News & Updates — Makanda Ken McIntyre

Today we honor another underrated reedsman of the '60s/70s creative jazz scene, Makanda Ken McIntyre. While his main axe was the alto sax, he recorded on many different wind instruments: flute, oboe, bass clarinet, tenor sax, soprano sax, bassoon. In addition he was a capable pianist and drummer. He wrote or arranged hundreds of tunes, incorporating bebop, blues, calypso, avant-garde into his style. He composed for jazz combos, chamber groups, orchestra, woodwind quartets, film & television scores and made several classic, if under-known, albums as a leader. He had a long and distinguished career as an educator, both in the NYC schools...