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Julius Hemphill

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Julius Arthur Hemphill (January 24, 1938 – April 2, 1995)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone, less often on soprano and tenor saxophones and flute.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Template:More citations needed Hemphill was born in Fort Worth, Texas,<ref name="tsha">Bradley Shreve, "{{#invoke:URL|url}}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:URL with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | 1 | 2 }}," Handbook of Texas Online, accessed July 26, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.</ref> and attended I.M. Terrell High School (as did Ornette Coleman).<ref name="patoski">Template:Cite book</ref> He studied the clarinet with John Carter,<ref name="tsha" /> another I.M. Terrell alumnus,<ref name="patoski" /> before learning saxophone. Gerry Mulligan was an early influence. He studied music at North Texas State College.<ref name="Grove">Template:Cite Grove</ref>

Hemphill joined the United States Army in 1964, and served for several years in the United States Army Band.<ref name="Grove"/> He later performed with Ike Turner for a brief period. In 1968, Hemphill moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and co-founded the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a multidisciplinary arts collective that brought him into contact with artists such as saxophonists Oliver Lake and Hamiet Bluiett, trumpeters Baikida Carroll and Floyd LeFlore, and writer/director Malinke Robert Elliott.<ref name="Grove"/>

Hemphill moved to New York City in the mid-1970s, and was active in the then-thriving free jazz community. He gave saxophone lessons to a number of musicians, including David Sanborn and Tim Berne. Hemphill was probably best known as the founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, a group he formed in 1976, after collaborating with Anthony Braxton in several saxophone-only ensembles.<ref name="LarkinGE">Template:Cite book</ref> Hemphill left the World Saxophone Quartet in the early 1990s, and formed a saxophone quintet.<ref name="Davis">Davis, Francis. "The Julius Hemphill Sextet: At Dr. King's Table". Liner notes. New World Records. (PDF)</ref>

Hemphill recorded over twenty albums as a leader, about ten records with the World Saxophone Quartet and recorded or performed with Björk, Bill Frisell, Anthony Braxton and others. Late in his life, ill-health (including diabetes and heart surgery) forced Hemphill to stop playing saxophone, but he continued writing music until his death<ref name="Davis"/> in New York City. His saxophone sextet, led by Marty Ehrlich, also released several albums of Hemphill's music, but without Hemphill playing. The most recent is entitled The Hard Blues, recorded live in Lisbon after Hemphill's death from diabetes.

In 2021, New World Records released a retrospective seven-disc box set album titled The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony featuring Hemphill in a variety of mostly live solo and group contexts.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

A source of information on Hemphill's life and music is a multi-hour oral history interview that he conducted for the Smithsonian Institution in March and April 1994, and which is held at the Archives Center of the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

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