Hadley Caliman


Hadley Caliman was an American jazz saxophone and flute player.

Career

Raised by his mother in rural Idabel, Oklahoma until the age of ten, he moved to Los Angeles with his father and studied at Jefferson High School, the same school as saxophonist Dexter Gordon. One of his teachers was trumpeter Art Farmer. He worked with Earl Hines, Carlos Santana, the Grateful Dead, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Jon Hendricks, Earl Anderza, In the late 1960s, he was a member of a jazz-rock fusion group led by Ray Draper.
He recorded his first solo album in 1971 before moving to Cathlamet, Washington with his third wife to raise a family. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he led quartet and quintet in Seattle. He was on the music faculty at Cornish College of the Arts until his retirement in 2003 and taught private lessons to area musicians. He moved to Seattle, where he lived with his fourth wife and recorded three solo albums after being diagnosed with liver cancer in 2008. He died in September 2010 at the age of 78.

Discography

As leader

With Gerald Wilson
With others