Arthur Doyle

Arthur Doyle (1944-2014) was an American free jazz saxophonist, flautist and singer from Birmingham, Alabama. He worked in New York from the late 1960s and called his music "free jazz soul music". He is best known for Alabama Feeling, his first album as a leader, recorded in 1977 and first pressed in an edition of 1,000 copies on Charles Tyler's AK-BA label. Arthur Doyle studied music education at Tennessee State University before moving to New York, where he played with Sun Ra and Bill Dixon. He appears on Noah Howard's The Black Ark (recorded 1969) and Milford Graves's Bäbi.