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Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame
1996 Candidates
John Stubblefield, 1945 -
Tenor saxophonist and composer was born in Little Rock on February 4, 1945. He has been based in New York since 1971. His credits (which date back to recording with Miles Davis in 1975, and include such major artists as Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, McCoy Tyner, The World Saxophone Quartet, Kenny Barron, Mary Lou Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Nat Adderly, and George Russell) explain why Stubblefield is known as a "musician's musician." Concert reviews attest that Stubblefield is a "powerful" and "irresistible" soloist who has stood out with such ensembles as the McCoy Tyner Big Band and the Mingus Dynasty Big Band.
While still young in Little Rock, he discovered Don Byas, the great tenor saxophonist with the Basie Band. Byas had married into a Little Rock family. Some years later after leaving Arkansas for Chicago, Stubblefield connected with the man he says is responsible for inspiring him to take up tenor. Another musical force in his life was another Arkansas resident William Grant Still. Although Still was a symphonist and chamber music composer, his themes are rooted in spirituals and blues and was a master of clear melodic expression and deep feeling.
Stubblefield has had his own quartet since 1980, and his first album as a leader was Midnight Sun in 1976. In addition to dozens of albums and CDs as a sideman, he has ten releases as a leader with his most recent Morning Song in 1993.
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