Arthur Doyle
| Arthur Doyle | |
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 Doyle in 2011 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | June 26, 1944 |
| Origin | Birmingham, Alabama, United States |
| Died | January 25, 2014 (aged 69) |
| Genres | Free jazz, avant-garde jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Performer, composer |
| Instruments | Tenor saxophone, flute, recorder, bass clarinet, piano, vocals |
| Associated acts | Noah Howard, Milford Graves, Rudolph Grey, The Blue Humans |
Arthur Doyle (June 26, 1944 – January 25, 2014) was an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, zanzithophonist and vocalist.[1]
Biography
He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1944. He was inspired to play the saxophone as child, after watching Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington play music on television. He received a degree in Music Education from Tennessee State University and performed with Gladys Knight & the Pips, among others, in the R&B genre. He also toured in Detroit.[2]
Arthur Doyle's name appeared on a Sonic Youth song, "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" (originally titled "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream") from their album Sonic Nurse. According to Thurston Moore, the song:
juxtaposes the two extremes of Sonic Youth's eclectic mix of influences. "We could, on the one hand, be interested in a popular figure as ubiquitous as Mariah and on the other hand, we're obviously interested in people [like free-jazz saxophonist Arthur Doyle] that are working on the fringes of the musical world. We operate much more on the fringes and with people from that world as our peers than we do in the world of the big-time music business. Our peers are mostly people from the underground."[3]
Discography
| Date | Album | Notes | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Alabama Feeling | debut as leader | AK-BA |
| 1993 | More Alabama Feeling | - | Forced Exposure |
| 1995 | Plays and Sings from the Songbook, Volume 1 | - | Audible Hiss |
| 1996 | Live at the Cooler | 1995 gig with Rudolph Grey on guitar. | The Lotus Sound |
| 1997 | The Songwriter | - | Ecstatic Peace! |
| 1997 | Do the Breakdown | - | Ain-Soph |
| 2000 | A Prayer For Peace | - | Zugswang |
| 2002 | Live at the Dorsch Gallery | - | Carbon |
| 2003 | Egg Head | 7" single | Hell's Half Halo |
| 2005 | No More Crazy Women | - | Qbico |
| 2005 | No More Evil Women Tour | - | Carbon |
| 2009 | Ghosts II | 7" single (with Rudolph Grey on guitar) | Foreign Frequency |
| 2001 | Plays the African Love Call | - | Ecstatic YOD |
| 2002 | Conspiracy Nation | - | Qbico |
| 2004 | National Conspiracy | Remix of pre-recorded and live material | Carbon |
| 2005 | Patriotic Act | - | Qbico |
| 2000 | Dawn of a New Vibration | Sunny Murray | Fractal |
| 2001 | Live at the Glenn Miller Cafe | Sunny Murray | Ayler |
| 2003 | Live in Japan, 1997 | Takashi Mizutani/Sabu Toyozumi | Qbico |
| 2003 | The Basement Tapes | Edward Perraud/Dan Warburton | Durto |
| 2004 | Your Spirit is Calling | Hamid Drake | Qbico |
| Year | Artist | Album | Label |
| 1969 | Noah Howard | The Black Ark | Freedom Records |
| 1976 | Milford Graves | Babi Music | IPS |
| 1982 | Celestial Communication Orchestra | Desert Mirage | IAPC |
| 1988 | Rudolph Grey | Transfixed | New Alliance |
| 1989 | Sun Ra | Someday My Prince Will Come - Second Star To The Right: Salute to Walt Disney | Leo |
| 1995 | The Blue Humans | Live NY 1980 | Audible Hiss |
| 2002 | Konx | Wholy Ghost | Eyedrum |
2013 A doc of Arthur Doyle's final tour is made entitled THE LIFE LOVE AND HATE OF A FREE JAZZ MAN AND HIS WOMAN directed by Jorge Torres-Torres.
References
- ↑ "Arthur Doyle 1944-2014". Burning Ambulance. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
- ↑ Artist Profiles: Arthur Doyle
- ↑ Sonic Youth's Ongoing Experiment, by Jennifer Kelly, July 12, 2004
External links
- Arthur Doyle at AllMusic
- Arthur Doyle - Me, Myself by Dave Cross
- A fireside chat with Arthur Doyle in Jazz Weekly
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