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Jimmy Lyons

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Jimmy Lyons (December 1, 1931 – May 19, 1986) was an alto saxophone player. [1]

53 relations: Akisakila, Alan Silva, Alto saxophone, Andrew Cyrille, Archie Shepp, Avant-garde jazz, Bassoon, Black Rhythm Happening, Black Saint/Soul Note, Buster Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor Unit, Charlie Parker, Communication (Jazz Composer's Orchestra album), Conquistador!, Dark to Themselves, Eddie Gale, Enrico Rava, Escalator over the Hill, Free jazz, Give It Up (Jimmy Lyons album), Great American Music Hall, Harlem, Into the Hot (Gil Evans album), It Is in the Brewing Luminous, Jay Oliver, Jazz, Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Jersey City, New Jersey, John Lindberg (jazz musician), Karen Borca, Korea, Lester Bowie, Live in the Black Forest, Mixed (album), Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come, New Jersey, Nuba (album), One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye, Raphe Malik, Sam Rivers, Spring of Two Blue J's, Student Studies, Sunny Murray, The Bronx, The Eighth, The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor, Unit Structures, United States Army, Wee Sneezawee, ..., William Parker (musician), Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants), 3 Phasis. Expand index (3 more) »

Akisakila

Akisakila is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at Koseinenkin Dai-Hall, in Tokyo in May 1973 and originally released on the Japanese Trio label as a double LP.

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Alan Silva

Alan Silva (born Alan Lee da Silva; January 22, 1939 in Bermuda) is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.

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Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846.

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Andrew Cyrille

Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer.

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Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.

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Black Rhythm Happening

Black Rhythm Happening is the second album by American trumpeter Eddie Gale recorded in 1969 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Black Saint/Soul Note

Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian independent record labels.

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Buster Bailey

William C. "Buster" Bailey (July 19, 1902 – April 12, 1967) was a jazz clarinetist.

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Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor (March 15, 1929 - April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet.

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Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor Unit is an album by Cecil Taylor recorded in April 1978 and released on the New World label.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Communication (Jazz Composer's Orchestra album)

Communication is the debut album by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra featuring compositions by Michael Mantler and Carla Bley performed by Paul Bley, Steve Lacy, Jimmy Lyons, Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp, John Tchicai, Fred Pirtle, Willie Ruff, Ken McIntyre, Robin Kenyatta, Bob Carducci, Kent Carter, Steve Swallow, Milford Graves, and Barry Altschul.

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Conquistador!

Conquistador! is an album by Cecil Taylor released on the Blue Note label.

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Dark to Themselves

Dark to Themselves is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at the Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Yugoslavia on June 18, 1976 and released on the Enja label.

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Eddie Gale

Edward Gale Stevens Jr. (born August 15, 1941), better known as Eddie Gale, is an American trumpeter known for his work in free jazz, especially with the Sun Ra Arkestra.

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Enrico Rava

Enrico Rava (born 20 August 1939), is an Italian jazz trumpeter.

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Escalator over the Hill

Escalator Over the Hill (or EOTH) is mostly referred to as a jazz opera, but it was released as a "chronotransduction" with "words by Paul Haines, adaptation and music by Carla Bley, production and coordination by Michael Mantler", performed by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra.

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Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 60s as musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes or tempos.

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Give It Up (Jimmy Lyons album)

Give It Up is an album by American jazz saxophonist Jimmy Lyons recorded in 1985 for the Italian Black Saint label.

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Great American Music Hall

The Great American Music Hall is a concert hall in San Francisco, California.

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Harlem

Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Into the Hot (Gil Evans album)

Into the Hot is an album released under the auspices of Gil Evans featuring a large ensemble under the direction of John Carisi and the Cecil Taylor Unit.

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It Is in the Brewing Luminous

It is in the Brewing Luminous is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at Fat Tuesdays, NYC, on February 8 & 9, 1980 and released on the Hat Hut label.

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Jay Oliver

Jay Russell Oliver (born April 26, 1959) is an American jazz musician (piano, keyboards and synths), composer, record producer, programmer & engineer.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz Composer's Orchestra

The Jazz Composer's Orchestra was an American jazz group founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in 1965 to further orchestral avant-garde jazz.

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Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most-populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.

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John Lindberg (jazz musician)

John Lindberg (born March 16, 1959 in Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American jazz double-bassist.

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Karen Borca

Karen Borca (born September 5, 1948, Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States) is an American avant-garde jazz and free jazz bassoonist.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Lester Bowie

Lester Bowie (October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999) was an American jazz trumpet player and composer.

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Live in the Black Forest

Live in the Black Forest is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in June 1978 and released on the MPS label.

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Mixed (album)

Mixed is a compilation album of two avant-garde jazz sessions featuring performances by the Cecil Taylor Unit and the Roswell Rudd Sextet.

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Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come

Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come is an album by the Cecil Taylor Unit, recorded live at the Café Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 23, 1962.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Nuba (album)

Nuba is an album by American jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille, vocalist Jeanne Lee, and saxophonist Jimmy Lyons recorded in 1979 for the Italian Black Saint label.

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One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye

One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in Stuttgart, Germany, on June 14, 1978 and released on the Hat Hut label.

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Raphe Malik

Raphe Malik, born Laurence Mazel (November 1, 1948 in Cambridge, Massachusetts – March 8, 2006 in Guilford, Vermont) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Sam Rivers

Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011) was an American jazz musician and composer.

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Spring of Two Blue J's

Spring of Two Blue J's is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at The Town Hall in New York City in November 1973 and originally released on Taylor's Unit Core label and rereleased on the Jazz View label.

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Student Studies

Student Studies is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in November 1966 and released on the Japanese BYG label as an untitled 2-LP set in 1973.

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Sunny Murray

James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray (September 21, 1936 – December 7, 2017) was one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Eighth

The Eighth is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at 2nd Freiburger Jazztage in Freiburg, Germany on November 8, 1981 and released on the Hat Hut label.

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The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor

The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in St.

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Unit Structures

Unit Structures is a 1966 studio album by free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, released by Blue Note Records.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Wee Sneezawee

Wee Sneezawee is an album by American jazz saxophonist Jimmy Lyons recorded in 1983 for the Italian Black Saint label.

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William Parker (musician)

William Parker (born January 10, 1952) is an American free jazz double bassist, multi-instrumentalist, poet and composer.

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Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)

Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) is an album by Cecil Taylor recorded in Milan, Italy on October 22–24, 1984 and released on the Soul Note label.

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3 Phasis

3 Phasis is an album by Cecil Taylor recorded in April 1978 and released on the New World label.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lyons

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