| LC control no. | n 82001697 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Murray, Sunny |
| Variant(s) | Murray, Sonny Murray, James Marcellus Arthur, Jr. Murray, Arthur, 1936-2017 |
| Located | Philadelphia (Pa.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1936-09-21 |
| Death date | 2017-12-07 |
| Place of birth | Idabel (Okla.) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | Free jazz |
| Profession or occupation | Drummers (Musicians) Jazz musicians |
| Found in | Author's Sunny Murray. [Phonodisc] 1968. Ayler, A. Bells [SR] 1965: container (Sonny Murray, percussion) New Grove dict. of jazz (Murray, Sunny (James Marcellus Arthur); b. 9-21-37, Idabel, OK; drummer) Taylor, C. Cecil Taylor live at the Montmartre [SR] 1964?: container (Arthur Murray, drums; Sonny Murray) New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 15, 2017 (in obituary published Dec. 14: Sunny Murray; James Marcellus Arthur Murray Jr.; b. Sept. 21, 1936, Idabel, Okla.; grew up in Philadelphia; moved to New York in 1956; moved to Paris in 1968; returned to New York in the 1970s but soon moved back to Europe, where he lived for the rest of his life; d. Dec. 7, Paris, aged 81; influential drummer who was among the first to define a personal style in the free-jazz idiom) |
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