Harold Murray

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“Atu” Harold Murray (also Black Harold , * approx. 1942) is an American jazz musician ( flute , thumb piano , percussion ) and sculptor .

Live and act

Murray was tutored by Walter Dyett from Dusable High School in Chicago. He first learned the piano, then the baritone saxophone and the flute, before studying the congas ; initially he was the assistant musical director of the High Jinks . In the 1950s he played in important Chicago clubs such as The Trinon, Peps, New Club Delisa and the Regal Theater . Murray moved to New York in the 1960s, where he appeared in the Apollo Theater , Five Spot, and Slug’s . He also worked as a musician with Sun Ra , on whose 1964 album Featuring Pharoah Sanders / Featuring Black Harold he played as a flautist, and in the same year in the Randy Weston Sextet. In 1969 he went to Ghana until 1974, where he performed and continued his studies in traditional music, sculpture and philosophy. On his return to Chicago he founded the "Traditional African Music and Philosophy Society" Sun Drummer , where he met Kahil El'Zabar , whom he taught. He also worked with Big Black . Since the late 1990s he played with the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble ( Ka-Real ).

Discographic notes

  • Ella Jenkins - Rhythms of Childhood ( Folkways Records , 1963)
  • Randy Weston Sextet - Randy! (Băp !! Beep Boo-Bee Băp Beep-M-Boo Bee Băp!) (1964)
  • Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - The Continuum ( Delmark Records , 1997)
  • Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Papa's Bounce ( CIMP , 1998)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review of the album at All About Jazz
  2. ↑ George E. Lewis A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music , Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2008, pp. 317f.
personal data
SURNAME Murray, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murray, Atu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1942