Biography
Alvin Fielder
Real name: Alvin Leroy Fielder Jr.
Effective period / Period of releases: 2017 - 2021
American Free Jazz drummer (born in Meridian, Mississippi, on November 23, 1935; died January 5, 2019 in Jackson, Mississippi).Played with the Sun Ra Arkestra during the late '50s. Involved in the AACM in the early years, he went back to Mississippi in 1969. Studied with drummer Ed Blackwell, back in the South he forms part of what has been called a "uniquely Southern school of free jazz" (Destination: OUT)