Julius Hemphill: Economical Orchestration and the Hard Blues
By Kevin Whitehead, eMusic Contributor
In a more perfect world, Julius Hemphill (1938-95) would be better remembered as one of the key jazz composers of the last 40 years. Not least for his role as principal writer for the World Saxophone Quartet, starting in the mid '70s - thereby influencing a raft of reed choirs that took it as inspiration. WSQ made the standalone saxophone section into a standard ensemble: jazz's string quartet. California's Rova was founded around the same… more »
