Charles Tyler (musician)

Charles Tyler ( born July 20, 1941 in Cadiz (Kentucky), † June 27, 1992 in Toulon, France ) was an American jazz musician ( alto and baritone saxophone).

Life and work

Tyler learned piano as a child and started in college to play clarinet. As a teenager, he lived in Cleveland, where he played in blues bands, but also worked with Albert Ayler. In order to act with Ayler, he then moved to New York. He was involved in the uptake of Ayler's Bells ( 1963) and played 1966 and 1967 first free jazz records as a bandleader (including with Henry Grimes and Ronald Shannon Jackson). 1967/68 he studied at the Indiana University music. In 1969, he settled in Los Angeles where he worked as a teacher four years, but also played with Arthur Blythe, Bobby Bradford and David Murray. He then returned to New York, where he was documented with many of their own groups and with Cecil Taylor and Dewey Redman active and well on recordings. In the 1980s he worked with Billy Bang and Wilber Morris. In 1988 his album Autumn in Paris. In 1991, he played with John Fischer and Perry Robinson.

Discography

Swell

• Ian Carr and others, Rough Guide Jazz, ISBN 3-476-01584- X
• Information from Answers

• Jazz saxophonist
• American musician
• Born in 1941
• Died in 1992
• Man