VON FREEMAN

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Saxophonist,2012 NEA Jazz Master, Chicago, Illinois

Date of birth: Oct 03, 1923

Date of death: Aug 11, 2012

Although not as well-known outside the Windy City as he should have been, Earle Lavon "Von" Freeman, Sr. was considered a founder of the "Chicago School" of jazz tenorists, a distinction shared with Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin, and Clifford Jordan. With his individual sound, at once husky and melodic, he made every song his own. As the Chicago Tribune had written of him, "For technical brilliance, musical intellect, harmonic sophistication, and improvisatory freedom, Von Freeman has few bebop-era peers."

Freeman was surrounded by music in his childhood: his mother sang in the church choir, his father played jazz albums on an early Victrola - on which Freeman first heard the tenor sax - and his maternal grandfather and uncle were guitarists. Initially self-taught, he played saxophone at DuSable High School, landing his first gig with
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VON FREEMAN Doin' It Right Now album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Doin' It Right Now
Post Bop 1972
VON FREEMAN Have No Fear album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Have No Fear
Post Bop 1975
VON FREEMAN Serenade & Blues album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Serenade & Blues
Post Bop 1979
VON FREEMAN Walkin' Tuff! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Walkin' Tuff!
Post Bop 1989
VON FREEMAN Never Let Me Go album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Never Let Me Go
Post Bop 1992
VON FREEMAN Lester Leaps In album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lester Leaps In
Post Bop 1993
VON FREEMAN Dedicated To You album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dedicated To You
Post Bop 1994
VON FREEMAN Von Freeman, Ed Petersen : Von & Ed album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Von Freeman, Ed Petersen : Von & Ed
Post Bop 1999
VON FREEMAN Von Freeman & Frank Catalano : You Talkin' To Me?! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Von Freeman & Frank Catalano : You Talkin' To Me?!
Post Bop 2000
VON FREEMAN The Improvisor album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Improvisor
Post Bop 2002
VON FREEMAN The Great Divide album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Great Divide
Post Bop 2004
VON FREEMAN Good Forever album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Good Forever
Post Bop 2006

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VON FREEMAN Young and Foolish album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Young and Foolish
Post Bop 1981
VON FREEMAN Von Freeman With Chico Freeman's Quartet : Von Freeman's 75th Birthday Celebration - Live At The Blue Note album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Von Freeman With Chico Freeman's Quartet : Von Freeman's 75th Birthday Celebration - Live At The Blue Note
Post Bop 1999
VON FREEMAN Live At The Dakota album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live At The Dakota
Post Bop 2001
VON FREEMAN Von Freeman's New Apartment Lounge Quartet : Vonski Speaks album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Von Freeman's New Apartment Lounge Quartet : Vonski Speaks
Post Bop 2009

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