Dennis González

González was born in Abilene, Texas, on August 15, 1954. He relocated to Oak Cliff in 1976. He later established the Dallas Association for Avant-Garde and Neo Impressionistic Music (daagnim) in the late 1970s, The daagnim organization, which functioned both as a group of musicians and as a record label, was based on and named after the AACM. ==Career==

González' primary musical instrument was the trumpet (including B♭, C, and pocket trumpets), though he has also played drums, flute, synthesizer, and baritone saxophone. AllMusic describes González as "[a] talented trumpeter who has recorded a consistently rewarding string of lesser-known dates," whose "playing falls between advanced hard bop and free jazz." The Penguin Guide to Jazz observed that González' recordings during the 1980s for Silkheart Records represented "part of a determined effort to wrest creative initiative back from New York and the West Coast." The Penguin Guide commented among González' greatest achievements was having coaxed saxophonist Charles Brackeen out of retirement during the late 1980s, and that by the early 1990s, González "more than ever before... seems the heir of Don Cherry." González began working for Dallas radio station KERA-FM in 1978. There, he hosted a music program called Miles Out. He ultimately worked with KERA for 21 years, but left after the station had largely shifted from music programming to a news and talk format. which was released in May 2020. ==Personal life==

González was married to Carol until his death. Together, they had two children: Aaron and Stefan. González died on March 15, 2022, at Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas. He was 67, and suffered from several unspecified health issues prior to his death. ==Discography==

As leader • Air Light (Sleep Sailor) (Daagnim 01, 1979) • Kukkia (Daagnim 04, 1981) • Stars / Air / Stripes (Daagnim 05, 1982) • Witness (Daagnim 08, 1983) • Anthem Suite (Daagnim 11, 1984) • Little Toot (Daagnim 13, 1985) • Stefan (Silkheart, 1986) with John Purcell • Forever the Falling of Stars (Daagnim, 1995) • Home (Daagnim CD06, 2001) • Idle Wild (Clean Feed, 2005) • No Photograph Available (Clean Feed, 2006) • Dance of The Soothsayer’s Tongue (Clean Feed, 2007) • The Gift of Discernment (Not Two, 2008) • Renegade Spirits (Furthermore, 2008) • A Matter of Blood (Furthermore, 2009) • So Soft Yet (Clean Feed, 2011) • In Quiet Waters (ForTune, 2014) With Charles Brackeen • Bannar (Silkheart, 1987) ==References==