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Jemeel Moondoc

Jemeel Moondoc has been played on NTS in shows including Rahill, featured first on 29 November 2021. Songs played include You Let Me Into Your Life.

A powerful and vastly underrated avant-garde alto saxophonist, Jemeel Moondoc blended the free-form melodic thought of Ornette Coleman and the sharp edge of Jackie McLean or Charles Tyler with the sort of ferocious "energy playing" usually reserved for tenorists. Moondoc began playing piano as a child, studied clarinet and flute, and settled on alto around age 16; he subsequently studied with Cecil Taylor at various colleges in the early '70s. In 1972, he moved to New York, where he…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
You Let Me Into Your Life
Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker, Hamid Drake
Eremite Records2001
You Let Me Into Your Life
Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker, Hamid DrakeEremite Records2001
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