About
Avant-garde composer and musician who was associated with the free jazz movement and played the trumpet, piano, and flugelhorn.
Before Fame
He studied visual art at Boston University and the Art Students League and later attended the Hartnette Conservatory of Music.
Trivia
He taught in the Music Department at Bennington College in Vermont for nearly thirty years.
Family Life
He and his family moved from Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Harlem when he was seven years old.
Associated With
He collaborated with Cecil Taylor on Taylor's 1966 jazz album Conquistador!
