Ken McIntyre

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"Makanda" Ken McIntyre (actually Kenneth Arthur McIntyre , born September 7, 1931 in Boston , † June 13, 2001 in New York City ) was an American jazz musician ( alto saxophone , clarinet , oboe, bass clarinet, piano and flute), composer , Arranger, band leader and university professor.

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After two years of military service in the US Army , McIntyre completed his studies with a bachelor's degree in music composition at the Boston Conservatory in 1958. In 1975 he earned his doctorate ( Doctor of Education ) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst . At the beginning of the 1960s he worked with Eric Dolphy , among others , who also appeared on his second album Looking Ahead (1960). The Year of The Iron Sheep was created in 1962 .

After that he worked primarily as a music teacher. In 1971, McIntyre founded the first African American music program at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury , where he taught for 24 years. He also worked at Wesleyan University (where he recorded with Richard Harper and collaborated with Daoud A. Haroon), Smith College, Central State University and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.

In the 1970s he recorded a few albums under his own name for the Steeplechase jazz label , on which musicians such as Kenny Drew , Reggie Workman , Jaki Byard and Buster Williams played. He has also worked with jazz musicians such as Nat Adderley , Beaver Harris , Ron Carter , David Murray as well as with the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and with Charlie Haden and its Liberation Music Orchestra . McIntyre also wrote over 400 compositions and about 200 arrangements. As a jazz researcher, he also researched the roots of Afro-American musical cultures in the Caribbean and Africa, as well as blues , jazz and calypso . His collection is now in the Library of Congress .

In the early 1990s he changed his name to "Makanda Ken McIntyre". McIntyre retired in 1996 and died in New York City at the age of seventy .

In addition to his main instrument, the alto saxophone, McIntyre also played other woodwind instruments, as well as bass, drums and piano.

Discography (selection)

As a leader

As a sideman

  • Cecil Taylor : Open Structure (Blue Note, 1966)
  • Nat Adderley: Don't Look Back (Steeplechase, 1976)
  • Liberation Music Orchestra, Dream Keeper (Blue Note, 1990)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He recorded his first album, Stone Blues , in 1960 with musicians from Boston with whom he had rehearsed a few years earlier.
  2. ^ The session was later republished by Michael Cuscuna , a great admirer of McIntyre, with previously unpublished material from these sessions; published under the title The Complete United Artists Sessions on Blue Note Records
  3. ↑ During a performance in Zimbabwe , a stranger pressed a piece of paper into his hand that said “Makanda”; the word means "many faces" in the language of the Ndebele and "many heads" in the language of the Shona .
personal data
SURNAME McIntyre, Ken
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McIntyre, Makanda Ken
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz alto saxophonist, oboist, flautist and clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2001
Place of death New York City