Hamiet Bluiett Sextet

b. 16 Sept 1940, Lovejoy, Illinois, USA. Bluiett was trained music by his aunt, who directed a choir, and begun to play the clarinet at age nine. He afterwards researched flute and baritone saxophone at Southern Illinois College or university, then spent many years within the navy. Within the middle-60s he shifted to St. Louis, where he researched with George Hudson and became section of a collective of dark musicians, later to become called Handbag (Black Performers Group). In 1969 he relocated to NY, where he caused the Sam Streams Large Outfit, the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Music group, Abdullah Ibrahim, Julius Hemphill, Charles Mingus and Don Pullen in addition to soul performers Aretha Franklin and Stevie Question. In Dec 1976 he helped to create the entire world Saxophone Quartet for any concert in New Orleans, which has since end up being the most noticeable display for his plans and sterling baritone saxophone. In 1981, he documented with Lester Bowie around the trumpeter’s THE FANTASTIC Pretender, adding amusing, growling saxophone towards the name track. Bluiett in addition has recorded an extraordinary group of albums as innovator (featuring musicians such as for example Pullen, Fred Hopkins, Don Moye, Ed Cherry, Nasheet Waits, Jaribu Shahid, John Hicks and Marvin ‘Smitty’ Smith), including a concert along with his clarinet group, the Clarinet Family members.