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Michael Adkins

MICHAEL ADKINS, a critically regarded jazz saxophonist and composer, began exploring improvised music within a creative Sarnia musical community at Lake Huron’s juncture with the St. Clair River, less than an hour from Detroit and a half-day drive from Chicago. Adkins was soon moving between Ontario, Michigan, New York, Boston, Europe, the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans, Chicago, and the Canadian and US West Coast, experiencing in each region jazz' multiple lineages and its ongoing evolution. Throughout his travels, Adkins has been particularly influenced by musical relationships formed with drummers. Among many others, these have included a critically acclaimed recording, international touring, and club performances with Ian Froman; New York City performances and two critically acclaimed recordings with Paul Motian; six recordings, sessioning, and performances in Boston, Memphis, Nashville, and New Orleans with Bob Moses, and five years of continuous sessioning and performances throughout the US Southeast with the late, legendary Alvin Fielder, who summarized Adkins playing in three words: “He can swing!” Fielder, a founding member of the Black Arts Music Society and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), who traveled as a stellar improviser between his natal Meridian, Mississippi and New Orleans, Houston, Chicago, New York, and the world, remains legendary for his musical contributions, dedication to jazz artistry, and devotion to his family's profound contributions to African American civil rights and to the musical legacy of his brother, trumpeter William Fielder. For Adkins, Alvin Fielder was a friend, musician, jazz historian, and mentor non pareil.