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Bennie Maupin is best-known for his association with Herbie Hancock and his atmospheric bass clarinet taking part in on Kilometers Davis’ vintage Bitches Brew recording. Maupin began playing tenor in senior high school and went to the Detroit Institute for Musical Arts, playing locally in Detroit. He relocated to NY …

A genuine renaissance guy, Gil Melle began his career being a post-bop baritone saxophonist who also composed and painted, afterwards branching out right into a wide selection of artistic and scientific areas. He deserted jazz fairly in early stages in his profession, choosing to create several film and tv ratings …

Among the best tuba soloists because the early ’60s, Howard Johnson is really a versatile instrumentalist who also not only takes on tuba and baritone saxophone but additionally has a competent mastery from the trumpet, pennywhistle, bass clarinet, along with other reeds. The Alabama indigenous moved to NY in 1963, …

The son of Tyree Glenn — a trombonist and vibrophonist who played extensively with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Louis Armstrong — Roger Glenn likewise played vibraphones, but was known most prominently being a flutist. Younger Glenn set up himself on the market with early ‘70s times for Mongo Santamaría, …

The Headhunters represented a significant turning point for Herbie Hancock, whose method of fusion became slicker and much more commercial (though not without substance or integrity) with the forming of this popular music group in 1973. Before that, the chameleonic pianist/keyboardist have been leading a daring device known as the …