1. Alan Warren Haig was an American jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop.
11 Facts About Al Haig
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Al Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Nutley.
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Al Haig started performing with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in 1945, and performed and recorded under Gillespie from 1945 to 1946, as a member of Eddie Davis and His Beboppers in 1946, and the Eddie Davis Quintet in 1947, under Parker from 1948 to 1950, and under Stan Getz from 1949 to 1951.
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Al Haig was part of the nonet on the first session of Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool.
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Al Haig got by with semi-cocktail piano in New York bars.
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Al Haig's work was the subject of a revival in the 1970s.
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Al Haig had been accused of strangling his third wife, Bonnie, at their home in Clifton, New Jersey, on October 9,1968.
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Al Haig had said in evidence that his wife had been drunk, and had died in a fall down a flight of stairs.
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Al Haig describes Bonnie's story in detail, depicting an underside to Haig that included a history of serial domestic abuse.
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In 1974, Al Haig was invited to tour Europe by Tony Williams, owner of Spotlite Records in the United Kingdom.
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Al Haig died from a heart attack on November 16,1982, and was survived by his wife Joanne and his sons Alan and Daniel.