| LC control no. | no 91030718 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | McIntyre, Kalaparusha Maurice, 1936-2013 |
| Variant(s) | Ahrah, Difda Kalaparusha, 1936-2013 Difda, Kalaparusha Ahrah, 1936-2013 Kalaparush, 1936-2013 Kalaparusha, 1936-2013 McIntyre, Maurice, 1936-2013 McIntyre, Maurice Benford, 1936-2013 |
| See also | Corporate body: Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre Quartet |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19360324 |
| Death date | 20131109 |
| Place of birth | Clarksville (Ark.) |
| Place of death | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz Avant-garde (Music) |
| Affiliation | Roosevelt University Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Creative Music Studio |
| Profession or occupation | Saxophonists Jazz musicians |
| Found in | His Humility in the light of the creator [SR] 1969: labels (Maurice McIntyre; Difda Kalaparusha Ahrah) The New Grove dict. of jazz (McIntyre, Kalaparusha Maurice (Difda, Kalaparusha Ahrah; Kalaparush(a); McIntyre, Maurice (Benford)); b. 3-24-36, Clarksville, AR; tenor saxophonist) New York times (online), viewed Nov. 20, 2013 (in obituary published Nov. 14: Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre; b. Maurice Benford McIntyre, Mar. 24, 1936, Clarksville, Ark.; raised in Chicago; adopted the name Kalaparusha Ahrah Difda, a confluence of terms from African, Indian, and astrological sources, in 1969; later modified it to Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre; moved to New York in 1974; d. Saturday [Nov. 9, 2013], in the Bronx, aged 77; saxophonist who was a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a pioneering Chicago avant-garde coalition ) African American National Biography, accessed April 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (McIntyre, Kalaparusha Maurice; Maurice Benford McIntyre; Kalaparusha Ahrah Difda; jazz musician, saxophonist; born 24 March 1936 in Clarksville, Arkansas, United States; studied music at Roosevelt University, Chicago; arrested in Chicago and sent to prison with three-year sentence (Lexington, Kentucky) (1950s); continued his musical education in prison; co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians; played with Mr. Abrams's Experimental Band, Chicago (1966); taught at Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York (1974); released solo albums (1969, 2000, 2004, 2005); was filmed playing music in subway stations in short documentary (2010); died 09 November 2013 in Bronx, New York, United States) |
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