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Fred Hopkins (October 10, 1947 - January 7, 1999) was a Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
 double bassist who played a major role in the development of the avant-garde jazz movement
Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place....
. He was a member of the avant garde jazz trio Air
Air (jazz group)

Air was a free jazz trio founded in 1971 by saxophone player Henry Threadgill, double bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Steve McCall . They combined radical free improvisation with a strong sense of tune and equal emphasis on each instrument in the group....
 (with Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill is an United States composer, saxophonist and flautist....
 and Steve McCall
Steve McCall

Stephen McCall is an English former football player. His favoured position was left back though his versatility allowed him to play in a number of positions....
) and David Murray
David Murray (jazz musician)

David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically on a variety of labels since the mid-1970s....
's Low Class Conspiracy; he frequently worked with the cellist
Cello

The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
 Diedre Murray
Diedre Murray

Diedre Murray is an United States Cello specializing in jazz, improvised music, and contemporary classical music. She is also active as a composer, producer, and curator....
. Hopkins played with a wide variety of musicians including Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams is an United States educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and Jazz piano in the Modern Creative and Free jazz mediums....
, Don Pullen
Don Pullen

Don Pullen was an American jazz pianist and organist.Don Pullen developed a strikingly individual style. He composed masterworks ranging from blues to bebop and modern jazz....
, Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake

Oliver Lake is an United States alto saxophone, flutist, composer and poet. Lake started playing and studying the alto saxophone in 1960, where in the mid 1960s he was working with the St....
, Hamiet Bluiett
Hamiet Bluiett

Hamiet Bluiett is an United States jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument is the baritone saxophone, and he is considered one of the finest living players of this instrument....
, Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Cyrille

Andrew Charles Cyrille is an avant-garde jazz drummer.Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a family with a mother from Haiti. He began studying science at St....
, Kalaparusha Maurice Mcintyre
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre is an American free jazz tenor saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist.McIntyre was born in Clarksville, Arkansas but his family moved to Chicago when he was a child....
, Sunny Murray
Sunny Murray

James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.Murray spent his youth in Philadelphia before moving to New York City where he began playing with Cecil Taylor: "We played for about a year, just practicing, studying - we went to workshops with Edgard Var?se, did a lot of creative things, just...
, Kahil El'Zabar
Kahil El'Zabar

Kahil EL'Zabar is a jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records. He joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in the early 1970s, and became its chairman in 1975....
, Malachi Thompson
Malachi Thompson

Malachi Richard Thompson , was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player....
, McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner is a jazz piano from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career....
, Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones

Elvin Ray Jones was one of the most influential Jazz drumming of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
, David Murray
David Murray (jazz musician)

David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically on a variety of labels since the mid-1970s....
, Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophone, clarinettist, flute, piano, and philosopher. He has created a large body of highly complex work....
 and Marion Brown
Marion Brown

Marion Brown is a jazz alto saxophonist and ethnomusicology. He is most well-known as a member of the 1960s avant-garde jazz scene in New York City, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai....
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Fred Hopkins (October 10, 1947 - January 7, 1999) was a Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
 double bassist who played a major role in the development of the avant-garde jazz movement
Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place....
. He was a member of the avant garde jazz trio Air
Air (jazz group)

Air was a free jazz trio founded in 1971 by saxophone player Henry Threadgill, double bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Steve McCall . They combined radical free improvisation with a strong sense of tune and equal emphasis on each instrument in the group....
 (with Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill is an United States composer, saxophonist and flautist....
 and Steve McCall
Steve McCall

Stephen McCall is an English former football player. His favoured position was left back though his versatility allowed him to play in a number of positions....
) and David Murray
David Murray (jazz musician)

David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically on a variety of labels since the mid-1970s....
's Low Class Conspiracy; he frequently worked with the cellist
Cello

The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
 Diedre Murray
Diedre Murray

Diedre Murray is an United States Cello specializing in jazz, improvised music, and contemporary classical music. She is also active as a composer, producer, and curator....
. Hopkins played with a wide variety of musicians including Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams is an United States educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and Jazz piano in the Modern Creative and Free jazz mediums....
, Don Pullen
Don Pullen

Don Pullen was an American jazz pianist and organist.Don Pullen developed a strikingly individual style. He composed masterworks ranging from blues to bebop and modern jazz....
, Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake

Oliver Lake is an United States alto saxophone, flutist, composer and poet. Lake started playing and studying the alto saxophone in 1960, where in the mid 1960s he was working with the St....
, Hamiet Bluiett
Hamiet Bluiett

Hamiet Bluiett is an United States jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument is the baritone saxophone, and he is considered one of the finest living players of this instrument....
, Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Cyrille

Andrew Charles Cyrille is an avant-garde jazz drummer.Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a family with a mother from Haiti. He began studying science at St....
, Kalaparusha Maurice Mcintyre
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre is an American free jazz tenor saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist.McIntyre was born in Clarksville, Arkansas but his family moved to Chicago when he was a child....
, Sunny Murray
Sunny Murray

James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.Murray spent his youth in Philadelphia before moving to New York City where he began playing with Cecil Taylor: "We played for about a year, just practicing, studying - we went to workshops with Edgard Var?se, did a lot of creative things, just...
, Kahil El'Zabar
Kahil El'Zabar

Kahil EL'Zabar is a jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records. He joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in the early 1970s, and became its chairman in 1975....
, Malachi Thompson
Malachi Thompson

Malachi Richard Thompson , was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player....
, McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner is a jazz piano from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career....
, Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones

Elvin Ray Jones was one of the most influential Jazz drumming of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
, David Murray
David Murray (jazz musician)

David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically on a variety of labels since the mid-1970s....
, Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophone, clarinettist, flute, piano, and philosopher. He has created a large body of highly complex work....
 and Marion Brown
Marion Brown

Marion Brown is a jazz alto saxophonist and ethnomusicology. He is most well-known as a member of the 1960s avant-garde jazz scene in New York City, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai....
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