Arthur Doyle

Arthur Doyle (June 26, 1944 – January 25, 2014 ) was an American jazz saxophonist, bass clarinettist, flutist, and vocalist who was best known for playing what he called "free jazz soul music". Writer Phil Freeman described him as having "one of the fiercest, most unfettered saxophone styles in all of jazz", "a player so explosive that it seems like microphones and recording equipment can barely contain him".

Biography Arthur Doyle was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1944, During his high school years, he began listening to Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, While still a teenager, he played with saxophonist Otto Ford and trumpeter Walter Miller (an associate of Sun Ra), and also played in R&B and blues groups. Although he was at first uninterested in free jazz, he gradually gravitated toward it after playing at a Black Panthers festival, and who would release two of Doyle's albums (More Alabama Feeling (1993) and The Songwriter (1995)) on his Ecstatic Peace! label. He died on January 25, 2014, in Alabama. Dave Cross wrote: "His sound is a mixture of African folk song delicacy and pure Albert Ayler overload. His vocal style (both as pure element and incorporated into his sax and flute styling) is unidentifiable and seemingly from an alternate (jazz) world."

Discography As leader

As sideman