Vinny Golia

Vinny Golia is an American composer and multi-reed player, born in the Bronx in 1946. He plays saxophones, flutes, clarinets, bassoon and tárogató, and works across free jazz, contemporary composition and large ensemble writing. In 1977 he founded Nine Winds, a label for his own records and for other free and avant-garde jazz musicians. Golia formed the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble in 1982 and documented it on Compositions for Large Ensemble (1982) and Pilgrimage to Obscurity (1990).