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Bluiett, Hamiet

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Personal name headingBluiett, Hamiet
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See alsoCorporate body: Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group
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Corporate body: Hamiet Bluiett Quartet
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Corporate body: Hamiet Bluiett Sextet
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Corporate body: King/Bluiett Trio
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LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Birth date1940-09-16
Death date2018-10-04
Place of birthSaint Louis (Mo.)
Place of deathBrooklyn (Saint Clair County, Ill.)
Field of activityJazz
Profession or occupationSaxophonists Clarinetists Composers Jazz musicians
Found inHis 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)