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Ken McIntyre

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American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, orchestrator and educator. Born Kenneth Arthur McIntyre on September 7, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts. Died June 13, 2001 in New York City (USA). In addition to his primary instrument, alto saxophone, he also played flute, bass clarinet, oboe, bassoon, double bass, drum set, and piano, as well as many other woodwind instruments. He changed his name to Makanda Ken McIntyre somewhere in the 1990s after a man in Zimbabwe had given him a paper with that word written on it. It means "many skins" in Ndebele and "many heads" in the Shona language.