GEORGE HASLAM
Avant-Garde Jazz / Jazz Related Improv/Composition / Post Bop / 21st Century Modern / Post-Fusion Contemporary / Latin Jazz / Hard Bop / Eclectic Fusion / Afro-Cuban Jazz • United Kingdom
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Even by avant-garde jazz standards, British saxophonist George Haslam is hard to pigeon-hole. First, he prefers to perform on the baritone saxophone and the tárogató, a Hungarian double-reed instrument -- not the most popular horns in jazz! Second, his eclectic tastes in music have taken him about everywhere between abstract free improv, Latin bop, and jazz standards. His formative years have remained undocumented, but his discography has been growing regularly since he created his own record label Slam in 1989. Favorite musical partners include trombonist Paul Rutherford and drummer Paul Hession.
Born on February 22, 1939 in Preston, Lancashire, George Haslam is for the most part self-taught on the saxophone. He began to play in dance and jazz bands at an early age, learning on the job. His main influences were Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, and Jimmy Guiffre. At the end of the 1960s he started to include free jazz and
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Level Two
Avant-Garde Jazz
1993
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Eclectic Fusion
2021
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