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Avant-garde jazz composer and alto saxophonist (born Forth Worth, Texas, January 24, 1938 - died New York City, April 2, 1995 at the age of 57 of complications from heart disease and diabetes).
Hemphill is probably best known as the founder of the World Saxophone Quartet, a group he formed in 1976 and left in the early 1990s.

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Julius Hemphill
The Boyé Multi-National Crusade For Harmony (Archival Recordings (1977-2007))
2021, 7xCD + Box, New World Records
Julius Hemphill
The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
2012, 5xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note,
Julius Hemphill / Peter Kowald
Live At Kassiopeia
2011, ,
Free Jazz
Julius Hemphill
One Atmosphere
2003, CD, Album, Tzadik
Julius Hemphill / Warren Smith
Chile New York
1998, CD, Album, Black Saint, ,
Free Improvisation
Julius Hemphill & Abdul Wadud
Oakland Duets
1993, CD, Album, Music & Arts
Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra with Julius Hemphill and Sam Rivers
Flux
1992, CD, Album, Northeastern Records, ,
Free Jazz
Allen Lowe With Julius Hemphill, Don Byron, Jeff Fuller, Ray Kaczynski
At The Moment Of Impact...
1990, CD, Album, Fairhaven Records
Paul Cram Orchestra Featuring Julius Hemphill
Beyond Benghazi
1987, LP, Album, Apparition Records
Julius Arthur Hemphill* / The JAH Band
Georgia Blue
1984, LP, Album, Minor Music, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Julius Hemphill & Abdul K. Wadud*
Live In New York
1978
Julius Hemphill With Abdul Wadud And Don Moye*
Raw Materials And Residuals
1978
Oliver Lake • Julius Hemphill
Buster Bee
1978, Vinyl, ,
Free Jazz
Julius Hemphill
Blue Boyé
1977
Julius Hemphill
Roi Boyé & The Gotham Minstrels
1977
Julius Hemphill
'Coon Bid'ness
1975, Vinyl, ,
Free Jazz
Julius Hemphill
Dogon A.D.
1972
The Julius Hemphill Sextet
Five Chord Stud
1994
Julius Hemphill Trio
Live From The New Music Cafe
1992, CD, Album, Music & Arts
The Julius Hemphill Sextet
Fat Man And The Hard Blues
1991
The World Saxophone Quartet*
Steppin' With The World Saxophone Quartet
1979, ,
Free Jazz
World Saxophone Quartet
The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
2012, 6xCD, Album, RE, RM + Box, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note,
The Julius Hemphill Sextet
At Dr. King's Table
1997, CD, Album, New World Records, CounterCurrents
The Julius Hemphill Sextet
The Jazz Masters 100 años de Swing
1997, CD, Comp, Ediciones Folio, S.A., Mandarin Records Ltd
World Saxophone Quartet
Rhythm And Blues
1989,
Julius Hemphill Big Band
Julius Hemphill Big Band
1988, ,
Free Jazz
World Saxophone Quartet
Dances And Ballads
1987, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
World Saxophone Quartet
Plays Duke Ellington
1986, Vinyl,
World Saxophone Quartet
Live At Brooklyn Academy Of Music
1986
World Saxophone Quartet
Live In Zürich
1984, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
World Saxophone Quartet
Revue
1982, Vinyl,
World Saxophone Quartet
W.S.Q.
1981
Julius Hemphill Quartet
Flat-Out Jump Suite
1980
Julius Hemphill
Dogon A.D.
,
Free Jazz

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The Hemphill Stringtet
The Hemphill Stringtet Plays Music Of Julius Hemphill
2025, CD, Album, Out Of Your Head Records
The Hemphill Stringtet
The Hemphill Stringtet Plays Music Of Julius Hemphill
2025, LP, Out Of Your Head Records,
The Hemphill Stringtet
The Hemphill Stringtet Plays Music Of Julius Hemphill
2025, LP, Wax, Out Of Your Head Records
Tim Berne, Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tom Rainey
Yikes Too
2025,
Tim Berne With Bill Frisell
Live In Someplace Nice
2024, 7xFile, FLAC, Screwgun Records
Tim Berne, Matt Mitchell
One More Please
2022, CD, Album, Intakt Records, Intakt Records, ,
Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Chris Speed
Light Line
2021, CD, Album, Intakt Records
Michael Gregory Jackson
Frequency Equilibrium Koan
2021
Tim Berne's Snakeoil
The Deceptive 4 (Live)
2020, 2xCD, Album, Intakt Records
Broken Shadows
Broken Shadows Live
2020, 9xFile, FLAC, Screwgun Records
Orchestre National De Jazz
Dancing In Your Head(s)
2020, CD, Album, ONJ RECORDS
Tim Berne's Snakeoil
The Fantastic Mrs. 10
2020, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Allen Lowe
Jews & Roots: An Avant Garde Of Our Own: Disconnected Works: 1980 - 2018
2019, 8xCD, Album, Comp, Constant Sorrow, ESP-Disk', ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Post Bop
Bill Cole & Untempered Ensemble*
Music For Yoruba Proverbs - Recorded Live at Symphony Space, New York City
2019, 2xCD, Not On Label (Bill Cole Self-released), ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Kris Davis
Diatom Ribbons
2019, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Broken Shadows
Broken Shadows
2019
Salim Washington
Dogon Revisited
2018, CD, Album, Passin' Thru Records
Roots Magic
Last Kind Words
2017, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Free Jazz
Roots Magic
Hoodoo Blues
2015, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Do Tell
Hotend Do Tell Plays The Music Of Julius Hemphill
2015, CD, Album, Amirani Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz/Post Bop
Audio One
The Midwest School
2014
William Parker, Jeff Schlanger
Chile - New York - AfghanIraq
2013, DVD-V, NTSC, Witnissimo
Kirk Knuffke & Jesse Stacken with Kenny Wollesen
Like A Tree
2012, CD, Album, SteepleChase,
Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society
Father Of Origin
2011
The Rempis Percussion Quartet
The Disappointment Of Parsley
2009, CD, Album, Not Two Records
Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet
Things Have Got To Change
2009, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Vijay Iyer Trio
Historicity
2009, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
World Saxophone Quartet - 29th Street Saxophone Quartet - Rova Saxophone Quartet
Saxophone Quartets
2005, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Björk
Debut Live
2004, CD, ,
Acoustic
Julius Hemphill Sextet*
The Hard Blues: Live In Lisbon
2004, ,
Free Jazz
Peter Kowald
Duos2: Europa · America · Japan
2003, CD, Album, FMP, ,
Free Jazz
Björk
Livebox
2003, Box Set, CD, CD, CD, CD, DVD, ,
Leftfield/Trip Hop
Různí
Classic Jazz: The Eighties
2002, 2x CD,
The Vandermark 5*
Free Jazz Classics Vols. 1 & 2
2001, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Atavistic, ,
Free Jazz
The Vandermark 5*
Acoustic Machine
2001
Oliver Lake Quintet
Talkin' Stick
2000, CD, Album, Passin' Thru Records
Marty Ehrlich's Traveler's Tales
Malinke's Dance
2000, CD, Album, OmniTone
Různí
Black Saint Story
2000, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Erik Friedlander
Skin
2000
Lester Bowie
American Gumbo
1999, 2xCD, Comp, 32 Jazz, ,
Bop/Rhythm & Blues
Lester Bowie
Mirage
1999, 2xCD, Comp, Camden Deluxe, ,
Free Jazz
Andrew White
Gigtime 2000, Vol. 4 "Keep On Dancin', Baby!"
1999, CD, Album, Andrew's Music
Jazz Composers Alliance Saxophone Quartet*
I'm Me...and You're Not: The Music Of Darrell Katz
1999, CD, Album, Brownstone Recordings
Různí
Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions - Complete
1999
Charlie Kohlhase Quintet
Dancing On My Bedpost
1998, CD, Album, CIMP
Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble
Live Wood
1997, 2xCD, Album, Music & Arts
Různí
Black Saint/Soul Note Critics' Pick Sampler (Vol. 1)
1997, CD, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note, ,
Free Jazz/Post Bop
Různí
Black Saint / Soul Note - Critics' Pick Sampler (Vol. 2)
1997, CD, Comp, Black Saint, Soul Note, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Různí
Vossa Jazz XX
1996, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Vossa Jazz Records,
Různí
Jazz Loft Sessions
1996, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Různí
Wildflowers 2 - The New York Jazz Loft Sessions
1995, CD, Comp, RE, RM, Gravity
Ursula Oppens
American Piano Music Of Our Time
1995, 2xCD, Comp, Music & Arts
Tim Berne's Bloodcount
Lowlife: The Paris Concert❶
1995, CD, ,
Free Jazz
David Murray
David Murray
1994, CD, Comp, Musica Jazz, Black Saint, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Hamiet Bluiett
Sankofa / Rear Garde
1993, CD, Album, Soul Note
Tim Berne
Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill)
1993, CD, ,
Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Either/Orchestra
The Calculus Of Pleasure
1992, CD, Album, Accurate Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Post Bop
Peter Kowald
Duos America
1991, LP, Album, FMP, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Allen Lowe and Orchestra X
New Tango 92: After Astor Piazzolla (Or, The Second Assassin)
1991, CD, Album, Fairhaven Records
Peter Kowald
Duos: Europa · America · Japan
1991, 3x Vinyl, Box Set, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Marty Ehrlich And The Dark Woods Ensemble*
Emergency Peace
1991
Bill Frisell
Before We Were Born
1989
Killing Floor
A Lot Of Lovin'
1988, LP, Album, OSA Records
Různí
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1987, 5x CD, Box Set, ,
Free Jazz/Bop/Ragtime/Dixieland/Modal/Swing/Hard Bop/Big Band
Jean-Paul Bourelly
Jungle Cowboy
1987
Různí
Decade: The First Ten Years Of The Music Gallery
1986, Cass, Comp, C90, Music Gallery Editions, ,
Leftfield/Alternative Rock/Noise/Spoken Word/Modern/Experimental/Poetry/Avantgarde/Art Rock/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Folk/Minimal
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Show Stopper
1983
Různí
Re:Source, Masters From Gramavision
1983
Kalaparush*
Ram's Run
1982, LP, Album, Cadence Jazz Records
Baikida Carroll
Shadows And Reflections
1982, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Modal/Post Bop/Free Jazz
Baikida Carroll
The Spoken Word
1979, 2xLP, Album, Gat, Hat Hut Records, ,
Free Jazz
Charles Bobo Shaw & Human Arts Ensemble*
Streets Of St. Louis
1978, LP, Album, Moers Music
Různí
Wildflowers 4 (The New York Loft Jazz Sessions)
1977
The World Saxophone Quartett*
Point Of No Return
1977, ,
Free Jazz
Charles Bobo Shaw, Human Arts Ensemble*
Çonceré Ntasiah
1976, ,
Free Jazz/Jazz-Rock
Anthony Braxton
New York, Fall 1974
1975, Vinyl Gatefold, ,
Free Jazz
Různí
Arista-Freedom Sampler
1975, Vinyl, ,
Free Jazz
Oliver Lake
Heavy Spirits
1975, ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Lester Bowie
Fast Last!
1974, Vinyl, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Lightnin' Rod
Hustlers Convention
1973, Vinyl Gatefold, ,
Funk/Monolog
K. Curtis Lyle
The Collected Poem - For Blind Lemon Jefferson
1971
Různí
Roadrunner's Radio Volume 1
2020, Cass, Mixtape, Num, S/Edition, ROADRUNNER's REC's
Různí
Jazz Loft Sessions
1996, CD, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Ursula Oppens, Carter*, Adams*
Night Fantasies / Phrygian Gates / Six Tangos
1989, CD, Album, Music & Arts, ,
Modern/Post-Modern/Contemporary
James Blood Ulmer
Harmolodic Jazz Funk!
2020, CDr, RE, Unofficial, Necromancer (2)
Miles Davis
Protocosmos: Sao Paulo 1974
2010, CD, RM, Unofficial + CDr, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Unof, Hannibal