Hadley Caliman

Hadley Caliman with the Freddie Hubbard Quintet at the Pori Jazz Festival, Finland, 1978.

Hadley Caliman (January 12, 1932 in Idabel Oklahoma – September 8, 2010) was an American bebop saxophone and flute player.

After studying at Jefferson High School (Los Angeles) (the same school of fellow saxophonist Dexter Gordon) with trumpeter Art Farmer, Caliman performed or recorded with Carlos Santana, Joe Henderson, Earl Hines, Freddie Hubbard, Jon Hendricks, Earl Anderza, Patrice Rushen and several other jazz notables.

In the late 1960s, he was briefly a member of a jazz-rock fusion group led by Ray Draper. He recorded his first solo album in 1971.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Caliman was active leading a quartet and quintet in the Seattle area, served on the music faculty at Cornish College of the Arts, and taught private lessons to area musicians. He died of liver cancer in September 2010, at the age of 78.

Discography

As leader

• 1971: Hadley Caliman (Mainstream)
• 1972: Iapetus (Mainstream)
• 1976: Projecting (Catalyst)
• 1977: Celebration (Catalyst)
• 2008: Gratitude (Origin)
• 2010: Straight Ahead (Origin)
• 2010: Reunion with Pete Christlieb (Origin)

As sideman

With Todd Cochran

• Bayeté: Worlds Around the Sun (Prestige, 1972)

With Don Ellis

• The New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground (Columbia, 1969)

With Hampton Hawes

• Blues for Walls (Prestige, 1973)

With Eddie Henderson

• Heritage (Blue Note, 1976)

With Joe Henderson

• Black Miracle (Milestone, 1976)

With Freddie Hubbard

• Skagly (Columbia, 1979)

With Bobby Hutcherson

• Knucklebean (Blue Note, 1977)

With Azar Lawrence

• Bridge into the New Age (Prestige, 1974)

With Malo

• Dos (1972)

With Julian Priester

• Love, Love (ECM, 1973)

With Patrice Rushen

• Prelusion (1974)

With Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles

• Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! (1972)

With Carlos Santana

• Caravanserai (1972)

With Akbar DePriest

• Live! On the Willamette (1997)

With Nicholas Hoffman

• Jazzy's Dance (2000)
• Blues For Eddie (2002)

With Fangs

• Fangs (2004)

With Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra

• Sacred Music of Duke Ellington (2006)
• The Endless Search (2006)

With Gerald Wilson

• Live and Swinging (Pacific Jazz, 1967)
• Everywhere (Pacific Jazz, 1968)
• California Soul (Pacific Jazz, 1968)
• Eternal Equinox (Pacific Jazz, 1969)

With Thomas Marriott

• Both Sides of the Fence (2007)

With Pete Christlieb

• Reunion (2009)

See also

• Notable residents of Idabel, Oklahoma