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Alvin Fielder Trio
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Alvin Fielder (November 23, 1935 - January 5, 2019) was an American jazz drummer. He was a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Black Arts Music Society, Improvisational Arts Trio/Quartet/Quintet, and a founding faculty member of the Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp. Fielder began playing drums at age twelve, heavily influenced by recordings of Max Roach. While a student at Xavier University in New Orleans, he studied under Ed Blackwell at the recommendation of jazz drummer Earl Palmer. While a student at Texas Southern University in Houston, he worked with the Pluma Davis sextet, which included Don Wilkerson, Richard "Dicky Boy" Lillie, John Browning, and Carl Lott. He was active on the Houston jazz scene with Jimmy Harrison Quintet, John Browning Quintet, and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. He went to graduate school to study pharmacology. After taking his degree at the University of Illinois, he began playing in Chicago, co-founding the AACM in 1965. Over the next several years, Fielder played with Sun Ra, Muhal Richard Abrams, Eddie Harris, Kalaparusha, Fred Anderson, Lester Lashley, and Roscoe Mitchell. Fielder is among the musicians on Mitchell's Sound, recorded in 1966. In 1969, due to his father's ill health, he returned home to Mississippi. Fielder took responsibility for managing the family business, became active in school desegregation, and continued to pursue his passion for music. In 1971 he met John Reese
