Original Julius Hemphill and Baltimore Jazz Workshop Big Band poster for a performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1987

Baltimore: Maryland State Arts Council / National Endowment for the Arts, 1987. Vintage one-color Julius Hemphill and Baltimore Jazz Workshop Big Band poster for a performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art, March 21, 1987.

One of free jazz's most visionary composers, Julius Arthur Hemphill was a jazz composer and saxophonist best known as the founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, formed in 1976 with Oliver Lake, Hamiet Bluiett, and David Murray. Hemphill recorded over twenty albums as a band leader, nine with the World Saxophone Quartet, and over a dozen as a sideman on releases by Bill Frisell, Allen Lowe, and Anthony Braxton, among others. (truncated) Due to ill health, Hemphill was forced to stop playing in late life, but continued composing until his death in 1995.

11 x 17 inches, brown print on pale yellow cardstock. Near Fine, with light creasing at the extremities. (Inventory #: 159936)