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Jarman, Joseph

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Personal name headingJarman, Joseph
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See alsoCorporate body: Art Ensemble of Chicago
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedChicago (Ill.)
Birth date1937-09-14
Death date2019-01-09
Place of birthPine Bluff (Ark.)
Place of deathEnglewood (N.J.)
AffiliationChicago Conservatory of Music Art Ensemble of Chicago
Wilson Junior College (Chicago, Ill.) Muhal Richard Abrams's Experimental Band
Profession or occupationComposers Jazz musicians
Found inArt Ensemble of Chicago. Thelonious Sphere Monk [SR] p1991: container insert (Joseph Jarman)
Grove music online, July 6, 2009: Jazz (Jarman, Joseph; b. Sept. 14, 1937, Pine Bluff, AR; American reed player and composer; founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago)
African American National Biography, accessed February 18, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Jarman, Joseph; composer / arranger, jazz musician; born 14 September 1937 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States; studied music at Wilson Junior College, Chicago City College, and the Chicago Conservatory (1958); joined Muhal Richard Abrams's Experimental Band; first recorded with the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago (1967); pioneer in playing unaccompanied saxophone solos in concert)
New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 15, 2019 (in obituary published Jan. 11: Joseph Jarman; b. Sept. 14, 1937, Pine Bluff, Ark.; grew up in Chicago; d. Wednesday [Jan. 9, 2019], Englewood, N.J., aged 81; saxophonist, flutist, woodwind player, and percussionist who helped expand the parameters of performance in avant-garde jazz, especially as a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago)