Artist Info: Billy Robinson

Saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator Billy Robinson died in Ottawa on August 11, 2005, of a heart attack. Billy was born in Fort Worth, Texas on May 31, 1939. A big-toned tenor in the great Texas tradition, his early musical associates included John Carter, Ornette Coleman and Dewey Redman. Billy lived during the mid-'60s in San Francisco, and then moved to New York, where he worked with Charles Mingus 1969-70, but unfortunately never recorded with him. [read more...]