Hadley Caliman
Encyclopedia
Hadley Caliman was an American
bebop
saxophone
and flute
player.
After studying at the Jefferson High School with trumpeter Art Farmer
and fellow saxophonist Dexter Gordon
, Caliman performed or recorded with Carlos Santana
, Joe Henderson
, Earl Hines
, Freddie Hubbard
, Jon Hendricks
, Earl Anderza
, Patrice Rushen
and several other jazz notables.
In the late 1960s, he was briefly a member of a jazz-rock fusion group led by Ray Draper
. He recorded his first solo album
in 1971.
In 2009, Caliman was still active leading a quartet and quintet in the Seattle area, and teaching private lessons to aspiring musicians.
He died in September 2010, at the age of 78.
With Eddie Henderson
With Freddie Hubbard
With Bobby Hutcherson
With Azar Lawrence
With Malo
With Julian Priester
With Patrice Rushen
With Carlos Santana
and Buddy Miles
With Carlos Santana
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
bebop
Bebop
Bebop differed drastically from the straightforward compositions of the swing era, and was instead characterized by fast tempos, asymmetrical phrasing, intricate melodies, and rhythm sections that expanded on their role as tempo-keepers...
saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
and flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
player.
After studying at the Jefferson High School with trumpeter Art Farmer
Art Farmer
Arthur Stewart "Art" Farmer was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet/flugelhorn combination designed for him by David Monette. His identical twin brother, Addison Farmer Arthur Stewart "Art" Farmer (August 21, 1928, Council Bluffs, Iowa –...
and fellow saxophonist Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...
, Caliman performed or recorded with Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
, Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
, Earl Hines
Earl Hines
Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, was an American jazz pianist. Hines was one of the most influential figures in the development of modern jazz piano and, according to one source, is "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".-Early...
, Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...
, Jon Hendricks
Jon Hendricks
Jon Hendricks is an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is considered one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists...
, Earl Anderza
Earl Anderza
Earl Anderza was a West Coast jazz alto saxophonist who recorded only two albums, Outta Sight which features pianist Jack Wilson and drummer Donald Dean. The bassist is either Jimmy Bond or George Morrow....
, Patrice Rushen
Patrice Rushen
Patrice Rushen is a Grammy Award-winning African American R&B and jazz vocalist, composer and pianist.-Biography:...
and several other jazz notables.
In the late 1960s, he was briefly a member of a jazz-rock fusion group led by Ray Draper
Ray Draper
Raymond Allen Draper was an American hard bop tuba player.-Biography:Draper attended the Manhattan School of Music in the mid-1950s. As a leader, he recorded his first album, Tuba Sounds , at the age of 16, with a quintet...
. He recorded his first solo album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
in 1971.
In 2009, Caliman was still active leading a quartet and quintet in the Seattle area, and teaching private lessons to aspiring musicians.
He died in September 2010, at the age of 78.
As Leader
- 1971: Hadley Caliman (Mainstream Records)
- 1972: Iapetus(Mainstream)
- 1976: Projecting(Catalyst Records)
- 2008: Gratitude (Origin Records)
- 2010: Straight Ahead (Origin Records)
- 2010: Reunion - Hadley Caliman & Pete ChristliebPete ChristliebPete Christlieb is a jazz bebop, West Coast jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist.-Biography:Christlieb was born in Los Angeles, California and is the son of bassoonist Don Christlieb...
(Origin Records)
As Sideman
With Todd CochranTodd Cochran
Todd Cochran, later Bayete and Umbra Zindiko is a prolific American pianist, keyboard and synthesizer player. He released two albums on Prestige Records in 1972 and 1973....
- Bayeté: Worlds Around the Sun (PrestigePrestige RecordsPrestige Records was a jazz record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock. The company was located at 203 South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under the names of several...
, 1972)
With Eddie Henderson
Eddie Henderson (musician)
Eddie Henderson is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. Henderson's influences include Booker Little, Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw and Miles Davis.-Family influence and early music history:...
- HeritageHeritage (Eddie Henderson album)Heritage is an album by American jazz trumpeter Eddie Henderson recorded in 1976 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurk awarded the album 3½ stars stating "Heritage is a wonderful set, and should be revisited by anyone who either missed or was put off by it...
(Blue NoteBlue Note RecordsBlue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
, 1976)
With Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...
- SkaglySkaglySkagly is a 1980 album by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard released on the Columbia label which features performances by Hubbard, Hadley Caliman, Billy Childs, Phil Ranelin on all tracks except "A Summer Knows" with Paulinho da Costa guesting on two tracks and George Duke,and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter...
(ColumbiaColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
, 1980)
With Bobby Hutcherson
Bobby Hutcherson
Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...
- KnucklebeanKnucklebeanKnucklebean is an album by jazz vibraphone and marimba player Bobby Hutcherson, released in 1977 by the Blue Note label.-Side A:#"Why Not" – 5:22 #"Sundance Knows" – 6:34 #"So Far, So Good" – 4:39 -Side B:...
(Blue Note, 1977)
With Azar Lawrence
Azar Lawrence
Azar Lawrence is an American jazz saxophonist, known for his contributions as sideman to McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, and Woody Shaw. Lawrence was the tenor saxophonist Tyner used following John Coltrane's death....
- Bridge into the New Age (Prestige, 1974)
With Malo
Malo
Malo was an American Latin-tinged rock and roll group. The San Francisco-based ensemble was led by Arcelio Garcia and Jorge Santana, the brother of Latin-rock guitarist, Carlos Santana....
- Dos (1972)
With Julian Priester
Julian Priester
Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer.He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.-Biography:...
- Love, LoveLove, LoveLove, Love is an album by American jazz trombonist and composer Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto recorded in 1973 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1973)
With Patrice Rushen
Patrice Rushen
Patrice Rushen is a Grammy Award-winning African American R&B and jazz vocalist, composer and pianist.-Biography:...
- PrelusionPrelusionPrelusion is the first album R&B singer Patrice Rushen. The first of three albums she would record with Prestige Records, the album was mainly Instrumental jazz which was her main focus as a singer before becoming a full-time R&B singer four years later after signing with Elektra Records...
(1974)
With Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
and Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles
George Allen Miles, Jr. , known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a founding member of The Electric Flag in 1967, then as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 through to January 1970.-Early life:George Allen Miles was born in Omaha, Nebraska on...
- Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live!Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live!Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! is a live album by Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles.-Track listing:#"Marbles" – 4:18#"Lava" – 2:10#"Evil Ways" – 6:36#"Faith Interlude" – 2:13...
(1972)
With Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
- CaravanseraiCaravanseraiA caravanserai, or khan, also known as caravansary, caravansera, or caravansara in English was a roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey...
(1972)