Biography
Julius Hemphill
Real name: Julius Arthur Hemphill
Effective period / Period of releases: 1972 - 2011
Avant-garde jazz composer and alto saxophonist (born Forth Worth, Texas, January 24, 1938 - died New York City, April 2, 1995 at the age of 57 of complications from heart disease and diabetes).Hemphill is probably best known as the founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, a group he formed in 1976 and left in the early 1990s.