John Tchicai. Member of Archie Shepp Orchestra recording "Four For Trane", New York, 1964

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John Tchicai member of Archie Shepp Orchestra recording "Four For Trane", New York, 1964.

John Tchicai (by name John Martin Tchicai) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer. Tchicai was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to a Danish mother and a Congolese father. The family moved to Aarhus, where he studied violin when young, and in his mid-teens began playing clarinet and alto saxophone, focusing on the latter. By the late 1950s, he was travelling around northern Europe, playing with many musicians.

b. April 28, 1936 in Copenhagen, Danmark.
d. October 8, 2012 in Perpignan, France.

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