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John Martin Tchicai (born
April 28,
1936) is a
Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European
free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent.
Tchicai studied
violin in his youth, and in his mid-teens began playing clarinet and alto
saxophone, focusing on the latter. By the late 1950's he was travelling around northern
Europe, playing with many musicians.
After moving to
New York City in 1963, Tchicai fell into the
free jazz scene, co-forming the
New York Contemporary Five and the
New York Art Quartet, and playing on
John Coltrane's epochal
Ascension.
He returned to Denmark in 1966, and shortly thereafter focused most of his time on music education.
Tchicai returned to a regular gigging and recording schedule in the late 1970's. In the early 1980's he switched to the tenor saxophone as his primary instrument. In 1990 he was awarded a lifetime grant from the Danish Ministry of Culture. Tchicai and his wife relocated to the
San Francisco area in 1991, where he's led several ensembles. He was awarded a
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1997. He is a member of
Henry Kaiser and
Wadada Leo Smith's "Yo Miles" band, a loose aggregation of musicians exploring
Miles Davis's post-
Bitches Brew electric music.
Since 2001 he's been living near Perpignan in southern France.
He is currently (2006) experimenting with electronic components in his music.
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