Artists

Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame - 2008 Inductees

Lin Halliday

He was born in 1936 in DeQueen, Arkansas, raised in Little Rock where he learned clarinet and saxophone and started playing gigs with local bands as a teenager, Halliday has been a professional since graduating high school. He spent time in Los Angeles, playing at sessions under the guidance of altoist Joe Maini. Halliday spent a year in Wisconsin and then in 1958 moved to New York. The following year he was Wayne Shorter's replacement with the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra, and later on he spent time with the groups of Louie Bellson and Philly Joe Jones.

After more time in Little Rock, Los Angeles and also Chicago, Halliday settled in Nashville in 1966. The tenor saxophonist worked in the studios and in local clubs until 1978, when an injury put him out of action for two years. After he recovered, he moved permanently to Chicago in 1980, where he became a major fixture in the local jazz scene. A strong hard bop soloist who can hold his own with anyone in a jam session, Lin Halliday recorded with trumpeter Brad Goode in 1988 and since then has led three CDs of his own for Delmark.

This biography taken from author Scott Yanow, All-Music Guide Other recordings on Delmark Label included East Of The Sun, Where Or When, and Stablemates (with Eric Alexander). For more on Lin Halliday, see Jazzhouse.org


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