Harold McNair

b. 5 November 1931, Kingston, Jamaica, Western world Indies, d. 7 March 1971, London, Britain. After playing calypso music only a small amount G within the comparative obscurity of his homeland and the Bahamas, saxophonist McNair visited America and European countries in the past due 50. He started using jazz musicians such as for example Kenny Clarke and Quincy Jones and in addition led his very own little group, switching frequently between saxophone as well as the recently learned flute. It had been on the last mentioned device that McNair would become better known, along with his exclusive phrasing gaining him some non-jazz periods with performers including Donovan, John Martyn, and CCS. For some time he commuted between European countries and the united states, eventually producing London his bottom within the mid-60s. From after that until his untimely loss of life from lung cancers in 1971, McNair caused British isles and American mainstream and contemporary music artists, and was also mixed up in studios. In afterwards years, his music was often ‘raided’ by samplers.