JARMAN, JOSEPH

JARMAN, JOSEPH. Jazz woodwind player (14 September 1937 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas). His family moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was an infant. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Chicago, where he came under the tutelage of Walter Dyett at DuSable High School; at Wilson Junior College, Chicago City College, and the Chicago Conservatory of Music. During the 1950s he began playing professionally and toured with rhythm n blues, blues, and jazz groups. In 1965 he began...