Bagpipes in Jazz
- U.S. musician Rufus Harley (1936–2006) was the first jazz performer to use the Great Highland Bagpipes as his primary instrument.
- The American jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler (1936–1970) used great highland bagpipe on two albums: New Grass (1968) and Music is the Healing Force of the Universe (1969).
- Peter Bennink, a Dutch saxophonist and the brother of drummer Han Bennink, also uses bagpipes in a jazz context.
- New Zealand/New York based musician David Watson released a new music composition for pipe bands on the Midwest Label in 1996. A release from 1998 entitled Wax and Wane featured his bagpipe played in context with NYC downtown musicians like Ikue Mori, and turntablist Otomo Yoshihide. He also released the all bagpipe CD Skirl in 1999 featuring a variety of different percussion players, such as Cyro Baptista, and jazz drummer Tony Buck.
- Lammas from the U.K were around in the 1990s (winners of a British jazz award) and features Tim Garland trading licks and solos with Uilleann piper Steafan Hannigan ( Sin E, Afro Celts) On a couple of albums
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