Idris Ackamoor
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Recent shows
- 2025-06-13 SFJazz Center San francisco, US
- 2025-05-02 300 Ashland Plaza Brooklyn, US
- 2025-04-19 The Lab San francisco, US
About Idris Ackamoor
Saxophonist and composer Idris Ackamoor Idris Ackamoor is best-known as the founder and leader of The Pyramids the seminal Afrocentric world music and spiritual jazz group. Born Bruce Baker in 1950, Ackamoor grew up on Chicago's South Side. He fell in love with music early on, and took lessons in saxophone, clarinet, piano, violin, and trumpet. He went on to study with pianist Cecil Taylor at Ohio's Antioch College in the early ‘70s, alongside flautist Margaux Simmons (they were later married) and bassist Kimathi Asante, his original partners in the Pyramids. The group toured Europe...
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