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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1938-01-24
- Active to
- 1995-04-02
avant-garde jazzexperimental big bandfree jazzjazzmodern creativethird stream
Discography
- Dogon A.D.1972
- Coon Bid'Ness1975
- Raw Materials and Residuals1977
- Big Band1988
- Fat Man and the Hard Blues1991
- Oakland Duets1993
- Reflections1995
- Chile New York1998
- Blue Boyé1999
- Buster Bee2002
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February 24, 1938, Fort Worth, Texas - April 2, 1995, New York City) was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone; less often soprano and tenor saxophones and flute. Hemphill was born in Fort Worth, Texas (also, incidentally, the hometown of Ornette Coleman), and studied the clarinet before learning saxophone. Gerry Mulligan was an early influence. Hemphill joined the United States Army in 1964, and served for several years, and later performed with Ike Turner
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Julius
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Fort Worth
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Educated at
- Lincoln University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Bessie Awards
- Genre
- Afro-Cuban jazz
- Instrument
- alto saxophone
- Image
- Julius Hemphill.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1938-01-24
- date of death
- 1995-04-02
- Commons category
- Julius Hemphill
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- member of
- World Saxophone Quartet
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