Bobby Few is an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 pianist.

Few was raised in Shaker Heights, a neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio

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, and studied classical piano. He knew Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...

 as a youth, and the pair studied jazz and played together in high school

High school

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. Few played on several of Ayler's recordings, as well as with Alan Silva

Alan Silva

Alan Silva is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.-Biography:...

, Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...

, Sunny Murray

Sunny Murray

James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.-Biography:...

, Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....

, Noah Howard

Noah Howard

Noah Howard was an American free jazz alto saxophonist.-Biography:An American born in New Orleans, Howard played music from childhood in his church. He first learned trumpet and later switching to alto, tenor and soprano saxophone. He was an innovator influenced by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler...

, Booker Ervin

Booker Ervin

Booker Telleferro Ervin II was an American tenor saxophone player. He was perhaps best known for his association with bassist Charles Mingus....

, Brook Benton

Brook Benton

Brook Benton was an American singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he scored hits such as "It's Just A Matter Of Time" and "Endlessly", many of which he co-wrote.He made a comeback in 1970...

, and Kali Fasteau. Since 2001, he has been touring with American saxophonist, Avram Fefer

Avram Fefer

Avram Fefer is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and band leader, currently residing in New York City. He has been performing and recording internationally since 1990...

, with whom he has recorded four critically acclaimed CDs.

As Leader

• More or Less (Sun, 1973)
• Few Comin' Thru (Sun Records (jazz)
  Sun Records (jazz)
  Sun Records was a jazz record label begun by saxophonist Frank Wright. Center of the World Records was also set up by Wright around the same time.-Sun:-Center of the World:-See also:* List of record labels...
  
  
• Kindred Spirits (Boxholder Records, 2005)
• Heavenly Places (w/ Avram Fefer) (Boxholder Records, 2005)
• Few and Far Between: w/ Avram Fefer and Wilber Morris (Boxholder Records, 2002)
• Continental Jazz Express: Live at the 2000 Vision Festival, NYC (Boxholder, 2002)
• Sanctuary (w/ Avram Fefer) (CIMP, 2006)
• Lights and Shadows (Boxholder, 2007)

As Sideman

With Booker Ervin

Booker Ervin

Booker Telleferro Ervin II was an American tenor saxophone player. He was perhaps best known for his association with bassist Charles Mingus....

• The In Between
  The In Between
  The In Between is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The music rarely reaches avant-garde territory -- instead, it's edgy, volatile...
  
  (Blue Note, 1968)

With Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....

• Vespers
  Vespers (album)
  Vespers is an album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy recorded in 1993 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "lots of interesting tone colors and harmonies and consistently stimulating solos.....
  
  (Soul Note, 1993)