sporadic performing artist after the early 1960s, he occasionally led both a conventional jazz quartet and the rock band Prime Time, but turned increasingly to composition, producing several works for symphony orchestra in accordance with his ‘harmolodic theory’. |
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