David Murray
USA
Born: 19 February 1955
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Free Jazz, Experimental Big Band, Avant-Garde Jazz, Big Band/Swing, Modern Creative, Mainstream Jazz, Bop, New Orleans/Classic Jazz
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Initially an inheritor of an abstract/expressionist improvising style originated in the '60s by such saxophonists as Albert Ayler and Archie Shepp, David Murray eventually evolved into something of a mainstream tenorist, playing standards with conventional rhythm sections. However, Murray's readings of the old chestnuts are vastly different from interpretations by bebop saxophonists of his generation. Murray's sound is deep, dark, and furry with a wide vibrato -- reminiscent of such swing-era tenorists as Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins. And hi...
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See also
- World Saxophone Quartet (8)
- M-Base Collective (2)
- Olu Dara (1)
Similar artists
- Roscoe Mitchell (11)
- Frank Wright (2)
Influenced by
- Duke Ellington (169)
- John Coltrane (110)
- Charlie Parker (59)
- Ben Webster (53)
- Sonny Rollins (51)
- Ornette Coleman (47)
- Coleman Hawkins (30)
- Charles Mingus (19)
- Archie Shepp (13)
- Albert Ayler (10)
- Bobby Bradford (9)
- Paul Gonsalves (2)
Followers
- John Petrucci (6)
- John Hicks (5)
- NOW Orchestra (1)
- Hamiet Bluiett (0)
Performed Songs By
- Dave Burrell (3)
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