"In the mid-1960s Alan moved to Europe, leading his own avant-garde gigs in Geneva and Paris. His style of free jazz sometimes proved to be too far-out for European audiences (his brother remembered that Alan's gigs in Europe would often end with him responding to the crowd's boos by yelling, "You're not ready for me yet!") but he generally found European audiences more receptive than those in the U.S. Eventually he moved back to the States, where he taught briefly at Bennington College but otherwise faded into obscurity. He died of a ruptured aorta in L.A. in 1987, at age 56, shortly after becoming engaged to Ruth Ann Hancock, a cousin of Herbie Hancock." from wikipedia

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