Arthur Doyle

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Arthur Roy Doyle (born June 26, 1944 in Birmingham , Alabama , † January 25, 2014 ) was an American jazz musician ( saxophone , flute , vocals ).

Life

Doyle graduated from Tennessee State University , where he entered the Nashville music scene and played with Louis Smith and Walter Miller. After a short stay in Detroit , where he played in Charles Moore's big band , he returned to Alabama to join the R&B band Johnny Jones & the King Casuals. At the age of 23, Doyle finally moved to New York, where he began his professional career in the late 1960s, when he was involved in the recordings of Noah Howard ( The Black Arc , 1969) and Milford Graves (1976). He played in the second half of the 1970s with his quintet formation Arthur Doyle +4 , which also included Sun Ra bassist Richard Williams. In 1978 the album Alabama Feeling was created . This was followed by a collaboration with guitarists Rudolph Gray and Beaver Harris , as well as with Pharoah Sanders and the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Due to the financially unsatisfactory situation for free jazz musicians in the United States, Doyle moved to Paris in 1982. A lengthy stay in prison brought him to composing. On his return to New York he recorded some of these compositions, which appeared on the albums Plays and Sings from the Songbook (1992), Songwriter (1994) and Do the Breakdown (1997). In the 1990s, Doyle worked with Wilber Morris , Rashid Bakr , Sunny Murray , Keiji Haino , Thurston Moore and again with Rudolph Gray and Noah Howard ( Dawn of a New Vibration , with Sunny Murray). From the beginning of the 2000s he worked with his formations Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and Arthur Doyle's Free Jazz Soul Orchestra , a. a. with Ed Wilcox .

Arthur Doyle combined elements of avant-garde jazz with gospel and rhythm and blues in what he called Free Jazz Soul . He remains a cult figure about whom free jazz listeners are divided, according to the jazz magazine Coda .

Discographic notes

  • 1994: The Songwriter
  • 1995: Plays and Sings from the Songbook, Vol. 1
  • 2001: Live at the Glenn Miller Café

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Burning Ambulance
  2. ↑ Arthur Doyle at Allmusic (English)
  3. ^ Coda magazine 2003, Issues 307-312
personal data
SURNAME Doyle, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doyle, Arthur Roy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (saxophone, flute, vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2014