Entry Personal Name

Number of records used in: 9

001 - CONTROL NUMBER

• control field: 31

003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER

• control field: DLC

005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION

• control field: 20210712122908.0

008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS

• fixed length control field: 910918n| azannaabn |a aaa c

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER

• LC control number: no 91022779

035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER

• System control number: (OCoLC)oca03028917

040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE

• Original cataloging agency: InU-Mu
• Language of cataloging: eng
• Description conventions: rda
• Transcribing agency: InU-Mu
• Modifying agency: IEN-Mu
• Modifying agency: DHU-MS
• Modifying agency: DLC

046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES

• Birth date: 1930-09-19
• Death date: 2017-10-29
• Source of date scheme: edtf

100 1# - HEADING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Abrams, Muhal Richard,
• Dates associated with a name: 1930-2017

370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE

• Place of birth: Chicago (Ill.)
• Place of death: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
• Associated country: United States
• Source of term: naf

372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY

• Field of activity: Music
• Source of term: lcsh

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
• Source of term: naf
• Start period: 1965
• Source of information: New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 3, 2017

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: MJT + 3 (Musical group)
• Associated group: Delmark Records
• Associated group: Syracuse University
• Source of term: naf

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Experimental Band
• Start period: 1962
• Source of information: New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 3, 2017

373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP

• Associated group: Novus Records

374 ## - OCCUPATION

• Occupation: Pianists
• Occupation: Composers
• Occupation: Arts administrators
• Occupation: Music teachers
• Occupation: College teachers
• Source of term: lcsh

375 ## - GENDER

• Gender: male

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Abrams, Richard,
• Dates associated with a name: 1930-2017

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Abrahams, Richard,
• Dates associated with a name: 1930-2017

400 1# - SEE FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME

• Personal name: Abrams, Richard Louis,
• Dates associated with a name: 1930-2017

510 2# - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME

• Control subfield: r
• Relationship information: Corporate body:
• Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Muhal Richard Abrams Octet

510 2# - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME

• Control subfield: r
• Relationship information: Corporate body:
• Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Braxton, A. Creative orchestra music 1976 [SR] p1976:
• Information found: inner sleeve (Muhal Richard Abrams, piano)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: His Levels and degrees of light [SR] 1967?:
• Information found: labels (Richard Abrams, composer) container (clarinetist, pianist; president of Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: New Grove dict. of jazz
• Information found: (Abrams, Muhal Richard (Abrahams, Richard); b. 9-19-30, Chicago; pianist, composer, administrator)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: Grove music online, viewed November 25, 2013
• Information found: (Abrams, Muhal Richard (Abrams, Richard Louis))

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: African American National Biography, accessed June, 29, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:
• Information found: (Abrams, Muhal Richard; pianist, composer; born on 19 Sept. 1930 in Chicago, IL, US; attended the Governors State University, Chicago, late 1940s; wrote arrangements in early 1950s; pianist, composer, hard-bop group MJT+3 (1957-59); Experimental Band, free styles (1963); formed Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), offered training to young musicians (1965); recording career started with Level and Degree of Light, Delmark Records (1967), Young at Heart, Wise in Time (1969); NY City (1976); mid-1970s to mid-1990s recorded series of albums for Italian Black Saint label, two 1978 efforts for Novus Records (LifeaBlinec, Spiral Live at Montreux); wrote compositions for big bands, Hearinga Suite (1989); BluBluBlu (1990); was the first recipient of the Jazzpar Prize by Danish government (1990); Library of Congress chose his orchestra for the opening of a concert (1996); became president of New York chapter of the AACM; taught at Columbia University and Syracuse University, served as mentor for scores of important contemporary American musicians)

670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND

• Source citation: New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 3, 2017
• Information found: (in obituary published Nov. 1: Muhal Richard Abrams; b. Richard Louis Abrams, Sept. 19, 1930, Chicago; took the name Muhal in 1967 (interviewed by the French magazine Jazz in 1973, he said that the word, its origin unclear, means "number one"); d. Sunday [Oct. 29, 2017], Manhattan, aged 87; autodidactic pianist, composer, and educator who was known both for his diverse, unclassifiable compositions and improvisations and for establishing and sustaining the influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians)