Makanda Ken McIntyre
" Makanda " Ken McIntyre (actually Kenneth Arthur McIntyre, born September 7, 1931 in Boston, † June 13, 2001 in New York City ) was an American jazz musician (alto saxophone, clarinet, oboe, bass clarinet, piano and flute), composer, arranger, bandleader, and high school teachers.
Life and work
After two years of military service in the U.S. Army, McIntyre completed his studies with a Bachelor in music composition at the Boston Conservatory in 1958. In 1975 he earned his doctorate yet ( Doctor of Education ) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In the early 1960s he worked with Eric Dolphy, who has worked on his second album Looking Ahead ( 1960). In 1962, The Year of The Iron Sheep.
After that, he was primarily active as a music educator. In 1971, McIntyre founded the first African-American music program at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, where he taught 24 years. Furthermore, he was at Wesleyan University ( where he made recordings with Richard Harper and collaborated with Daoud A. Haroon ), at Smith College, worked at the Central State University and at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
In the 1970s, he took a few albums under his own name for the jazz label Steeplechase on which participated musicians like Kenny Drew, Reggie Workman, Jaki Byard and Buster Williams. In addition, he has collaborated with jazz musicians such as Nat Adderley, Beaver Harris, Ron Carter, David Murray, as well as with the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and with Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra. McIntyre also wrote over 400 compositions and 200 arrangements. In addition, he conducted research as a jazz researchers about the roots of Afro-American music cultures in the Caribbean and in Africa, to blues, jazz and calypso. His collection is now in the Library of Congress.
In the early 1990s, he changed his name to " Makanda Ken McIntyre ." McIntyre sat down to rest in 1996 and died at the age of seventy years in New York City.
In addition to his main instrument, the alto saxophone played McIntyre, other woodwinds, as well as bass, drums and piano.
Discography (selection)
As a leader
- Stone Blues ( OJC, 1960)
- Looking Ahed ( OJC, 1960) with Dolphy, Walter Bishop Jr., Sam Jones, Art Taylor
- The Complete United Artists Sessions ( Blue Note Records, 1962-63 ) Jaki Byard with Ahmed Abdul- Malik, Ron Carter, Louis Hayes, Ben Riley, Warren Smith
- Hindsight ( Steeplechase, 1974) with Kenny Drew, Bo Stief, Alex Riel
- Home (SC, 1975) with Reggie Workman, Jaki Byard
- Open Horizon ( SC, 1975) with Kenny Drew, Buster Williams
- Introducing the Vibrations ( SC, 1976) with Richard Harper
- Chasing the Sun (SC, 1978) with Beaver Harris
As a sideman
- Cecil Taylor: Open Structure ( Blue Note, 1966)
- Nat Adderley: Do not Look Back ( Steeplechase, 1976)
- Liberation Music Orchestra Dream Keeper ( Blue Note, 1990)