associated_acts death_date death_place birth_place name background birth_date instrument genre article_title birth_name occupation
ted curson , cecil taylor , kenny barron 21 september 1989 middletown , connecticut , us philadelphia , pennsylvania , us bill barron non_vocal_instrumentalist 27 march 1927 saxophone , clarinet jazz bill barron -lrb- musician -rrb-
 william barron , jr. . musician , educator
bill barron -lrb- musician -rrb-

william barron , jr. -lrb- march 27 , 1927 -- september 21 , 1989 -rrb- was an american jazz tenor and soprano tenor saxophonist .
barron was born in philadelphia , pennsylvania .
he first appeared on a cecil taylor recording in 1959 , and he later recorded extensively with philly joe jones and co-led a post-bop quartet with ted curson .
his younger brother , pianist kenny barron , appeared on all of the sessions that the elder barron led .
other musicians he recorded with included charles mingus and ollie shearer .
barron also directed a jazz workshop at the children 's museum in brooklyn , taught at city college of new york , and became the chairman of the music department at wesleyan university .
he recorded for savoy , recording that label 's last jazz record in 1972 , and muse .
the bill barron collection is housed at the institute of jazz studies of the rutgers university libraries .
barron died in middletown , connecticut .
