MARS WILLIAMS
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Mars Williams (May 29, 1955 – November 20, 2023) was an American jazz and rock saxophonist. He was a member of the American new wave band The Waitresses from 1980 to 1983, and a member of the British post-punk band The Psychedelic Furs from 1983 to 1989 and again from 2005 until his death on 20 November 2023, from ampullary cancer, aged 68. Williams also was a founding member of the acid jazz pioneering group Liquid Soul, and a member of the free jazz-oriented NRG Ensemble. Exposed to swing music and Dixieland jazz by his trumpeter father, Williams played classical clarinet for ten years before migrating to saxophone in his last year of high school, citing the influence of Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. After attending DePaul University for a period of time, he took courses from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, where he studied
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Eclectic Fusion
2002
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