Complex sentence: After meeting Cecil Taylor and alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons in San Francisco, Murphy trucked back to New York Where he ran Rashied Ali into a club called Ali's Alley and became Lyon's first-choice drummer until the saxophonist's death in 1986.
Split into simpler sentences: After meeting Cecil Taylor and alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons in San Francisco, Murphy moved to New York. There he managed Rashied Ali's club Ali's Alley, and became Lyon's first-choice drummer until the saxophonist's death in 1986.