Maurice McIntyre

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (1936-2013) was an American free jazz tenor saxophonist, born in Clarksville, Arkansas, and raised in Chicago. He joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in 1965 and played on some of its first records. His debut as a leader, Humility in the Light of the Creator, came out on Delmark in 1969. He later lived in New York, where he died in the Bronx. Maurice McIntyre worked with Malachi Favors, Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell, appearing on Mitchell's Sound (1966) and Abrams's Levels and Degrees of Light (1968).