Arthur Blythe

Arthur Blythe
Nazionalità	Stati Uniti
Genere	Jazz
Periodo di attività musicale	1969 – 2017
Album pubblicati	21

Arthur Murray Blythe (Los Angeles, 5 luglio 1940 – Lancaster, 27 marzo 2017) è stato un compositore e sassofonista statunitense.

Biografia

Inizia a suonare il sassofono all'età di nove anni. A New York collabora con Gil Evans, Jack DeJohnette, Chico Hamilton, Lester Bowie e McCoy Tyner. Ha fatto parte dei progetti The Leaders e World Saxophone Quartet. Blythe viene considerato musicista più ortodosso tra quelli nell’epoca del post-free.

Discografia

Come leader

Year	Title	Label
1977	The Grip	India Navigation
1977	Metamorphosis	India Navigation
1977	Bush Baby	Adelphi
1978	In the Tradition	Columbia
1978	Lenox Avenue Breakdown	Columbia
1980	Illusions	Columbia
1981	Blythe Spirit	Columbia
1982	Elaborations	Columbia
1983	Light Blue: Arthur Blythe Plays Thelonious Monk	Columbia
1984	Put Sunshine in It	Columbia
1986	Da-Da	Columbia
1987	Basic Blythe	Columbia
1996	Calling Card	Enja
1996	Synergy	In + Out
1991	Hipmotism	Enja
1997	Night Song	Clarity
1997	Today's Blues	CIMP
2000	Spirits in the Field	Savant
2001	Blythe Byte	Savant
2002	Focus	Savant
2003	Exhale	Savant

Collaborazioni

con Synthesis

• Six by Six (Chiaroscuro, 1977), with Olu Dara, a.o.
• Sentiments (Ra, 1979), with Olu Dara, David Murray, a.o.

con The Leaders

• Mudfoot (Black Hawk, 1986)
• Out Here Like This (Black Saint, 1987)
• Unforeseen Blessings (Black Saint, 1988)
• Slipping and Sliding (Sound Hills, 1994)
• Spirits Alike (Double Moon, 2006)

con Roots

• Salutes the Saxophone – Tributes to John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and Lester Young (In & Out, 1992)
• Stablemates (In & Out, 1993)
• Say Something (In & Out, 1995)

con Santi Debriano and Billy Hart

• 3-Ology (Konnex, 1993)

con Jeff Palmer, John Abercrombie, Victor Lewis

• Ease On (AudioQuest Music, 1993)

con David Eyges and Bruce Ditmas

• Synergy (In & Out, 1997)

con John Abercrombie, Terri Lyne Carrington, Anthony Cox, Mark Feldman, Gust Tsilis

• Echoes (Alessa, 2005)

Come sideman

con Joey Baron

• Down Home (Intuition, 1997) with Ron Carter and Bill Frisell
• We'll Soon Find Out (Intuition, 1999)

con Lester Bowie

• The 5th Power (Black Saint, 1978)
• African Children (Horo, 1978)

con Jack DeJohnette

• Special Edition (ECM, 1979)

con Gil Evans

• Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 (RCA, 1979)
• The Rest of Gil Evans Live at the Royal Festival Hall London 1978 (Mole Jazz, 1981)
• Parabola (Horo, 1979)
• Live at the Public Theater, Vol. 1 & 2 (Trio (Japan)/Storyville (Sweden), 1980)
• Priestess (Antilles, 1983)
• Sting and Gil Evans – Strange Fruit (ITM, 1993)

con John Fischer

• 6 × 1 = 10 Duos for a New Decade (Circle, 1980)

con Chico Freeman

• Luminous (Jazz House, 1989)
• Focus (Contemporary, 1995)

con Chico Hamilton

• Peregrinations (Blue Note, 1975)
• Chico Hamilton and the Players (Blue Note, 1976)

con Craig Harris

• Cold Sweat Plays J. B. (JMT, 1999)

con Julius Hemphill

• Coon Bid'ness (Freedom, 1972)

con Azar Lawrence

• Bridge into the New Age (Prestige, 1974)

con the Music Revelation Ensemble

• In the Name of... (DIW, 1994)
• Knights of Power (DIW, 1996)

con Woody Shaw

• The Iron Men con Anthony Braxton (Muse, 1977 [1980])

con Horace Tapscott

• The Giant is Awakened (Flying Dutchman, 1969)

con Gust William Tsilis & Alithea

• Pale Fire (Enja, 1988)

con McCoy Tyner

• Quartets 4 X 4 (Milestone, 1980)
• 44th Street Suite (Red Baron,1991)

con the World Saxophone Quartet

• Metamorphosis (Elektra Nonesuch, 1990)
• Breath of Life (Elektra Nonesuch, 1992)

Collegamenti esterni

• All About Jazz: A Fireside Chat With Arthur Blythe