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Malachi Favors
Malachi Favors
American bassist
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Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill
American jazz musician
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Douglas Ewart
Douglas Ewart
American musician
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Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith
American jazz trumpeter and composer
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Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams
American musician
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Thurman Barker
Thurman Barker
American jazz drummer
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Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Cyrille
American avant-garde jazz drummer
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Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
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Leroy Jenkins
Leroy Jenkins
composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist
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Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie
American jazz trumpet player and composer (1941-1999)
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Sunny Murray
Sunny Murray
American drummer
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Joseph Jarman
Joseph Jarman
American jazz musician
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Craig S. Harris
Craig S. Harris
American musician
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Arthur Blythe
Arthur Blythe
American musician
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Don Moye
Don Moye
American percussionist
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Reggie Nicholson
Reggie Nicholson
American musician
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Dave Burrell
Dave Burrell
American musician
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John Purcell
John Purcell
American jazz saxophonist
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Ari Brown
Ari Brown
American musician
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Warren Smith
Warren Smith
American musician
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Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
American saxophonist
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Cecil McBee
Cecil McBee
American bassist
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Alan Silva
Alan Silva
American musician
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Bob Stewart
Bob Stewart
American musician
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Jaribu Shahid
Jaribu Shahid
American jazz bassist
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Tani Tabbal
Tani Tabbal
American jazz drummer
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Amina Claudine Myers
Amina Claudine Myers
American musician
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James Emery
James Emery
American musician
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George Lewis
George Lewis
composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar
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Ray Anderson
Ray Anderson
American trombonist/jazz/trumpet player
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Barry Altschul
Barry Altschul
American drummer
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Marion Brown
Marion Brown
American saxophonist
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Baikida Carroll
Baikida Carroll
American musician
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Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee
American singer
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Michael Philip Mossman
Michael Philip Mossman
American musician
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Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff
German jazz trombonist
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Richard Teitelbaum
Richard Teitelbaum
American composer
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Jodie Christian
Jodie Christian
Jazz pianist
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Enrico Rava
Enrico Rava
Italian trumpeter
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Ahmed Abdullah
Ahmed Abdullah
jazz musician
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Hugh Ragin
Hugh Ragin
American musician
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Manfred Schoof
Manfred Schoof
German musician
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Clifford Thornton
Clifford Thornton
American musician
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Bob Degen
Bob Degen
American musician
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Diedre Murray
Diedre Murray
American composer
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Cecil Bridgewater
Cecil Bridgewater
American jazz trumpeter
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Abdul Wadud
Abdul Wadud
musician
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Dewey Redman
Dewey Redman
American saxophonist
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Bob Moses
Bob Moses
American musician
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Eddie Allen
Eddie Allen
jazz musician
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Albert Heath
Albert Heath
American drummer
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Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer
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Olu Dara
Olu Dara
American musician
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Hamiet Bluiett
Hamiet Bluiett
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer
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Alvin Fielder
Alvin Fielder
American drummer
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Kahil El'Zabar
Kahil El'Zabar
American musician
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Mark Helias
Mark Helias
American musician
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Charles "Bobo" Shaw
Charles "Bobo" Shaw
American musician
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Alexander von Schlippenbach
Alexander von Schlippenbach
German jazz pianist and composer
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Ernest Dawkins
Ernest Dawkins
jazz musician
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Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake
American musician
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Marty Cook
Marty Cook
American musician
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Don Cherry
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
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Phillip Wilson
Phillip Wilson
American drummer (1941-1992)
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Bobby Battle
Bobby Battle
American musician
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Mark Whitecage
Mark Whitecage
American saxophonist
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Gunter Hampel
Gunter Hampel
German jazz musician
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Anthony Davis
Anthony Davis
American pianist and composer
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
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Perry Robinson
Perry Robinson
American musician
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Vincent Chancey
Vincent Chancey
American musician
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Pheeroan akLaff
Pheeroan akLaff
American jazz drummer
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Jimmy Lyons
Jimmy Lyons
American jazz saxophonist
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Victor Lewis
Victor Lewis
American jazz drummer
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Harrison Bankhead
Harrison Bankhead
American musician
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Curtis Fowlkes
Curtis Fowlkes
American musician
Steve McCall
American jazz drummer

Steve McCall

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Steve McCall (September 30, 1933 – May 24, 1989) was an American jazz drummer.

McCall was born in Chicago and began his career there in the 1950s. One of his early gigs was playing behind blues singer Lucky Carmichael. McCall befriended Muhal Richard Abrams in 1961, and went on to be one of the founders of the AACM in 1965. He played with hard bop and free jazz musicians throughout the decade; among those he played with were Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Anderson, and Wadada Leo Smith. From 1967 to 1970 he lived in Amsterdam and in Paris, playing there with Braxton, Marion Brown, and Gunter Hampel. In 1970 he moved back to Chicago, where he played in a trio with Dexter Gordon and Gene Ammons, and the avant garde trio Air with reed player Henry Threadgill and bassist Fred Hopkins.

He spent another year in Europe in 1974, then moved to New York City in 1975, playing again with Threadgill and Hopkins in Air into the 1980s. He also played with Chico Freeman, Arthur Blythe, John Hicks and David Murray. He played with David Murray at Galerie Waalkens of Albert Waalkens in the Dutch village Finsterwolde. In 1985 he played with Cecil Taylor, and worked with Roscoe Mitchell again until his death of a stroke in 1989. He never recorded a session as a leader (a solo recording for the French Futura label was mentioned at one time, but it's unclear whether it actually existed). However, McCall received equal billing with tenor sax player Fred Anderson on the posthumously released Vintage Duets album.