| LC control no. | n 78048852 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bluiett, Hamiet |
| See also | Corporate body: Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group Corporate body: Hamiet Bluiett Quartet Corporate body: Hamiet Bluiett Sextet Corporate body: King/Bluiett Trio |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1940-09-16 |
| Death date | 2018-10-04 |
| Place of birth | Saint Louis (Mo.) |
| Place of death | Brooklyn (Saint Clair County, Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Profession or occupation | Saxophonists Clarinetists Composers Jazz musicians |
| Found in | His Glory [SR] p1977: cont. (Hamiet Bluiett; jazz composer, saxophone player, clarinetist, singer) New Grove dict. of jazz (Bluiett, Hamiet; b. 1940, Lovejoy, near East St. Louis, IL; baritone saxophonist) New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 9, 2018 (in obituary published Oct. 7: Hamiet Bluiett; b. Hamiet Ashford Bluiett Jr., Sept. 16, 1940, St. Louis; moved as a child to nearby Brooklyn, Ill.; moved to New York in 1969; moved back to Brooklyn, Ill. in 2002; d. there Thursday [Oct. 4, 2018], aged 78; baritone saxophonist who expanded the possibilities of his instrument while connecting the jazz avant-garde with a broad view of its own history) |
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