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The virtuoso of quiet guitar is heard on the albums Earthy, Kenny Burrell, On View At The Five Spot Cafe and A Night At The Vanguard

Billy Harper grew up in front of an audience. Every Sunday, his family buttoned him into a suit and tie with a freshly starched shirt and drove to St.

He spent years playing with Art Blakey, Lee Morgan and Max Roach, earning praise for his sax’s piercing cry. He’s still composing and turning heads live.

Archie Shepp on jazz, race and freedom: 'Institutions continue to abuse power' Lanre Bakare © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images One night at Five Spot Cafe in the early 1960s, two gangsters were sitting at the bar when Cecil Taylor’s group started to play. Taylor, a pianist, poet and leading figure in the new vanguard of jazz musicians, was known for his intense sets that could – on the wrong night – clear bars completely. This particular evening on the Lower East Side, he had a small but committed crowd in, plus the two hoods, who began...

At 83, the saxophonist has somewhat mellowed his funkily avant-garde music – but his anger at the racial injustice he has fought all his life remains undimmed