Bill Barron, a highly skilled and innovative tenor saxophonist (doubling as a soprano), was a man who did not compromise his music nor received much recognition. His formative years were spent in Philadelphia and he did not move to New York until 1958. Barron was first exposed to jazz by his 1959 participation on a Cecil Taylor date. Barron and Ted Curson co-led a great post-bop group after recording with Philly Joe Jones. Barron spent the rest of his life as an educator. He directed a jazz workshop at Brooklyn’s Children’s Museum, taught at City College of New York and was the chairman of Wesleyan University’s music department. He was able to record non-commercial music at Savoy, where he recorded Muse’s last jazz album in 1972. All of Bill Barron’s recordings, as a leader, feature brother Kenny Barron (16-years his junior), on piano. Allmusic
