Bluiett, Hamiet
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Fuller Name
- Hamiet Ashford
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Birth Date
- 1940-09-16
Death Date
- 2018-10-04
Birth Place
- Saint Louis (Mo.)
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Sources
- found: His Glory [SR] p1977:cont. (Hamiet Bluiett; jazz composer, saxophone player, clarinetist, singer)
- found: New Grove dict. of jazz(Bluiett, Hamiet; b. 1940, Lovejoy, near East St. Louis, IL; baritone saxophonist)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 9, 2018(in obituary published Oct. 7: Hamiet Bluiett; b. Hamiet Ashford Bluiett Jr., Sept. 16, 1940, St. Louis; moved as a child to nearby Brooklyn, Ill.; moved to New York in 1969; moved back to Brooklyn, Ill. in 2002; d. there Thursday [Oct. 4, 2018], aged 78; baritone saxophonist who expanded the possibilities of his instrument while connecting the jazz avant-garde with a broad view of its own history)
Change Notes
- 1978-07-27: new
- 2018-10-09: revised
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