Noah Howard obituary

American free jazz saxophonist with a passionate and rebellious soundNoah Howard, the alto saxophonist, who has died of a cerebral haemorrhage aged 67, never built a reputation as substantial as those of many of his early playing partners – such as the saxists Albert Ayler and Archie Shepp, pianist/composer Sun Ra or trumpeter Bill Dixon – in the expressionist African-American free jazz movement of the 1960s. But to insiders, Howard was a cult figure who deserved wider recognition for the fu...

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