Hamiet Bluiett
Sign in to saveAmerican jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer (1940–2018)
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Hamiet Bluiett (Brooklyn, Illinois, September 16, 1940 - October 4, 2018) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. Bluiett co-founded the World Saxophone Quartet. He also played bass saxophone, E-flat alto clarinet, E-flat contra-alto clarinet, and wooden flute. Bluiett also worked with Charles Mingus, Sam Rivers, Babatunde Olatunji, Abdullah Ibrahim, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye a.o.. Hamiet Bluiett was born just north of East St. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mus
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- St. Louis
- Occupation
- saxophonist
- Educated at
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Genre
- Afro-Cuban jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Image
- Hamiet Bluiett.jpg
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- Hamiet Bluiett
- date of birth
- 1940-09-15
- member of
- World Saxophone Quartet
- date of death
- 2018-10-04
- cause of death
- cerebrovascular disease
- start of work period
- 1961-00-00
- described at URL
- harlemjazzboxx.com/hamiet-bluiett
- manner of death
- natural causes
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