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Born June 26, 1944 ( 1944-06-26 ) Origin Birmingham, Alabama, United States Genres Free jazz, avant-garde jazz Instruments Tenor saxophone, flute, recorder, bass clarinet, piano, vocals Associated acts Noah Howard, Milford Graves, Rudolph Grey, The Blue Humans Died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, United Kingdom Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, Joseph Bell Spouse Jean Leckie (m. 1907–1930), Louisa Hawkins (m. 1885–1906) Books The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Sherlo, The Memoirs of Sherlock, A Study in Scarlet, The Valley of Fear Similar People Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens | ||
Occupation(s) Performer, composer | ||
Arthur Doyle (June 26, 1944 – January 25, 2014) was an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, zanzithophonist and vocalist.
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Biography
He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1944. He was inspired to play the saxophone as child, after watching Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington play music on television. He received a degree in Music Education from Tennessee State University and performed with Gladys Knight & the Pips, among others, in the R&B genre. He also toured in Detroit. Arthur Doyle appeared on Noah Howard's album The Black Ark. He would later appear on Milford Grave's album Babi Music, and Alan Silva's Desert Music, as well as performances with The Blue Humans. His first recording session as a leader was on Alabama Feeling, released in 1978. He appeared on a number of recordings in the 1990s and early 2000s as a leader, solo artist, or sideman.
Arthur Doyle's name appeared on a Sonic Youth song, "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" (originally titled "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream") from their album Sonic Nurse. According to Thurston Moore, the song:
juxtaposes the two extremes of Sonic Youth's eclectic mix of influences. "We could, on the one hand, be interested in a popular figure as ubiquitous as Mariah and on the other hand, we're obviously interested in people [like free-jazz saxophonist Arthur Doyle] that are working on the fringes of the musical world. We operate much more on the fringes and with people from that world as our peers than we do in the world of the big-time music business. Our peers are mostly people from the underground."
Discography
2013 A doc of Arthur Doyle's final tour is made entitled THE LIFE LOVE AND HATE OF A FREE JAZZ MAN AND HIS WOMAN directed by Jorge Torres-Torres.