Don Heckman

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Donald J. "Don" Heckman (* 18th December 1932 in Reading (Berks County, Pennsylvania) ) is an American jazz - saxophonist (alto) and clarinetist , composer and jazz critic. As a musician he was active in avant-garde jazz and free jazz in the 1960s .

Don Heckman grew up in Miami and first learned the clarinet. He started playing in clubs in the mid-1950s, moved to New York, was with John Benson Brooks from 1960 to 1962 and played frequently with Don Ellis in 1962/63 . He then had his own band and, in the late 1960s, the improvisational jazz workshop with tenor saxophonist Ed Summerlin , with whom he had had an ensemble since 1963. In 1967 they released the album The Don Heckman-Ed Summerlin Improvisational Jazz Workshop (on Ictus Records ), on which Ron Carter and Steve Kuhn played. In 1968 he founded the Electronic Orchestra . He also studied musicology and music theory.

Later he was a jazz critic. He has written columns for Village Voice and the New York Times and is a jazz critic for the Los Angeles Times . He also writes for Jazz Times and wrote for Down Beat . He wrote liner notes for Andrew Hill , Wayne Shorter and Yusef Lateef, among others .

Heckman played on recordings of Blood, Sweat & Tears (fourth album, 1971) and was involved in John Benson Brooks ' collage Avant Slant . Tom Lord's jazz discography lists four recording sessions from 1962 to 1968 in which he played the alto saxophone .

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  1. ^ Biography of Don Heckman at Jazz Times
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, December 24, 2013)
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SURNAME Heckman, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heckman, Donald J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz saxophonist (alto) and clarinetist, composer and jazz critic
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading , Pennsylvania