Arthur Doyle
Roy Arthur Doyle ( born June 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama; † January 25, 2014 ) was an American jazz musician (saxophone, flute, vocals).
Life and work
Doyle graduated from Tennessee State University, where he gained a foothold in the music scene of Nashville and played with Louis Smith and Walter Miller. After a brief stay in Detroit, where he played in the big band of Charles Moore, he returned to Alabama to be a member of the R & B band Johnny Jones & the King Casuals. At age 23, Doyle eventually went to New York where he began his professional career in the late 1960s, when he helped with recordings of Noah Howard ( The Black Arc, 1969) and Milford Graves (1976). He played in the second half of the 1970s with his quintet lineup Arthur Doyle 4, which also includes the Sun Ra bassist Richard Williams belonged. 1978 was the album Alabama Feeling. It was followed by the collaboration with guitarist Rudolph Grey and Beaver Harris, further with Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra Arkestra the.
Due to the financial situation unsatisfactory for free jazz musicians in the United States took Doyle to Paris in 1982. A longer stay in prison led him to compose. After his return to New York he took on some of these compositions, which appeared on the albums Plays and Sings from the Song Book ( 1992), songwriter (1994) and Do the Breakdown ( 1997). In the 1990s, Doyle collaborated with Wilber Morris, Rashid Bakr, Sunny Murray, Keiji Haino, Thurston Moore, and again with Rudolph Grey and Noah Howard ( Dawn of a New Vibration, with Sunny Murray ). From the early 2000s he worked with his formations Arthur Doyle Electro- Acoustic Ensemble and Arthur Doyle's Free Jazz Soul Orchestra, including with Ed Wilcox.
Arthur Doyle combined in the mix of styles he mentioned free jazz avant-garde jazz with soul elements of gospel and rhythm and blues. He remains a cult figure over which the free-jazz listeners were divided, so the view of the jazz magazine Coda.