Dennis Gonzalez
Dennis González was an American avant-garde and free jazz trumpeter born on
August 15, 1954, in Abilene, Texas. He established the Dallas Association for
Avant-Garde and Neo Impressionistic Music (daagnim) in the late 1970s after
moving to Oak Cliff in 1976. González began his career as a trumpet player but
also played drums, flute, synthesizer, and baritone saxophone. His debut album
Air Light (Sleep Sailor) was released in 1979 under daagnim. Throughout the
1980s, he recorded several albums for daagnim, including Stars / Air / Stripes
(1982) and Witness (1983). He released albu...
