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Voyage From Jericho by Charles Tyler

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Charles Lacy Tyler July 20 1941 – June 27 1992 Was An American Jazz Saxophonist. He Focused On Baritone & Alto Saxophone And Also Played Clarinet. He Released A String Of Albums On The ESPDisk And Sackville Labels In The 1970s And 1980s All Of Them In The Free Jazz Idiom. His Discography Includes Work With Albert Ayler David Murray Billy Bang And Many Others. Tyler Was Born In Cadiz Kentucky United States And Spent His Childhood Years In Indianapolis. He Played Piano As A Child And Clarinet At The Age Of Seven Before Switching To Alto Saxophone In His Early Teens And Finally Baritone Saxophone. During The Summers He Visited Chicago Illinois New York City And Cleveland Ohio Where He Met The Young Tenor Saxophonist Albert Ayler At Age 14. After Serving In The Army From 1957–1959 Tyler Relocated To Cleveland In 1960 And Began Playing With Ayler Commuting Between New York And Cleveland. During That Period Played With Ornette Coleman And Sunny Murray. In 1965 Tyler Recorded Bells And Spirits Rejoice With Ayler's Group. He Recorded His First Album As Leader The Following Year For ESP-Disk. He Returned To Indianapolis To Study With David Baker At Indiana University Between 1967 And 1968 Recording A Second Album For ESP Eastern Man Alone. In 1968 He Transferred To The University Of California Berkeley To Study And Teach. In Los Angeles He Worked With Arthur Blythe Bobby Bradford And David Murray. He Moved Back To New York In 1974 Leading His Own Groups With Blythe Trumpeter Earl Cross Drummer Steve Reid And Others Recording The Album Voyage From Jericho On Tyler's Own Akba Label. In 1975 Tyler Enrolled At Columbia University And Made An Extensive Tour Of Scandinavia Releasing His Second Akba Album Live In Europe. In 1976 He Performed A Piece Titled "Saga Of The Outlaws" At Sam Rivers's Studio Rivbea A Recording Was Released By Nessa Records Two Years Later On An Album Of The Same Name. During That Period He Played As A Sideman Or Co-Leader With Steve Reid Cecil Taylor And Billy Bang. In 1982 During A European Tour With Sun Ra's Orchestra He Relocated To Stockholm Denmark And In 1985 He Moved To France Recording With Other Expatriates Like Khan Jamal In Copenhagen And Steve Lacy In Paris. Charles Tyler Died In Toulon France Of Heart Failure In June 1992.

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