Bill Barron (musician)
Bill Barron | |
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Birth name | William Barron, Jr. |
Born |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US | March 27, 1927
Died |
September 21, 1989 62) Middletown, Connecticut, US | (aged
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician, educator |
Instruments | Saxophone, clarinet |
Associated acts | Ted Curson, Cecil Taylor, Kenny Barron |
William Barron, Jr. (March 27, 1927 – September 21, 1989)[1] was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.[1]
Barron was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] He first appeared on a Cecil Taylor recording in 1959, and he later recorded extensively with Philly Joe Jones and co-led a post-bop quartet with Ted Curson. His younger brother, pianist Kenny Barron, appeared on all of the sessions that the elder Barron led.[1][2] Other musicians he recorded with included Charles Mingus and Ollie Shearer.
Barron also directed a jazz workshop at the Children's Museum in Brooklyn, taught at City College of New York, and became the chairman of the music department at Wesleyan University.[1] He recorded for Savoy, recording that label's last jazz record in 1972,[1] and Muse. The Bill Barron Collection is housed at the Institute of Jazz Studies of the Rutgers University libraries.[3]
Barron died in Middletown, Connecticut.[1]
Discography
As leader
- 1961: The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron (Savoy)
- 1961: Modern Windows (Savoy)
- 1962: Hot Line (Savoy)
- 1963: West Side Story Bossa Nova (Dauntless)
- 1963: Now Hear This! (Audio Fidelity) with Ted Curson
- 1966: A Swedish-American Venture (Dragon)
- 1972: Motivation (Savoy)
- 1978: Jazz Caper (Muse) - released 1982
- 1983: Variations in Blue (Muse)
- 1985: Compilation (Cadence)
- 1985: Live at Cobi's 2 (SteepleChase) with Kenny Barron
- 1987: The Next Plateau (Muse)
- 1987-88: Live at Cobi's (SteepleChase)
- 1989: 'Higher Ground (Joken)
As sideman
With Kenny Barron
- Lucifer (Muse, 1975)
With Cecil Taylor
- Love for Sale (United Artists, 1959)
With Philly Joe Jones
- Showcase (Riverside, 1959)
- Philly Joe's Beat (Atlantic, 1960)
With Ted Curson
- Plenty of Horn (Old Town, 1961)
- Tears for Dolphy (Fontana, 1964)
- Flip Top (Freedom, 1964 [1977])
- The New Thing & the Blue Thing (Atlantic, 1965)
- Snake Johnson (Chiaroscuro, 1981)
With Charles Mingus
- Mingus Revisited (Limelight, 1960 [1965])
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yanow, Scott. Bill Barron at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ↑ Jazz discography.com
- ↑ "The William "Bill" Barron (1927 – 1989) Collection" (PDF).